Where isWill and Grace ?
On Mon., May 13, 2019, 4:35 p.m. Mark Jeffries, <[email protected]>
wrote:
> The traditional first out of the box schedule from the leader in the money
> demo with only three new series, with a lot being held for mid-season.
> Here it is as listed by the Wrap, with new shows in all caps, all times ET:
>
> MONDAY
> 8-10 p.m. — “The Voice”
>
> 10-11 p.m. — “BLUFF CITY LAW”--Jimmy Smits is back as a legal eagle in
> Memphis guiding his tempestuous daughter (Caitlin McGee) through their
> high-profile, ripped-from-the-headlines civil rights cases. In-house, with
> former NBC chief Bob Greenblatt's ex-partner David Janollari.
>
> TUESDAY
> 8-9 p.m. — “The Voice”--or maybe not, considering that on most of the
> weeks of the prelims for the current spring cycle, "Ellen's Game of Games"
> was airing in the time slot.
>
> 9-10 p.m. — “This Is Us”--Three-year renewal, don't frack it up, Fogelson.
>
> 10-11 p.m. — “New Amsterdam”
>
> WEDNESDAY
> 8-9 p.m. — “Chicago Med”
>
> 9-10 p.m. — “Chicago Fire”
>
> 10-11 p.m. — “Chicago P.D.”
> Dick Wolf Wednesday continues.
>
> THURSDAY
> 8-8:30 p.m. — “Superstore”
>
> 8:30-9 p.m. — “PERFECT HARMONY”--Bradley Whitford is a music professor at
> Princeton whose latest challenge is trying to make a small town church
> choir sound, well there's the title. A one-camera sitcom from 20th-Century
> Fox.
>
> 9-9:30 p.m. — “The Good Place”
>
> 9:30-10 p.m. — “SUNNYSIDE”--Kal Penn is a former NYC political powerhouse
> down on his luck who finds possible redemption in teaching a group of
> immigrants about American citizenship (Trump's gonna love this one). A
> little reminiscent of the Britcom "Mind Your Language" (Americanized as
> "What a Country!," starring, yes, Yakov Smirnoff), except that it probably
> won't be as blatant on the stereotypes as those series were. Penn
> co-created the one-camera in-house production, with Michael Schur involved.
>
> 10-11 p.m. — “Law & Order: SVU”
>
> FRIDAY
> 8-9 p.m. — “The Blacklist”
>
> 9-11 p.m. — “Dateline NBC”
>
> SATURDAY
> 8-10 p.m. — “Dateline Saturday Night Mystery”
>
> 10-11 p.m. – “Saturday Night Live” (encores)
> With first-run "SNL" live in all time zones.
>
> SUNDAY
> 7-8:20 p.m. — “Football Night in America”
>
> 8:20-11 p.m. — “NBC Sunday Night Football”
>
> And a lot in the hamper for mid-season:
>
> DRAMAS:
>
> "COUNCIL OF DADS"--When a man discovers that he has a debilitating
> illness, he calls upon a group of male friends, including his AA sponsor
> and his doctor, to help him shoulder the burden of leading the family in
> the hopes that death won't be debilitating. Based on a 2010 non-fiction
> book by Bruce Feiler, Tom Everett Scott and Sarah Wayne Caillies are in the
> cast, in-house with Jerry Bruckheimer (!).
>
> 'LINCOLN"--Based on the "Bone Collector" novels and films, Russell Hornsby
> (who just lost a gig as "Proven Innocent" was cancelled) plays the title
> disabled detective solving cases with hot NYPD officer Arielle Kebbel.
> In-house with Sony and Israel's Keshet.
>
> "ZOEY'S EXTRAORDINARY PLAYLIST"--San Francisco computer coder Zoey
> ("Suburgatory"'s Jane Levy) can hear everyone's innermost thoughts and
> desires through music, hence the title. Peter Gallagher, Mary Steenburgen
> and Tony winner Carmen Cusack are also in the cast, from Lionsgate and
> Universal Music Group (not affiliated with NBCU for years now), which means
> only certain artists will be on Zoey's extraordinary playlist.
>
> COMEDIES:
>
> 'INDEBTED"--The kids are grown up and Adam Pally and Abby Elliott are
> ready to begin a new life. But oh oh, here comes Pally's parents as
> embodied by Steven Weber and Fran Drescher to make sure wackiness is always
> ensuing. Of course it's a multi-cam. From Sony.
>
> "THE KENAN SHOW"--"SNL"'s MVP (and I think even Sikula will grudgingly
> agree) Kenan Thompson stars in a one-camera family comedy that has Chris
> Rock's involvement (and Lorne Michaels, although that is to be expected).
> Its mid-season placement allows Thompson to continue on "SNL" (and he's
> hosting the summer reality comp "Bring the Funny"). Of course it's
> in-house.
>
> "Blindspot" will also be mid-season in what has been already announced as
> its last season.
>
> In unscripted, Melissa McCarthy's replacing yo man Steve Harvey as host of
> "Little Big Shots" (brought on undoubtedly by NBCU syndication dropping
> Harvey's talk show for Kelly Clarkson's talk show), Nick Offerman and Amy
> Poehler's artsy-craftsy reality comp "Making It" will have a condensed
> holiday run and "The Wall" and "Hollywood Game Night" will be back this
> summer along with the established "AGT" and "American Ninja Warrior" and
> the new "Bring the Funny" and songwriter comp "Songland."
>
> Fox is coming.
>
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