Addendum: "Idol" and "Bachelor" will be back mid-season.
On Wednesday, June 17, 2020 at 2:40:50 PM UTC-5, Mark Jeffries wrote:
>
> No premiere date, and I don't see a good portion of this happening--only
> three fall debuts. Here we go as listed by Deadline, new shows in all
> caps:
>
> MONDAY
> 8 PM — Dancing with the Stars--I believe host Tom Bergeron has already
> said that even in September, the combination of 600 cheering audience
> members and 25 sweaty bodies on live television (and no one wearing masks)
> is asking for it. I would hope that the BBC has already decided that there
> will be no "Strictly" this fall--please tell me that's true, Adam.
> 10 PM — The Good Doctor
>
> TUESDAY
> 8 PM — The Bachelorette--the first fall appearance for the franchise and
> the first African-American bachelorette (in a franchise not known for
> treating BIPOCs well), but wait--twenty men and one woman, Chris Harrison
> and a crew and production staffers in one house together in late summer in
> the midst of a pandemic. Oh yeah, what a great idea.
> 10 PM — BIG SKY--David E. Kelley is back on OTA television with a thriller
> in which two private dicks (Ryan Phillippe and Kylie Bunbury) with the help
> of Phillippe's ex (Deedee Pfeiffer, Michelle's sis) search for kids
> kidnapped somewhere in Montana. Based on a series of books and produced by
> part-Disney owned A+E Studios (their first OTA network series) and
> Disney-owned 20th, Kelley's longtime home base.
>
> WEDNESDAY
> 8 PM — The Goldbergs
> 8:30 PM — American Housewife
> 9 PM — The Conners
> 9:30 PM — CALL YOUR MOTHER--Empty nester mom Kyra Sedgwick decides she
> needs to be seen with her kids again and reinserts herself into their lives
> without one thank yew, with much hilarity ensuing. A multi-cam sitcom
> (since those shows only do well if Chuck Lorre is the creator--and oh yeah,
> are they going to have 225 people watching the show or is all going to be
> from John Bickelhaupt or Bob LaMasney's laff boxes?) created by Kari Lizer
> ("Old Christine") for Sony and ABC Studios.
> 10 PM — Stumptown
>
> THURSDAY
> 8 PM — Station 19
> 9 PM — Grey’s Anatomy
> 10 PM — A Million Little Things
> Can it still be TGIT with one show not produced by Shonda Rhimes?
>
> FRIDAY
> 8 PM — Shark Tank
> 9 PM — 20/20 (Two Hours)
>
> SATURDAY
> 8 PM — Saturday Night Football--If there is college football.
>
> SUNDAY
> 7 PM — America’s Funniest Home Videos
> 8 PM — SUPERMARKET SWEEP--When you're in the market and you hear that
> beep, think of the fun YOU could have on... The reboot of the game show
> that started on ABC daytime in 1965 (and joined the long list of shows
> called by critics the decline and fall of Western civilization) was
> scheduled for this year's Summer Fun and Games block, but along with "Card
> Sharks" didn't go into production before the stay-at-home orders. ABC and
> format owner Fremantle are trying again, with Leslie Jones hosting as
> originally announced. Now considering that the Lifetime and PAX TV
> revivals of the 90s and early oughts did at least half of each episode with
> no audience and LaMasney's laff box, it's possible that they could pull it
> off. But do you see people running through the aisles throwing Foster
> Farms turkeys and giant economy size boxes of Tide detergent (emptied to
> make it easier to pick up) into their shopping carts wearing masks? No.
> 9 PM — Who Wants To Be A Millionaire--Their just-completed celebrity
> season was shot in the early stages of the pandemic before the stay-at-home
> orders and they proved they didn't need a studio audience. The question
> for game show fans is if civilians are going into the Hot Seat facing Jimmy
> Kimmel or if it will be celebs again.
> 10 PM — The Rookie
>
> Right now, nothing new for mid-season--"black-ish" and "mixed-ish" will
> return, along with the spring drama "For Life."
>
> And there you have it.
>
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