Blog story: https://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2022/05/abc-upfront-2022-23-fall-2022-schedule.html

ABC FALL PRIMETIME SCHEDULE (all times listed are Eastern/Pacific). New shows are in bold.

MONDAY
8:00 p.m. “Bachelor in Paradise”
10:00 p.m. “The Good Doctor”

TUESDAY
8:00 p.m. “Bachelor in Paradise”
10:00 p.m. “The Rookie: Feds”

WEDNESDAY
8:00 p.m. “The Conners”
8:30 p.m. “The Goldbergs”
9:00 p.m. “Abbott Elementary” (new night)
9:30 p.m. “Home Economics”
10:00 p.m. “Big Sky” (new night)

THURSDAY
8:00 p.m. “Station 19”
9:00 p.m. “Grey’s Anatomy”
10:00 p.m. “Alaska”

FRIDAY
8:00 p.m. “Shark Tank”
9:00 p.m. “20/20” (two hours)

SATURDAY
8:00 p.m. College Football

SUNDAY
7:00 p.m. “America’s Funniest Home Videos”
8:00 p.m. “Celebrity Jeopardy!”
9:00 p.m. “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune”
10:00 p.m. “The Rookie”

ABC Unveils 2022–2023 Fall Primetime Schedule
NETWORK ENTERS NEW SEASON WITH UNPRECEDENTED STABILITY

AS FAN FAVORITES RETURN ALONG WITH NEW, BOLD ORIGINAL SCRIPTED AND UNSCRIPTED TITLES

ABC EXTENDS WINNING STREAK AS NO. 1 ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK
FOR THIRD CONSECUTIVE YEAR

NEW DRAMAS ‘ALASKA’ STARRING HILARY SWANK AND ‘THE ROOKIE: FEDS’
STARRING NIECY NASH-BETTS ADDED TO FALL SCHEDULE

NEW ‘CELEBRITY JEOPARDY!’ JOINS SUNDAY NIGHT LINEUP

TWO NIGHTS OF REALITY JUGGERNAUT ‘BACHELOR IN PARADISE’ SET FOR FALL

NETWORK EMBRACES STRONG, RETURNING COMEDY BLOCK,
BOLSTERED BY BREAKOUT HIT ‘ABBOTT ELEMENTARY’

NEW COMEDY ‘NOT DEAD YET’ STARRING GINA RODRIGUEZ
SET TO DEBUT MIDSEASON

NEW SEASONS OF POWERHOUSE UNSCRIPTED SERIES ‘AMERICAN IDOL,’
‘THE BACHELOR’ AND THE BELOVED ‘JUDGE STEVE HARVEY’ TO RETURN IN EARLY 2023

Craig Erwich, president, Hulu Originals & ABC Entertainment, today unveiled the ABC primetime schedule for the 2022-2023 fall season, featuring a strong, returning slate of established, fan-favorite shows and two new powerhouse scripted series, both anchored by bold and compelling female leads. Additionally, ABC adds a sprinkle of star power to long-running game show staples, with the pickup of the all-new, high-stakes “Celebrity Jeopardy!,” which joins the Sunday night lineup, paired with the return of “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune.”

The network continues to deliver on its success as the season’s No. 1 entertainment network among Adults 18-49 for the third year in a row, winning six of the last eight seasons based on entertainment programming. ABC ranks or ties as the No. 1 entertainment network on 14 of the 32 weeks of the season to date among Adults 18-49, marking more weekly wins with entertainment programming than any other network.

“Our fall schedule is a testament to our strong, dynamic programming slate that we’re continuing to nurture with top talent, world-class, award-winning storytellers and marquee titles,” said Erwich. “By capitalizing on the success of our strongest assets, we’re betting on stability while also introducing and investing in key projects that will allow us to build on our momentum as the No. 1 entertainment network for the third consecutive year.”

This fall, ABC debuts dramas “Alaska,” from Oscar®-winning writer Tom McCarthy (“Spotlight”) and starring two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank, and the “The Rookie: Feds,” a spinoff of the popular Sunday night police drama “The Rookie” and starring Niecy Nash-Betts.

The network is also leaning into the strength of its Wednesday night comedy block, having renewed its full roster including legacy series “The Conners” and “The Goldbergs,” fan-favorite “Home Economics” and ABC’s No. 1 new comedy last season from burgeoning star Quinta Brunson – critically acclaimed breakout hit “Abbott Elementary.”

These shows will be joined in the fall by previously announced returning series “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” “Bachelor in Paradise,” “Big Sky,” “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune,” “The Good Doctor,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “The Rookie,” “Shark Tank” and “Station 19.”

The freshman comedy “Not Dead Yet,” starring Gina Rodriguez, will debut midseason, along with the return of the Peabody Award-nominated comedy “The Wonder Years” and the drama “A Million Little Things.”

Beloved unscripted series also returning midseason include ABC’s No. 1 program this season in Total Viewers and preeminent singing competition series, “American Idol,” the nation’s guilty pleasure, “The Bachelor,” and laugh-out-loud courtroom comedy “Judge Steve Harvey.”

Additional midseason announcements will be made at a later time.

Fall premiere dates will be announced soon.

Show descriptions for new ABC series are below.

NEW FALL SERIES

ALASKA (Thursdays, 10:00 p.m. ET)

From the mind of Tom McCarthy (“Spotlight”), “Alaska” stars Hilary Swank as Eileen Fitzgerald, a recently disgraced reporter who leaves her high-profile New York life behind to join a daily metro newspaper in Anchorage on a journey to find both personal and professional redemption.

Alongside Swank, “Alaska” stars Jeff Perry as Stanley Cornik, Matt Malloy as Bob Young, Meredith Holzman as Claire Muncy, Grace Dove as Rosalind “Roz” Friendly, Pablo Castelblanco as Gabriel Martin, Ami Park as Jieun Park and Craig Frank as Austin Greene.

Tom McCarthy is creator and executive producer. Hilary Swank, Melissa Wells, Bert Salke, Kyle Hopkins (Anchorage Daily News) and Ryan Binkley (Anchorage Daily News) are executive producers on the series. “Alaska” is produced by 20th Television, a part of Disney Television Studios.

The pilot episode is written and directed by Tom McCarthy.

Follow “Alaska” (#Alaska, #AlaskaABC) on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

CELEBRITY JEOPARDY! (Sundays, 8:00 p.m. ET)

“Celebrity Jeopardy!,” produced by Sony Pictures Television, is an all-new game show airing this fall on ABC. This new series welcomes celebrity contestants to compete for a chance to win money for a charity of their choice.

“Celebrity Jeopardy!” is executive produced by Michael Davies.

THE ROOKIE: FEDS (Tuesdays, 10:00 p.m. ET)

From the executive producers of flagship series “The Rookie” comes “The Rookie: Feds” starring Niecy Nash-Betts as Simone Clark, the oldest rookie in the FBI Academy. The spinoff was introduced as a two-part event during the current fourth season of “The Rookie,” where Officer John Nolan (Nathan Fillion) and the LA division of the FBI enlist the help of Simone Clark when one of her former students is a suspect in a terror attack.

“The Rookie: Feds” stars Niecy Nash-Betts as Simone Clark, Frankie Faison as Christopher “Cutty” Clark and Felix Solis as Special Agent Matthew Garza.

Alexi Hawley and Terence Paul Winter are co-creators and executive producers. Mark Gordon, Niecy Nash-Betts, Nathan Fillion, Michelle Chapman, Bill Norcross and Corey Miller are executive producers. Entertainment One (eOne) is the lead studio and international distributor of “The Rookie: Feds,” a co-production with ABC Signature.

Follow “The Rookie: Feds” (#TheRookieFeds) on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

NEW MIDSEASON SERIES

NOT DEAD YET

From creators David Windsor and Casey Johnson (“This Is Us,” “The Real O’Neals”) and starring Gina Rodriguez, “Not Dead Yet” follows Nell Stevens (Rodriguez), a broke and newly single self-described disaster, working to restart the life and career she left behind 10 years ago. When she lands the only job she can find – writing obituaries, Nell starts getting life advice from an unlikely source. The series is adapted from the book “Confessions of a 40-something F**k Up” by Alexandra Potter.

“Not Dead Yet” stars Gina Rodriguez as Nell, Joshua Banday as Dennis and Angela Gibbs as Cricket.

Casey Johnson and David Windsor are creators and executive producers. Also executive producing is Gina Rodriguez and Wonderland Sound and Vision’s McG, Mary Viola and Corey Marsh. The series is produced by 20th Television, a part of Disney Television Studios.

Follow “Not Dead Yet” (#NotDeadYet) on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

About ABC Entertainment

ABC Entertainment’s compelling programming includes “Grey’s Anatomy,” the longest-running medical drama in primetime television; ratings juggernaut “The Bachelor” franchise; riveting dramas “Big Sky,” “The Good Doctor,” “A Million Little Things,” “The Rookie” and “Station 19”; trailblazing comedies “Abbott Elementary,” “The Conners,” “The Goldbergs,” “Home Economics” and “The Wonder Years”; popular game shows, including “The $100,000 Pyramid,” “Celebrity Family Feud,” “The Chase,” “Press Your Luck” and “To Tell the Truth”; star-making sensation “American Idol”; “Judge Steve Harvey,” the network’s strongest unscripted series debut in a year; reality phenomenon “Shark Tank”; family favorites “America’s Funniest Home Videos” and “Holey Moley”; “General Hospital,” which has aired for more than 55 years on the network; and late-night talk show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”; as well as the critically acclaimed, Emmy® Award-winning “Live in Front of a Studio Audience” specials. The network also boasts some of television’s most prestigious awards shows, including “The Oscars®,” “The CMA Awards” and the “American Music Awards.”

ABC programming can also be viewed on Hulu.

Will The Wonder Years still have a full 22 episode season?

Jeez can they keep Big Sky on one night?!

TV's upfront week emphasized streaming over broadcast networks: ABC was barely mentioned at Disney's upfronts (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/broadcast-networks-backseat-upfronts-1235150074/)

There were just 35 broadcast pilot pickups for ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox and The CW -- compared to an average of 77.4 over the past decade -- representing a new 10-year low. "Gone are the days when broadcast was the priority at the New York dog-and-pony show, when networks would trot out the stars and fresh faces of the newly ordered 30-something comedies and dramas before unspooling trailers that they hoped would deliver a hit half as successful as the five-time Emmy winner," says The Hollywood Reporter's Lesley Goldberg. "Now, in the first in-person presentations since COVID-19 upended the industry, the stage was largely devoid of the class of 2022-23, and the vast majority of the new show trailers went unseen — if they were mentioned at all. What’s more, ABC, Fox and NBC still have series orders for next season in the works and casting to do for others that have already been greenlit. The lack of star power onstage has as much to do with the current state of the pandemic as with its impact on the overall television landscape over the past few years." ALSO: Here are some of the best, worst and weirdest moments from upfront week (https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/lizzo-pete-davidson-stallone-zaslav-upfronts-1235271784/).

I wish they would show the LA Law pilot during the summer just like they used to

I wish they would show the LA Law pilot during the summer just like they used toNetworks haven't aired busted pilots since the 20th century. They never did well in ratings.

fall premiere dates

https://tvline.com/2022/06/16/abc-premiere-dates-fall-2022-list-greys-anatomy-season-19/

‘Beauty and the Beast’ Gets ABC Live Treatment for 30th Anniversary

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/beauty-and-the-beast-abc-live-special-1235175594/

Enough hybrids of their animated classics! The Little Mermaid was bad enough a few years ago, I doubt this Beauty and the Beast will be worth watching.

Generation Gap was a mostly enjoyable premiere. What a pathetic bonus round though, ABC's cheapskate side was strong making it. :rolleyes:

Generation Gap was a mostly enjoyable premiere. What a pathetic bonus round though, ABC's cheapskate side was strong making it. :rolleyes:

The lead-in show gave out almost $250K.

When will the episode of Generation Gap that was pulled last week for Queen Elizabeth coverage be rescheduled? Maybe it can be added to the season 2 total, but would be out of place if that pathetic bonus round gets changed like it should be for season 2.

When will the episode of Generation Gap that was pulled last week for Queen Elizabeth coverage be rescheduled? Maybe it can be added to the season 2 total, but would be out of place if that pathetic bonus round gets changed like it should be for season 2.

The TV listings are showing that tonight is the finale instead of the episode that was pulled last week.

The TV listings are showing that tonight is the finale instead of the episode that was pulled last week.Tonight would have been the finale anyway, originally 10 episodes would have aired instead of 9.

Tonight would have been the finale anyway, originally 10 episodes would have aired instead of 9.

Press Your Luck had their season finale last night as well.

The second-season premiere of Abbott Elementary last Wednesday attracted 2.7 million viewers, while the fifth-season premiere of The Conners had... 3.7 million. AE is just a few tenths of a point ahead of The Conners in the 18-49 demographic (0.57 vs. 0.53, respectively). Is it too soon to start worrying about ABC pushing Abbott Elementary as its next top sitcom being a total failure? I mean, I was hoping that AE would start beating The Conners in the 18-49 demographic this season. If it really is a failure, this is a perfect example of streaming making it harder and harder for the networks to push and build their next top shows.

https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-wednesday-9-21-2022-top-150-cable-originals-network-finals.html

People are watching network TV shows on streaming. Abbott is huge on Hulu.

ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Kicks Off Premiere Week as No. 1 Late-Night Talk Show Among Adults 18-49

http://www.thefutoncritic.com/ratings/2022/09/27/abcs-jimmy-kimmel-live-kicks-off-premiere-week-as-no-1-late-night-talk-show-among-adults-18-49-233114/20220927abc01/

Alaska Daily is fantastic, this year's best new show. Kudos to a big name like Hilary Swank starring in a quality broadcast TV-PG drama and not some explicit TV-MA streaming show with a lot of profanity and pornography.

Alaska Daily is fantastic, this year's best new show. Kudos to a big name like Hilary Swank starring in a quality broadcast TV-PG drama and not some explicit TV-MA streaming show with a lot of profanity and pornography.

So something is not quality if it's "more adult"?

So something is not quality if it's "more adult"?Pornography and profanity are not quality, especially at the TV-MA level. Why the Emmys have become such a joke, the sleazy voters who encourage filth largely only care for HBO and streaming shows.

Pornography and profanity are not quality, especially at the TV-MA level. Why the Emmys have become such a joke, the sleazy voters who encourage filth largely only care for HBO and streaming shows.

I know everyone has opinions, but one cannot fully judge unless they watch what they are criticizing. Calling things “filth” without having seen said shows doesn’t mean anything.

BREAKING NEWS: The Conners's season five to have 22 episodes.

https://deadline.com/2022/10/the-conners-season-5-episode-count-record-1235142786/

Alaska Daily is the crown jewel of ABC's schedule, best new show they have launched in a long time (no it is not Abbott Elementary, that mediocre show is so overrated). Alaska Daily is meant to air earlier in the 8PM hour. A full season behind Grey's Anatomy could help, but it should move to Sundays at 8:00 for season 2. There is easier drama competition there than Mondays with 9-1-1 and Tuesdays with FBI. Sundays at 8:00 is also where Once Upon a Time thrived not too long ago. This is what I would schedule for fall 2023.

Sunday
7:00 America's Funniest Home Videos
8:00 Alaska Daily
9:00 September The Bachelor- Move its winter season to fall.
January Bachelor in Paradise- Reduce this garbage to one night, 4 hours every week is pathetic overkill.
March- American Idol. Someone is bound to say Idol has never aired 9-11. Affiliates would like its direct lead-in for their local news, and airing at 9:00 obviously couldn't happen on FOX.

Monday
8:00 Celebrity Wheel of Fortune/American Idol results
9:00 The Good Doctor
10:00 New Drama- Good Doctor spin-off if picked up

Tuesday
8:00 Celebrity Jeopardy!/Judge Steve Harvey
9:00 The Rookie
10:00 The Rookie: Feds

Wednesday
8:00 The Conners
8:30 The Wonder Years- Almost everyone thinks The Goldbergs should end with its current season 10. Also, The Wonder Years should have gotten this year's fall slot instead of Home Economics.
9:00 Abbott Elementary
9:30 New Comedy
10:00 Big Sky- Hopefully TV Grim Reaper is right about the 3rd season rule saving it. Reba McEntire and Jensen Ackles have been great cast additions.

Thursday
8:00 Station 19
9:00 Grey's Anatomy final season- Ellen Pompeo leaving will remove some of this show's fanbase.
10:00 New Drama

Friday
8:00 Shark Tank
9:00 The Chase- 2 hour episodes of 20/20 every week is also overkill.
10:00 20/20

ABC’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Special Adds Martin Short, David Alan Grier, Shania Twain

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/abc-live-beauty-and-the-beast-cast-1235242842/

I hope The Prank Panel (reality garbage announced in today's blog) does terrible. Last thing we need is another show like bloody awful Impractical Jokers on broadcast TV. :wallbang

ABC Takes ‘The Parent Test’ Unscripted Series Based On Australian Format

https://deadline.com/2022/10/abc-the-parent-test-unscripted-series-australian-format-1235154416/

Way to screw with Alaska Daily delaying its next episode for some lousy, needless promotion of a Hulu repeat. With a week off the other Thursday shows don't have to take, that won't help its already struggling ratings, especially if AD is stuck with repeats leading in on the 17th. :mad: Preempt one of the Rookies instead, they already have full seasons. Or Monday at 10:00 would have been a natural opening with The Good Doctor off, CMA special is not needed there. Instead they treat a consistently top notch show like crap here. :rolleyes: I hope the Hulu encore makes a historic low 0.0 demo first for a non-CW broadcast network, that would at least make Alaska Daily look better.

With Alaska Daily being a show meant for 8:00 airing at 10:00, ABC should try it at 8:00 on the 17th, good week for it with Young Sheldon and Ghosts in repeats and the other Thursday shows still having their fall finales on the 10th.

ABC should be ashamed of how they are treating The Wonder Years. Now season 2 won't air until summer! Almost certainly no season 3 now, ABC sure didn't want to give Fred Savage's showrunner replacement any shot of succeeding. The only sitcom left worth watching on the network and it gets treated like garbage. :rolleyes:

Below are premiere dates for new and returning shows (all times listed are Eastern/Pacific).

THURSDAY, DEC. 15
8:00-10:00 p.m. "Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration" (previously announced)
10:00-11:00 p.m. "The Parent Test" (special series premiere - previously announced)

TUESDAY, JAN. 3
8:00-9:00 p.m. "The Rookie" (new night and time)
9:00-10:00 p.m. "The Rookie: Feds" (new time)
10:00-11:00 p.m. "Will Trent" (series premiere)

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 4
9:00-9:31 p.m. "Abbott Elementary"
9:31-10:00 p.m. "Home Economics"
10:00-11:00 p.m. "Big Sky: Deadly Trails"

THURSDAY, JAN. 5
8:00-9:00 p.m. "Celebrity Jeopardy!" (new night)
9:00-10:00 p.m. "The Parent Test" (regular time period premiere)
10:00-11:00 p.m. "The Chase" (new night and time)

FRIDAY, JAN. 6
8:00-9:01 p.m. "Shark Tank"

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 11
8:00-8:30 p.m. "The Conners"
8:30-9:00 p.m. "The Goldbergs"

MONDAY, JAN. 23
8:00-10:01 p.m. "The Bachelor" (season premiere - previously announced)
10:01-11:00 p.m. "The Good Doctor"

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8
8:30-9:00 p.m. "Not Dead Yet" (early series premiere)
9:31-10:00 p.m. "Not Dead Yet" (regular time period premiere - new episode)
10:00-11:00 p.m. "A Million Little Things" (farewell season premiere)

SUNDAY, FEB. 19
7:00-8:00 p.m. "America's Funniest Home Videos"
8:00-10:00 p.m. "American Idol" (season premiere)
10:00-11:00 p.m. "The Company You Keep" (series premiere)

THURSDAY, FEB. 23
8:00-9:00 p.m. "Station 19"
9:00-10:01 p.m. "Grey's Anatomy"
10:01-11:00 p.m. "Alaska Daily"

ABC should be ashamed of how they are treating The Wonder Years. Now season 2 won't air until summer! Almost certainly no season 3 now, ABC sure didn't want to give Fred Savage's showrunner replacement any shot of succeeding. The only sitcom left worth watching on the network and it gets treated like garbage. :rolleyes:

It's not summer. It will be in Spring.

It's not summer. It will be in Spring.Hmm. Did TVLine get it wrong then?

https://tvline.com/2022/11/07/the-wonder-years-season-2-delayed-release-date-summer-2023/

Blog post about the ABC Midseason 2023 schedule:

https://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2022/11/abc-midseason-2023-schedule-fox-2023.html?m=1

‘Abbott Elementary’ Season 2 Premiere Becomes ABC’s Highest-Rated Comedy Telecast In 3 Years, Up 623% In MP35

https://deadline.com/2022/11/abbott-elementary-season-2-premiere-abc-ratings-mp35-1235167812/

Last night while I was watching Celebrity Jeopardy! live, an exclusive interview with Mike Pence was advertised for tomorrow (which is now today) at 10/9. I assumed this meant The Good Doctor had been pulled and tonight's episode would be delayed. But then I saw on TVLine that its 100th episode is airing tonight, and ABC's website also confirms it is still The Good Doctor. Was that Pence interview actually advertised for 10AM?

My guide also says The Good Doctor is on, but the futon critic says a special presentation of 20/20 with Mike Pence is on tonight...

‘Avalon’ Not Going Forward At ABC; David E. Kelley’s Neve Campbell-Led Drama Being Shopped Elsewhere

https://deadline.com/2022/11/avalon-not-going-forward-abc-david-e-kelley-neve-campbell-1235176698/

Is Celebrity Jeopardy! not coming back until January now? Originally it was new on December 11 plus a new Celebrity Wheel of Fortune. But that has changed to an all night airing of Avatar and a Conners repeat. Zap2it and The Futon Critic both agreed on that change.

AKC National Championship Dog Show To Air On ABC January 1st

https://www.akc.org/press-releases/akc-national-championship-dog-show-presented-royal-canin-air-abc-january-1st/

The Backstreet Boys Christmas special that would have aired on December 14 has been pulled because of rape allegations against Nick Carter.

https://tvline.com/2022/12/08/backstreet-boys-special-cancelled-nick-carter-rape-allegations-abc/

Disney to Air Episodes of Star Wars Series Andor on ABC

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-15/disney-to-air-episodes-of-its-star-wars-tv-series-on-abc-hulu

ABC should be ashamed of how they are treating The Wonder Years. Now season 2 won't air until summer! Almost certainly no season 3 now, ABC sure didn't want to give Fred Savage's showrunner replacement any shot of succeeding. The only sitcom left worth watching on the network and it gets treated like garbage. :rolleyes:

It is clear that ABC execs are already preferring Abbott Elementary over the 2021 version of The Wonder Years and have decided that they couldn't realistically have both of them be solid long-term players. A consequence of my hesitancy over letting series reboots succeed.

It is clear that ABC execs are already preferring Abbott Elementary over the 2021 version of The Wonder Years and have decided that they couldn't realistically have both of them be solid long-term players. A consequence of my hesitancy over letting series reboots succeed.I am not even mad at Abbott Elementary on this, it is natural to push what is now their ace comedy. Home Economics though, was very undeserving of the fall slot. That should have gone to The Wonder Years instead. Home Economics blows chunks and is not worth being considered as a long-term player.

Not cool pulling The Chase for a primetime edition of Jimmy Kimmel not live (I am assuming it is taped like the other late night shows). They could easily have put Jimmy Kimmel the night before while Wednesday is between Big Sky and A Million Little Things. Dumb Will Trent doesn't need more repeats (humans on that show were all unlikable, only good thing was the dog).

Martin Mull was the best part of Not Dead Yet. How stupid of them not making him a series regular, with Martin not continuing past the pilot I won't either.

ABC News Live is one channel that has really stayed under the radar. I had never seen ads on parent ABC or even heard of it until I saw today's Martin Lawrence blog.

The Goldbergs is Ending With Season 10
https://tvline.com/2023/02/23/the-goldbergs-cancelled-ending-season-10-abc/

Duluth, Minnesota has a horrible ABC affiliate. They are airing high school hockey in primetime, delaying tonight's return of Alaska Daily to 2AM.

How is it possible that ABC's World News Tonight is the "most watched program in all of television", as claimed by recent promos for it?

Duluth, Minnesota has a horrible ABC affiliate. They are airing high school hockey in primetime, delaying tonight's return of Alaska Daily to 2AM.

High school hockey is hugely popular in Minnesota. It's like high school football in Texas. They live for it.

How is it possible that ABC's World News Tonight is the "most watched program in all of television", as claimed by recent promos for it?

They've been making that claim in their press releases for a long time. Maybe they are only talking about early evening newscasts.

https://www.dgepress.com/abc?s=world+news&searchsubmit=

BREAKING NEWS: Grey's Anatomy is Renewed for a Twentieth Season.

Also executive producer Meg Marinis will become GA's new showrunner, replacing the departing Krista Vernoff.

https://deadline.com/2023/03/greys-anatomy-renewed-season-20-ellen-pompeo-return-1235309800/

9-1-1 has been renewed for season 7, but traded from FOX to ABC! Making it stranger is spin-off 9-1-1: Lone Star remaining on FOX (that show never had the quality of its parent though). ABC's Monday night fall lineup now should almost certainly be all scripted with 9-1-1 at its current time, The Good Doctor moving an hour earlier, and The Good Lawyer. Get the lousy Bachelor franchise back to just summer and January, remove that garbage permanently from fall and cancel the Paradise spin-off. I know Alaska Daily is considered a long shot but I hope ABC is behind its terrific quality for season 2. It wouldn't have to be on the fall schedule, midseason would be fine. Hopefully their missing Native American page on ABC's site plugged at the end of each episode is a sign of intending to continue.

Something I had not thought of that a Spoiler TV poster mentioned: 9-1-1 can move to Thursdays at 8:00, with Station 19 and Grey's Anatomy moving an hour later. That would make for a really powerhouse Thursday, better idea than wasting 9-1-1 on Tuesday like so many want. This can be their fall schedule. May the strike get resolved a lot quicker this time by Memorial Day or soon after.

Sundays
7:00 America's Funniest Home Videos
8:00 Dancing with the Stars return to ABC- Len's schedule was the main reason they couldn't move to Sunday before.
10:00 Alaska Daily- Stand behind this show's quality please! I have heard AD does well on delayed viewing, so Thursday just might not have been the right night for it.

Mondays
8:00 Celebrity Wheel of Fortune/The Chase
9:00 The Good Doctor
10:00 The Good Lawyer

Tuesdays
8:00 The Rookie
9:00 New Drama
10:00 Will Trent

Wednesdays- Go aggressive with new comedies with The Conners rumored to be a final season. What a shame The Wonder Years got screwed over in favor of garbage Home Economics.
8:00 The Conners
8:30 New Comedy
9:00 Abbott Elementary
9:30 New Comedy
10:00 The Rookie: Feds

Thursdays
8:00 9-1-1
9:00 Station 19
10:00 Grey's Anatomy

Fridays
8:00 Shark Tank
9:00 20/20- a waste keeping this two hours but ABC is too lazy to reduce it to the original format now.

Midseason
Not Dead Yet
Judge Steve Harvey
Sundays January The Bachelor
Sundays March American Idol

Cancelled/Ending
Celebrity Jeopardy!- I was very unimpressed with this. It cheapens the intellectual value of the franchise with all the dumb and annoying celebrities they got, and too much filler so they can expand to an hour. Celebrity Wheel depends more on luck, and at least they still get two complete games in. But Celebrity Jeopardy! getting cancelled would be no loss.
Big Sky- Season 3 was great, but with Reba gone season 4 would naturally fall from that quality. TV Grim Reaper seems to think the season 3 rule makes it safe, but it is nowhere near 66 episodes. Speechless sadly got cancelled after 3 seasons and it was a lot closer.
The Goldbergs
The Wonder Years :(
Home Economics :barf:
A Million Little Things
The Company You Keep

9-1-1 has been renewed for season 7, but traded from FOX to ABC! Making it stranger is spin-off 9-1-1: Lone Star remaining on FOX (that show never had the quality of its parent though). ABC's Monday night fall lineup now should almost certainly be all scripted with 9-1-1 at its current time, The Good Doctor moving an hour earlier, and The Good Lawyer. Get the lousy Bachelor franchise back to just summer and January, remove that garbage permanently from fall and cancel the Paradise spin-off.

Dancing with the Stars being announced to return to ABC after just one year as a Disney+ exclusive just a day after 9-1-1 moving to ABC was announced threw quite the monkey wrench into that fantasy scheduling. DwtS remaining on Mondays would mean 9-1-1, The Good Doctor, and The Good Lawyer all getting held to midseason. No way I'm burying 9-1-1 like that or in any other way. 9-1-1 on Thursdays wouldn't be bad, either.

Also, 9-1-1, the highest-rated drama on the FOX Network, moving to ABC next year may be reminiscent of Wagon Train moving to ABC from NBC over 60 years ago after having been the top series on NBC since season 2 (including a #1 placing in the annual Nielsen ratings for season 5).

Dancing with the Stars being announced to return to ABC after just one year as a Disney+ exclusive just a day after 9-1-1 moving to ABC was announced threw quite the monkey wrench into that fantasy scheduling. DwtS remaining on Mondays would mean 9-1-1, The Good Doctor, and The Good Lawyer all getting held to midseason. No way I'm burying 9-1-1 like that or in any other way. 9-1-1 on Thursdays wouldn't be bad, either.

Also, 9-1-1, the highest-rated drama on the FOX Network, moving to ABC next year may be reminiscent of Wagon Train moving to ABC from NBC over 60 years ago after having been the top series on NBC since season 2 (including a #1 placing in the annual Nielsen ratings for season 5).See my follow-up schedule from today. Dancing With the Stars should move to Sunday.

This is going to be a really tough loss for IceCream: ABC just fired Alaska Daily today. Too bad; I liked his idea of putting it after DWTS or American Idol next season. :(

The casts and crews of Big Sky and The Company You Keep (the latter a non-surprise) will also be cleaning out their desks today.

https://tvline.com/2023/05/12/abc-cancelled-shows-2023-list-big-sky-the-company-you-keep/

First episode of The Game Show Show about quiz shows was interesting. Episode two, not so much. It is bad enough reality shows take over the second half of this so-called series about game shows, they snuck one in this week with Shark Tank. I am no fan of Press Your Luck, but that would have fit in on a big money game show episode more, it is even a current ABC remake.

Almost everything is put on demand from this network, including Celebrity Jeopardy! which finished several months ago. But the Jeopardy! Masters tournament is still not available yet, I would have watched Monday's episode live instead of the 9-1-1 FOX finale if I had known.