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TJ
05-16-2023, 02:13 PM
2023–24 United States network television schedule - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%E2%80%9324_United_States_network_television_schedule

Blog story: https://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2023/05/abc-upfront-2023-24-fall-2023-schedule.html

ABC Extends Winning Streak As No. 1 in Entertainment for Fourth Consecutive Season

Network Announces 2023–2024 Fall Primetime Schedule Featuring Strong Slate of Fan-Favorite Programming With Originals Debuting Every Night

Unscripted Staples ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ ‘Bachelor in Paradise,’ ‘Shark Tank,’ ‘Judge Steve Harvey’ and ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos’ Lead the Primetime Lineup

Star-Studded Game Shows ‘Celebrity Jeopardy!,’ ‘Celebrity Wheel of Fortune,’ ‘Press Your Luck’ and ‘The $100,000 Pyramid’ Return

Long-Awaited Spinoff ‘The Golden Bachelor’ Shakes Up Monday Nights

ABC announced its 2023-2024 fall primetime schedule today, featuring a solid lineup of original programming every night with network staples and fan-favorite unscripted series. The network continues to deliver on its success as the season’s No. 1 entertainment network among Adults 18-49 for the fourth season in a row. ABC ranked or tied as the No. 1 entertainment network on 18 of the 33 weeks of the season to date, marking more weekly wins with entertainment programming than any other network. In fact, the network also delivered the longest winning streak of the season to date, ranking or tying for No. 1 on 12 consecutive weeks.

“We are proud to be home to beloved series and meaningful narratives that audiences continue to embrace, and we’re fortunate that our solid, stable roster continues to leverage the enormous success of our established hits, with originals airing every night of the week,” said Craig Erwich, president, Disney Television Group.

The network is leaning into its incomparable unscripted slate, with “Dancing with the Stars” making history once again by becoming the first series to broadcast live across multiple platforms on Monday nights followed by the highly anticipated premiere of “The Golden Bachelor.” Star-studded game shows “The $100,000 Pyramid,” “Celebrity Jeopardy!,” “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune” and “Press Your Luck” as well as the 15th season of multi-Emmy® Award-winning “Shark Tank” and the sophomore season of “Judge Steve Harvey” return. “Bachelor in Paradise” takes over Tuesdays to satisfy everyone’s guilty pleasure. Sundays are all about family, featuring all-new episodes of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” paired with beloved movies from “The Wonderful World of Disney.” Additionally, encore airings of Emmy Award-winning phenomenon “Abbott Elementary” will air this fall. ABC News’ “What Would You Do?,” which ran for an impressive 15 seasons, also makes its return to primetime reintroducing the iconic hidden camera show to new and returning audiences.

Timing for previously announced renewals and pickups, including “9-1-1,” “Abbott Elementary,” “American Idol,” “The Bachelor,” “The Conners,” “The Good Doctor,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “High Potential,” “Not Dead Yet,” “The Rookie,” “Station 19,” and “Will Trent” will be announced at a later date.

Fall premiere dates will be announced soon.

ABC FALL PRIMETIME SCHEDULE (all times listed are Eastern/Pacific).

Editor’s Note: There are two changes to the previously announced summer schedule. “Generation Gap” will remain on Thursdays and shift to 8:00 p.m. with “The Chase” following at 9:00 p.m., both premiering June 29. “Press Your Luck” will move to Thursdays this fall as reflected below.

DAY
TIME SERIES

MONDAY
8:00 p.m. “Dancing with the Stars” (two hours)
10:00 p.m “The Golden Bachelor”

TUESDAY
8:00 p.m. “Celebrity Jeopardy!”
9:00 p.m. “Bachelor in Paradise” (two hours)

WEDNESDAY
8:00 p.m. “Judge Steve Harvey”
9:00 p.m. “Abbott Elementary” (Encore)
9:30 p.m. “Abbott Elementary” (Encore)
10:00 p.m. “What Would You Do?”

THURSDAY
8:00 p.m. “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune”
9:00 p.m. “Press Your Luck”
10:00 p.m. “The $100,000 Pyramid”

FRIDAY
8:00 p.m. “Shark Tank”
9:01 p.m. “20/20” (two hours)

SATURDAY
7:30 p.m. College Football

SUNDAY
7:00 p.m. “America’s Funniest Home Videos”
8:00 p.m. “The Wonderful World of Disney” (three hours)

Show description for new series “The Golden Bachelor” is below.

THE GOLDEN BACHELOR
After more than 20 years of fostering young love on “The Bachelor,” “The Bachelorette” and “Bachelor in Paradise,” “The Golden Bachelor” showcases a whole new kind of love story – one for the golden years. On this all-new unscripted series, one hopeless romantic is given a second chance at love in the search for a partner with whom to share the sunset years of life. The women arriving at the mansion have a lifetime of experience, living through love, loss and laughter, hoping for a spark that ignites a future full of endless possibilities. In the end, will our Golden man turn the page to start a new chapter with the woman of his dreams?

“The Golden Bachelor” is produced by Warner Bros. Unscripted Television in association with Warner Horizon.

icecream
05-16-2023, 02:28 PM
I resent how little both sides of the strike care about the public, leaving us with lousy reality filled schedules and largely reduced episode orders. A quick resolution to the strike should have been the priority, way too much greed in Hollywood. :mad:

icecream
05-16-2023, 02:39 PM
This is also a final screw you to The Wonder Years. With a full season produced there, it could have led off Wednesdays in the fall instead of sticking to summer. :bash:

TMC
05-16-2023, 09:07 PM
I resent how little both sides of the strike care about the public, leaving us with lousy reality filled schedules and largely reduced episode orders. A quick resolution to the strike should have been the priority, way too much greed in Hollywood. :mad:

ABC's Fall Schedule Is Nothing But Reruns and Reality TV (https://www.cbr.com/abc-fall-schedule-reruns-reality-tv-writers-strike/)

ABC officially unveils its upcoming fall lineup, which currently includes zero new scripted episodes of any series amidst the ongoing writers strike.

James28
05-18-2023, 11:56 PM
If ABC Network thinks any of these reality shows (outside of Shark Tank) will stay on its schedule for all of next season to the point of their best scripted shows (and FOX transplant 9-1-1) missing out completely due to the prolongment of the current WGA Strike, then they can pretty much bite me, for all I care. I hope that strike gets resolved so that the network's scripted stuff can get prepared for at least a mid-November return.

icecream
07-11-2023, 01:06 AM
The Prank Panel's heavily advertised timeslot premiere flopped, losing 0.07 demo (0.26) from its repeat lead-in of America's Funniest Home Videos (0.33). ABC viewers were actively avoiding The Prank Panel like the garbage it is, went back up to an 0.33 at 9:00 with Celebrity Family Feud.

icecream
08-21-2023, 05:13 PM
ABC revised their fall schedule. Garbage Bachelor franchise takes over all of Thursday nights with The Golden Bachelor and Bachelor in Paradise both moving there. Mondays at 10:00 and all of Tuesdays is currently vacant. Wednesdays will now be Celebrity Jeopardy! with Ken Jennings hosting season 2, Celebrity Wheel of Fortune, and $100,000 Pyramid. With how little there is overall with this lousy strike, too much of it is on Wednesdays for me now with Wheel and Jeopardy, Quantum Leap, and The Spencer Sisters. I wish the game shows had been put on Tuesdays instead.

Pavan
08-26-2023, 02:18 PM
https://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2023/08/abc-fall-2023-premiere-dates-and.html

James28
08-27-2023, 11:56 PM
I have noticed changes in the closed-captioning for several of ABC's scripted programs last Spring. Is ABC abandoning VITAC in favor of CaptionMax this season? ABC's programs have been captioned by VITAC since, I guess, the turn of the millennium.

James28
09-15-2023, 10:06 PM
BREAKING NEWS: ABC has decided not to renew the 2021 version of The Wonder Years for a third season. Just can't survive a summer burial, I guess.

https://deadline.com/2023/09/the-wonder-years-canceled-abc-2-seasons-1235526068/

Merry24
09-30-2023, 11:42 AM
ABC has cancelled Home Economics.

James28
11-01-2023, 10:36 PM
With the move of 9-1-1 (which used to be the FOX Network's top drama series) to ABC this season, will it be forced to switch closed-captioning providers?

9-1-1 has been captioned by Media Access Group at WGBH since its debut in early 2018, while most of ABC's scripted programs are using VITAC (and probably still are, if ABC's contract with VITAC isn't already slated to expire soon, and some of the network's scripted shows haven't already switched to CaptionMax [which was actually renamed 3PlayMedia in September 2022] as a result).

American Dad!, while it was on FOX Network, had its closed-captioning done by WGBH Media Access Group (in lowercase). Once AD! moved to TBS in 2014, its CC provider changed to VITAC, which resulted in its captioning changing to uppercase (which I've never seen on any other program up to that point), only to change BACK to lowercase two years later.

I guess VITAC must not be my favorite closed-captioning provider after all.:(

MA
11-03-2023, 06:32 PM
ABC's Holiday Shows, Specials and Movies Schedule 2023

https://abc.com/news/insider/abc-holiday-shows-specials-movies-2023-schedule

icecream
11-09-2023, 10:34 PM
The Rookie: Feds got a delayed cancellation almost 6 months after upfronts. I won't miss it like Alaska Daily and East New York, but do want Britt Robertson to find something that lasts on broadcast TV. She should be the star of an Accused episode to start with. Also, The Good Lawyer (potential spin-off of The Good Doctor) will not be receiving a series order.

icecream
11-16-2023, 06:36 PM
ABC is the 2nd network after CBS to announce when their scripted shows return. The Good Doctor is moving for the first time ever to Tuesdays at 10:00. Will Trent is moving to lead off that night, with The Rookie moving to 9:00. In its first season on ABC, 9-1-1 is moving to Thursdays leading into Grey's Anatomy. Station 19 moves two hours later to 10:00. Not Dead Yet is moving an hour earlier to 8:30 after The Conners. Wednesdays at 9:30 following Abbott Elementary is TBA, with Judge Steve Harvey closing out the night. Not only Fridays, but all of Sundays and Mondays now are unscripted wastelands. :(

https://tvline.com/news/abc-premiere-dates-2023-season-delayed-greys-anatomy-abbott-elementary-list-1235081665/#comment-list-wrapper

James28
11-30-2023, 09:56 PM
BREAKING NEWS: The 96th Annual Academy Awards, to be telecast on March 10 of 2024, will move up its start time by one hour, to 7pm Eastern instead of 8pm Eastern. Also, a new episode of Abbott Elementary will follow the 96th Annual Academy Awards. ABC right here has made a better decision on an Academy Awards lead-out program than CBS's lousy Super Bowl lead-out programming choices during the past decade.

https://deadline.com/2023/11/oscars-2024-start-time-moved-abc-1235644551/

icecream
12-08-2023, 09:22 PM
Station 19 is ending with season 7. Good, that means 9-1-1 should get at least two seasons on ABC.

James28
12-09-2023, 12:56 AM
Not good. In fact, it just might be a bit too soon.

I never expected Station 19 to end before Grey's Anatomy did, which would mean of both versions of the Shondaland Evolution, Grey's Anatomy will have outlived ALL of the series that represented both the present (first Scandal, then How to Get Away with Murder) AND the future (first How to Get Away with Murder, then Station 19) of U.S. television (Grey's Anatomy represented the past in both incarnations).

icecream
12-09-2023, 01:03 AM
Grey's Anatomy and Law and Order: SVU (ironically timeslot rivals) are the Simpsons and now creatively bankrupt NCIS of their networks. At least 20 seasons apiece for this quartet, yet no sign of ever ending.

James28
01-02-2024, 12:46 AM
The hit Hulu comedy series Only Murders in the Building will air on ABC on four straight Tuesdays (January 2, 9, 16, and 23), from 9 to 11 pm. Also on January 2, Celebrity Jeopardy! will move to Tuesdays at 8 (for the semifinals onward) from the Wednesday-at-8 slot it held last Fall.

ABC had been considering a primetime run for Only Murders in the Building this season while all of the network’s original scripted series have been delayed by Hollywood’s dual strikes.

https://deadline.com/2023/11/hulu-only-murders-in-the-building-season-1-abc-celebrity-jeopardy-moves-tuesdays-1235644917/

James28
01-11-2024, 01:56 PM
BREAKING NEWS: The Good Doctor to End Its Run at Season Seven

This is why last year's WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes make something like this worth getting agitated about.

Source: Deadline. (https://deadline.com/2024/01/the-good-doctor-canceled-end-season-7-1235716649/)

icecream
01-11-2024, 05:37 PM
That explains why The Good Doctor has not been advertised yet, but the other Tuesday dramas Will Trent :barf: and The Rookie :sleep2: have.

iloveoldtvshows
02-29-2024, 04:01 PM
Question: On here is there a thread about the show the Bachelor on here?

Am I the only one who thinks Maria is annoying? Also can anyone believe that Joey bought the line that Maria fed Joey? Joey should have sent Maria home a log time ago

icecream
02-29-2024, 04:37 PM
Question: On here is there a thread about the show the Bachelor on here?Not a popular show on this site, you can start threads about it on the reality shows board.

James28
03-08-2024, 11:37 AM
Okay, now I'm really feeling bad for 9-1-1, because all of ABC's scripted primetime shows (except for The Conners) are still with VITAC this season. Not sure why most series' channel hops always come with a change is closed-captioning vendors as well. I can't stand VITAC's all-uppercase captioning; it's a good thing VITAC switched to mixed-case in 2016. 9-1-1's Lone Star spinoff (which doesn't launch its next season until after the Paris Olympics) will likely stay with Media Access Group at WGBH for the foreseeable future, and I wish 9-1-1 itself would also stay with WGBH despite the move from FOX (I'm fine with a different provider as long as 9-1-1's CC isn't in all-caps going forward, which would be maddening). I'm also worried about how long 9-1-1 will last on its new network.

It should be noted that Last Man Standing also had a CC provider change when it was revived by FOX after its cancellation by ABC (VITAC to WGBH Media Access Group).

icecream
03-08-2024, 01:56 PM
I'm also worried about how long 9-1-1 will last on its new network.
9-1-1 should still be around for awhile. With Station 19 and The Good Doctor both ending, ABC needs more veterans returning.

icecream
03-11-2024, 05:10 PM
Some commenter on 9-1-1's Facebook page said their affiliate was airing high school basketball Thursday night, pushing the dramas to late night. :rolleyes: Her profile did not say what location.

icecream
03-14-2024, 06:28 PM
Someone else commented about the high school basketball preemption, looks like it is in Wausau, Wisconsin. At least it's not a major market.

James28
03-31-2024, 12:32 AM
Apparently, 9-1-1 is not going to switch to VITAC after all, and is sticking with Media Access Group at WGBH after its move to ABC.

icecream
04-12-2024, 12:07 PM
Proving what a joke the good for nothing Bachelor franchise is, the Golden Bachelor and his new wife announced divorce is coming just three months after their wedding. :rolleyes:

icecream
05-02-2024, 10:13 PM
How ancient is still current America's Funniest Home Videos? Johnny Carson joked about it on tonight's episode from 1990.

icecream
05-10-2024, 12:49 PM
Not Dead Yet is very dead now.