ABC Announces 2024–2025 Fall Primetime Schedule

NETWORK EXTENDS WINNING STREAK AS NO. 1 IN ENTERTAINMENT
FOR FIFTH CONSECUTIVE SEASON

STEAMY NEW MEDICAL DRAMA ‘DOCTOR ODYSSEY’ FROM RYAN MURPHY
HEATS UP THURSDAY NIGHTS

KAITLIN OLSON STARS IN NEW CRIME DRAMA ‘HIGH POTENTIAL’
COMING TUESDAYS

HIGHLY ANTICIPATED SPINOFF ‘THE GOLDEN BACHELORETTE’
JOINS WEDNESDAY LINEUP

The Farewell Season of ‘The Conners’ and New Seasons of Powerhouse Dramas

‘The Rookie’ and ‘Will Trent’ Return Midseason Along With Unscripted Fan Favorites

On the heels of its fifth consecutive season as the No. 1 entertainment network among Adults 18-49, ABC announced its 2024-2025 fall primetime schedule today. The lineup features new scripted dramas backed by prolific creative teams and a deep bench of established fan-favorite series. Additionally, “The Bachelor” franchise expands with its newest iteration.

“We have a lot to celebrate as we gear up to deliver a fall season that’s packed with compelling new series, beloved fan favorites and must-see live events,” said Craig Erwich, president, Disney Television Group. “We’re focused on driving our viewership with an expanding slate anchored by best-in-class talent and supported by the enviable and combined reach of ABC and Hulu.”

From the brilliant mind of Ryan Murphy and starring Joshua Jackson and Don Johnson, comes high-octane procedural “Doctor Odyssey.” Max (Jackson) is the new on-board doctor for a luxury cruise ship where the staff works hard and plays harder. It’s all hands on deck as Max and his small but mighty medical team navigate unique medical crises and each other, miles from shore. The series joins the Thursday night lineup alongside “9-1-1,” which is currently tied as the season’s No. 1 drama in Adults 18-49, and the longest-running primetime medical drama in television history, “Grey’s Anatomy.”

Joining the beloved competition series “Dancing with the Stars” on Tuesdays is freshman drama “High Potential,” from Oscar®-nominated writer Drew Goddard and based on the popular French series. The crime procedural stars the incomparable Kaitlin Olson as Morgan, a single mom with an exceptional mind whose unconventional knack for solving crimes leads to an unusual and unstoppable partnership with a by-the-book seasoned detective.

After more than 43 million viewers tuned in to the debut of “The Golden Bachelor” across platforms last fall, “The Golden Bachelorette” joins the Wednesday night lineup, where one radiant woman in her golden years will have a second chance at finding love. Then, a new season of Emmy® and Golden Globe® Award-winning comedy “Abbott Elementary” will premiere, followed by the ABC News Studios documentary series “Scamanda.” Based on the No. 1 podcast of the same name, “Scamanda” tells the story of Amanda Riley — a wife, mother, blogger and Christian — whose tragic cancer tale captivates thousands. But Amanda has a secret that she’s dying to keep, and after an anonymous tip to an investigative reporter, her own words may prove to be her downfall.

These shows will be joined in the fall by previously announced returning unscripted staples “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” which celebrates a monumental 35th season, and “Shark Tank,” as well as popular films under “The Wonderful World of Disney” umbrella.

New seasons of returning dramas “The Rookie” and “Will Trent” will debut midseason, along with the celebratory farewell season of legacy comedy “The Conners.” Also returning midseason are “American Idol,” “The Bachelor,” “Celebrity Jeopardy!,” “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune” and “What Would You Do?” “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” from executive producer Reese Witherspoon and hosted by world-renowned organizing duo Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin of The Home Edit, is also set to debut.

All episodes will be available next day on Hulu.

Fall premiere dates will be announced soon, and additional midseason announcements will be made at a later time.

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

MONDAY
8:00 p.m. “Monday Night Football” on select Mondays this fall / TBA programming


TUESDAY
8:00 p.m. “Dancing with the Stars”
10:00 p.m. “High Potential”

WEDNESDAY
8:00 p.m. “The Golden Bachelorette”
9:30 p.m. “Abbott Elementary”
10:00 p.m. “Scamanda”

THURSDAY
8:00 p.m. “9-1-1”
9:00 p.m. “Doctor Odyssey”
10:00 p.m. “Grey’s Anatomy”

FRIDAY
8:00 p.m. “Shark Tank”
9:00 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”

I thought the new Tim Allen sitcom was coming midseason (which was already messed up, he should have led off Wednesdays in a big fall promotional push). What a horrendous schedule.

I think too many veteran scripted shows are being held for midseason next season (other examples are Family Guy and the 2023 Night Court sequel series). I understand The Conners's final season being held for midseason with its only six episodes, but Will Trent and The Rookie also being held for midseason is overkill, and this is only because of ABC deciding to once again regularly telecast Monday Night Football this season, and not just because of Dancing with the Stars (even if it's just for one cycle per year going forward). A show being held for midseason will mean its season order will be fewer than 20 episodes, which will hurt its syndication prospects. I don't care about streaming changing the rules. This is how NCIS: Hawai'i got screwed over, not being able to get a full third season because of the "Strikemageddon" of 2023 and ending up cancelled while still ranking in the Nielsen Top 20 for its third season. Are Will Trent and The Rookie already in cancellation danger?

I think too many veteran scripted shows are being held for midseason next season (other examples are Family Guy and the 2023 Night Court sequel series).Night Court is on the fall schedule, it is not being held for midseason.

Now even America's Funniest Home Videos gets overruns on its episodes airing tonight. As a result, Homeward Bound: the Incredible Journey won't start until 9:02.

Fall premiere dates. Surprise: Pat Sajak will host Celebrity Wheel of Fortune for one more season! It will air Mondays at 8:00 on weeks ABC doesn't have football. But what happened to Tim Allen's new sitcom, is it still in development? Still really stupid they didn't make that in time for fall to lead off Wednesdays.

https://tvline.com/news/abc-fall-premiere-dates-2024-greys-anatomy-911-dwts-1235278896/

Another midseason schedule-change prediction.

So I have The Conners shooting for a first-week-of-the-new-year premiere date for its farewell season, and then, once The Conners finishes its six-episode order, Shifting Gears debuts around mid-to-late-February, Between The Conners/Shifting Gears and Abbott Elementary, which should be in the anchor slot, and which should be in the hammock slot?

BREAKING NEWS: ABC Signature to Shut Down and Be Absorbed Into 20th Television.

Honestly, I am very disappointed to see a broadcast network to be forced to actually shut down its in-house production studio. Another good reason to resent The Disney Company's acquisition of 20th Century Fox.

Source: Deadline. (https://deadline.com/2024/10/abc-signature-sutdown-karey-burke-hulu-abc-simran-sethi-layoffs-1236104442/)

I will have to wait until 2025 to see Celebrity Wheel of Fortune which is still hosted by Pat Sajak. ABC has added six more Monday Night Football games, which has pushed Celebrity Wheel and Press Your Luck to 2025. Scamanda is also being delayed with What Would You Do? moving to Wednesdays at 10:00. Strange move to delay the premiere of a new series for something that has been filler. But this is the stupid network that gutted their comedy night insisting on expanding the Bachelor franchise. Golden Bachelorette is doing terrible against Survivor like I knew it would, enjoy your 4th place reality trash ABC.

https://tvline.com/news/abc-fall-schedule-updates-monday-night-football-what-would-you-do-1235349109/#comment-list-wrapper

ABC's January schedule includes Shifting Gears (starring Tim Allen and Kat Dennings) airing Wednesdays at 8:00 and season 2 of Only Murders in the Building coming to network TV Thursday nights from 9-11. Final season of The Conners will be premiering sometime in March.

https://tvline.com/news/the-rookie-season-7-premiere-date-will-trent-abc-1235376116/

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:

Even worse news for that inaugural Golden Bachelor: He just revealed a cancer diagnosis (https://deadline.com/2024/12/the-golden-bachelor-gerry-turner-cancer-diagnosis-1236200905/) today, stating "Unfortunately, There’s No Cure For It.”. :crying:

Tim Allen and Kat Demmings are hosting ABC's airing of The Santa Clause next Sunday. We might be getting extended previews of Shifting Gears.

ABC is changing the Only Murders in the Building schedule on Thursdays. Next week on January 9 there will be only two episodes instead of three, at 9:02 and 9:51. With 10 episodes in season 2 I guess they will air three on the 16th and two on the 23rd, or the other way around. At 10:37 on the 9th is What Would You Do? for 23 minutes. :crazy:

An ad for the Celebrity Jeopardy season premiere aired during two different Home Improvement episodes tonight on LAFF. Yet nothing for the more compatible Shifting Gears premiere which also stars Tim Allen. :nonono:

When this broadcast season began, I thought there was going to be a real battle to see which of High Potential and Doctor Odyssey would have the better chance of becoming ABC's next long-running series. Good to see High Potential living up to its name by earning a season 2 renewal (https://deadline.com/2025/01/high-potential-renewed-season-2-abc-kaitlin-olson-1236262722/) because of impressive ratings and viewership. But does High Potential's renewal mean Doctor Odyssey ending up cancelled after one season, meaning High Potential ultimately winning out in this battle?

I do not see Doctor Odyssey being renewed. Does ABC regret moving Grey's Anatomy to 10:00?

BREAKING NEWS: The seventh and final season of The Conners is slated to premiere on Wednesday, March 26.

https://deadline.com/2025/01/the-conners-premiere-date-seventh-final-season-teaser-1236270732/

Shifting Gears only had a 10 episode order. I would have thought it got an extension with how strong it has been, but I also assumed the initial order was for the standard 13 episodes not just 10. The Conners will lead off the night then at 8:00/7:00, with Shifting Gears season finale the week before.

https://tvline.com/lists/the-conners-season-7-premiere-date-cast-trailer-new-episodes-abc/

BREAKING NEWS: The Bachelorette is Paused for Summer 2025; The ABC Dating Series Will Skip This Cycle

https://deadline.com/2025/02/the-bachelorette-paused-2025-abc-1236282465/

The Oscars used to be feared by rivals with only The Amazing Race airing new episodes when it was still on Sundays. Apparently not anymore: CBS, NBC, and FOX are all new with their whole lineups. :eek:

Why is this year's Celebrity Jeopardy! tournament skipping a week? The next quarterfinal game won't air until February 26. All the other networks are all new with their entire lineups tonight, but the only thing new ABC has is What Would You Do?, preceded by repeats of Shifting Gears and the second Celebrity Jeopardy! quarterfinal (aired January 15).

Why is this year's Celebrity Jeopardy! tournament skipping a week? The next quarterfinal game won't air until February 26. All the other networks are all new with their entire lineups tonight, but the only thing new ABC has is What Would You Do?, preceded by repeats of Shifting Gears and the second Celebrity Jeopardy! quarterfinal (aired January 15).ABC must want new episodes of their hit comedy hour leading into the new CJs, ratings would go down with a repeat lead-in and last year it led off the night. But I have wondered if Celebrity Jeopardy is even returning next year. It hasn't been advertised at all during Shifting Gears lately, the last few episodes I have seen on demand with local coverups removed.

ABC must want new episodes of their hit comedy hour leading into the new CJs, ratings would go down with a repeat lead-in and last year it led off the night.

I could have also asked the same thing about Shifting Gears. I think either Shifting Gears of Celebrity Jeopardy! skipping a week on (February 19) is pointless. I should have had both program's seasons run uninterrupted (normally I would feel that way only for Celebrity Jeopardy!). I don't really care for repeats on the broadcast networks.

Also, will the sixth episode of The Conners's final season be an hour long (pre-empting Abbott Elementary), or will all six of that season's installments each be 30 minutes?

ABC sure is taking their time to announce when Celebrity Wheel of Fortune with Pat Sajak still hosting is coming back. It deserved the post American Idol slot more than $100,000 Pyramid, or would have been more compatible with Celebrity Jeopardy! than What Would You Do? and random fillers.

I was attempting to watch last night's Shifting Gears on demand which isn't usually a problem. But someone screwed up, shortly into the 2nd segment the recording abruptly stopped. I tried one more attempt and it did the same thing. :mad: Yet last night's Celebrity Jeopardy from the same network, which I watched earlier today, was put on correctly with the whole thing.

After the first three days was over I tried watching Wednesday's Shifting Gears again when they redo the commercials. Whoever put this on is an incompetent moron, same problem with abrupt cutoff happened. :rolleyes:

This crap could have waited for summer. Celebrity Wheel of Fortune with Pat Sajak hosting STILL remains unscheduled.

http://thefutoncritic.com/news/2025/03/13/abc-news-20-20-limited-series-bad-romance-returns-for-second-season-tuesday-march-25-on-abc-and-next-day-on-hulu-468515/20250313abc01/

MAJOR BREAKING NEWS (Not related to ABC programming, but still...): ABC is losing its affiliate in Miami (WPLG) after the end of the current broadcast season. It had been the only broadcast station in the Miami–Fort Lauderdale market that has not switched networks (or even channel numbers). After August 4, 2025, WPLG will become an independent station with an expanded local news schedule, and the ABC affiliation will move to FOX affiliate WSVN's 7.2 subchannel. This will make Miami–Fort Lauderdale the largest American television market, and the first top-30 television market, with a subchannel-only Big Four (or original Big Three) network affiliate.

Sources: WPLG itself (https://www.local10.com/station/2025/03/20/wplg-tv-parts-ways-with-abc-television-network/) and The Hollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/wplg-miami-loses-abc-affiliation-disney-abc-miami-sunbeam-1236169307/).

MAJOR BREAKING NEWS (Not related to ABC programming, but still...): ABC is losing its affiliate in Miami (WPLG) after the end of the current broadcast season. It had been the only broadcast station in the Miami–Fort Lauderdale market that has not switched networks (or even channel numbers). After August 4, 2025, WPLG will become an independent station with an expanded local news schedule, and the ABC affiliation will move to FOX affiliate WSVN's 7.2 subchannel. This will make Miami–Fort Lauderdale the largest American television market, and the first top-30 television market, with a subchannel-only Big Four (or original Big Three) network affiliate.

Sources: WPLG itself (https://www.local10.com/station/2025/03/20/wplg-tv-parts-ways-with-abc-television-network/) and The Hollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/wplg-miami-loses-abc-affiliation-disney-abc-miami-sunbeam-1236169307/).Fort Wayne isn't nearly as large. But my NBC and CW stations owned by the same company changed over the air digital numbers maybe a decade ago. NBC moved down to a .2 station on 21.2, and the CW moved to its 33.1 number.

After over 5 months of waiting, Celebrity Wheel of Fortune with Pat Sajak has finally set a premiere date, alongside Jeopardy! Masters.
Both will debut on April 30th, with Celebrity Wheel at 8pm ET and Masters at 9pm ET, respectively:
https://deadline.com/2025/03/pat-sajak-celebrity-wheel-of-fortune-abc-premiere-date-1236352248/

Jeopardy Masters is expanding to 9 contestants this year from 6 contestants the previous two seasons. Yet the nights it will air on seems to be only Wednesdays. Either it will go deep into summer or just have four weeks total eliminating the semifinal round.

Jeopardy Masters is expanding to 9 contestants this year from 6 contestants the previous two seasons.

^^I guess this could be the result of a decision to have all of the finalists for this year's Tournament of Champions rather than just the winner of this year's Tournament of Champions be part of this year's Jeopardy! Masters, and such a decision could be because the regular-play cash winnings of the actual winner of this year's ToC (Neilesh Vinjamuri) are so tiny (only $58,000; in fact, Mr. Vinjamuri has the tiniest regular-play winnings of any ToC winner ever) while the regular play winnings for both of the losing finalists of this year's ToC (Adriana Harmeyer and Isaac Hirsch) did cross the $100,000 mark.

Today ABC renewed 9-1-1, Grey's Anatomy, Shifting Gears, Will Trent, and The Rookie. Noticeably absent from the list is Doctor Odyssey. It is almost surely a goner with 9-1-1: Nashville coming. I only watched Doctor Odyssey because of Athena's crossover from 9-1-1, what a stupid show.

ABC has made a bunch of renewals of their unscripted series for the next TV season, including AFV for its 36th season, American Idol for its 24th season (8th on ABC), Celebrity Jeopardy! for Season 4, Celebrity Wheel of Fortune for Season 6 and Shark Tank for Season 17, alongside Season 10 of Bachelor in Paradise set to debut on July 7th, Season 11 (10th on ABC) of Celebrity Family Feud set to debut on July 10th, Season 34 of Dancing with the Stars debuting this fall, Season 2 of The Golden Bachelor debuting this fall, Match Game with Martin Short debuting on July 23rd, alongside the 4th season of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire with Jimmy Kimmel.
They'll be joined alongside the previously renewed scripted series 9-1-1 for S9, the new spinoff 9-1-1: Nashville, Abbott Elementary for S5, High Potential for S2, Grey's Anatomy for S22, The Rookie for S8, Shifting Gears for S2 and Will Trent for S4.
https://tvline.com/lists/doctor-odyssey-season-2-renewed-cancelled-abc-renewals/

ABC has changed their original schedule for Jeopardy Masters and Celebrity Wheel of Fortune. Jeopardy Masters will now have its final two episodes air new back-to-back from 8-10 on Wednesday, June 4. What would have been a new episode on Tuesday June 3 at 9:00 is now a repeat. Celebrity Wheel will still be new that night. It would have been new on the 4th where the Masters doubleheader is now. So the Celebrity Wheel of Fortune season finale will now air a week later on Tuesday, June 10 at 8:00.

^^I guess this could be the result of a decision to have all of the finalists for this year's Tournament of Champions rather than just the winner of this year's Tournament of Champions be part of this year's Jeopardy! Masters, and such a decision could be because the regular-play cash winnings of the actual winner of this year's ToC (Neilesh Vinjamuri) are so tiny (only $58,000; in fact, Mr. Vinjamuri has the tiniest regular-play winnings of any ToC winner ever) while the regular play winnings for both of the losing finalists of this year's ToC (Adriana Harmeyer and Isaac Hirsch) did cross the $100,000 mark.

UPDATE: Well, guess what? Neilesh Vinjamuri got eliminated after the first round of Jeopardy! Masters (in fact, getting no match points at all and not getting past the knockout round as a result, thereby failing to reach the quarterfinals). That's what he gets for not getting remotely close to $80,000 in regular play.

Adriana Harmeyer was also eliminated after the knockout round. The only difference is, she got two match points total (one in each game she was in).

Showing what a joke the pathetic Bachelor franchise is, the latest bachelor just split up with his top pick after just three months.

My ABC affiliate is airing baseball Tuesday night. The same game is airing on a sports station which gives it a 7-10PM run time. My affiliate thinks it will be 2 hours, listed 7-9 there. :lol:

The America's Funniest People spin-off was cancelled 31 years ago with its last episode airing in 1994. Surely ABC isn't thinking of reviving it, but sadly wouldn't surprise me with a heap more reality shows today. The episode title of tonight's new America's Funniest Home Videos special is America's Funniest People.

I do not see Doctor Odyssey being renewed. Does ABC regret moving Grey's Anatomy to 10:00?
Well, it is official.
ABC has officially canceled Doctor Odyssey by default, all because the cast's contracts has expired: https://tvline.com/news/doctor-odyssey-cancelled-season-2-abc-1235421056

Well, it is official.
ABC has officially canceled Doctor Odyssey by default, all because the cast's contracts has expired: https://tvline.com/news/doctor-odyssey-cancelled-season-2-abc-1235421056There was also a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against Disney and 20th Television because of the assistant prop master. If they wanted to continue could have easily fired him, but the suit also says the studio allowed this atmosphere to continue unchecked for several months.

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/doctor-odyssey-canceled-abc-1236443173/

ABC has renewed their longest-running reality show The Bachelor for a unprecedented 30th season: https://deadline.com/2025/06/the-bachelor-renewed-season-30-scott-teti-new-showrunner-1236445991/