ABC Upfront/General News and Discussion: 2022-23

[Pavan]

Blog story: https://blog.sitcomsonline.com/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.

[icecream]

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

[Jamey Greek]

Jeez can they keep Big Sky on one night?!

[TMC]

TV's upfront week emphasized streaming over broadcast networks: ABC was barely mentioned at Disney's upfronts

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.

[Jamey Greek]

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

[icecream]

Originally Posted by Jamey Greek

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

Networks haven't aired busted pilots since the 20th century. They never did well in ratings.

[icecream]

fall premiere dates

https://tvline.com/2022/06/16/abc-pr...omy-season-19/

[MA]

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

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv...al-1235175594/

[icecream]

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.

[icecream]

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

[Pavan]

Originally Posted by icecream

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

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

[icecream]

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.

[MA]

Originally Posted by icecream

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.

[icecream]

Originally Posted by MA

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.

[MA]

Originally Posted by icecream

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.