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James28 · 09-27-2022, 11:56 PM

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/s...rk-finals.html

Pavan · 10-01-2022, 01:19 AM

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

MA · 10-02-2022, 06:33 AM

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

http://www.thefutoncritic.com/rating...20220927abc01/

icecream · 10-06-2022, 11:38 PM

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.

JamesG · 10-06-2022, 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by icecream

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"?

icecream · 10-07-2022, 12:49 AM

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Originally Posted by JamesG

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.

JamesG · 10-07-2022, 01:16 AM

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Originally Posted by icecream

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.

James28 · 10-12-2022, 09:12 PM

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

https://deadline.com/2022/10/the-con...rd-1235142786/

icecream · 10-15-2022, 11:41 AM

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

MA · 10-20-2022, 11:29 AM

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

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv...st-1235242842/

icecream · 11-02-2022, 04:14 PM

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.

MA · 11-03-2022, 07:34 AM

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

https://deadline.com/2022/10/abc-the...at-1235154416/

icecream · 11-04-2022, 04:52 PM

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.

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.

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.

icecream · 11-04-2022, 05:54 PM

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.

icecream · 11-07-2022, 11:33 PM

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.

09-27-2022, 11:56 PM	#16
James28 Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 14, 2007 Posts: 3,967	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/s...rk-finals.html
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10-01-2022, 01:19 AM	#17
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10-02-2022, 06:33 AM	#18
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10-06-2022, 11:38 PM	#19
icecream Cat-tastic and Whiskerlicious Forum Celebrity Join Date: Sep 01, 2006 Location: The Catacombs Posts: 20,606	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.
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10-12-2022, 09:12 PM	#23
James28 Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 14, 2007 Posts: 3,967	*BREAKING NEWS: The Conners's season five to have 22 episodes.* https://deadline.com/2022/10/the-con...rd-1235142786/

10-15-2022, 11:41 AM	#24
icecream Cat-tastic and Whiskerlicious Forum Celebrity Join Date: Sep 01, 2006 Location: The Catacombs Posts: 20,606	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

10-20-2022, 11:29 AM	#25
MA Member Moderator Forum Idol Join Date: May 20, 2017 Location: New Hampshire Posts: 127,094	ABC’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Special Adds Martin Short, David Alan Grier, Shania Twain https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv...st-1235242842/

11-02-2022, 04:14 PM	#26
icecream Cat-tastic and Whiskerlicious Forum Celebrity Join Date: Sep 01, 2006 Location: The Catacombs Posts: 20,606	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.

11-03-2022, 07:34 AM	#27
MA Member Moderator Forum Idol Join Date: May 20, 2017 Location: New Hampshire Posts: 127,094	ABC Takes ‘The Parent Test’ Unscripted Series Based On Australian Format https://deadline.com/2022/10/abc-the...at-1235154416/

11-04-2022, 04:52 PM	#28
icecream Cat-tastic and Whiskerlicious Forum Celebrity Join Date: Sep 01, 2006 Location: The Catacombs Posts: 20,606	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. 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. 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.

11-04-2022, 05:54 PM	#29
icecream Cat-tastic and Whiskerlicious Forum Celebrity Join Date: Sep 01, 2006 Location: The Catacombs Posts: 20,606	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.

11-07-2022, 11:33 PM	#30
icecream Cat-tastic and Whiskerlicious Forum Celebrity Join Date: Sep 01, 2006 Location: The Catacombs Posts: 20,606	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.