What I Would Schedule for Antenna TV in 2021

[icecream]

With The Jeffersons and One Day at a Time both returning to Antenna TV's lineup in January 2021, this is what I would schedule for then. Weekdays would have a lot more variety with more of it being one airing for a half hour. Weekends would have more double runs.

Weekdays
5AM Three's Company
5:30AM Alice
6AM McHale's Navy
6:30AM The Joey Bishop Show
7AM Bewitched- Dick Sargent era
7:30AM Dennis the Menace
8AM Father Knows Best
8:30AM Father Knows Best
9AM Gimme a Break!
9:30AM 227
10AM Family Ties
10:30AM Growing Pains
11AM The Partridge Family
11:30AM Burns and Allen
12PM That Girl
12:30PM Hazel
1PM Mork and Mindy
1:30PM I Dream of Jeannie
2PM Bewitched- Dick York era
2:30PM Sabrina the Teenage Witch- ABC era
3PM Benson
3:30PM Head of the Class- Howard Hesseman seasons
4PM The Facts of Life
4:30PM Diff'rent Strokes
5PM Who's the Boss?
5:30PM Who's the Boss?
6PM Wings
6:30PM It's a Living- Crystal Bernard seasons
7PM Alice
7:30PM Three's Company
8PM One Day at a Time
8:30PM One Day at a Time
9PM The Jeffersons
9:30PM The Jeffersons
10PM Johnny Carson 60 minute episodes
11PM Barney Miller
11:30PM Barney Miller
12AM Coach
12:30AM The Facts of Life
1AM Murphy Brown
1:30AM Murphy Brown
2AM Archie Bunker's Place
2:30AM Maude
3AM Designing Women
3:30AM Soap
4AM Becker
4:30AM Dear John

Saturdays
5AM Gimme a Break!
5:30AM Gimme a Break!
6AM Webster
6:30AM Webster
7AM Sabrina, the Teenage Witch- WB era
7:30AM Sabrina, the Teenage Witch- WB era
8AM What's Happening Now!
8:30AM What's Happening Now!
9AM The Hogan Family
9:30AM The Hogan Family
10AM Silver Spoons
10:30AM Silver Spoons
11AM Head of the Class
11:30AM Head of the Class
12PM One Day at a Time
12:30PM One Day at a Time
1PM The Jeffersons
1:30PM The Jeffersons
2PM Three's Company
2:30PM Three's Company
3PM The Joey Bishop Show
3:30PM McHale's Navy
4PM Father Knows Best
4:30PM Dennis the Menace
5PM Burns and Allen
5:30PM Burns and Allen
6PM That Girl
6:30PM That Girl
7PM Hazel
7:30PM Hazel
8PM Bewitched
8:30PM Bewitched
9PM I Dream of Jeannie
9:30PM I Dream of Jeannie
10PM The Jack Benny Program
10:30PM The Jack Benny Program
11PM Johnny Carson
12:30AM Johnny Carson
2AM 227
2:30AM 227
3AM NewsRadio
3:30AM NewsRadio
4AM It's a Living- seasons 1 and 2
4:30AM It's a Living- seasons 1 and 2

Sundays
5AM Becker
5:30AM Becker
6AM Webster
6:30AM Webster
7AM Sabrina, the Teenage Witch- WB era
7:30AM Sabrina, the Teenage Witch- WB era
8AM The Hogan Family
8:30AM The Hogan Family
9AM E/I Hour
10AM One Day at a Time
10:30AM One Day at a Time
11AM The Jeffersons
11:30AM The Jeffersons
12PM Barney Miller
12:30PM Benson
1PM The Jack Benny Program
1:30PM The Jack Benny Program
2PM The Partridge Family
2:30PM Mork and Mindy
3PM My Two Dads
3:30PM My Two Dads
4PM Growing Pains
4:30PM Growing Pains
5PM Silver Spoons
5:30PM Silver Spoons
6PM Family Ties
6:30PM Family Ties
7PM Diff'rent Strokes
7:30PM Diff'rent Strokes
8PM The Facts of Life
8:30PM The Facts of Life
9PM Who's the Boss?
9:30PM Who's the Boss?
10PM Coach
10:30PM Coach
11PM Wings
11:30PM Wings
12AM NewsRadio
12:30AM NewsRadio
1AM Alice
1:30AM Alice
2AM Designing Women
2:30AM Designing Women
3AM The Ropers
3:30AM Three's a Crowd
4AM The Paul Lynde Show
4:30AM Lotsa Luck!

[Svenfan1234]

My guess is that Barney Miller, The Jeffersons, Maude, One Day at a Time, Archie Bunker's Place, Alice, Three's Company, & Johnny Carson becomes their 6-11pm primetime. It's just realistic.

[merlinjones]

Bewitched (1-5 York) in prime time or prime access - complete with fullscreen/music titles on both ends

[mets82]

Originally Posted by Svenfan1234

My guess is that Barney Miller, The Jeffersons, Maude, One Day at a Time, Archie Bunker's Place, Alice, Three's Company, & Johnny Carson becomes their 6-11pm primetime. It's just realistic.

That's a hard pass for me.

[BigManMike]

Originally Posted by onlinesitcoms

I never said Mad About You is returning to Antenna TV's lineup in 2021. I hinted that its rights had been reacquired by Antenna TV. In fact, earlier this year, Antenna TV did acquire/reacquire the rights to five shows. The Jeffersons and One Day at a Time do start in January 2021. The other three shows are coming at sometime over the next three years (2021-2023).

The sitcomsonline blog stated that Caroline in the City is coming in 2021, and that is indeed, one of the three shows, although I was unaware that that would be the show to debut in 2021, leaving the other two shows as doubtful for 2021. (FYI, the blog also stated that The Jeffersons and One Day at a Time would start January 1st. That is incorrect - they actually start on Monday, January 4th.)

As far as the third show hint - it originally aired on the same network and same decade (or at least partially aired in the same decade) as the other two hinted (or not so hinted) shows.

Would that third hinted show be WKRP?

[stevea]

Originally Posted by thebigcookie

Would that third hinted show be WKRP?

There's one show where they can keep the credit crunch--that theme is nauseating.

[1960'sTVfan]

The Joey Bishop Show must do fairly well for Antenna TV because they are still running the episodes.

[Charley Knox]

Originally Posted by onlinesitcoms

The other two "hinted" shows are not The Jeffersons and One Day at a Time. Those are not "hinted" - they are in fact returning to Antenna TV in January. They are even included in the "What are your favorite Antenna TV shows?" poll currently running on its facebook page, with the top TEN shows with the most votes being shown during “AnTENna TV's Birthday Blowout” on January 1st. And I stand corrected - I mentioned previously that The Jeffersons and One Day at a Time return January 4th. While they will return to the regular schedule that day, they could return on January 1st if they finish in the top 10 of the aforementioned poll. (The Jeffersons is currently 8th. One Day at a Time is currently 13th.)

The other two shows mentioned above are the "hinted" shows, so WKRP in Cincinnati is not the third show as it did not originally air on the same network nor in the same decade as the other two. Another hint - it will be new to Antenna TV (and I believe the digital subchannel world) and likely to create as much buzz (or lack thereof) as the other two "hinted" shows.

Can you reply with a link to the poll on Facebook?

[icecream]

I bet the third show is Blossom then, with Mad About You and Caroline in the City being the same network/decade. Blossom would be a nice pickup. Three years seems like a really wide span, when do the rights start?

[BigManMike]

I’m also curious to know if any shows they currently have will be expiring soon. Some of these shows have been on there for many years like Father Knows Best, Dennis the Menace, Hazel, I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, and Three’s Company.

[icecream]

I have revised my original schedule on this thread, changed some shows around and replaced Mad About You which might not be coming yet in 2021 with Caroline in the City.

[stevea]

Originally Posted by thebigcookie

I’m also curious to know if any shows they currently have will be expiring soon. Some of these shows have been on there for many years like Father Knows Best, Dennis the Menace, Hazel, I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, and Three’s Company.

Their morning/early afternoon lineup must be doing well. They haven't changed it for quite awhile (other than adding That Girl).

[icecream]

Originally Posted by thebigcookie

I’m also curious to know if any shows they currently have will be expiring soon. Some of these shows have been on there for many years like Father Knows Best, Dennis the Menace, Hazel, I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, and Three’s Company.

I have wondered if Barney Miller will be expiring at the end of 2020, it went from a great 6PM weeknight slot to one hour of late night filler a week late Sunday nights at 3AM. I asked Antenna TV about it but they wouldn't give me a straight answer, just said shows get moved around and they don't have a west coast feed. When I pressed on that response saying Barney Miller had always done well, had longevity in seasons, and suddenly it was reduced to one hour a week, was it expiring or just running low on airplays? They didn't reply to that. Three's Company, Bewitched, and Jeannie keep the great hours they have always had, my guess there is Antenna will hold on to them as long as possible. I wouldn't miss Dennis the Menace if it left, Dennis can go to Me TV with its far superior counterpart Leave it to Beaver returning to Antenna after formerly airing there.

[icecream]

Caroline in the City has been edited out of my January schedule. I hope the lack of buzz comment doesn't mean it is total junk that straddled two decades like Just Shoot Me or Veronica's Closet. ALF would be nice, but that would get more buzz and it barely aired in the 90s. If it is Just Shoot Me or Veronica's Closet, what a waste. I am not opposed to 90s shows on Antenna TV, but make it something good like Boy Meets World or Blossom, or something I haven't seen but stars someone famous in Major Dad. Kirk Cameron's WB sitcom Kirk would also be good that I haven't seen, but with its limited run could only air weekends or a one off marathon. Sister, Sister also hasn't aired on any diginet, or even much on cable. It would be a nice pickup, and I know i doesn't fit the same network clue either.

[merlinjones]

I would be happy to see Bewitched, Jeannie, Gidget, and That Girl go back to Me-TV -- even better, send M*A*S*H to Antenna - it goes with the Norman Lear shows.