ABC Upfront/General News and Discussion: 2023-24

[TJ]

2023–24 United States network television schedule - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%E...ision_schedule

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

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.

[icecream]

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.

[TMC]

Originally Posted by icecream

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.

ABC's Fall Schedule Is Nothing But Reruns and Reality TV

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

[James28]

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]

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]

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]

https://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2023/...dates-and.html

[James28]

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]

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-won...ns-1235526068/

[Merry24]

ABC has cancelled Home Economics.

[James28]

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]

ABC's Holiday Shows, Specials and Movies Schedule 2023

https://abc.com/news/insider/abc-hol...-2023-schedule

[icecream]

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]

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.

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