NBC Releases New Schedule with Few New Series
Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 8:20 am
NBC is holding a lot back until either midseason or early cancellations (all times shown are Eastern):
Monday
8:00 The Voice
10:00: TIMELESS (New; followed by new show TAKEN in midseason)
Tuesday
8:00 The Voice
9:00 THIS IS US (the Mandy Moore show; I expect this to be an early casualty)
10:00 Chicago Fire
Wednesday
8:00: Blindspot
9:00 Law and Order SVU
10:00 Chicago PD
Thursday
8:00 Superstore
8:30 THE GOOD PLACE
9:00 Chicago Med
10:00 The Blacklist
Friday
8:00 CAUGHT ON CAMERA WITH NICK CANNON (a 21st century Candid Camera)
9:00 Grimm
10:00 Dateline
As usual, Saturday will be mostly reruns and other documentaries, while Sunday will be football until January. Most of the NBC series discussed in my earlier posts will debut in midseason or later. The Mysteries of Laura has been cancelled. Here's a description of the other new shows.
THE GOOD PLACE: Kristen Bell plays a dead woman who realizes she wasn't all that good a person and gets spiritual guidance from her new mentor Ted Danson (likely to suffer the same fate as last season's Angel from Hell.
GREAT NEWS (midseason): From Tina Fey and other producers of Thirty Rock; it's a cross between that series and the Robert De Niro movie The Intern. Andrea Martin is 60-something who goes back to work as an intern at the TV news show where her daughter is a producer.
MARLON (midseason): Marlon Wayans as a klutzy dad trying to raise two kids. That could describe about a half dozen other new comedies as well.
POWERLESS (midseason): The Vanessa Hudgens superhero show.
TRIAL & ERROR (midseason): The show with John Lithgow on trial for murder; actually a comedy.
THE BLACKLIST: REDEMPTION (midseason): The Famke Janssen/Ryan Eggold spinoff.
CHICAGO JUSTICE (midseason): The latest Dick Wolf Chicago series.
EMERALD CITY (midseason): Yes, that Emerald City, as a 20-year-old modern Dorothy winds up there. Vincent d'Onofrio plays the Wizard.
MIDNIGHT, TEXAS (midseason): From the Charlaine Harris novels, a small Texas town filled with vampires, witches, psychics, and hit men. It's likely to wind up on Friday nights paired with Grimm and could attract a similar cult following, although this seems like it would have been a better fit for a cable or digital network.
TAKEN (midseason): Yes, that Taken, as Clive Standen (Rollo from Vikings) plays a younger version of Liam Neeson's character in the movie series.
TIMELESS: A new version of Quantum Leap. A criminal steals a state-of-the-art time machine and wants to destroy modern day society by changing key past events. A scientist, soldier, and history teacher go back in another machine to try to stop him.
Also midseason are three new reality series: Better Late Than Never (William Shatner, Henry WInkler, Terry Bradshaw, and George Foreman tour Asia on their own), First Dates (sort of date night on The Bachelor over and over again, narrated by Drew Barrymore), and The Wall (produced by LeBron James and hosted by Chris Hardwick, it features contestants bouncing a ball off a 40-foot high wall).
Monday
8:00 The Voice
10:00: TIMELESS (New; followed by new show TAKEN in midseason)
Tuesday
8:00 The Voice
9:00 THIS IS US (the Mandy Moore show; I expect this to be an early casualty)
10:00 Chicago Fire
Wednesday
8:00: Blindspot
9:00 Law and Order SVU
10:00 Chicago PD
Thursday
8:00 Superstore
8:30 THE GOOD PLACE
9:00 Chicago Med
10:00 The Blacklist
Friday
8:00 CAUGHT ON CAMERA WITH NICK CANNON (a 21st century Candid Camera)
9:00 Grimm
10:00 Dateline
As usual, Saturday will be mostly reruns and other documentaries, while Sunday will be football until January. Most of the NBC series discussed in my earlier posts will debut in midseason or later. The Mysteries of Laura has been cancelled. Here's a description of the other new shows.
THE GOOD PLACE: Kristen Bell plays a dead woman who realizes she wasn't all that good a person and gets spiritual guidance from her new mentor Ted Danson (likely to suffer the same fate as last season's Angel from Hell.
GREAT NEWS (midseason): From Tina Fey and other producers of Thirty Rock; it's a cross between that series and the Robert De Niro movie The Intern. Andrea Martin is 60-something who goes back to work as an intern at the TV news show where her daughter is a producer.
MARLON (midseason): Marlon Wayans as a klutzy dad trying to raise two kids. That could describe about a half dozen other new comedies as well.
POWERLESS (midseason): The Vanessa Hudgens superhero show.
TRIAL & ERROR (midseason): The show with John Lithgow on trial for murder; actually a comedy.
THE BLACKLIST: REDEMPTION (midseason): The Famke Janssen/Ryan Eggold spinoff.
CHICAGO JUSTICE (midseason): The latest Dick Wolf Chicago series.
EMERALD CITY (midseason): Yes, that Emerald City, as a 20-year-old modern Dorothy winds up there. Vincent d'Onofrio plays the Wizard.
MIDNIGHT, TEXAS (midseason): From the Charlaine Harris novels, a small Texas town filled with vampires, witches, psychics, and hit men. It's likely to wind up on Friday nights paired with Grimm and could attract a similar cult following, although this seems like it would have been a better fit for a cable or digital network.
TAKEN (midseason): Yes, that Taken, as Clive Standen (Rollo from Vikings) plays a younger version of Liam Neeson's character in the movie series.
TIMELESS: A new version of Quantum Leap. A criminal steals a state-of-the-art time machine and wants to destroy modern day society by changing key past events. A scientist, soldier, and history teacher go back in another machine to try to stop him.
Also midseason are three new reality series: Better Late Than Never (William Shatner, Henry WInkler, Terry Bradshaw, and George Foreman tour Asia on their own), First Dates (sort of date night on The Bachelor over and over again, narrated by Drew Barrymore), and The Wall (produced by LeBron James and hosted by Chris Hardwick, it features contestants bouncing a ball off a 40-foot high wall).