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NBC announced their Fall schedule and thankfully we have DVRs. Why? Because most of their shows are moving to a new day and/or time.
Monday starts off with The Voice and leads into the new drama Brave. The latter is not a good fit with the former. After reading the description and watching the trailer, I have no idea what Brave is about, do you?
Tuesday starts off with The Voice, leads into Superstore and The Good Place and ends with Chicago Fire. When are networks going to realize that Reality followed by Comedies followed by a Drama doesn’t work. People like to watch at least two hours of the same type of programming.
Wednesday leads of with the ever moving The Blacklist into two stable shows Law & Order: SVU and Chicago PD.
Thursday they are trying to make it Must See TV again with Will & Grace, Great News, This Is Us and Law & Order: True Crime. NBC would’ve been smart to lead the night with Chicago Med into This Is Us. Together those two would’ve destroyed TGIT over on ABC. I don’t think Tina Fey guest starring on Great News is going to help it in the ratings department. If The Voice can’t do it, neither will the NBC favorite.
Blindspot and Taken move to Fridays for the first two hours of Primetime. I don’t foresee anyone new tuning it and Taken needs to be taken by viewers because it wasn’t doing well on Mondays.
All in all, NBC looks to be in trouble, but anything can happen. Like them thinking of redoing the schedule over the summer. Maybe they can take taxi in NYC and have Reverend Jim work his magic.
Some other news from NBC and it is super. This Is Us gets the post Super Bowl slot. Which sounds good on paper, but it is not the right audience for TV biggest night. Although, I expect it to be one hell of a standalone episode. The network still hasn’t decided the fates for Trial & Error and Chicago Justice. I don’t know why they didn’t pick up the former because it was their strongest comedy in a really long time.
To see the Fall schedule and descriptions of the new shows, then click here!
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