The Good Doctor will be back for its 6th season on October 3rd. That means the show will be airing its 100th episode this season, and yesterday they celebrated the milestone with a cake cutting with the show’s stars, Richard Schiff, Hill Harper, Savannah Welch, Fiona Gubelmann, Christina Chang, Freddie Highmore, Bria Henderson, Will Yun Lee, and Brandon Larracuente.
I think now that they have hit the syndication milestone, the medical drama’s fate past this season will be decided soon. And I have a feeling this will be the series’ final season.
ABC finally has a hit on its hands, and not they are not going to let anything happen to Abbott Elementary. Therefore, they gave the Emmy-nominated sitcom a full season order for this upcoming season, according to Deadline.
The news is not a surprise because people talk about it, it does well in the ratings, and it received seven Emmy nominations, including Best Comedy. So the network would be stupid not to give the series a 22-episode order.
However, ABC is stupid because the show should be leading the Wednesday night lineup instead of the should’ve been cancelled The Goldbergs.
Abbott Elementary returns with new episodes on September 21st.
Norman Lear has recreated The Jeffersons, All In the Family, Good Times, Diff’rent Strokes, and The Facts of Life for ABC’s Live In Front of a Studio Audience, and now he tells Variety he wants to do one of his most infamous episodes. An episode that is very timely with today’s environment.
That 1972 episode is the two-parter, Maude’s Dilemna, in which Maude decides to have an abortion. That was the first time a character had an abortion in primetime, and it didn’t happen again until Everwood did it in 2003.
Back when Maude had her abortion, Roe v. Wade had not become law, but it was legal to have one in NY. Now, 50 years later, we are in the same boat.
Therefore, it is the perfect time for ABC to recreate it so we can remind people that we have set ourselves back 50 years. How extremely sad is that?
You can watch the episode above and think how brave it was then, and sadly it is the same today. We are still having the same conversations 50 years later.
I hope ABC opts to make this happen. I also hope that ABC decides to pair this with All In the Family’s Edith’s Crisis of Faith. In that episode, Beverly LaSalle is killed for being a female impersonator. It is one of the very few episodes that still affects me to this day. It is also relevant because of all the ignorant assholes we have living in our country today.
We are three months away from the start of broadcast’s Fall season, and today we found out when ABC’s series will debut.
Even though I have known their lineup for a month, I am still dumbfounded by their mistakes. Abbott Elementary should be leading Wednesday night instead of the depressing Conners. The Rookie and The Rookie: Feds should be on the same night. And two nights of Bachelor of Paradise is going to hurt them.
But I could be wrong.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21
8:00 p.m. “The Conners”
8:30 p.m. “The Goldbergs”
9:00 p.m. “Abbott Elementary” (new night)
9:31 p.m. “Home Economics”
10:00 p.m. “Big Sky” (new night)
ABC went into last season pretty weak, and this season they look to be even weaker.
In case you didn’t hear, the network moved Dancing with the Stars to Disney+. They are replacing with Bachelor in Paradise. It will be interesting to see if people will tune into it. It is definitely a different audience. That, and is two nights of it going to be overkill? I think so.
Wednesday is a huge mistake. The Conners and The Goldbergs are way passed their expiration dates and need to be put out of our misery. I say that, and I suffer watching them every week. So many people love Abbott Elementary, ABC’s only family-friendly comedy, so it should’ve been airing at 8p instead of 9p. It also should’ve been paired with The Wonder Years. I don’t know what they see in Home Economics. Wednesday is a colossal failure.
The rest is what it is. What do you think? Oh, I won’t say that Not Dead Yet is total Ghosts ripoff.
MONDAY
8:00 p.m. “Bachelor in Paradise”
10:00 p.m. “The Good Doctor”
TUESDAY
8:00 p.m. “Bachelor in Paradise”
10:00 p.m. “The Rookie: Feds”
WEDNESDAY
8:00 p.m. “The Conners”
8:30 p.m. “The Goldbergs”
9:00 p.m. “Abbott Elementary” (new night)
9:30 p.m. “Home Economics”
10:00 p.m. “Big Sky” (new night)
