James Spader returned to TV this season to replace Steve Carrell on The Office, but turns out his he too will be replaced if the show is back for a ninth season. It was decision to quit Dunder Mifflin according to Variety. The show’s executive producer Paul Lieberstein explained, “James always wanted this to be a one-year arc, and he now leaves us having created one of the most enigmatic and dynamic characters in television. He’s been a great friend to me and the show, helping us successfully transition into the post-Michael Scott years, and I’m grateful for that.”
I wonder who they will get to replace him because I think The Office will be back on NBC next year because it is their best rated sitcom.
NBC announced its second midseason lineup for the season and good luck finding where your favorite show is airing. Community is back on March 15 at 8p, but Parks and Recreation is going on a 5 week break. When it comes back on April 19, it will do so the a new timeslot of 9:30p. So if Community is coming back to its old timeslot then what happens to 30 Rock? The Emmy winning show will follow the show that is ignored by the Emmys. The Office stays where it is as it, but no one seems to know where that is it any more. Up All Night which moved from Wednesdays to Thursdays will finish its season on April 12th in its newer timeslot. Awake (the third show to have this slot this season), I am assuming will continue to air on Thursdays at 10p after its debut. But I have a feeling Grimm or Smash repeats will be airing there before you wake up. In other words, I don’t get the show and I tried watching it a few times to see if I would like it better and I hated it more and more with each viewing.
Now that we know what is happening on Thursdays, here are the changes for Wednesday. The good news is that Chelsea and Whitney (which started the season off on Thursdays) will be leaving our airwaves on March 28th, and I pray will never be seen by us ever again. On April 4th Betty White’s Off Their Rockers will debut at 8p, followed by some show called Best Friends Forever. On March 21st Bent will premiere at 9p and will air back to back episodes until April 4th. Now what airs after Bent after that is beyond me and NBC. On March 7th Rock Center with Brian Williams will take over Law & Order: SVU’s 10p slot until April 11th and the crime will be back.
Got it? I don’t. NBC changes its lineup more than people change their underwear, and that is every day. Maybe, just maybe, NBC would do better if they let their shows air where they start the season off. So far the only shows to do that are The Biggest Loser, Parenthood, The Office and Grimm. That means only a 1/6th of their programming is where it started off in that fall. And they wonder why their ratings are going down faster than the Titanic did.
Anyone else sense that we will get a new head of programming at NBC this fall?
Jennifer Finnigan Tweeted the above picture and said, “Me, Jonny & Mariska Hargitay toasting Bacchus last night. And yes that is Harry Connick Jr creeping in the background!” Since I read what she wrote before I saw the picture I was surprised to see that it looks like Finnigan, her husband Jonathan Silverman and Harry Connick Jr were all photobombing the Law & Order: SVU star. I don’t get why Harry is hiding out behind them, after all Mariska and him are getting very close on the NBC procedural and you would think he would be comfortable be front and center with her?
Actually you know what the four of them look like they are having a huge blast at Mardi Gras in New Orleans. I just want to know what they did to get those beads? Hopefully something they couldn’t post on Twitter…
NBC shot a promo with most of their shows singing the Brotherhood of Man. As much as I loved the song, I realized I barely watch any of their shows.
And where was Grimm? Why wasn’t that show represented?
Danny Pudi was on Sundance’s Mortified Sessions, where actors tell what their lives were like before they were famous, and the Community actor admitted something I didn’t need to know. Abed was talking about how he doesn’t really know his father and he was doing a one-man show where he he tells the audience that he wonders if he got his weirdly shaped pen!s from his pop. Unfortunately for the actor his dad came to one of those performances and knew that his son wondered if that was genetic. Too bad for us we never found out if it was hereditary for him.
BTW even though he has a weirdly shaped pen!s, it still works like a normal shaped one because he recently became a father to twins.
