I don’t know about you, but I have been missing The Rookie and Will Trent, and I want to know when they are going to be back. Well, today, ABC announced their midseason lineup, so now we know.
ABC MIDSEASON PRIMETIME SCHEDULE PREMIERE DATES ARE AS FOLLOWS (all times listed are Eastern/Pacific).
DAY TIME SERIES
THURSDAY, JAN 2
8:00 p.m. “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” (Series Premiere)
9:00 p.m. “Only Murders in the Building” (Broadcast Season Two Premiere – two hours)
SUNDAY, JAN 5
7:00 p.m. “AFV” (Midseason Return)
8:00 p.m. The Wonderful World of Disney
TUESDAY, JAN 7
8:00 p.m. “Will Trent” (Season Three Premiere)
9:00 p.m. “High Potential” (Midseason Return)
10:00 p.m. “The Rookie” (Season Seven Premiere)
WEDNESDAY, JAN 8
8:00 p.m. “Shifting Gears” (Series Premiere)
8:30 p.m. “Abbott Elementary” (Midseason Return)
9:02 p.m. “Celebrity Jeopardy!” (Season Three Premiere)
10:02 p.m. “What Would You Do?” (Midseason Return)
FRIDAY, JAN 17
8:00 p.m. “Shark Tank” (Midseason Return)
THURSDAY, JAN 30
9:00 p.m. “Scamanda” (Series Premiere)
10:00 p.m. “Perfect Wife: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sherri Papini”
9-1-1 was launched on Fox in 2018 and was an immediate hit. So much so that in 2020, Fox added 9-1-1: Lone Star to its lineup.
Both were huge hits. But then, in 2023, Fox canceled the original series, and ABC saved it.
Even though 9-1-1 switched networks, Lone Star stayed put. However, it took last season off because of the strikes. And just before it debuted this week, Fox confirmed that this will be the series’ final season.
Does that mean that 9-1-1 will be the only show left in the franchise next season? If Ryan Murphy has his way, that will not be the case.
“Tim Minear and I are working on a new spinoff that we’re actually writing, and that we hope to get on the air next fall,” Murphy tells Variety. “Sadly, we all love ‘Lone Star,’ but the financials just didn’t work. It’s a Disney company that was on a Fox network, and it just was never going to work. And we had a long run of it. So now we’re going to launch a new show in a new city that I can’t name, but it’s fun. And ‘9-1-1’ moved to ABC and suddenly became, I think, the biggest show on Thursday night. They obviously have an appetite for that, so we’re going to give them another one that I really love.”
What city do you think they are thinking of saving? I would love to see them go to Chicago just to fuck with Dick Wolf and NBC!
Tonight at 8p, 9-1-1 is back on ABC with a three-part season premiere event that will bee keeping you on the edge of your seats.
For those of us who watch the 9-1-1 shows, we know that Ryan Murphy teases us with spectacular multi-episode events, and then they don’t deliver until the last episode. However, that is not the case with Beenado. The action begins after the first commercial break.
The episode starts off with a bang, and it doesn’t stop after that.
Captain Nash (Peter Krause) left Station 118, and now there is a new man in charge, Captain Vincent Gerrard (Brian Thompson). He hates Buck (Oliver Stark) and punishes him all of the time. He is the toughest on Buck, but he is tough on everyone. Therefore, they don’t like him. And neither do I.
Not only is he a jerk, but he is also not the best in the field. His old ways don’t work anymore. And that is going to lead to problems when they are called out to assist with a truck that jackknifed on the freeway.
Normally, that is an easy thing to clean up. However, this truck was carrying 20 million killer bees, and they got loose after the accident.
Now, they are all the buzz in Los Angeles because the city is being attacked by bees, which can kill with their stings.
When I watched the promo, I was like this looks like fun, especially because it is on the other side of the hill. But then they come to Valley, and now it has a different meaning for me.
I am scared of bees, even in movies and TV, and in the premiere episode, the bees flew to a town close to where I live. So, I haven’t slept since I watched the episode.
Having said that, I still enjoyed the episode.
Oh, I forgot to mention that Athena (Angela Bassett) is sent out of town to bring a prisoner back to Los Angeles. Nothing about it goes smoothly, so much so that she would rather deal with the bees.
A few months ago, Blake Lively’s older sister, Robyn, revealed that 9-1-1: Lonestar is ending this season, and today Fox finally confirmed it.
“From the start, fans have followed the heroic and deeply moving stories of the men and women who make up Austin’s 126, so a huge thanks to one of the greatest creative teams in all of television — Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Tim Minear — for creating one of the most action-packed dramas anywhere.” said Fox Television Network president Michael Thorn in a statement. “Now in our final season of the show, we’re set to give it the high-stakes send-off it deserves, complete with breathless rescues, insurmountable odds and relatable personal struggles, thanks to our incomparable, stellar cast led by Rob Lowe and Gina Torres.”
9-1-1 moved over to ABC last season, so will this series join its mother? Deadline says no, but there is chance that 9-1-1: Another City could be coming to the Alphabet network.
The final 12 Lone Star episodes debut on September 23rd.
I really hope it goes out with a literal blaze of glory, as in they all get engulfed in a fire. For once, I would love a fire station procedural to end that way. Although, if Rescue Me didn’t do it, I don’t think any of them will have the balls.
Ryan Murphy is telling another trueish story of more rich white men committing murder. However, it doesn’t seem like we are getting anything new with Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story on FX.
The only difference with the murderous brothers’ story is that as compared to Murphy’s Jeffrey Dahmer and Andrew Cunana, is that they are siblings living in Los Angeles.
It is like how many times can the producer tell the same story with different locations and people? Even the sets and actors are the same. That is why I stopped watching the Murphy Universe. Are you still watching?
