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?
