While everyone has been talking about Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien’s failure, there has been some good news for some of NBC’s programming due to it. Today NBC announced that they were ordering additional episodes from most of their scripted programs according to The Futon Critic!
Pickups bring their season totals to 20 for “Trauma” (four added); 23 for “Law & Order” (three added); 24 for “Parks & Recreation” (two added); 25 for “Community” (three added); and 24 for “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” (two added).
As for the Peacock’s other scripted entries, “Mercy” and “Chuck” will film 22 and 19 installments, respectively, as previously announced.
Due later this year are multi-camera comedy “100 Questions” (six episodes); dramas “Parenthood” and “Persons Unknown” (13 episodes each); and the two-hour pilot to “Day One.”
And finally, network sources have also confirmed “The Office” has been asked for 25 episodes while “30 Rock,” due to its late start, is sticking with a standard 22-episode fourth season
I love that even though it looked like at Trauma was dead at one point and only going to live with the 13 episodes originally ordered from the network in the fall, it is now up to 20 with its second additional episode order. So please when it comes back on March 8th watch it and find out why this show keeps getting a second of chance life! Sadly though Heroes got f*cked with all the changes, since the show is ending its season in 2 weeks, NBC will not be ordering any additional episodes for this season…hopefully it will be back next season because Monday’s episode was absolutely amazing!
