Some scheduling news is coming out of ABC's presentation at the TCAs today. The network has finally put two of its midseason shows - Scandal and Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 - on the schedule, while moving another established show to a new night.
Scandal is another drama from the creator of Grey's Anatomy: Shonda Rhimes. It is currently set to premiere on Thursday, April 5 at 10:00 p.m. ET and is pushing Private Practice from its spot after Grey's Anatomy. Here's the official description for Scandal: "Everyone has a secret... and Olivia Pope has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the public images of the nation’s elite and keeping those secrets under wraps. Revered and feared at the same time, Olivia, a former communications director to the President of the United States, left the White House to open her own prominent crisis management firm. She is hoping to start a new chapter in her life —both professionally and personally—but she can’t seem to completely cut ties with her past. Olivia’s former boss, President Fitzgerald Grant (Tony Goldwyn), and his chief of staff, Cyrus Beene (Jeff Perry), are never far, and it soon becomes clear that Olivia’s clients aren’t the only ones with secrets. Olivia’s accomplished staff includes Stephen Finch (Henry Ian Cusick), a womanizing lawyer who’s trying to settle down; Harrison Wright (Columbus Short), a slick litigator with his fair share of secrets; Huck (Guillermo Diaz), a hacker extraordinaire with a CIA past; and Abby Whelan (Darby Stanchfield), an investigator who has a love/hate relationship with Stephen. Although Olivia and her team specialize in fixing the lives of other people, they can’t quite seem to fix the problems closest at hand—their own."
From April 24 through to May 15, Private Practice will be moving to Tuesday nights at 10:00 p.m. ET.
Meanwhile, Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 is a new comedy from ABC that is actually quite amusing. The show is set to premiere on Wednesday, April 11 at 9:30 p.m. ET. Here's the description: "In the premiere episode, “Pilot,” June (Dreama Walker) moves to Manhattan for a dream job and the perfect company apartment, only to have them disappear in a puff of reality, thanks to a CEO from the Bernie Madoff school of embezzlement. Deep in debt and out on the streets, June scrambles to land a job and a place to live. It seems that her luck has turned when she gets hired at a coffee shop and finds Chloe (Krysten Ritter), a charming, vivacious roommate – but with the morals of a pirate. Chloe soon swindles June out of all her savings, but she and her snarky friend, James Van Der Beek (playing himself), come to learn that, just because June’s naïve, she isn’t stupid. June ingeniously turns the tables on Chloe, who is so shocked about being scammed herself that she decides to pull June into her colorful band of friends. Sure, it’s all dysfunctional, bizarre and overwhelming, but so is New York City. And with the help of Chloe and the other oddballs around her, June might just learn the survival secrets she needs to make it there."
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