After a week that included the high profile dismissal of David E. Kelly's Wonder Woman and the pick up of several promising pilots and established favorites, NBC became the first broadcast network to reveal their fall schedule.
Though Sundays are still up in the air due to the potential football lockout, Mondays find midseason surprise The Sing-Off shifting to fall with a two hour edition that leads into much buzzed about pilot The Playboy Club, a period piece about the Chicago-based Playboy Clubs. Tuesdays remain unchanged, while Wednesdays finds two new comedies (the Will Arnett/Christina Applegate/Maya Rudolph Up All Night and the American adaptation of Free Agents), Harry's Law shifting time slots, and venerable Law & Order: SVU maintaining its 10:00 timeslot. NBC will be launching one new comedy on Thursdays in Whitney and a one new drama in the American remake of Prime Suspect starring Maria Bello. Fridays finds Chuck's final season, new drama Grimm, and Dateline NBC.
For midseason, NBC will have Dateline at 7:00 on Sundays followed by Celebrity Apprentice from 8:00-10:00 and the straight-to-series adaptation of John Grisham's The Firm at 10:00. Mondays finds breakout The Voice from 8:00-10:00 leading into Broadway drama Smash at 10:00. No dates for their other midseason shows were revealed.
What do you think about the schedule? Which new shows will you be watching? What do you think about the shows NBC chose to leave for midseason?
Sunday
7:00 Football Night in America
8:15 NBC Sunday Night Football
Monday
8:00-10:00 The Sing-Off**
10:00 The Playboy Club* (view sneak peeks)
Tuesday
8:00-10:00 The Biggest Loser
10:00 Parenthood
Wednesday
8:00 Up All Night*
8:30 Free Agents* (view sneak peeks)
9:00 Harry's Law**
10:00 Law & Order: SVU
Thursday
8:00 Community
8:30 Parks & Recreation**
9:00 The Office
9:30 Whitney*
10:00 Prime Suspect* (view sneak peeks)
Friday
8:00 Chuck**
9:00 Grimm* (view sneak peeks)
10:00 Dateline NBC
Saturday
8:00 Encore Programming
9:00 Encore Programming
10:00 Encore Programming
Shows Held Until Midseason: 30 Rock, Celebrity Apprentice, The Voice, Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, Bent, Best Friends Forever, Awake (view sneak peeks), Smash, and The Firm
(*) New Show
(**) New Time Period from Last Season
Of the new shows, I'll check out 'Grimm' and 'Prime Suspect'.
Lawyer shows leave me cold, I saw Hef's original Playboy TV show, and the rest seem directed solely at women.
I am eager to see Free Agents, Grimm, and Awake. I will have to wait to see The Firm. I wish that NBC could have picked up Lie to Me as a midseason replacement. Also, I have no clue who will be the new boss on The Office.
However, I think that Free Agents seems more suited for the nine O clock hour. It would be a better fit to follow The Office at 9:30 Thrusday nights.
Maybe Whitney would be better suited following Up All Night. Free Agents should follow The Office because it seems a beter fit in my opinion. The humor seemed more geared for the nine O clock hour than the eight O clock hour.
I meant the word better.
I was hoping that Anthony Stewart Head would be on Grimm or Awake. Maybe even Ringer. It is difficult to see him in this type of role. I think the role would have been a better fit for Charlie Sheen. I have never seen Free Agents. It is a different type of humor than what I a familar with. I think that humor should be funny but clean. Not rauncy.
Just a thought regarding the show Free Agents it would be even funnier if Charlie Sheen was recast in the role played by Hank Anzaria. Hank Anzaria would be better cast as one of the office workers. That would be the change that I would make for the fall season.