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May 11, 2013 09:42AM
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About a BoyWHO | David Walton (New Girl), Minnie Driver (The Riches), Anjelah N. Johnson (MADtv), Benjamin Stockham (1600 Penn), Leslie Bibb (GCB), Al Madrigal (The Daily Show)
WHAT | Based on the book and subsequent 2002 film starring Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult, the single-cam comedy centers on the relationship between a man-child and the young boy who moves in next door.
BelieveWHO | Kyle MacLachlan (Desperate Housewives), Johnny Sequoyah, Jake McLaughlin (Savages), Delroy Lindo (The Chicago Code), Jamie Chung (Once Upon a Time), Sienna Guillory (Resident Evil), Arian Moayed (The Following)
WHAT | Follows an unlikely relationship between a gifted young girl and a man sprung from prison who has been tasked with protecting her from the evil elements that hunt her power.
The BlacklistWHO | James Spader (The Office), Megan Boone (Law & Order: LA), Ryan Eggold (90210), Diego Klattenhoff (Homeland), Harry Lennix (Dollhouse), Ilfenesh Hadera
WHAT | The world's most wanted criminal suddenly turns himself in and offers to give up anyone he's ever worked with. The catch: He'll only work with a new FBI agent, one with whom he has no known connection.
Chicago PDWHO | Chicago Fire's Jason Beghe and Jon Seda; Tania Raymonde (Lost), Scott Eastwood (Gran Torino), Melissa Sagemiller (Law & Order: SVU) and Kelly Blatz (Prom Night)
WHAT | The Chicago Fire spin-off follows two distinctly different groups inside District 21 of the Chicago Police Department: the uniformed cops who patrol the beat and go head to head with the city's street crimes, and the Intelligence Unit that combats the city's major offenses - organized crime, drug trafficking and high profile murders.
CrisisWHO | Gillian Anderson (The X-Files), Dermot Mulroney (New Girl), Rachael Taylor (666 Park Avenue), Michael Beach (Third Watch), James Lafferty (One Tree Hill), Lance Gross (House of Payne), Halston Sage (How to Rock), Max Martini (Revenge), Max Schneider (How to Rock), Joshua Erenberg (Suburgatory)
WHAT | Examines what happens when an unlikely puppeteer pulls Washington's elite -- including the President of the United States -- into an international conspiracy.
Family GuideWHO | J.K. Simmons (The Closer), Eli Baker, Ava Deluca-Verley
WHAT | The single-camera sitcom centers on a son who idolizes his blind father and enjoys his mom's newfound adolescence after his folks divorce and ultimately grow closer.
IronsideWHO | Blair Underwood (The Event), Brent Sexton (The Killing), Pablo Schreiber (Weeds), Neal Bledsoe (Smash), Spencer Grammer (Greek), Kenneth Choi (Sons of Anarchy)
WHAT | Based on the '60s cop drama, a tough, sexy and acerbic police detective is relegated to a wheelchair after a shooting, but is hardly limited by his disability as he pushes and prods his hand-picked team to solve the most difficult cases in the city.
The Michael J. Fox ShowWHO | Michael J. Fox (Spin City), Betsy Brandt (Breaking Bad), Kate Finneran (I Hate My Teenage Daughter), Wendell Pierce (Treme), Juliette Goglia (Easy A), Ana Nogueira
WHAT | The single-cam comedy is inspired by Fox's real life and stars him as Mike Burnaby, a husband and father of three in New York City juggling the challenges of family and career while dealing with Parkinson's disease.
The Night ShiftWHO | Jill Flint (Royal Pains), Brigid Brannagh (Army Wives), Ken Leung (Lost), Freddy Rodriguez (Six Feet Under), Brendan Fehr (Roswell) and Jeananne Goossen (Alcatraz)
WHAT | Follows a team of doctors and nurses working the graveyard shift in the ER at San Antonio Medical Center.
Sean Saves the WorldWHO | Sean Hayes (Will & Grace), Linda Lavin (Alice), Echo Kellum (Ben and Kate), Thomas Lennon (Reno 911!), Lindsay Sloane (Weeds, Grosse Pointe), Samantha Isler, guest star/recurring Vik Sahay (Chuck)
WHAT | A multi-cam sitcom about a man attempting to both parent the teenage daughter who just moved in and appease a temperamental new boss.
UndateableWHO | Chris D'Elia (Whitney), Bianca Kajlich (Rules of Engagement), Brent Morin, Ron Funches, guest star Briga Heelan (Cougar Town)
WHAT | The multi-cam project centers on a group of young friends dubbed the "Undateables" whose lives are altered when a more confident character enters their world.
Will try the Michael J. Fox, and possibly Ironside.Night Shift: is that a TV version of the 1980s movie, with Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton, and Shelly Long?
Welcome to the FamilyWHO | Mike O'Malley (Glee), Mary McCormack (In Plain Sight), Ricardo Chavira (Desperate Housewives), Justina Machado (Private Practice, Six Feet Under), Ella Rae Peck (Deception, Gossip Girl), Joey Haro (Glee, Awkward), Aramis Knight
WHAT | In the single-cam comedy, cultures collide when a white family and a Latino family are bonded together by their children who fall in love followed quickly by an unplanned pregnancy.
Susanna, definitely kinda sounds like it huh?
Only 'Believe" for me, and I may just pass since I'm already 100% positive it won't last. It'd be lucky to even air the shows they have filmed.
Holli wrote: "Susanna, definitely kinda sounds like it huh?"Does to me! I guess they figured their readers don't remember 1983.
LOL!!! Exactly Susanna... or maybe they've put a new spin on it. I'll try About A Boy, Believe, The Blacklist, and I'll give The Night Shift a go! LOL
NBC is the first broadcast network to unveil its official game plan for the 2013-14 TV season, and the biggest news regarding returning shows is the relocation of Parenthood to Thursdays at 10/9c, Revolution to Wednesdays at 8/7c, and Chicago Fire to Tuesdays at 10/9c.Also of note: Parks and Recreation shifts to 8/7c on Thursday, where it will lead into three brand new series — Mike O’Malley’s Welcome to the Family, Sean Hayes’ Sean Saves the World and The Michael J. Fox Show.
Elsewhere, James Spader’s FBI drama The Blacklist has landed the coveted post Voice slot on Mondays at 10/9c, and Dracula starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers will air Fridays at 10/9c after Grimm.
On tap for midseason, in addition to Community: J.J. Abrams’ Believe (Sundays @ 9/8c), conspiracy thriller Crisis (Sundays @ 10/9c), pirate drama Crossbones (Fridays @ 10/9c) Chicago Fire spin-off Chicago PD (TBD), medical drama The Night Shift (TBD), comedies About a Boy (Tuesdays @ 9/8c), The Family Guide (Tuesdays @ 8:30/8:30c) and Undateable (TBD), and reality series Food Fighters, The Million Second Quiz and the returning Sing-Off.
The fate of Celebrity Apprentice, Betty White’s Off Their Rockers, Fashion Star and Hannibal will be decided in the coming weeks, per NBC.
All told, the NBC schedule looks like this; new shows are in CAPS
MONDAY
8/7c The Voice
10 pm THE BLACKLIST
TUESDAY
8 pm The Biggest Loser
9 pm The Voice
10 pm Chicago Fire
WEDNESDAY
8 pm Revolution
9 pm Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
10 pm IRONSIDE
THURSDAY
8 pm Parks and Recreation
8:30 pm WELCOME TO THE FAMILY
9 pm SEAN SAVES THE WORLD
9:30 pm THE MICHAEL J. FOX SHOW
10 pm Parenthood
FRIDAY
8 pm Dateline NBC
9 pm Grimm
10 pm DRACULA
SATURDAY
Encore programming
SUNDAY
7 pm Football Night in America
8:15 pm NBC Sunday Night Football
SUNDAY (Post-football/Winter 2013)
7 pm Dateline NBC
8 pm Nate Berkus’ AMERICAN DREAM BUILDERS (Reality)
9 pm BELIEVE
10 pm CRISIS
NOT RETURNING NEXT SEASON: 1600 Penn, 30 Rock, Animal Practice, Deception, Do No Harm, Go On, Guys With Kids, The New Normal, The Office, Smash, Up All Night and Whitney.
That schedule eliminates Believe for me. 9pm Sunday? Not a chance, it's already booked by shows I already watch. Oh well, I wasn't all that interested anyway.Thanks for the schedules, Holli.
DraculaWHO | Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors), Jessica De Gouw (Arrow), Katie McGrath (Merlin) and Nonso Anozie (Game of Thrones)
WHAT | Based on Bram Stoker's novel of the same name, the 10-episode series finds Dracula preparing to unleash hell on the Victorian society responsible for ruining his life. But he's thrown when he falls for a woman who's a dead ringer for his beloved, long-deceased wife.
Moving Revolution to 8 pm is probably smart. (This move guarantees I won't see it, not that I'm all that tempted, as I have several other commitments at that time - Survivor principally, and America's Next Top Model as well, assuming they haven't moved it again.)
I'm glad they're moving GRIMM back to Friday nights. I've missed the past two weeks with it now being opp NCIS:LA, and keep forgetting to watch it online.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers + Katie McGrath + Dracula = I'm in. Also glad to hear it's planned as a ten episode thing and not season upon season.
I love Jonathon Rhys Meyers, he was fantastic in The Tudors.
The Blacklist and Undateable sound good to me.
The Blacklist - could have potential.Isn't Crossing Lines (coming on the 10th) going to be on NBC? I'm definitely interested if it has Donald Sutherland in it.
Susanna, is that a summer show? These are all for Fall
Yes, I think it is. (Sorry, that wasn't clear.)
THE SHOW | NBC’s Ironside (Wednesdays at 10/9c; premieres Oct. 2)THE COMPETITION | CBS’ CSI, ABC’s Nashville and FX’s American Horror Story: Coven (new)
THE CAST | Blair Underwood (The Event), Pablo Schreiber (The Wire), Spencer Grammer (Greek), Neal Bledsoe (Smash), Brent Sexton (The Killing) and Kenneth Choi (Sons of Anarchy)
THE SET-UP | Underwood stars as Det. Robert Ironside, a top cop who, after a bullet lands him in a wheelchair, leads a hand-picked team of “specialist” crimesolvers (played by Schreiber, Grammer and Bledsoe). It’s exactly like the late ’60s/early ’70s NBC drama of the same name, except that it’s set in New York City versus San Francisco, the composition of Ironside’s team is different and the circumstances surrounding his life-changing shooting (Raymond Burr’s title character was felled by a sniper) are not at all similar. Cho and Sexton play Ironside’s boss and onetime partner, respectively.
THE FIRST IMPRESSION | This is a good if not dazzling procedural, with a pilot that efficiently lays out the backstory by alternating between the Case of the Week (featuring Brian D’Arcy James as a shifty broker) and well-parsed flashbacks to Ironside’s shooting. Underwood makes for a commanding, telegenic lead, but the verdict on the other characters is TBD, since the premiere sheds little light on neither their origins nor their “specialties” (though Grammer’s Holly emerges as quite the marksman, and tends to grab more screentme). Sexton is, as on The Killing, highly watchable, but Cho carries the burden of playing the “I’m Going to Challenge Your Unorthodox Methods, Though You Always End Up Right” supervisor.
As expected, Ironside’s special set of circumstances is addressed early and often, as he chides a goon for calling him a “cripple,” discovers a (barely hidden) clue thanks to his lower-to-the-ground perspective and finds much time for sexytimes with a lithe fitness instructor.
THE TVLINE BOTTOM LINE | While I was personally more interested in NBC’s ill-fated 2010 reboot of another retro drama, The Rockford Files, Ironside is a safe bet for the network, assigning a “known” title to a solid procedural with a good cast, and leading out of Law & Order: SVU. It will, however, have trouble “igniting” the Wednesdays-at-10 time slot the way Chicago Fire did (for an NBC series).
The fun officially begins Monday, Sept. 23 with the two-hour premiere of The Voice — which welcomes back Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green — at 8/7c. James Spader’s new crime drama The Blacklist follows The Voice‘s return at 10.
The week that follows includes the return of favorites Chicago Fire, Law & Order: SVU and Parenthood and an hour-long, shot-in-London episode of Parks and Recreation on Sept. 26. (Michael J. Fox’s eponymous comedy has its double-episode debut immediately after.)
The Peacock Net is holding Grimm‘s Season 3 premiere until Friday, Oct. 25, when it will warm up the evening for the fangtastic new Dracula, starring Jonathan Ryhs Meyers (The Tudors).
On tap for midseason and as yet unscheduled, you have the comedies Community, About a Boy (Tuesdays @ 9), Growing Up Fisher (Tuesdays @ 8:30) and Undateable. On the drama side, there’s Season 2 of Hannibal, J.J. Abrams’ Believe (Sundays @ 9), the conspiracy thriller Crisis (Sundays @ 10), pirate drama Crossbones (Fridays @ 10), the Chicago Fire spin-off Chicago PD and The Night Shift; and the reality series Food Fighters and the returning Sing-Off.
All told, it looks like this:
MONDAY, SEPT. 23
8 pm The Voice (two hours)
10 pm THE BLACKLIST (new series)
TUESDAY, SEPT. 24
8 pm TBD
9 pm The Voice (Tuesday premiere)
10 pm Chicago Fire
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 25
8 pm Revolution
9 pm Law & Order: SVU (two hours)
THURSDAY, SEPT. 26
8 pm Parks and Recreation (hour-long)
9 pm THE MICHAEL J. FOX SHOW (new series, double-episode premiere)
10 pm Parenthood
FRIDAY, SEPT. 27
9 pm Dateline (two-hour premiere)
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 2
10 pm IRONSIDE (new series)
THURSDAY, OCT. 3
8:30 pm WELCOME TO THE FAMILY (new series)
9 pm SEAN SAVES THE WORLD (new series)
9:30 pm The Michael J. Fox Show (regular time slot premiere)
TUESDAY, OCT. 8
8 pm The Biggest Loser
FRIDAY, OCT. 25
8 pm Dateline (regular time slot premiere)
9 pm Grimm
10 pm DRACULA (new series)
THE SHOW | NBC’s The Blacklist (Mondays at 10/9c; premieres Sept. 23)THE COMPETITION | ABC’s Castle, ESPN’s Monday Night Football, CBS’ Hostages
THE CAST | James Spader (Boston Legal), Megan Boone (Law & Order: LA), Diego Klattenhoff (Homeland), Harry Lennix (Dollhouse) and Ryan Eggold (90210).
THE SET-UP | Spader is Raymond “Red” Reddington, a onetime government agent who is now one of the FBI’s Most Wanted fugitives. But then Red up and surrenders himself in the FBI lobby, offering his mad skills to hunt down and whittle down a “blacklist” of mobsters, spies and international terrorists. His one, mysterious demand: That the only agent he speaks to is Elizabeth Keen (Boone), an FBI profiler fresh out of Quantico. Lennix and Klattenhoff play Liz’s boss and colleague, respectively, Eggold her husband.
THE FIRST IMPRESSION | Acknowledging that the S.H.I.E.L.D. and Once Upon a Time in Wonderland pilots have not yet been made available, The Blacklist thus far stands as the best new drama of the fall. Now, some may skim the trailer and dismiss Spader as being “hammy,” but he’s actually inhabiting a role tailor-made The Blacklist - Season Pilotfor the three-time Emmy winner, a man as enigmatic as he can be brilliant, at times charming but also abruptly (and entertainingly) prickly. He’s half Thomas Crown, half Hannibal Lecter. Also, the concept quickly pulls you in, as Red assists the FBI (though never in the most direct way possible, it seems), and the pilot closes with a decent-enough twist (and no, it’s not about why Liz is his “chosen one”).
Boone is a bit green as the female lead, going toe-to-toe with a room-filling personality such as Spader’s, but perhaps that helps sell her alter ego’s own noob status. That said, the show needs to be sure to convince us of Keen’s top-of-her-class smarts. But all told, this is one premiere that should be on your list.
THE TVLINE BOTTOM LINE | NBC’s Revolution (now airing on Wednesdays) had no trouble opening strongly in this time slot last fall, and that was against two vets — Rick Castle and Steve McGarrett. With Hawaii Five-0 now bounced to Friday, The Blacklist‘s fate in part lies in how well CBS’ Hostages — a solid, less-procedural thriller in its own right — premieres. Barring a dire debut, I have to imagine this will be one of the Peacock’s first full-season pick-ups.
I'm interested in this one.
Constantine on Fridays https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPE2o...I would say Friday is where shows go to die, but maybe with the Grimm lead-in, it might just work.
Shark Tank is the rare exception to the Friday graveyard.
I can't get it to copy and paste here, see the new shows on NBC descriptions here:http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/05/11/nbc...
I don't see that ending well.
Yes, since only the first season was good. lol
Thursday, Sept. 48:00-11:00 SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL (Green Bay at Seattle)
Sunday, Sept. 7
7:00-8:20 FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA
8:20-11:30 SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL (Indianapolis at Denver)
Thursday, Sept. 11
8:00-10:00 THE BIGGEST LOSER
Monday, Sept. 22
8:00-10:00 THE VOICE
10:00-11:00 THE BLACKLIST
Tuesday, Sept. 23
8:00-10:00 THE VOICE
10:00-11:00 CHICAGO FIRE
Wednesday, Sept. 24
8:00-9:00 THE MYSTERIES OF LAURA
9:00-10:00 LAW & ORDER: SVU
10:00-11:00 CHICAGO P.D.
Thursday, Sept. 25
10:00-11:00 PARENTHOOD
Friday, Sept. 26
9:00-11:00 DATELINE NBC
Thursday, Oct. 2
8:00-9:00 THE BIGGEST LOSER (TIME PERIOD PREMIERE)
9:00-9:30 BAD JUDGE
9:30-10:00 A TO Z
Tuesday, Oct. 14
8:00-9:00 THE VOICE (TIME PERIOD PREMIERE)
9:00-9:30 MARRY ME
9:30-10:00 ABOUT A BOY
Friday, Oct. 24
8:00-9:00 DATELINE NBC (TIME PERIOD PREMIERE)
9:00-10:00 GRIMM
10:00-11:00 CONSTANTINE
Monday, Nov. 17
10:00-11:00 STATE OF AFFAIRS
Ugh! I already hate that The Voice is 2 hours on Monday. Now, Tuesday's results show will be 2 hours?! Ridiculous!Don't get me wrong, I love The Voice, but I have a short attention span!
They need two hours for a results show?!?!?!?
I just saw a promo for Bad Judge; looks interesting.
CHICAGO FIRE!!!!CHICAGO PD!!!
ABOUT A BOY!!!
I'll give Laura and Constantine a shot. Will stay with Grimm. Otherwise, zilch.
Will be staying with The Voice and Blacklist.
