CBS is the fourth broadcast network to reveal its midseason schedule (following ABC, Fox and NBC), which features the RuPaul-hosted game show Lingo and a series reboot of James Cameron’s 1994 action-comedy True Lies.
NBC has unveiled its plans for the start of 2023 with Magnum, P.I moving from CBS, and its sequel series to Night Court leading the lineup. New drama series Found, starring Shanola Hampton from executive producer Greg Berlanti, also lands a spot after the Jay Hernandez-fronted procedural on Sunday nights.
Fox will make some significant changes to its schedule for midseason, unveiling eight new and returning series and moving veteran 911: Lone Star away from its previous Monday night home.
The network will also use the NFL to launch a few shows, including the missing-persons drama Alert on Jan. 8 and a post-Super Bowl premiere for Next Level Chef on Feb. 12. The courtroom anthology Accused, which debuts Jan. 22, might also follow an NFL matchup on the weekend of the divisional playoff round (though the TV schedule for the playoffs hasn’t been set).
ABC on Monday revealed its midseason lineup, which includes a new Tuesday night block featuring The Rookie and its spinoff The Rookie: Feds. The new block kicks off Jan. 3 with a crossover story for both The Rookie at 8 p.m. followed by The Rookie: Feds at 9 p.m. The new new crime drama Will Trent starring Ramón Rodríguez — based on Karin Slaughter’s bestselling book series — will follow.
The Ramon Rodriguez-led drama is based on Karin Slaughter’s book series.
Medical drama Good Sam and a new season of Celebrity Big Brother will join a largely stable schedule.
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Grey’s Anatomy is getting a new Thursday-night shift. ABC has unveiled its midseason schedule and the big news is that Shonda Rhimes’ enduring medical drama is moving from 8 p.m. back to its signature 9 p.m. perch beginning in late January to make way for the return of spinoff series Station 19, which will now lead off the night.
Fox today unveiled midseason premiere dates for its new and returning series.
Here’s when broadcast will wake up from hibernation with some fresh episodes and series.
CBS has set spring premiere dates for new drama series The Code, The Red Line, which will air as an eight-episode event series, and returning Ransom.
Christmas Day has come and gone and the New Year is right around the corner — and so is midseason TV. While fall brought with it the returns of your favorite broadcast shows — and the debuts of several new ones — the colder months mark the time when many of those series go into hibernation and fresh programming wakes up.
ABC is giving A Million Little Things a big vote of confidence. The Alphabet net on Wednesday unveiled its midseason schedule, and its shifting the promising rookie drama to Thursdays at 9 p.m. following juggernaut Grey’s Anatomy.
ABC has finalized its post-Conners midseason game plan, announcing that the Roseanne spinoff will hand its Tuesday lead-off spot to American Housewife beginning Feb. 5.
The World’s Best and Million Dollar Mile join returning favorites Survivor, Big Brother and The Amazing Race as the network hopes to launch a new franchise.
The CW has begun mapping out its 2019 midseason schedule, with the premiere of new series Roswell, New Mexico set for Tuesday, Jan. 15, at 9 p.m. behind Flash, and Black Lightning moving to Mondays beginning Jan. 21 at 9, following Arrow.
Fox has firmed up its winter schedule, setting premiere dates for the final season of Gptham, new dramas The Passage and Proven Innocent as well as new installments of Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville and Cosmos and Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back.
Ahead of its TCA presentation today, ABC has unveiled its midseason scheduling plans, slating its new mdseason series: Grey’s Anatomy spinoff, For the People, The Crossing, Deception, Alex Inc. and Splitting Up Together and setting a series finale date for Scandal.
The 2017-18 TV season is nearing the midway point, so here’s Deadline Hollywood’s annual list of midseason premiere dates for new series and new seasons of returning shows. The list covers hundreds of broadcast, cable and streaming programs bowing from Jan. 1 through April 30 and includes shows that were on hiatus.
On Tuesday, Fox set its schedule for Winter 2018, and there are some shows on the move. The biggest change is that new vocal competition show The Four will take over Thursday nights from Gotham and The Orville, the former of which air its midseason finale and the latter its season finale on Dec. 7. Gotham‘s return date has not been set yet.
NBC’s scripted series will start coming back from their holiday broadcast hiatuses at the very start of the new year, with Monday drama The Brave leading the pack with a Jan. 1 midseason premiere.
Broadcast networks begin rolling out midseason programming this year, even before Jan. 1. Here’s what viewers will see.
NBC is giving two midseason comedies, Trial & Error and Great News, The Voice lead-in by scheduling them back-to-back in an hourlong block. Meanwhile, the third new NBC midseason comedy series, the DC Comics-themed Powerless, will air behind Superstore on Thursdays.
PBS rolled out a massive set of programming announcements, with highlights including a lineup of Masterpiece productions that includes Sherlock, Dark Angel, Home Fires, King Charles III, “o Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters and Victoria. The programs announced will be premiering from January through May, and include dramas, arts programming, nature and history shows.
It features moves for incumbents Supernatural and DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow and the addition of new Archie Comics drama Riverdale and returning series The 100, Reign, The Originals and iZombie.
In recent years, networks thought they had found the solution to a TV audience that no longer tolerated repeats, especially for nonprocedural series. They began scheduling their serialized dramas in two chunks, allowing for a pair of uninterrupted runs, broken up with a lengthy hiatus of around three months. But last season, that strategy unraveled. Nearly every returning drama suffered big ratings declines after the midseason break. So the networks are revising their midseason hiatus strategies.
ABC Retools For Midseason With New Shows
ABC had a mixed fall, with a fledgling hit in Quantico, as well as the season’s first canceled series in Wicked City. But ABC Entertainment President Paul Lee said Sunday that the best is yet to come this season for the network, touting, “four incredibly powerful shows” that are coming to the network in midseason.
Last midseason brought the huge Fox hit Empire. Here’s your handy guide to what’s debuting this midseason and when, including much-hyped new shows like Legends of Tomorrow.
The much-anticipated DC’s Legends of Tomorrow is slotted for Thursdays starting in January while long-running Thursday series The Vampire Diaries moves to Friday.
ABC will use the Oscars to promote four new series in early March, including the latest from Shonda Rhimes (The Catch) and the resurrection of a series that had originally been scheduled for fall, Of Kings and Prophets. ABC’s midseason schedule also features a flurry of premieres shortly after the start of the new year, taking advantage of the network’s highly rated New Year’s Eve programming.
You’re going to need more than just a red pen for this calendar update from Fox. Grab some scissors, some safety goggles, a blow torch, a flux capacitor, and a stiff drink, because Fox’s midseason schedule for early 2016 is very, very confusing.
Fox has firmed up the rest of its midseason plans. After announcing premiere dates for Empire, American Idol and Glee, the network has found slots for everything else on its bench — and ordered a new unscripted project. World’s Funniest Fails (working title) bows Jan. 16, ahead of Glee. Based on YouTube channel FailArmy, each week finds a panel of comedians analyzing viral clips of people epically failing.
The CW, looking to build off its momentum from the fall while increasing the number of original hours it airs in the back half of the season, revealed its aggressive midseason plans today. Premiering are Star-Crossed and The 100, while giving new nights to Hart of Dixie and Tomorrow People.
ABC has firmed up its midseason scheduling plans. With Super Fun Night getting only a back-4 order, ABC will try out another new comedy series, Mixology, in the Wednesday 9:30 p.m. slot behind Modern Family. Meanwhile, Suburgatory will return to its original Tuesday 8:30 p.m. slot. It’s also making changes to some previously announced midseason moves. Once Upon A Time and Revenge are still slated to return from their winter hiatuses on March 9, joined by new drama Resurrection. But Revenge will move to 10 p.m., with Resurrection taking over its 9 o’clock slot.
Happy Endings Moves to Fridays while Celebrity Wife Swap will take over Tuesdays at 8 p.m., with The Taste pushed back to 9 p.m.
As the end of the fourth quarter draws near and the networks get ready to roll out their midseason schedules, there are a number of questions facing the networks. Among them: Can American Idol return to form? Will NBC maintain its lead? Will DVR viewership keep growing? And will there be any new hit shows this year?
From Kiefer Sutherland’s return to Fox to Dustin Hoffman’s big HBO debut, a look at the new year’s most-anticipated series.
After a fall that spawned a few ratings successes but no cultural phenomena, midseason may offer some shows that get viewers talking, guessing and obsessing — like only the best television shows can do.
The network sets premiere dates for series including American Idol, Alcatraz, The Finder, Touch, Kitchen Nightmares, Breaking In and Napoleon Dynamite.
Cross-dressing comedy Work It will take the place of fellow rookie comedy Man Up starting Jan. 3. The comedy starring Christopher Moynihan will end its initial 13-episode run, effectively canceleing the series. In addition, the network has scheduled its Leslie Bibb-Kristin Chenoweth drama GCB and mystery thriller The River.
