2011-2012 TV Schedule

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Originally Posted by mattCR 

Well, the announcements have been fast & furious tonight!

 

Fox let loose with their whole slate. (Deadline.Com)

Cancelled: Human Target, Breaking In, The Chicago Code, Lie to Me, Traffic Light

New to the Network Next year:   Confirmations on Terra Nova, X-Factor, The Finder, Alcatraz, The New Girl (1/2 hour comedy); I hate my teenage daughter (1/2 comedy)

 

NBC

 

Is reportedly renewing "Harry's Law"; "Law & Order: LA" is dead; and "Wonder Woman" is going to get an order (whether or not that's midseason or full season who knows)

 

I have a feeling that while people have been saying Fox threw a bloodbath, the bloodshed at NBC will be thick.

Thanks for the info on Fox. I hate to lose Lie to Me, but I'm not surprised.

As for NBC, they might as well have a bloodbath. Apart from NFL football, reality shows, Law & Order: SVU, and a couple of notable sitcoms (and even they don't garner high ratings), NBC doesn't have much that's drawing many eyeballs. Harry's Law, despite its mediocrity, has brought in the viewers so I'm all for giving it a second season to find its rhythm, cut the dead wood from the cast, and get busy with some interesting cases. But I can't ever remember a network that has, night for night, almost nothing of interest for those hungry for quality narrative programming.

Well, Fox made it easier for me not to watch their station next year.

Glad the networks are making it easy to cut down on the TV viewing for next season. 

It is a shame that "The Chicago Code" didn't get a pick-up.  Maybe it was just too expensive to shoot all those location shots for the ratings it was getting.

I won't miss "Lie to Me", and "The Human Target" missed its target in its sophomore season with the added estrogen content.

I'll miss The Chicago Code, but I've learned to never get too attached to new shows.  

I really enjoyed season 1 of Human Target, but season 2 - not so much.

I'll probably try Terra Nova, and The Finder.  Not sure about Alcatraz however - have to see where it fits in the schedule.

- Walter.

With Law & Order: LA being dead in the water, it's just makes it more harder to accept that the original L&O did not get another season. I mean, NBC could have renewed the original, and said to them, "this is the final season", like they did with ER. Or what USA has done with Criminal Intent.

Fox doesn't seem to have much left in terms of scripted programming, as the cartoons seem to be the only ones left that are worth watching. I considered checking out The Chicago Code, but after hearing the ratings being not so good in its premiere, I decided to wait and see if it got a 2nd season, and now, I won't even bother.

My fingers are really crossed when it comes to Blue Bloods on CBS. Interesting that some shows may get cancelled just because it's on CBS.

I was disappointed to see "Breaking In" canceled. The numbers for that show were good, just apparently not good enough for the post-"Idol" time slot. I wish they would have tried it at a half-hour with less support and seen if it was able to hold its numbers. None of the others are really surprises to me.

Most years I hate to see my favorites get canceled, but I had way too many shows this year. I'd like to get down to one (or at most two) per time slot.

Disappointed about Law & Order: Los Angeles. I'm dreading hearing about what will happen with Detroit 1-8-7 and Blue Bloods. No doubt (and you'll have to excuse my dislike of the shows) the three CSI shows will all get renewed.

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Originally Posted by MattH. 

As for NBC, they might as well have a bloodbath. Apart from NFL football, reality shows, Law & Order: SVU, and a couple of notable sitcoms (and even they don't garner high ratings), NBC doesn't have much that's drawing many eyeballs. But I can't ever remember a network that has, night for night, almost nothing of interest for those hungry for quality narrative programming.

 

Agreed. Not many of their shows draw any audience, so they may as well clean house and start fresh. I don't remember the last time I've watched anything on NBC except football. Probably since the days of Frasier and Will & Grace.
 

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Originally Posted by MattH. 

As for NBC, they might as well have a bloodbath. Apart from NFL football, reality shows, Law & Order: SVU, and a couple of notable sitcoms (and even they don't garner high ratings), NBC doesn't have much that's drawing many eyeballs. Harry's Law, despite its mediocrity, has brought in the viewers so I'm all for giving it a second season to find its rhythm, cut the dead wood from the cast, and get busy with some interesting cases. But I can't ever remember a network that has, night for night, almost nothing of interest for those hungry for quality narrative programming.

I agree that NBC doesn't have much that's drawing eyeballs, as that's an objective fact, but I would disagree that there's almost nothing of interest for those hungry for quality narrative programming. Most of the scripted programming I watch is on NBC: "Chuck" and "The Event" on Mondays, "Parenthood" on Tuesdays and the whole comedy block on Thursdays. "Parenthood", in particular, meets my definition of "quality narrative programming", even if the viewership is marginal.

I was weird to see "$#!+ My Days Says" just vanish from the line-up on Thursday (or any other evening) on CBS.

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Originally Posted by Patrick Sun 

I was weird to see "$#!+ My Days Says" just vanish from the line-up on Thursday (or any other evening) on CBS.

 

I think I understand their thinking. They saw what kind of ratings it was getting after The Big Bang Theory and had some shows on the bench they wanted to test run behind it, so they went ahead and ran through their entire slate of episodes for the show. Then, Rules of Engagement has done OK, but S^&% has actually done a little better in the ratings. With the reliable lead-in and weak opposition from NBC's comedy line-up, just about anything was going to do OK in that CBS timeslot.
 

I am very sad to see Chicago Code die. 

It reminded me a lot of the Wire.

I'm curious about Terra Nova, since I assume that will be the Waterworld of TV. Or it will be awesome. Either way, worth a watch this Fall.

No TV shows renewed or canceled that I watch, yet.

TV Line: Chuck back for 13 episodes, Parenthood back for 22 episodes

Yeah, Parenthood!

Fox is reportedly re-considering its cancellation of Breaking In.

Sony TV, which is the production company behind the show, has really thrown its support behind the show.

It's being reported this morning that NBC decided to totally pass on "Wonder Woman".  The pilot tested poorly and nobody liked the new costume :

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/05/12/nbc-rejects-wonder-woman/

I think, too, with NBC already failing with retread shows like "Knight Rider" and "Bionic Woman", a "Wonder Woman" pickup at this point could have branded the new regime at NBC as being creatively bankrupt; especially if "Wonder Woman" crashed and burned which it was most likely apt to do.  

Personally, after reading about a "Rockford Files" revival for Fall 2010 only to see NBC back out of that deal at the last second I didn't see any way "Wonder Woman" would get a pickup.   "Rockford Files" seemed like a much more viable franchise-reboot for a weekly TV series and it even showed strong sponsor interest during the development stage. So the non-pickup of "Wonder Woman" shouldn't really surprise anyone who was paying attention.

More from ABC:

Cancelled:
Brothers & Sisters, V, No Ordinary Family, Off the Map, Better With You, Detroit 187 and Mr. Sunshine

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Originally Posted by Adam Lenhardt 

More from ABC:

Cancelled:
Brothers & Sisters, V, No Ordinary Family, Off the Map, Better With You, Detroit 187 and Mr. Sunshine

And they renewed the recently premiered Happy Endings for another season.
 

Disappointed about Detroit 1-8-7's cancellation. Another promising-sounding show cancelled.

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Originally Posted by Adam Lenhardt 

More from ABC:

Cancelled:
V, No Ordinary Family, and Mr. Sunshine

Hrrmm...I was probably done with V and NOF, regardless. Still, I always hope for such shows to have a miraculous turnaround.

Mr. Sunshine bums me. I'd started watching it halfway through -- there's a paucity if sitcoms for casual viewing and this was filling a void for me.

I've really got to get Community on Blu-ray.

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Originally Posted by DaveF 

Hrrmm...I was probably done with V and NOF, regardless. Still, I always hope for such shows to have a miraculous turnaround.

 

Mr. Sunshine bums me. I'd started watching it halfway through -- there's a paucity if sitcoms for casual viewing and this was filling a void for me.

 

I've really got to get Community on Blu-ray.

 

It would have been nice to see a real ending for V and No Ordinary Family.  NOF turned itself around after lagging mid season.  My Sunshine was OK, but I was enjoying it.  I have been watching Happy Endings and its pretty funny, glad to see it renewed.  Whats with resurrecting shows from my childhood?  Charles Angles and Wonder Woman?  Have the networks forgot about the reboots of Knight Rider and Bionic Woman?

Community is only available on DVD.  Still well worth a buy.

I had stopped watching No Ordinary Family after about six episodes, so if it did turn things around, I may look forward to the DVDs of its run to see where they went with it.

More ABC:

Body of Proof also renewed for a second season. The network's mass execution has made way for a record 12 new pick-ups: Good Christian Belles (infamously former title: Good Christian Bitches), a remake of Charlie’s Angels with Robert Wagner (who famously feuded with Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg over his ownership share in the original series) replacing John Forsythe as the voice of Charlie, sitcom Last Man Standing starring Tim Allen, sitcom Don't Trust the Bitch in Apt. 23, fairytale-themed drama(?) Once Upon a Time, sixties primetime spies-and-stewardesses soap Pan Am, supernatural hourlong The River and yet another Shonda Rhimes-produced soap -- this one transplanting the setting from medicine to politics.

CBS:
 

Kat Dennings (currently getting a lot of attention for her role as the comic relief character in action tentpole Thor) CBS will headline a new comedy called Two Broke Girls, about two young women without money in Brooklyn. The writing staff is headed by “Sex and the City” mastermind Michael Patrick King and standup comedienne Whitney Cummings. Probably attracting the most buzz of any pilot for CBS, the Eye also picked up Person of Interest. It stars Jim Caviezel (Mel Gibson's Jesus) as a former FBI agent recruited by a reclusive and mysterious billionaire, played by Michael Emerson, to stop crimes in New York City before they happen. Emerson is reunited with "Lost" producer J.J. Abrams. The showrunner is The Dark Knight screenwriter Jonathan Nolan.

NBC

Laura Prepon will star as a fictionalized version of Chelsea Handler in a series based on Handler's books and Amanda Peet will star as the white collar half of a class warfare romantic comedy in Bent. Also added: BFFs, yet another tired sitcom about a newly married couple and their single friend and British TV adaptation Free Agents.

The CW
 

Sarah Michelle Gellar returns to television playing identical twin sisters in Ringer, a pilot originally shot for CBS.