2018 Fall TV Schedules

NBC is first to announce:
(new shows in bold)

Monday
8-10 - The Voice
10-11 - Manifest

Tuesday
8-9 - The Voice
9-10 - This Is Us
10-11 - New Amsterdam

Wednesday
8-9 - Chicago Med
9-10 - Chicago Fire
10-11 - Chicago P.D.

Thursday
8-8:30 - Superstore
8:30-9 - The Good Place
9-9:30 - Will & Grace
9:30-10 - I Feel Bad
10-11 - Law & Order: SVU

Friday
8-9 - Blindspot
9-10 - Midnight, Texas
10-11 - Dateline NBC

Saturday
8-10 - Dateline Saturday Night Mystery
10-11 - (SNL repeat, edited down to an hour)

Sunday - football

No decision has been made yet on either Timeless or Champions.

New dramas scheduled for midseason:
The Enemy Within
The Inbetween
The Village

New comedies scheduled for midseason:
Abby’s

New reality show (could be midseason; could be summer)
The Titan Games - think American Gladiators meets The Four

Apparently I never watch NBC. I haven’t seen any of the current shows, nor have I heard of many of them. Then again, I’m not a big TV viewer.

Fox’s turn:

Monday
8-9: The Resident
9-10: 9-1-1

Tuesday
8-9: The Gifted
9-10: Lethal Weapon

Wednesday
8-9: Empire
9-10: Star

Thursday - NFL

Friday
8-8:30: Last Man Standing (not exactly “new”)
8:30-9: The Cool Kids
9-10: Hell’s Kitchen

Saturday - College Football (and with the recent Supreme Court decision, maybe your state will let you bet on the game)

Sunday
7-8: when it is not a Fox NFL National Doubleheader day, repeats will air for the entire hour, although it does not say that they will necessarily always be animated (or even half-hour) shows
8-8:30: The Simpsons
8:30-9: Bob’s Burgers (“Wait, what? No more Christmas in December? No more Thanksgiving three weeks early?”)
9-9:30: Family Guy
9:30-10 Rel

The Orville, Gotham, and new shows Proven Innocent and The Passage are the only “scripted” shows (besides possibly another season of Cosmos - note that both versions of MasterChef are returning as well) shown as being added in the midseason. There are no plans to bring back The X-Files this season.

My take: it seems strange that there are only three live-action comedies on the entire schedule (including midseason), and all of them are new.

I still can’t believe Fox cancelled Brooklyn 99. I thought I had read that NBC had picked it up, but looking at the schedule listed above it doesn’t look that way. Anyone hear anything about it getting picked up?

The newspaper of record confirms that NBC has picked up Brooklyn 99 for a 13-episode sixth season.

A more accessible link.

FairyChatMom - If you are interested in sampling NBC, I recommend This Is Us, a very well written family drama. It’s the only thing I watch on NBC other than Law & Order: SVU.

Edited to add: I won’t watch Manifest, but I love the high concept: What if the passengers of that Malaysian Airlines flight that disappeared suddenly showed up five years later?

ABC’s turn:

Monday
8 - Dancing with the Stars
10 - The Good Doctor

Tuesday
8 - Roseanne
8:30 - The Kids Are Alright
9 - black-ish
9:30 - Splitting Up Together
10 - The Rookie

Wednesday
8 - The Goldbergs
8:30 - American Housewife
9 - Modern Family
9:30 - Single Parents
10 - A Million Little Things

Thursday
8 - Grey’s Anatomy
9 - Station 19
10 - How to Get Away with Murder

Friday
8 - Fresh Off the Boat
8:30 - Speechless
9 - Child Support
10 - 20/20

Saturday - College Football

Sunday
7 - America’s Funniest Home Videos
8 - Dancing with the Stars: Juniors
9 - Shark Tank
10 - The Alec Baldwin Show (fka Sundays with Alec Baldwin)
Midseason:

Returning:
For the People
American Idol
The Bachelor(ette)
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

New Dramas:
The Fix
Grand Hotel
Whiskey Cavalier

New Comedy:
Schooled

Posts like these make me realize how little prime time network TV we watch. Just one show on each of the 3 posted so far: Chicago Med (NBC), The Simpsons (Fox) and The Good Doctor (ABC). And The Simpsons only due to inertia.

And we’re old folk. The younger cord cutters can’t be taking up the slack.

What I read was that NBC picked it up for the 2019 season.

I find it very odd that Fox cancelled Brooklyn 99, then picked up Last Man Standing from ABC.

Thanks for the info on 99.

Tell me about it! Each network has maybe 1 show that gets recorded. NBC has Superstore. ABC has The Rookie, which gets a chance solely on Nathan Fillion, and Agents of SHIELD. Fox has fuck-all until The Orville returns.

It’s cute that the networks still think they matter.

CBS’s turn:

Monday
8 - The Neighborhood
8:30 - Happy Together
9 - Magnum, PI
10 - Bull

Tuesday
8 - NCIS
9 - FBI
10 - NCIS: New Orleans

Wednesday
8 - Survivor
9 - SEAL Team
10 - Criminal Minds

Thursday
8 - The Big Bang Theory
8:30 - Young Sheldon
9 - Mom
9:30 - Murphy Brown (not exactly “new”)
10 - S.W.A.T.

Friday
8 - MacGyver
9 - Hawaii Five-O
10 - Blue Bloods

Saturday
8 - Crimetime in Primetime
10 - 48 Hours

Sunday
On CBS’s NFL doubleheader days, Sunday shows start 30 minutes later in the Eastern and Central time zones
7 - 60 Minutes
8 - God Friended Me
9 - NCIS: Los Angeles
10 - Madame Secretary
CBS’s NFL doubleheader days in the fall season are:
September 30
October 14 & 21
November 11 & 25
December 16, 23 & 30
“Why are S.W.A.T. and Magnum marked as new but Murphy Brown isn’t?”
They have new casts; Murphy Brown is a return of the original cast.

Finally, The CW:

Monday
8 - DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
9 - Arrow

Tuesday
8 - The Flash
9 - Black Lightning

Wednesday
8 - Riverdale
9 - All American

Thursday
8 - Supernatural
9 - Legacies

Friday
8 - Dynasty
9 - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Saturday still belongs to the affiliates

Sunday
(affiliates air local programming from 7 to 8)
8 - Supergirl
9 - Charmed
A few announcements from Fox:

  • The Season 2 premiere of The Orville will be Sunday 12/30, right after Fox’s final regular season NFL game of the season. Fox did not announce on what day of the week the series would normally air, although I wouldn’t be surprised to see a Sunday schedule of Bob’s Burgers, The Simpsons, Family Guy, and The Orville.

  • Speaking of special Sunday premieres, Season 2 of 9-1-1 will premiere on Sunday 9/23 before moving to its Monday timeslot. Because of this, the season premieres of Fox’s Sunday lineup will be on 9/30.

  • Lethal Weapon will have only 13 episodes this season.

Wow. Of every list, there are only 2 shows we watch: Big Bang Theory and Blue Bloods. We stream them, because we cut the cord and over-the-air TV is spotty at best out here in the sticks.

Finally watched the season finale of Timeless. I hope they do at least a farewell movie, if not a mini-season.

Brian

I haven’t:smack: watched a t/.v. series in years…

Is that Charmed as in a remake of the show with Alyssa Milano?

Damn for a minute i thought they were going to bring back the fabulous New Amsterdam (2008 TV series)

But another “brilliant but unconventional and abrasive doctor” series is not good news. I just hope he doesnt have a drug problem like the other half-dozen House rip-offs- Nurse Jackie, etc.

Please, it’s not a “remake”. It’s a “reboot”. Isn’t that so much better?

Hollywood is officially out of ideas. Still.

(I count 8 TV reboots/returns on the schedule. One movie to TV show. A lot of spin-offs and such.)

After reading the lists the only show I plan to watch is “The Orville”. Looking at the other responses I’m not the only one going ‘meh’ about the networks. Makes me wonder how long the current business model will last.

Forgive me, I misspoke :blush:. Creativity seems to have left the room, doesn’t anyone have an original idea anymore?