It's a big week for television viewers as the major broadcast networks unveil their new fall schedules. NBC got things started yesterday with the announcement of their slate. Here's their schedule (New shows are denoted in all CAPS):
MONDAY
8-10 p.m. – “The Sing-Off”
10-11 p.m. – “THE PLAYBOY CLUB”
TUESDAY
8-10 p.m. – “The Biggest Loser”
10-11 p.m. – “Parenthood”
WEDNESDAY
8-8:30 p.m. – “UP ALL NIGHT”
8:30-9 p.m. – “FREE AGENTS”
9-10 p.m. — “Harry’s Law”
10-11 p.m. — “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”
THURSDAY
8-8:30 p.m. – “Community”
8:30-9 p.m. — “Parks and Recreation”
9-9:30 p.m. – “The Office”
9:30-10 p.m. – “WHITNEY”
10-11 p.m. – “PRIME SUSPECT”
FRIDAY
8-9 p.m. – “Chuck”
9-10 p.m. – “GRIMM”
10-11 p.m. – “Dateline NBC”
SATURDAY
Encore programming
SUNDAY
7- 8:15 p.m. — “Football Night in America”
8:15-11:30 p.m. — “NBC Sunday Night Football”
This obviously will change if there's no football because of the lockout, but I doubt that will happen. Aside from that, the interesting things of note is Chuck moving to Fridays. They were only given a 13 episode order (instead of the usual 22) and NBC has said that this will be their final season, so placing it on Friday isn't that surprising. Parks and Recreation moves back to 8:30 and hopefully can sustain viewers. 30 Rock won't be back until mid-season due to Tina Fey's pregnancy. Wednesdays are probably their biggest gamble as they try to have sitcoms succeed on a night besides Thursdays. As for their new shows, I haven't had a chance to really investigate them yet, but it's clear some of them will need to be breakout hits if NBC hopes to regain prominance. I'll post trailers for the new shows later so that you can judge them for yourself.
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