RED BAND SOCIETY: Wednesday 9PM on FOX – If Nothing Else Is On… PLAYERS: The Fault In Our Stars, which opened studio and network eyes to the commercial appeal of seriously ill teenagers. Amblin Television, the small-screen wing of Steven Spielberg’s production empire. The Spanish series that originated this project’s concept. US series creator Margaret […]
Only those involved will likely ever know the details, but ABC and 20th Century Fox Television worked out whatever they needed to, and the result was a pick-up of LAST MAN STANDING and orders for 2 additional 20th sitcoms: CRISTELA has a nice backstory: ABC had originally made a script deal with comic Cristela […]
THE MCCARTHYS: Thursday 9:30PM on CBS THE FACTS: Ronnie McCarthy (Jake Lacy) is part of a lovingly smothering Boston Irish-Catholic family, who are just fine with him being gay but embarrass him at every turn anyway. The series was created by Brian Gallivan, a relative newbie, so the showrunner will be Mike Sikowitz, of […]
MULANEY: Sunday 9:30PM on FOX THE FACTS: John Mulaney, in real life a stand-up comic and TV comedy writer (most notably on SNL, where his biggest claim to fame may be co-creating Bill Hader’s Stefon character), plays one in the sitcom he created for himself, too. His TV show boss is Martin Short, and […]
The rest of the week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The Saturday primetime network schedule, such as it is, isn’t worth much attention, being a patchwork of reruns and sports (although we will include estimates for that night in our full-week network projections). That brings us to Sunday, once the showcase night for […]
CW had a successful season in 2014-15. launching the smash hit THE FLASH and the critical darling JANE THE VIRGIN. There wasn’t reason to change much, and the network didn’t. Here’s a look (new shows are in ALL CAPS, new timeslots are in italics): MONDAY 8PM: CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND (trailer here) 9PM: Jane the Virgin […]
Nothing so far today matches yesterday afternoon’s high-profile pick-ups by NBC and FOX, but there’s nevertheless some news as we approach next week’s Upfronts: FOX Amid speculation that the network will cut back on its comedy commitment next season, FOX cleared its shelves of bubble sitcoms, officially canceling DADS, ENLISTED and SURVIVING JACK. Jack […]
SELFIE: Tuesday 8PM on ABC THE FACTS: Suburgatory creator Emily Kapnek may have lost one sitcom this week, but she gained a new one, this spin on My Fair Lady. Eliza Dooley (Karen Gillan) is an entirely self-obsessed, social media-magnet narcissist (think a slightly less sociopathic Dahlia from Suburgatory), but when she herself gets […]