Monday
8:00 - Dancing with the Stars
10:00 - The Good Doctor
Again, ABC has kept its Monday night intact. I get not moving DWTS, since its audience is old and could potentially not be willing to follow it around the schedule. But get The Good Doctor onto a new night where it can help something else. The only two new dramas ABC has premiered on Mondays at 10:00 in the past decade have both been hits; try something new and potentially get a new hit!
Tuesday
8:00 - The Conners
8:30 - Bless This Mess (New Timeslot)
9:00 - mixed-ish (NEW)
9:30 - black-ish (New Timeslot)
10:00 - Emergence (NEW)
More rearranging without much actual change. black-ish gets shifted back, presumably to try to capture more of a family audience with the 9:00 premiere of its own spin-off, mixed-ish. Yet another new drama will occupy the 10:00 slot, this time the last-minute save Emergence, a pilot NBC passed on last week before ABC snapped it up. The biggest winner here is Bless This Mess, which was a surprisingly solid performer for its short episode order late this season. It gets the lead-in from The Conners, the night's highest rated show.
Wednesday
8:00 - The Goldbergs
8:30 - Schooled
9:00 - Modern Family
9:30 - Single Parents
10:00 - Stumptown (NEW)
The midseason schedule stays entirely as-is, and a new drama fills in for a newly canceled one. Again, very familiar strategy from ABC.
Thursday
8:00 - Grey's Anatomy
9:00 - A Million Little Things
10:00 - How to Get Away with Murder
And Shondaland is officially no more now that A Million Little Things, which struggled at 10:00 on Wednesdays last fall before finding stability in this timeslot in early 2019, will air on TGIT. Station 19 will resume its night at midseason, paired with an unannounced drama to replace Murder, which just keeps chugging along.
Friday
8:00 - American Housewife (New Timeslot)
8:30 - Fresh Off the Boat (New Timeslot)
9:00 - 20/20
Fresh Off the Boat, which made headlines for the wrong reason this week when star Constance Wu voiced her disappointment that the show was renewed, preventing her from entertaining a film offer, shifts back a half-hour and American Housewife gets thrown to the Friday night wolves for its fourth season. It won't have to do much to perform better than the now-canceled Speechless did this season, but it's not exactly a vote of confidence for the moderate hit sitcom. And rather than programming 9:00, ABC just expanded 20/20 to two hours.
Sunday
7:00 - America's Funniest Home Videos
8:00 - Kids Say the Darndest Things (NEW)
9:00 - Shark Tank
10:00 - The Rookie (New Timeslot)
Kids gets a modern reboot with Tiffany Haddish as host, and sophomore The Rookie, a very moderate performer on Tuesdays, moves to 10:00 on Sundays, a low-pressure slot that likely won't gain it any new fans.
Midseason
ABC doesn't have too much on the bench for midseason. Drama Station 19 will return, along with The Bachelor. Then there are new dramas The Baker and the Beauty and For Life and new comedy United We Fall.
This is a pretty tight schedule, though it fails to capitalize on big moves and shake things up, as per usual for ABC. That'll have to change next season when longtime Wednesday night anchor Modern Family rides off into the sunset. It'll likely force ABC into rejiggering their Tuesday and Wednesday nights; unless either United We Fall or mixed-ish are runaway successes, it seems likely The Conners would move to Wednesday, leaving Tuesdays vulnerable. I just really wish they would try to find a real success for Tuesdays at 10:00 and get The Good Doctor out of the Monday at 10:00 slot. Maybe move DWTS to Sundays and program Monday more aggressively, overall. Use Grey's to launch a new drama. Something.
But until then, this is fine but safe schedule. Without football or the Super Bowl, ABC won't be able to climb the ranks of the broadcast nets much anyway.
Click after the jump for descriptions of ABC's new series.
Dramas
The Baker and the Beauty - Daniel Garcia is working in the family bakery and doing everything that his loving Cuban parents and siblings expect him to do. But on a wild Miami night he meets Noa Hamilton, an international superstar and fashion mogul, and his life moves into the spotlight. Will this unlikely couple upend their lives to be together and pull their families into a culture clash?
Emergence - A character-driven genre thriller, Emergence is about a police chief who takes in a young child she finds near the site of a mysterious accident who has no memory of what has happened. The investigation draws her into a conspiracy larger than she ever imagined, and the child’s identity is at the center of it all.
For Life - Inspired by the life of Isaac Wright Jr., For Life is a fictional serialized legal and family drama about a prisoner who becomes a lawyer, litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit. His quest for freedom is driven by his desperate desire to get back to the family he loves and reclaim the life that was stolen from him. The show will also, through the window of his ferocious struggle and his complicated relationship with a progressive female prison warden, examine the flaws and challenges in our penal and legal systems.
Stumptown - Based on the Stumptown graphic novel series, Stumptown follows Dex Parios (Cobie Smulders) – a strong, assertive and sharp-witted army veteran with a complicated love life, gambling debt and a brother to take care of in Portland, Oregon. Her military intelligence skills make her a great PI, but her unapologetic style puts her in the firing line of hardcore criminals and not quite in alliance with the police.
Comedies
mixed-ish - In mixed-ish, Rainbow Johnson recounts her experience growing up in a mixed-race family in the ‘80s and the constant dilemmas they had to face over whether to assimilate or stay true to themselves. Bow’s parents Paul and Alicia decide to move from a hippie commune to the suburbs to better provide for their family. As her parents struggle with the challenges of their new life, Bow and her siblings navigate a mainstream school in which they’re perceived as neither black nor white. This family’s experiences illuminate the challenges of finding one’s own identity when the rest of the world can’t decide where you belong.
United We Fall - United We Fall is a profoundly realistic family sitcom that follows the trials and tribulations of Jo (Christina Vidal) and Bill (Will Sasso), parents of two young kids, as they try to make it day to day as a functioning family. Bill’s very judgmental live-in mother and Jo’s large, Latinx Catholic family will never hesitate to let our couple know they’re seemingly screwing up, but Bill and Jo will always have each other’s backs, united against everyone – other parents, teachers, doctors, specialists, coaches, co-workers and, especially, their kids.
Alternative
Kids Say the Darndest Things - Hosted and executive produced by Tiffany Haddish. The hilarious reimagined format showcases a mix of in-studio segments and taped pieces from across the country, all set in front of a live studio audience. The series will capture Haddish’s unique voice and sensibility as she interacts with real kids – and their innocently entertaining points of view.
8:00 - Dancing with the Stars
10:00 - The Good Doctor
Again, ABC has kept its Monday night intact. I get not moving DWTS, since its audience is old and could potentially not be willing to follow it around the schedule. But get The Good Doctor onto a new night where it can help something else. The only two new dramas ABC has premiered on Mondays at 10:00 in the past decade have both been hits; try something new and potentially get a new hit!
Tuesday
8:00 - The Conners
8:30 - Bless This Mess (New Timeslot)
9:00 - mixed-ish (NEW)
9:30 - black-ish (New Timeslot)
10:00 - Emergence (NEW)
More rearranging without much actual change. black-ish gets shifted back, presumably to try to capture more of a family audience with the 9:00 premiere of its own spin-off, mixed-ish. Yet another new drama will occupy the 10:00 slot, this time the last-minute save Emergence, a pilot NBC passed on last week before ABC snapped it up. The biggest winner here is Bless This Mess, which was a surprisingly solid performer for its short episode order late this season. It gets the lead-in from The Conners, the night's highest rated show.
Wednesday
8:00 - The Goldbergs
8:30 - Schooled
9:00 - Modern Family
9:30 - Single Parents
10:00 - Stumptown (NEW)
The midseason schedule stays entirely as-is, and a new drama fills in for a newly canceled one. Again, very familiar strategy from ABC.
Thursday
8:00 - Grey's Anatomy
9:00 - A Million Little Things
10:00 - How to Get Away with Murder
And Shondaland is officially no more now that A Million Little Things, which struggled at 10:00 on Wednesdays last fall before finding stability in this timeslot in early 2019, will air on TGIT. Station 19 will resume its night at midseason, paired with an unannounced drama to replace Murder, which just keeps chugging along.
Friday
8:00 - American Housewife (New Timeslot)
8:30 - Fresh Off the Boat (New Timeslot)
9:00 - 20/20
Fresh Off the Boat, which made headlines for the wrong reason this week when star Constance Wu voiced her disappointment that the show was renewed, preventing her from entertaining a film offer, shifts back a half-hour and American Housewife gets thrown to the Friday night wolves for its fourth season. It won't have to do much to perform better than the now-canceled Speechless did this season, but it's not exactly a vote of confidence for the moderate hit sitcom. And rather than programming 9:00, ABC just expanded 20/20 to two hours.
Sunday
7:00 - America's Funniest Home Videos
8:00 - Kids Say the Darndest Things (NEW)
9:00 - Shark Tank
10:00 - The Rookie (New Timeslot)
Kids gets a modern reboot with Tiffany Haddish as host, and sophomore The Rookie, a very moderate performer on Tuesdays, moves to 10:00 on Sundays, a low-pressure slot that likely won't gain it any new fans.
Midseason
ABC doesn't have too much on the bench for midseason. Drama Station 19 will return, along with The Bachelor. Then there are new dramas The Baker and the Beauty and For Life and new comedy United We Fall.
This is a pretty tight schedule, though it fails to capitalize on big moves and shake things up, as per usual for ABC. That'll have to change next season when longtime Wednesday night anchor Modern Family rides off into the sunset. It'll likely force ABC into rejiggering their Tuesday and Wednesday nights; unless either United We Fall or mixed-ish are runaway successes, it seems likely The Conners would move to Wednesday, leaving Tuesdays vulnerable. I just really wish they would try to find a real success for Tuesdays at 10:00 and get The Good Doctor out of the Monday at 10:00 slot. Maybe move DWTS to Sundays and program Monday more aggressively, overall. Use Grey's to launch a new drama. Something.
But until then, this is fine but safe schedule. Without football or the Super Bowl, ABC won't be able to climb the ranks of the broadcast nets much anyway.
Click after the jump for descriptions of ABC's new series.
Dramas
The Baker and the Beauty - Daniel Garcia is working in the family bakery and doing everything that his loving Cuban parents and siblings expect him to do. But on a wild Miami night he meets Noa Hamilton, an international superstar and fashion mogul, and his life moves into the spotlight. Will this unlikely couple upend their lives to be together and pull their families into a culture clash?
Emergence - A character-driven genre thriller, Emergence is about a police chief who takes in a young child she finds near the site of a mysterious accident who has no memory of what has happened. The investigation draws her into a conspiracy larger than she ever imagined, and the child’s identity is at the center of it all.
For Life - Inspired by the life of Isaac Wright Jr., For Life is a fictional serialized legal and family drama about a prisoner who becomes a lawyer, litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit. His quest for freedom is driven by his desperate desire to get back to the family he loves and reclaim the life that was stolen from him. The show will also, through the window of his ferocious struggle and his complicated relationship with a progressive female prison warden, examine the flaws and challenges in our penal and legal systems.
Stumptown - Based on the Stumptown graphic novel series, Stumptown follows Dex Parios (Cobie Smulders) – a strong, assertive and sharp-witted army veteran with a complicated love life, gambling debt and a brother to take care of in Portland, Oregon. Her military intelligence skills make her a great PI, but her unapologetic style puts her in the firing line of hardcore criminals and not quite in alliance with the police.
Comedies
mixed-ish - In mixed-ish, Rainbow Johnson recounts her experience growing up in a mixed-race family in the ‘80s and the constant dilemmas they had to face over whether to assimilate or stay true to themselves. Bow’s parents Paul and Alicia decide to move from a hippie commune to the suburbs to better provide for their family. As her parents struggle with the challenges of their new life, Bow and her siblings navigate a mainstream school in which they’re perceived as neither black nor white. This family’s experiences illuminate the challenges of finding one’s own identity when the rest of the world can’t decide where you belong.
United We Fall - United We Fall is a profoundly realistic family sitcom that follows the trials and tribulations of Jo (Christina Vidal) and Bill (Will Sasso), parents of two young kids, as they try to make it day to day as a functioning family. Bill’s very judgmental live-in mother and Jo’s large, Latinx Catholic family will never hesitate to let our couple know they’re seemingly screwing up, but Bill and Jo will always have each other’s backs, united against everyone – other parents, teachers, doctors, specialists, coaches, co-workers and, especially, their kids.
Alternative
Kids Say the Darndest Things - Hosted and executive produced by Tiffany Haddish. The hilarious reimagined format showcases a mix of in-studio segments and taped pieces from across the country, all set in front of a live studio audience. The series will capture Haddish’s unique voice and sensibility as she interacts with real kids – and their innocently entertaining points of view.
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