ABC Fall Schedule: Grey’s on the Move; The Rookie, Will Trent and The Conners’ Swan Song Held for Midseason
ABC on Tuesday became the fourth broadcast network (after CBS, NBC and Fox) to unveil its schedule for the Fall TV season. What shows are on the move, where did new ones land, and what’s on hold until midseason?
♦ Joshua Jackson’s Doctor Odyssey will air after fellow Ryan Murphy drama 9-1-1 on Thursdays, pushing Grey’s Anatomy to 10 pm.
♦ Dancing With the Stars Season 33 will air on Tuesdays, where it will lead into Kaitlin Olson crime drama High Potential. Will Trent and The Rookie will then return and air uninterrupted at midseason, with 18 episodes each.
♦ The Conners’ farewell run — expected to consist of just six episodes — is also being saved for midseason. The network’s lone fall comedy, Abbott Elementary, will be sandwiched between The Golden Bachelorette and the ABC News docuseries Scamanda.
NEW SHOWS IN CAPS, CLICK TITLE FOR DETAILS
MONDAY
8 pm Monday Night Football (on select Mondays)
TUESDAY
8 pm Dancing With the Stars
10 pm HIGH POTENTIAL (new drama)
WEDNESDAY
8 pm THE GOLDEN BACHELORETTE
9:30 pm Abbott Elementary
10 pm SCAMANDA (new docuseries)
THURSDAY
8 pm 9-1-1
9 pm DOCTOR ODYSSEY (new drama)
10 pm Grey’s Anatomy
FRIDAY
8 pm Shark Tank
9 pm 20/20
SATURDAY
7:30 pm College Football
SUNDAY
7 pm America’s Funniest Home Videos
8 pm The Wonderful World of Disney
American Idol, The Bachelor, Celebrity Jeopardy!, Celebrity Wheel of Fortune, The Conners (final season), EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION, The Rookie, What Would You Do? and Will Trent
The Good Doctor, Not Dead Yet and Station 19
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This headline is a little misleading. It makes it sound like Will Trent is also ending but it is not.
In that case it would be plural swan songs.
No it doesn’t. The commas and the apostrophe on Conners made it pretty clear to me personally.
If it were misleading, it would say “Swan Songs” — plural — not just Swan Song.
The headline is fine.
I agree it’s fine. But, this is a case where the Oxford comma may have come in handy. It would have made it clear that Will Trent was not being lumped together with The Connors.
Exactly
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This schedule is barren. I’m only interested in Abbott, 9-1-1, Dr. Odyssey, and High Potential in the fall.
Only 1 comedy is sad compared to the great 2 hour block they had on Wednesday for years often with another hour on Tuesday.
I like that ABC is holding till midseason Will Trent 18 episodes with no repeats.
Seeing Greys Anatomy getting moved an hr behind for a new show called Dr. Odyssey. Then proceed to see it’s a Ryan Murphy show…okay well make sense, while also realizing I will definitely be watching since it’s a Ryan Murphy show. Then also realizing maybe that’s why 9-1-1 moved to ABC due to the fact that he already had a show in the works for ABC. Idk, but needless to say my ABC Thursday nights are still fully booked. And of course I will be watching Abbott Elementary.
Half my shows are being held for midseason across the networks. I hopefully will like some of the new stuff.
Definitely the writing is on the wall for Grey’s as they move it to 10 p.m.
Doubtful. Being moved to 9pm slot is not a death sentence–especially with the inclusion of DVR playback stats. If season 21 is the final season, you better believe there will be a ton of hoopla. ABC has always been firmly behind Grey’s Anatomy. Years ago, the head of ABC called it the jewel of the network. Sure, the quality and ratings have dipped but to still be doing as well as they are doing after 20 seasons is amazing. Shonda Rhimes was ready to end the show in season 10 and ABC pleaded with her to keep it going if she still had more stories to tell. I would not be surprised if GA got a 2-hour series–followed by a one hour retrospective hosted by Robin Roberts LOL.
Grey’s started in the 10 time slot 20 years ago. Historically, a lot of top network dramas were in that hour (ER, LA Law, Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, etc.) Moving it to 10 seems more like a sign of respect than a death mark.
Grey’s Anatomy actually started as a 10/9c, when it closed out Sundays.
How does that follow? The 10pm slot is the lead-in to the late news and the late-night line up. If you doubt that, look what happened to The Tonight Show during Conan’s run when he had The Jay Leno Show as the lead-in, and not shows like ER.
It shouldn’t work that way (what with remote controls and all – people can easily go to what they want), but it still does.
Greys has a loyal enough audience that it should easily get another season.
I honestly don’t think ABC will ever cancel it out of respect as it is now the longest running scripted medical show. ABC will allow Shonda to end it on her terms.
The schedule looks like the strike never ended. How many games are they showing on MNF? That did work last year.
I’ve read around 3 exclusives (which I think would have been the case regardless per previous deal) and now around 6 or 7 simulcasts added to that, so possibly 10 total. The NFL releases their schedule tomorrow night, so if they don’t confirm today while schmoozing advertisers, we should know then for sure.
We don’t want to wait until mid season for Will Trent.
Who is “we’? I’m cool with waiting for Will Trent’s season 3; at least the run is uninterrupted.
What a crappy schedule. Seriously they cancel Not Dead Yet when they could have used another comedy.
Keeping Will Trent and the Rookie til mideason sucks.
All these sports and reality shows are unnecessary
Sports = big ratings
Reality = cheap to produce
I don’t like reality TV personally and I don’t watch much football, but I can understand the economic decisions here.
Agreed. It really seems like they’re trying to kill Abbott by wedging it in at the half hour between two completely incompatible shows.
Fall used to be the main season and nowadays, I mainly watch shows in the spring and summer seasons. They have more stuff I’m interested in airing then. Fall TV is pretty dead for me.
Wow. Disney really doesn’t care about ABC at this point. And Conners at midseason, at SIX episodes? Why bring it back at all? And poor Abbott by itself buried behind the bachelor trash, Quinta deserves better. But good for Ryan…he’s the new Shonda. It pays when Dana Walden is your best friend.
Well ABC won’t get my viewership until midseason. I wonder if some of these new shows tank then they will bring back some midseason shows. I hope ABC pushes Will Teent into the Emmy conversation.
Do we really need another network crime procedural where a quirky character solves murders?
The answer is apparently yes .
The french show this drama is based on is a fun watch
ABC: HP. CBS: Elsbeth. NBC(Peacock): Poker Face.
They could have Easily had The Golden Bachelor only be an Hour and have Abbott Elementary and Not Dead Yet… As a Fall Comedy Hour!
Another option to do a fall comedy hour might have been to start Sundays off with the movies but keep them at 2 1/2 hours (Disney has plenty of short films), then they could still have Golden Bachelorette be 90 minutes following. Temporarily move America’s Funniest Home Videos to starting off Wednesday, so that Wednesday’s starting hours stay on the comedic side. When the other comedies are ready midseason, move AFHV back to Sundays ahead of American Idol.
I believe The Great Christmas Light Fight was also renewed last December, so that might fill a couple Mondays or Tuesdays in December, depending on football schedule and when DWTS ends. Not sure about the Halloween version.
Please give Will Trent a favorable time slot. I watched the first few episodes when it first came on and would have been a faithful viewer had it not been on at the same time as a long- time favorite of mine on another channel. The show has great potential, but won’t catch fire if it isn’t seen by default.
Dang where the comedies at? Also I guess midseason looks like the new fall for me
Yeah, right!!! Where are all the comedies? This schedule makes it seem like ABC is doing away with all of them and Abbott Elementary is the last remaining one.
The only thing I will watch on this schedule is Grey’s and you up and move it to 10:00…..
We record it at 8 because we go to bed about 8:30, We record a lot of shows to watch later.
Abbott Elementary and Quinta Brunson deserve better than the awful time slot given to the show in the Fall. Do better, ABC.
Abbot looks so misplaced in that slot between GB and Scamanda. I’d have held it for midseaon and aired it around other comedies.
Funny feeling about Grey’s going to 10pm. With contracts of much of the cast being up/renegotiated this could mean the beginning of the end.
And if/ when 9-1-1: Lonestar moves to ABC next season, it’ll be a Ryan Murphy night.
Remember Lonestar got just 12 episodes ordered for next season.
The only thing on their Fall schedule I plan on watching is football
I wish Not Dead Yet had been renewed. I’m very disappointed in that cancellation. However, I may give High Potential a look. Not sure yet.
Why is Grey’s moving to 10?!
so a new drama can benefit from 9-1-1’s lead-in
abc with only one comedy wow
More comedies are coming midseason. Not sure why this was left out of this article, but here is excerpt from an article on Deadline.com from Disney TV Group President Craig Erwich on the lack of comedies on the ABC Fall Schedule.
“We are very invested in the comedy genre. I haven’t seen a show break through the culture like Abbott Elementary in a long time,” he said. “We’re very bullish on getting more comedies.”
Erwich noted that the network is in production on two multi-camera comedy pilots, Shifting Gears with Tim Allen and Forgive & Forget with Ty Burrell in addition to bringing back The Conners for its six-episode final season.
“There was some impact in terms of pilot development caused by the strikes, but come midseason, you’ll see how dedicated we are to bringing the best of family comedy to the ABC audience,” he said.
Im not going to complain about the conners not coming back till mid season as I am happy it will be wrapped up/ I am disappointment Rookie and Will Trent are held till mid season though. Definitely skipping the ryan murphy show as they always turn out bad IMO. I will be trying high potential as that’s my kind of show lol.
Uninterrupted scheduling for any show is a positive. It should put both shows in cruise control towards renewal.