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ABC's 2011-2012 Lineup Is Revealed

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only1moore

Courtesy of ABC:

MONDAY:
8:00 p.m. "Dancing with the Stars"
10:00 p.m. "Castle"

TUESDAY:
8:00 p.m. "Last Man Standing"
8:30 p.m. "Man Up"
9:00 p.m. "Dancing with the Stars the Results Show" (Fall)
9PM "Cougar Town" (Winter)
9:30PM "Apartment 23" (Winter)
10:00 p.m. "Body of Proof"

WEDNESDAY:
8:00 p.m. "The Middle"
8:30 p.m. "Suburgatory"
9:00 p.m. "Modern Family"
9:30 p.m. "Happy Endings"
10:00 p.m. "Revenge"

THURSDAY:
8:00 p.m. "Charlie's Angels"
9:00 p.m. "Grey's Anatomy"
10:00 p.m. "Private Practice"

FRIDAY:
8:00 p.m. "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition"
9:00 p.m. "Shark Tank"
10:00 p.m. "20/20"

SATURDAY:
8:00 p.m. "Saturday Night College Football"

SUNDAY:
7:00 p.m. "America's Funniest Home Videos"
8:00 p.m. "Once Upon a Time"
9:00 p.m. "Desperate Housewives"
10:00 p.m. "Pan Am"

Midseason
"Good Christian Belles"
"Missing"
"The River"
"Scandal"
"Work It"
 
GREAT! No new reality series. This schedule looks a bit better than the NBC & FOX ones.
We'll have to see how some of those comedy shows turn out. Seeing how popular football
is and if the NFL is locked out, ABC just might win Saturday night with college games.
 
Yet their bringing back "Charlie's Angels" -- based on the films, which in turn were based on the original TV series.

Considering how well other revivals went, I'm not holding my breath on this one.
 
Also at midseason (between Dancing runs) is the return of Cougar Town.

ABC has done well with college football on Saturday nights (on average..every sports package has its clunker games), often winning the evening. The absence of the NFL on a different night isn't going to significantly change that dynamic.
 
"Pan Am"... Don't tell me they've greenlighted a drama based on a defunct airliner... What, was "ValuJet" not an appealing name for a series? ::)

And imagine if this "Pan Am" gets moved to a different night and time. Let's hope ABC has the good sense not to schedule "The River" after it, just because.
 
imhomerjay said:
Also at midseason (between Dancing runs) is the return of Cougar Town.

ABC has done well with college football on Saturday nights (on average..every sports package has its clunker games), often winning the evening. The absence of the NFL on a different night isn't going to significantly change that dynamic.
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Here we go again........I don't buy it. If no pro-football is on, I think the demand for college will
be greater than ever (no matter when it's on)!
 
gregg75 said:
imhomerjay said:
ABC has done well with college football on Saturday nights (on average..every sports package has its clunker games), often winning the evening. The absence of the NFL on a different night isn't going to significantly change that dynamic.
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Here we go again........I don't buy it. If no pro-football is on, I think the demand for college will be greater than ever (no matter when it's on)!
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Not necessarily true. There are pro football fans who do not watch college football.
 
Just wait and see......they will be watching. I bet the next network to negotiate with the
NFL will take into consideration the chance that a strike is always possible........just as
Japan should have bought into the idea that a tidal wave and earthquake could both
hit a nuclear power plant at the same time.
 
Yeah, because the lawyers who negotiate contracts don't consider that work stoppages may happen. Yet another of the not-getting-how-business-works examples.

Since people were already watching Saturday Night Football, there's little reason to expect to see a dip in ratings, nor will people who want to watch the [insert favorite team here] suddenly tune in to colleges if they don't follow that school/level already. No major uptick, no major erosion, either, especiall in a slot the NFL-only fans weren't watching.

As for Japan...that's the kind of comparison that proves just how faulty the "reasoning" is.
 
I just saw the previews. If I was a betting man I'd pick "Apartment 23," "Suburgatory," "Charlie's Angels," "Last Man Standing," "Once Upon a Time," "Pan Am," and "Missing" to be the ones to keep a eye on. ABC might have some winners here, just as long as they don't screw these entries up.
 
Sorry to see Detroit 1-8-7 and Brothers & Sisters get cancelled. Emmy winner Michael Imperioli and Oscar winner Sally Field couldn't rescue their respective series.

I guess the writers of Brothers & Sisters saw the handwriting on the wall. The last episode of the season had the feel that it was also the FINAL episode. Sally Field in the last minutes of the episode did a voice-over narration of how crazy and wonderful her family is as we saw slow-motion video of the cast celebrating a wedding. Slow-motion video of the cast is the sign it's over.

But Detroit 1-8-7 didn't have that feel. They killed off the good-looking male cast member in the second-to-last episode, D.J. Cortona, but the squad was carrying on in the final episode. I guess they thought they had a shot at coming back.

But hey, I also liked The Whole Truth with Rob Morrow and Maura Tierney, a courtroom drama where we saw both the defense and prosecution planning their cases. And the true killer gets revealed to us in the end, even if he or she gets aquitted. That got cancelled about five weeks into the season! I suppose there are a few episodes still in the can that will get aired in July and August.


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