My schedule is very aggressive. This moves DWTS into a more high profile slot on Wed/Thu - but will take out of the AI double shot fire in January and February that Fox always schedules. It also minimizes changes, and gives ABC a chance to get their new shows ready (sans Life On Mars) which apparently all the nets will need with the strike:
Targeted female - enabling it to compete during football season. Two shows (UB + PP) that have an audience - and a third (DSM) that fared OK after PP this season.
Tuesday (Fall) 8:00 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (repeats) 9:00 Pushing Daisies 10:00 Boston Legal
Pre-AI, ABC has the ability to get decent numbers (as evidenced this season). As we've already seen, EMHE has the ability to deliver decent numbers in repeat.
Tuesday (January) 8:00 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (repeats) 9:00 Lost 10:00 Section 8
This gives ABC a chance to develop the Sci-Fi twinged Section 8 and place it after Lost - which will likely be pretty AI proof in January.
Wednesday (Fall/Spring) 8:00 Dancing With The Stars 9:30 The Bachelor
Wednesday (Winter) 8:00 Dance Wars 9:30 20/20
These two pairs are easily adjusted in length as necessary. DWTS would run pre-AI through December and then once AI goes to just a results show, DWTS comes back.
Thursday (Fall/Spring) 8:00 Dancing With The Stars (results) 9:00 Grey’s Anatomy 10:00 Life On Mars
ABC is unbeatable 8-10 with this lineup, and the high profile Life On Mars gets a primo launch.
Thursday (Winter) 8:00 Mutchnick/Kohan Project 8:30 Samantha Who 9:00 Grey’s Anatomy 10:00 Life On Mars
Will & Grace was a big success on Thursday. ABC will have eyeballs in the winter while Survivor is on hiatus. A good chance to launch a new show and try Samantha Who out again.
Friday 8:00 Wife Swap 9:00 Supernanny 10:00 20/20
This cheap lineup wins Friday in households
Saturday (Fall) 8:00 Sports
Saturday (January) 8:00 Movie
Sunday 7:00 America’s Funniest Home Videos 8:00 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 9:00 Desperate Housewives 10:00 Brothers & Sisters
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Anthony, I like your idea of a Wed/Thurs DWTS schedule -- in fact, we must have been sharing thoughts, because I was contemplating that scenario the last few days as well. If you recall, ABC actually tried that a few seasons ago, and it actually scored higher demo ratings on those nights than it does today in its current Mon/Tues timeslots.
Having said that, I'm not sure about the rest of your lineup -- some of the moves don't seem to me like they would help. But I agree on one key thing: ABC should aggressively counter-program against American Idol next year: no more free passes.
Originally posted by Chimera: Anthony, I like your idea of a Wed/Thurs DWTS schedule -- in fact, we must have been sharing thoughts, because I was contemplating that scenario the last few days as well. If you recall, ABC actually tried that a few seasons ago, and it actually scored higher demo ratings on those nights than it does today in its current Mon/Tues timeslots.
Having said that, I'm not sure about the rest of your lineup -- some of the moves don't seem to me like they would help. But I agree on one key thing: ABC should aggressively counter-program against American Idol next year: no more free passes.
I don't know that any of the other moves send ABC through the roof - but I think they may help a bit. ABC is going to need every bit of help they can get because their shows do not repeat well.
I like the Monday and Friday lineups for consistency - and I think Friday could score 8-10 million on a regular basis in households and win the night. That's sure a huge improvement over the repeat garbage fest they have right now.
DWTS on Wed/Thu would be deadly - and it did well for ABC in the past.
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Originally posted by Anthony: My schedule is very aggressive. This moves DWTS into a more high profile slot on Wed/Thu - but will take out of the AI double shot fire in January and February that Fox always schedules. It also minimizes changes, and gives ABC a chance to get their new shows ready (sans Life On Mars) which apparently all the nets will need with the strike:
Anthony, I really think this is a good schedule. The only thing I don't like is Tuesday. I don't think ABC should I have a repeat there all season. Also, to schedule agressively agianst AI put Lost at Tuesday at 8 come January.I would change Tuesday to look like this.
Fall Tuesday 8:00 Samantha Who? 8:30 new comedy 9:00 Pushing Daisies 10:00 Boston Legal
Winter/Spring Tuesday 8:00 Lost 9:00 Pushing Daisies 10:00 Section 8
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Originally posted by Anthony: My schedule is very aggressive. This moves DWTS into a more high profile slot on Wed/Thu - but will take out of the AI double shot fire in January and February that Fox always schedules. It also minimizes changes, and gives ABC a chance to get their new shows ready (sans Life On Mars) which apparently all the nets will need with the strike:
Anthony, I really think this is a good schedule. The only thing I don't like is Tuesday. I don't think ABC should I have a repeat there all season. Also, to schedule agressively agianst AI put Lost at Tuesday at 8 come January.I would change Tuesday to look like this.
Fall Tuesday 8:00 Samantha Who? 8:30 new comedy 9:00 Pushing Daisies 10:00 Boston Legal
Winter/Spring Tuesday 8:00 Lost 9:00 Pushing Daisies 10:00 Section 8
Your winter/spring schedule sounds good, though I'd have it on a Wednesday not Tuesday. But your Fall schedule doesn't have a strong anchor: neither Samantha Who nor Pushing Daisies are strong enough (yet) to anchor a night.
Anthony, I really like your schedule, but I'd like to tweak it just a little bit.
Sunday 7:00 America’s Funniest Home Videos 8:00 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 9:00 Desperate Housewives 10:00 Dirty Sexy Money DSM gets a strong push, so it could maybe become the Dynasty-esqe show ABC is hoping for.
Monday 8:00 Ugly Betty 9:00 Private Practice 10:00 Brothers & Sisters I think that a more established show should take on CSI: Miami.
Tuesday (Fall) 8:00 Untitled Damon Wayans Sitcom 8:30 Untitled Cedric the Entertainer Sitcom 9:00 Pushing Daisies 10:00 Boston Legal
Tuesday (January) 8:00 Untitled Damon Wayans Sitcom 8:30 Untitled Cedric the Entertainer Sitcom 9:00 Lost 10:00 Section 8 Home Edition repeats is not very competitive. Why not try sitcoms again, but, you know, funny ones.
Wednesday (Fall/Spring) 8:00 Dancing With The Stars 9:30 Miss.Guided The Bachelor is an hour long. Maybe save it for the summer.
Wednesday (Winter) 8:00 Dance Wars 9:30 Miss.Guided 20/20 is an hour long and it's already airing on Fridays.
Thursday (Fall/Spring) 8:00 Dancing With The Stars (results) 9:00 Grey’s Anatomy 10:00 Life On Mars
Thursday (Winter) 8:00 Samantha Who 8:30 Mutchnick/Kohan Project 9:00 Grey’s Anatomy 10:00 Life On Mars The stronger, established show should lead out the night.
Friday 8:00 Wife Swap 9:00 Women's Murder Club 10:00 20/20 Women's Murder Club deserves a pick up.
I don't believe DSM deserves the post-DH slot. It couldn't hold Private Practice's ratings, so I'm not sure it can keep a good percentage of DH's lead-in. I think new Goldie Hawn show Leap would be a much better fit in that Sunday 10pm timeslot.
SUNDAY 7:00-8:00 PM “America’s Funniest Videos” 8:00-9:00 PM “Extreme Makeover : Home Edition” / “The Big give” 9:00-10:00 PM “Desperate Housewives” 10:00-11:00 PM “Brothers and Sisters”
I believe sunday nights will stay the same, I doubt they would mess with what works well.
MONDAY (September – November) 8:00-9:30 PM “Dancing with the Stars” 9:30-10:00 PM “MISS/GUIDED” (New series) 10:00-11:00 PM “Private Practice” (New night and time)
Monday nights are pretty interesting. (Almost) nobody would watch Monday night until DWTS brought million of viewers. ABC just needs to find a formula that would work and keep viewers at 10 PM, that’s why I think PP would fit just well. For the comedy, I had to choose one and since I believe SW would pair perfectly with Literary Superstar I had to put them together, so I wondered and remembered that ABC hasn’t aired Miss/Guided yet this could be the perfect timeslot for that extremely interesting comedy. And of course, bring back DW and TB in January.
TUESDAY (September – November) 8:00-8:30 PM “Samantha Who?” 8:30-9:00 PM “LITERARY SUPERSTAR” (New series) 9:00-10:00 PM “Dancing wit the Stars” 10:00-11:00 PM “Pushing Daisies” (New night and time)
The Tuesday night formula is basically the same that they used this year but with better shows. PD desperately need more exposure I believe DWTS has what it takes to help. And of course, ABC wants comedies these two are the real deal. What I would do to help launch them I would air a 90 minutes premiere of DWTS on Monday (the guys) air right after the season premiere of SW and on Tuesday another 90 minutes episode (the girls) and then again air right after the premiere of Literary superstar. Finally, the Tuesday after they get into their regular timeslot. BL has disappointed a lot this winter so I would give it a shorter season (13 – 16 episodes and it could also be the final season) and air it right when DWTS is gone until march.
WEDNESDAY 8:00-9:00 PM “BOUNDARIES” (New series) 9:00-10:00 PM “LIFE ON MARS” (New series) 10:00-11:00 PM “Dirty Sexy Money”
I’m really not sure about Wednesday nights, but I tried something that could possibly make sense.
I extremely would like to see Eli Stone back for a second season, but I doubt that will happen. So I figured Leap could be a good option after GA. Possibly bring back Lost during midseason for a 16 episodes order.
FRIDAY 8:00-8:30 PM “CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER” (New series) 8:30-9:00 PM “DAMON WAYNES” (New series) 9:00-10:00 PM “Women’s Murder Club” 10:00-11:00 PM “20/20”
I don’t know about WMC I would cancel it for sure, but since it’s sort of a hit on Friday nights I believe ABC will keep it for next season. And to that, bring comedies, it probably won’t give enormous audience, but it certainly wouldn’t be a bad thing.
Midseason : THE BACHELOR DANCE WAR THE BIG GIVE SECTION 8 LOST WANNA BET? WIFE SWAP SUPER NANNY
I don't believe it's the best schedule ever but it could actually makes sense, on my opinion.
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Not bad, but do you really think Samantha Who? is strong enough to anchor an evening?
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Originally posted by a_lex89: SUNDAY 7:00-8:00 PM “America’s Funniest Videos” 8:00-9:00 PM “Extreme Makeover : Home Edition” / “The Big give” 9:00-10:00 PM “Desperate Housewives” 10:00-11:00 PM “Brothers and Sisters”
I believe sunday nights will stay the same, I doubt they would mess with what works well.
MONDAY (September – November) 8:00-9:30 PM “Dancing with the Stars” 9:30-10:00 PM “MISS/GUIDED” (New series) 10:00-11:00 PM “Private Practice” (New night and time)
Monday nights are pretty interesting. (Almost) nobody would watch Monday night until DWTS brought million of viewers. ABC just needs to find a formula that would work and keep viewers at 10 PM, that’s why I think PP would fit just well. For the comedy, I had to choose one and since I believe SW would pair perfectly with Literary Superstar I had to put them together, so I wondered and remembered that ABC hasn’t aired Miss/Guided yet this could be the perfect timeslot for that extremely interesting comedy. And of course, bring back DW and TB in January.
TUESDAY (September – November) 8:00-8:30 PM “Samantha Who?” 8:30-9:00 PM “LITERARY SUPERSTAR” (New series) 9:00-10:00 PM “Dancing wit the Stars” 10:00-11:00 PM “Pushing Daisies” (New night and time)
The Tuesday night formula is basically the same that they used this year but with better shows. PD desperately need more exposure I believe DWTS has what it takes to help. And of course, ABC wants comedies these two are the real deal. What I would do to help launch them I would air a 90 minutes premiere of DWTS on Monday (the guys) air right after the season premiere of SW and on Tuesday another 90 minutes episode (the girls) and then again air right after the premiere of Literary superstar. Finally, the Tuesday after they get into their regular timeslot. BL has disappointed a lot this winter so I would give it a shorter season (13 – 16 episodes and it could also be the final season) and air it right when DWTS is gone until march.
WEDNESDAY 8:00-9:00 PM “BOUNDARIES” (New series) 9:00-10:00 PM “LIFE ON MARS” (New series) 10:00-11:00 PM “Dirty Sexy Money”
I’m really not sure about Wednesday nights, but I tried something that could possibly make sense.
I extremely would like to see Eli Stone back for a second season, but I doubt that will happen. So I figured Leap could be a good option after GA. Possibly bring back Lost during midseason for a 16 episodes order.
FRIDAY 8:00-8:30 PM “CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER” (New series) 8:30-9:00 PM “DAMON WAYNES” (New series) 9:00-10:00 PM “Women’s Murder Club” 10:00-11:00 PM “20/20”
I don’t know about WMC I would cancel it for sure, but since it’s sort of a hit on Friday nights I believe ABC will keep it for next season. And to that, bring comedies, it probably won’t give enormous audience, but it certainly wouldn’t be a bad thing.
Midseason : THE BACHELOR DANCE WAR THE BIG GIVE SECTION 8 LOST WANNA BET? WIFE SWAP SUPER NANNY
I don't believe it's the best schedule ever but it could actually makes sense, on my opinion.
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