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Posted by: pavanbadal
09-10-2008 06:32 PM

ABC has announced a few changes:

- ABC News will air a Special Report at approx. 8:42AM ET tomorrow (Sept 11) to mark the
7th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. This Special Report will be approx.
4-5 minutes and will be anchored by Diane Sawyer and Robin Roberts. This Special
Report will coincide with the timing of the first plane hitting the World Trade
Center.

- 20/20: “The Royal Family” encore is now back to two hours from 9:00-11:00 PM
ET/PT on Wednesday, September 17, 2008.
A special “Primetime” was scheduled to air at 10:00 PM ET/PT, is no longer
scheduled.

- As mentioned previously, “A Special Edition of 20/20” will air on Friday,
September 26, 2008 from 8:00-9:00 PM ET/10:00–11:00 PM PT time period. Because
“ABC News Vote 08: Presidential Debate” will be scheduled live from 9:00–11:00
PM ET/6:00–8:00 PM PT time period on this date.

- The second debate is a Vice Presidential one and will air Thursday, Oct. 2
from 9-11PM ET, but ABC has not yet announced what will air at 8PM, but it could
be Ugly Betty, as scheduled.

- ABC has moved the season premiere of "Samantha Who?" to Monday, October 13 at
9:30pm ET/PT, as "Dancing with the Stars" will be two-hours on Sept. 22, 29 and
Oct. 6. "Samantha Who?" was previously slated to have its season premiere on
Monday, Oct. 6 at 9:30pm ET/PT.

- The third debate is a Presidential one and will air Tuesday, October 7 from
9-11PM ET and ABC has announced it will air “Dancing With The Stars: The Results
Show” in the special 8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT time period on this date only leading
into the debate in East/Central markets (after the debate out West). Preempted
will be "Opportunity Knocks."

- The fourth and final debate is also a Presidential one and will air Wednesday,
October 15 from 9-11PM ET, but ABC has not yet announced what will air at 8PM,
but it could be Pushing Daisies, as scheduled.

Presidential debates are not going to help ABC in relaunching their Wed. shows but since everything will be preempted, I don't see it being that big of a deal. Now we understand why there's late launches to Eli Stone and why CBS chose to wait til October to launch its shows.

did abc complete their midseason orders? it seems like it got dragged out this year -- especially with the latest order of 'in the motherhood.' i thought they were done announcing nearly two weeks ago.

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Originally posted by michellea:
did abc complete their midseason orders? it seems like it got dragged out this year -- especially with the latest order of 'in the motherhood.' i thought they were done announcing nearly two weeks ago.

The decision of pickup ´Atlas´ will be made this week. It´s gonna be a very expensive series.

any word on comedies? it seems like they're in short supply.

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Originally posted by michellea:
any word on comedies? it seems like they're in short supply.

Samantha Who, Scrubs, According to Jim, In the Motherhood, The Goode Family, Single With Parents, Better Off Ted should be enough.

Along with the dramedies Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives and Pushing Daisies.

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Below is a recap for MT and PT zones scheduling when the debates air:

Thursday, October 2 (ET/CT aired an all-new Ugly Betty at 8/7 central followed by the ABC News Vote 08 Vice Presidential Debate at 9/8 central)

Mountain:
7:00 – 9:00 PM-MT “ABC News Vote 08 – Vice Presidential Debate”
9:00 – 10:00 PM-MT “Ugly Betty” (Re-scheduled)

Pacific:
6:00 – 8:00 PM-PT “ABC News Vote 08 – Vice Presidential Debate”
8:00 – 9:00 PM-PT “Ugly Betty”
9:00 – 11:00 PM-PT RETURNED TO STATIONS FOR LOCAL PROGRAMMING


Tuesday, October 7 (ET/CT aired the Dancing with the Stars Results Show at a special time of at 8/7 central followed by the ABC News Vote 08 Presidential Debate at 9/8 central)

Mountain:
7:00 – 9:00 PM-MT “ABC News Vote 08 – Presidential Debate”
9:00 – 10:00 PM-MT “Dancing With the Stars Result Show” (Re-scheduled)

Pacific:
6:00 – 8:00 PM-PT “ABC News Vote 08 – Presidential Debate”
8:00 – 9:00 PM-PT “Opportunity Knocks” (REPEAT, West Coast Only)
9:00 – 10:00 PM-PT “Dancing With the Stars Result Show” (normal time, and not special time of 8pm)
10:00 – 11:00 PM-PT RETURNED TO STATIONS FOR LOCAL PROGRAMMING


Wednesday, October 15 (ET/CT aired an all-new Pushing Daisies at 8/7 central followed by the ABC News Vote 08 Presidential Debate at 9/8 central)

Mountain:
7:00 – 9:00 PM-MT “ABC News Vote 08 – Presidential Debate”
9:00 – 10:00 PM-MT “Pushing Daisies” (Re-scheduled)

Pacific:
6:00 – 8:00 PM-PT “ABC News Vote 08 – Presidential Debate”
8:00 – 9:00 PM-PT “Pushing Daisies”
9:00 – 11:00 PM-PT RETURNED TO STATIONS FOR LOCAL PROGRAMMING

There was no need for NBC to pick up Scrubs. And why Jim is coming back is beyond me.

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Originally posted by lopez:

quote:

Originally posted by michellea:
any word on comedies? it seems like they're in short supply.

Samantha Who, Scrubs, According to Jim, In the Motherhood, The Goode Family, Single With Parents, Better Off Ted should be enough.

Along with the dramedies Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives and Pushing Daisies.

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Originally posted by Marc Berman:
There was no need for NBC to pick up Scrubs. And why Jim is coming back is beyond me.

quote:

Originally posted by lopez:

quote:

Originally posted by michellea:
any word on comedies? it seems like they're in short supply.

Samantha Who, Scrubs, According to Jim, In the Motherhood, The Goode Family, Single With Parents, Better Off Ted should be enough.

Along with the dramedies Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives and Pushing Daisies.

Jim is coming back strictly for more episodes for syndication. There is big money in syndication for sitcoms because they are so scarce these days, and ABC owns the show.

Debates just make it all the more baffling as to why ABC did not launch Private Practice and Dirty Sexy Money with the Dancing lead-in last week.

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Originally posted by mushu_jj:
Presidential debates are not going to help ABC in relaunching their Wed. shows but since everything will be preempted, I don't see it being that big of a deal. Now we understand why there's late launches to Eli Stone and why CBS chose to wait til October to launch its shows.

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Originally posted by Twins12:

quote:

Originally posted by Marc Berman:
There was no need for NBC to pick up Scrubs. And why Jim is coming back is beyond me.

quote:

Originally posted by lopez:

quote:

Originally posted by michellea:
any word on comedies? it seems like they're in short supply.

Samantha Who, Scrubs, According to Jim, In the Motherhood, The Goode Family, Single With Parents, Better Off Ted should be enough.

Along with the dramedies Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives and Pushing Daisies.

Jim is coming back strictly for more episodes for syndication. There is big money in syndication for sitcoms because they are so scarce these days, and ABC owns the show.

You would think that since Jim is needed to continue for syndication money that ABC would develop more traditional multi-camera comedies. ABC should test out Jim on Fridays this midseason and perhaps if they have a family comedy, pair it with it. If Everybody Hates Chris can double his audience in a move to Friday, I think ABC will be able to find an audience for family comedies.

Another reason Jim and Scrubs are on the net is so American Idol can have something to run over come January.

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Originally posted by Twins12:

quote:

Originally posted by Marc Berman:
There was no need for NBC to pick up Scrubs. And why Jim is coming back is beyond me.

quote:

Originally posted by lopez:

quote:

Originally posted by michellea:
any word on comedies? it seems like they're in short supply.

Samantha Who, Scrubs, According to Jim, In the Motherhood, The Goode Family, Single With Parents, Better Off Ted should be enough.

Along with the dramedies Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives and Pushing Daisies.

Jim is coming back strictly for more episodes for syndication. There is big money in syndication for sitcoms because they are so scarce these days, and ABC owns the show.

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Originally posted by tvfan300:
Another reason Jim and Scrubs are on the net is so American Idol can have something to run over come January.

Agreed about this although Scrubs has held up well against Idol before because it has a different sort of audience. Kind of like NCIS, but much younger skewing and ultimately lower rated. I see ABC not giving Pushing Daisies a back 9 order at this rate and come January, they should consider something like this:

Mondays:
Wife Swap
The Bachelor
Cupid

Dancing and SW return in March.

Tuesdays:
Supernanny
The Goode Family
Scrubs
Eli Stone or Primetime (depends on how ES does this fall)

Wednesdays:
Lost
new procedural
new procedural
It could also be new drama, new drama, Lost depending on how the other nets look at 8 and 10pm.

Thursdays:
Ugly Betty (Private Practice at midseason to eliminate repeats if Life on Mars clicks)
Greys Anatomy (a few eps of Private Practice to eliminate repeats)
Private Practice (relocated if Life on Mars fails- hopefully not)

Fridays:
According to Jim
new comedy
Pushing Daisies burnoff/extra 20/20 or Primetime
20/20

Saturdays:
movies

Sundays:
same but use some reality shows like Newlyweds to eliminate repeats. ABC should also consider airing a 6 or 8 episodes of Dirty Sexy Money here to give it a chance should ratings hold up at all on Wednesdays.

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I agree ABC should try Private Practice out of Grey's Anatomy if Life on Mars fails. It could be an opportunity to nurture PP into a hit and then I think it would hold up better anchoring another night.

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Originally posted by tvfan300:
I agree ABC should try Private Practice out of Grey's Anatomy if Life on Mars fails. It could be an opportunity to nurture PP into a hit and then I think it would hold up better anchoring another night.

Most likely this is were it will land, however, I wouldn't be surprised to find Cupid land there. I think Private Practice would do ok on Monday's at 10 once BL finishes it's run.