Sunday, November 19, 2017

THE WEEK AHEAD: November 20-26, 2017

Here is a look at Week #9! It is Thanksgiving week which means lots of specials.

ABC
ABC has the finale of Dancing with the Stars on Tuesday. It has been an OK season for Dancing and this show doesn't pop much for finales anymore. Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are littered with repeats and specials.

MONDAY
8:00 Dancing with the Stars
10:00 The Good Doctor

TUESDAY
8:00 The Middle
8:30 Fresh Off the Boat
9:00 Dancing with the Stars (25th Edition Finale)

WEDNESDAY
8:00 A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (Special)
9:00 Modern Family (Repeat)
9:30 American Housewife (Repeat)
10:00 Lights, Camera, Christmas! Inside Holiday Movie Classics (Special)

THURSDAY
8:00 Kevin (Probably) Saves the World (Repeat)
9:00 The Good Doctor (Repeat)
10:00 The Good Doctor (Repeat)

FRIDAY
8:00 Santa Claus is Comin' to Town (Special)
9:00 20/20

SATURDAY
8:00 College Football

SUNDAY
7:00 America's Funniest Home Videos (Repeat)
8:00 America's Funniest Home Videos
9:00 Shark Tank
10:00 Shark Tank (Repeat)

CBS
CBS is the network with the most normal lineup this week as they are airing on Thanksgiving Eve and even Thanksgiving itself. They do have the late Thanksgiving game though so their primetime lineup should do OK, at least on the early end.

MONDAY
8:00 Kevin Can Wait (Thanksgiving episode)
8:30 Man with a Plan
9:00 Superior Donuts (Thanksgiving episode)
9:30 9JKL (Thanksgiving episode)
10:00 Scorpion

TUESDAY
8:00 NCIS
9:00 Bull (Thanksgiving episode)
10:00 NCIS: New Orleans

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Survivor
9:00 SEAL Team
10:00 Criminal Minds

THURSDAY
8:00 The Big Bang Theory (Repeat)
8:30 Young Sheldon
9:00 Mom
9:30 Life in Pieces (Thanksgiving episode)
10:00 S.W.A.T.

FRIDAY
8:00 Frosty the Snowman (Special)
8:30 Frosty Returns (Special)
9:00 Grammy's Greatest Stories: A 60th Anniversary Special (Special)

SATURDAY
8:00 Robbie the Reindeer in Hooves of Fire (Special)
8:30 Robbie the Reindeer in Legend of the Lost Tribe (Special)
9:00 The Story of Santa Claus (Special)
10:00 48 Hours

SUNDAY
7:00 NFL Overun
7:30 60 Minutes
8:30 Wisdom of the Crowd
9:30 NCIS: Los Angeles
10:30 Madam Secretary

NBC
NBC has the season premiere of Chicago Med on Tuesday night. Given how it often overperformed on Thursday nights last year, it should be an improvement on Law & Order True Crime. Wednesday has a one off of The Wall while both Wednesday and Friday have specials. NBC has football on Thanksgiving night as usual but it's a pretty uninteresting matchup this year.

MONDAY
8:00 The Voice
10:00 The Brave

TUESDAY
8:00 The Voice
9:00 This is Us
10:00 Chicago Med (Season Premiere)

WEDNESDAY
8:00 The Wall
9:00 SNL Thanksgiving (Special)

THURSDAY
8:00 Football Night in America
8:30 NY Giants at Washington

FRIDAY
8:00 Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Special)
8:30 DreamWorks Trolls Holiday (Special)
9:00 Dateline NBC

SATURDAY
8:00 The National Dog Show (Special)
10:00 Dateline NBC

SUNDAY
7:00 Football Night in America
8:30 Sunday Night Football: Green Bay at Pittsburgh

FOX
FOX has its regular lineup on Monday and Tuesday but then its repeats, college football, and specials the rest of the week! Not much to see here.

MONDAY
8:00 Lucifer
9:00 The Gifted

TUESDAY
8:00 Lethal Weapon
9:00 The Mick
9:30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Thanksgiving episode)

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Empire (Repeat)
9:00 Star (Repeat)

THURSDAY
8:00 Gotham (Repeat)
9:00 The Orville (Repeat)

FRIDAY
8:00 College Football

SATURDAY
8:00 College Football

SUNDAY
7:00 The 66th Miss Universe Competition (Special)

CW
The CW has its regular lineup on Monday, Tuesday, and (surprisingly) Thursday. The other two nights are the iHeartRadio Music Festival, which was preempted after the Vegas shooting.

MONDAY
8:00 Supergirl
9:00 Valor

TUESDAY
8:00 The Flash
9:00 DC's Legends of Tomorrow

WEDNESDAY
8:00 iHeartRadio Music Festival Night 1 (Special)

THURSDAY
8:00 Supernatural
9:00 Arrow (Thanksgiving episode)

FRIDAY
8:00 iHeartRadio Music Festival Night 2 (Special)

TV NEWS & THOUGHTS
- The first of a lot of midseason news, FOX announced that The X-Files will return on Wednesday, January 3 at 8pm and will be followed by the Ryan Murphy drama 9-1-1 at 9pm. The X-Files was a huge hit the last time it was seen in the 2015-16 season.

- NBC will premiere Good Girls on Monday, February 26 at 10pm immediately after the new edition of The Voice and one day after the end of the Winter Olympics. They will premiere the highly anticipated new drama Rise on Tuesday, March 13 at 10pm following the season finale of This is Us. It will then take over This is Us's 9pm slot the following week.

- ABC will premiere a game show, Child Support, hosted by Fred Savage on Friday, January 5 at 8pm as a bridge for Once Upon a Time. It will also have Designated Survivor on a hiatus, to be replaced again this year by Match Game, starting January 3.

- ABC has ordered light crime procedural Take Two straight to series from a Castle executive producer and starring Rachel Bilson and Eddie Cibrian. This is the second light procedural ordered straight to series by ABC, joining The Rookie.

- CBS has handed a full season order to S.W.A.T. after just three episodes that only did modestly. They also ordered three more episodes of 9JKL, which doesn't seem to bode well for its long term chances. They did not make any decision on Wisdom of the Crowd yet, but I'd be surprised if it goes beyond its 13 episode order.

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