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THE WEEK AHEAD: November 13-19, 2017

Here is a look at Week #8!

ABC
ABC has a bunch of Thanksgiving episodes among their comedies. It is also preempting most of its Sunday lineup for the American Music Awards next Sunday. Before it will be the season finale of The Toy Box, and it should be the series finale too, but we'll see. It will be interesting to see how The Good Doctor does after a week off.

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

TUESDAY
8:00 The Middle (Thanksgiving episode)
8:30 Fresh Off the Boat (Thanksgiving episode)
9:00 Black-ish
9:30 The Mayor
10:00 Kevin (Probably) Saves the World

WEDNESDAY
8:00 The Goldbergs (Thanksgiving episode)
8:30 Speechless (Thanksgiving episode)
9:00 Modern Family (Thanksgiving episode)
9:30 American Housewife (Thanksgiving episode)
10:00 Designated Survivor

THURSDAY
8:00 Grey's Anatomy
9:00 Scandal
10:00 How to Get Away with Murder

FRIDAY
8:00 Once Upon a Time
9:00 Once Upon a Time
10:00 20/20

SATURDAY
8:00 College Football

SUNDAY
7:00 The Toy Box (Season Finale)
8:00 2017 American Music Awards

CBS
CBS has already upended its Monday lineup and is bringing back Man with a Plan to the slot it occupied last year. While it won't do great, I think it will be an upgrade on 9JKL's one week in this slot with Kevin Can Wait as a lead-in.

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

TUESDAY
8:00 NCIS
9:00 Bull
10:00 NCIS: New Orleans

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

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

FRIDAY
8:00 MacGyver
9:00 Hawaii Five-0
10:00 Blue Bloods

SATURDAY
8:00 NCIS: Los Angeles (Repeat)
9:00 48 Hours
10:00 48 Hours

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

NBC
NBC has the season finale of Law & Order True Crime and we'll see if it ends up being the series finale. Obviously if it comes back, it will be a completely different story since it's an anthology.

MONDAY
8:00 The Voice
10:00 The Brave

TUESDAY
8:00 The Voice
9:00 This is Us
10:00 Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders (Season Finale)

WEDNESDAY
8:00 The Blacklist
9:00 The Voice
10:00 Chicago PD

THURSDAY
8:00 Football Night in America
8:20 Thursday Night Football: Tennessee at Pittsburgh

FRIDAY
8:00 Blindspot
9:00 Dateline NBC

SATURDAY
8:00 Will & Grace (Repeat)
8:30 Superstore (Repeat)
9:00 Dateline NBC

SUNDAY
7:00 Football Night in America
8:30 Sunday Night Football: Philadelphia at Dallas

FOX

FOX has its regular lineup all week. They are advertising the premieres of The Four, LA to Vegas, and 9-1-1 being in January so I think we'll get a midseason schedule this week from the network.

MONDAY
8:00 Lucifer
9:00 The Gifted

TUESDAY
8:00 Lethal Weapon
9:00 The Mick
9:30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Empire
9:00 Star

THURSDAY
8:00 Gotham
9:00 The Orville

FRIDAY
8:00 Hell's Kitchen
9:00 The Exorcist

SATURDAY
8:00 College Football

SUNDAY
7:00 Bob's Burgers (Repeat)
7:30 Bob's Burgers (Thanksgiving episode)
8:00 The Simpsons
8:30 Ghosted
9:00 Family Guy
9:30 The Last Man on Earth

CW
The CW has another week with its complete regular lineup. Nothing too exciting!

MONDAY
8:00 Supergirl
9:00 Valor

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

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Riverdale
9:00 Dynasty

THURSDAY
8:00 Supernatural
9:00 Arrow

FRIDAY
8:00 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
9:00 Jane the Virgin

TV NEWS & THOUGHTS
- The Mick has gotten seven additional episodes ordered to bring its Season 2 order to 20. This is a good sign for the struggling sophomore comedy. It's one that FOX really likes but it hasn't been able to find a large audience.

- Despite low ratings, the CW handed Dynasty a full season order. This isn't shocking because it seemed likely that one of their new freshman dramas were going to get a full season and Dynasty is one of their CBS studio shows which always seem to have more support from the CW. This news probably does not bode well for the other freshman drama Valor.

- NBC revealed that their regular lineup will mostly return the first week of January including bubble shows The Brave and Great News. Taken will have its revamped second season premiere on Friday, January 12 at 9pm.

- ABC has ordered three extra episodes of Kevin (Probably) Saves the World and additional scripts for The Mayor. I don't think either show is going to make it to a second season but ABC has not given up on them yet.

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