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THE WEEK AHEAD: February 26-March 4, 2018

Here's a look at Week #23! The Winter Olympics are over tonight so its back to normal with some series and season premieres to boot.

ABC
ABC is all new most of the week but they do not have any premieres because they have the Oscars next Sunday and they will use it as a promotional platform. They do have a buzzy crossover between Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder on Thursday this week. It will be interesting to see if it can help either show. Designated Survivor returns for the first time in a couple months on Wednesday.

MONDAY
8:00 The Bachelor
10:00 The Good Doctor

TUESDAY
8:00 The Middle
8:30 Fresh Off the Boat
9:00 Black-ish
9:30 Modern Family (Repeat)
10:00 Kevin (Probably) Saves the World

WEDNESDAY
8:00 The Goldbergs
8:30 Speechless
9:00 Modern Family
9:30 American Housewife
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 Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
10:00 20/20

SATURDAY
8:00 NBA Basketball: Boston at Houston

SUNDAY
7:00 Oscars Opening Ceremony: Live from the Red Carpet (Special)
8:00 2018 Academy Awards (Special)

 CBS
CBS has a Monday night comedy premiere in Living Biblically. I don't see it doing any better than 9JKL and it could do worse. The Eye network also has the newest edition of Survivor premiering Wednesday and leading into SEAL Team at a special time.

 MONDAY
8:00 Kevin Can Wait
8:30 Man with a Plan
9:00 Superior Donuts
9:30 Living Biblically (SERIES PREMIERE)
10:00 Scorpion

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

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Survivor (36th Edition Premiere)
10:00 SEAL Team

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 60 Minutes
8:00 Wisdom of the Crowd (Repeat)
9:00 NCIS: Los Angeles (Repeat)
10:00 Madam Secretary (Repeat)

 NBC
NBC has a big Monday planned following the Olympics with the return of The Voice and series premiere of Good Girls. Both shows got a ton of Olympics promotion so NBC has to be hoping for strong numbers. NBC is also double pumping A.P. Bio on Thursday before Champions arrives next week.

 MONDAY
8:00 The Voice (14th Edition Premiere)
10:00 Good Girls (SERIES PREMIERE)

TUESDAY
8:00 The Voice
9:00 This is Us
10:00 Chicago Med

WEDNESDAY
8:00 The Blacklist
9:00 Law & Order: SVU
10:00 Chicago PD

THURSDAY
8:00 Superstore
8:30 A.P. Bio
9:00 Will & Grace
9:30 A.P. Bio
10:00 Chicago Fire

FRIDAY
8:00 Blindspot
9:00 Taken
10:00 Dateline NBC

SATURDAY
8:00 NHL Hockey: Toronto vs. Washington

SUNDAY
7:00 Dateline NBC
8:00 Movie: Furious 7

 FOX
FOX was almost in complete repeat mode during the Olympics but they are back with pretty much the same pre-Olympic schedule except the return of Gotham and the new Showtime at the Apollo take over Thursday night. This seems like a weird pairing of shows.

 MONDAY
8:00 Lucifer
9:00 The Resident

TUESDAY
8:00 Lethal Weapon
9:00 LA to Vegas
9:30 The Mick

WEDNESDAY
8:00 The X-Files
9:00 9-1-1

THURSDAY
8:00 Gotham
9:00 Showtime at the Apollo (SERIES PREMIERE)

FRIDAY
8:00 Masterchef Junior (Season Premiere)

SATURDAY
8:00 Masterchef Junior (Repeat)
9:00 Showtime at the Apollo (Repeat)

SUNDAY
7:00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Repeat)
7:30 Bob's Burgers (Repeat)
8:00 The Simpsons (Repeat)
8:30 Ghosted (Repeat)
9:00 Family Guy (Repeat)
9:30 LA to Vegas (Repeat)

CW
The CW is slowly rolling out its spring schedule starting with the season premiere of iZombie on Monday nights. Life Sentence won't premiere for another week so Wednesday has a premiere of Penn & Teller: Fool Us.

 MONDAY
8:00 DC's Legends of Tomorrow
9:00 iZombie (Season Premiere)

TUESDAY
8:00 The Flash
9:00 Black Lightning

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Riverdale
9:00 Penn & Teller: Fool Us (Repeat)

THURSDAY
8:00 Supernatrual
9:00 Arrow

FRIDAY
8:00 iZombie (Repeat)
9:00 Jane the Virgin

TV NEWS & THOUGHTS
- NBC has renewed Superstore for a fourth season. The workplace comedy has done an admirable job leading off NBC's Thursday night lineup for two years now, not to mention competing with The Big Bang Theory.

- NBC has swapped the planned timeslots for A.P. Bio and Champions. Beginning March 8, A.P. Bio will air at 8:30pm while Champions premieres at 9:30pm that same night. This could be in response to a weak preview performance from A.P. Bio in early February

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