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THE WEEK AHEAD: February 5-11, 2018

Here's a look at Week #20!

ABC
ABC is mostly new on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Wednesday has the network premiere of Inside Out instead of the comedies while Friday brings the season finale of the short run of Child Support, which was a surprisingly decent performer. On Sunday, ABC is oddly airing new episodes of America's Funniest Home Videos at 7pm and Shark Tank at 10pm instead of 8pm and 9pm.

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 Movie: Inside Out
10:00 Match Game

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

FRIDAY
8:00 Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown (Special)
9:00 Child Support (Season Finale)
10:00 20/20

SATURDAY
8:00 NBA Basketball: San Antonio at Golden State

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

CBS
CBS is gearing up for Olympics competition with the premiere of the first-ever celebrity edition of Big Brother. It's a mostly D-list celebrity cast, but Big Brother is always a solid summer performer. It premieres on Wednesday and airs again on Thursday, Friday, and Sunday. Earlier in the week is the season (and most likely series) finale of 9JKL as Living Biblically takes its place after the Olympics.

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

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

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Big Brother: Celebrity Edition (SERIES PREMIERE)
9:00 The Amazing Race

THURSDAY
8:00 Big Brother: Celebrity Edition
9:00 The Big Bang Theory (Repeat)
9:30 Young Sheldon (Repeat)
10:00 S.W.A.T. (Repeat)

FRIDAY
8:00 Big Brother: Celebrity Edition
10:00 Blue Bloods (Repeat)

SATURDAY
8:00 MacGyver (Repeat)
9:00 Hawaii Five-0 (Repeat)
10:00 48 Hours

SUNDAY
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Big Brother: Celebrity Edition
9:00 NCIS: Los Angeles (Repeat)
10:00 Madam Secretary (Repeat)

NBC
NBC is wrapping up the winter run of its shows with season finales of Better Late Than Never and Ellen's Game of Games. Tuesday also sees the first This is Us post-Super Bowl so it will be interesting to see if it gets a bounce. On Thursday, they turn over their programming to NBC Sports and the Olympics for about 2 1/2 weeks. The official Opening Ceremonies are on Friday.

MONDAY
8:00 The Wall
9:00 Better Late Than Never (Season Finale)
10:00 The Best of the US: The 2018 Winter Olympics (Special)

TUESDAY
8:00 Ellen's Game of Games (Season Finale)
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 2018 Winter Olympics

FRIDAY
8:00 2018 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony

SATURDAY
8:00 2018 Winter Olympics

SUNDAY
7:00 2018 Winter Olympics

FOX
FOX is all new for the first four nights before, like all the networks, the Olympics dominate programming. Thursday has the season finale of The Four, which has had a decent run this winter and could be back but it's also dealing with the firing of a judge after sexual misconduct allegations.

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 The Four (Season Finale)

FRIDAY
8:00 Who Shot Biggie & Tupac? (Special - Repeat)

SATURDAY
8:00 Lethal Weapon (Repeat)
9:00 The Resident (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 pretty much new all week except for the 9pm hour on Monday. They do not worry as much about Olympic competition as other networks.

MONDAY
8:00 Supergirl
9:00 Whose Line is it Anyway? (Repeat)
9:30 Whose Line is it Anyway? (Repeat)

TUESDAY
8:00 The Flash
9:00 Black Lightning

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
- FOX has won the bid to take over Thursday Night Football. CBS had it in 2014 and 2015 and then they split it with NBC for 2016 and 2017. The package includes 11 NFL games and will mean FOX has one less night of scripted programming in the fall. It'll be interesting to see what this means for their renewals & cancellations. The deal runs for five years.

- NBC has given a 10 episode series order to The Gilded Age from Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes. The project has been in development a long time and will air sometime in 2019. It is centered on millionaires in NYC's Gilded Age in the 1880s.

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