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THE WEEK AHEAD: March 19-25, 2018

Here's a look at Week #26!

ABC
ABC has season finales this week of Fresh Off the Boat and Speechless to make room for comedy premieres next week. Thursday night brings us a two hour premiere of the new Grey's Anatomy firefighter spinoff, Station 19. Grey's continues to be a beast but it will be interesting to see if that translates to the very Grey's spinoff since Private Practice over a decade ago.

 MONDAY
8:00 American Idol
10:00 The Good Doctor

TUESDAY
8:00 The Middle
8:30 Fresh Off the Boat (Season Finale)
9:00 Black-ish
9:30 Modern Family (Repeat)
10:00 For the People

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

THURSDAY
8:00 Grey's Anatomy
9:00 Station 19 (SERIES PREMIERE)

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 Movie: Over the Hedge
10:00 20/20

SUNDAY
7:00 America's Funniest Home Videos
8:00 American Idol
10:00 Deception

 CBS
CBS has a quiet week with repeats on Tuesday and NCAA on the weekend.

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

TUESDAY
8:00 NCIS (Repeat)
9:00 NCIS (Repeat)
10:00 Bull (Repeat)

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

THURSDAY
8:00 NCAA Basketball Tournament

FRIDAY
8:00 NCAA Basketball Tournament

SATURDAY
8:00 Bull (Repeat)
9:00 48 Hours
10:00 48 Hours

SUNDAY
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Instinct
9:00 NCIS: Los Angeles
10:00 Madam Secretary

 NBC
NBC has a pretty normal week. On Thursday night, they are airing two hours of Chicago Fire to compete with the series premiere of fire series rival Station 19 on ABC. It will be interesting to see what happens.

 MONDAY
8:00 The Voice
10:00 Good Girls

TUESDAY
8:00 The Voice
9:00 Rise
10:00 Chicago Med

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Law & Order: SVU (Repeat)
9:00 Law & Order: SVU
10:00 Chicago PD

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

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

SATURDAY
8:00 Dateline NBC
10:00 Saturday Night Live (Repeat)

SUNDAY
7:00 Little Big Shots (Repeat)
8:00 Little Big Shots
9:00 Genius Junior
10:00 Timeless

FOX
FOX has a normal week with the season finales of The X-Files and 9-1-1 on Wednesday night. The new season of X-Files has been very disappointing but 9-1-1 has been a surprise for FOX and should end well.

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 (Season Finale)
9:00 9-1-1 (Season Finale)

THURSDAY
8:00 Gotham
9:00 Showtime at the Apollo

FRIDAY
8:00 Masterchef Junior
9:00 9-1-1 (Repeat)

SATURDAY
8:00 OJ Simpson: The Lost Confession? (Special - Repeat)

SUNDAY
7:00 Bob's Burgers (Repeat)
7:30 Bob's Burgers
8:00 The Simpsons
8:30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
9:00 Family Guy
9:30 The Last Man on Earth

CW
The CW has a mix of new episodes and repeats. Will Dynasty pull another 0.1 demo and will the CW let it stay on the schedule?

 MONDAY
8:00 DC's Legends of Tomorrow
9:00 iZombie

TUESDAY
8:00 The Flash (Repeat)
9:00 Black Lightning

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Riverdale
9:00 Life Sentence

THURSDAY
8:00 Supernatural (Repeat)
9:00 Arrow (Repeat)

FRIDAY
8:00 Dynasty
9:00 Jane the Virgin

TV NEWS & THOUGHTS
- CBS has moved up Code Black's third season premiere by a week. It will now premiere on April 25 at 10pm. Criminal Minds will ends its season a week earlier, on April 18, with a two hour season finale.

- ABC has renewed Dancing with the Stars, The Bachelor, America's Funniest Home Videos, and Child Support for next season. The first three are no surprise while Child Support arguably overperformed on Fridays this winter.

- With its first season not done and a second season already ordered, NBC has gone ahead and ordered a THIRD season of the Will & Grace revival. It will air in 2019-20. This seems awfully early for a show that has slipped a lot this winter.

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