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THE WEEK AHEAD: April 9-15, 2018

Here's a look at Week #29!

ABC
ABC has its regular lineup all week except for Sunday night where the first interview with James Comey ahead of his book release will air instead of Deception and could draw a decent audience. Roseanne was down for week two but still easily TV's #1 show. It will be interesting to see how things go in week three. It will of course go down some more but probably less of a percentage drop than week one to week two.

MONDAY
8:00 American Idol
10:00 The Crossing

TUESDAY
8:00 Roseanne
8:30 The Middle
9:00 Black-ish
9:30 Splitting Up Together
10:00 For the People

WEDNESDAY
8:00 The Goldbergs
8:30 Alex, Inc.
9:00 Modern Family
9:30 American Housewife
10:00 Designated Survivor

THURSDAY
8:00 Grey's Anatomy
9:00 Station 19
10:00 Scandal

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 The Crossing (Repeat)
9:00 Station 19 (Repeat)
10:00 20/20

SUNDAY
7:00 America's Funniest Home Videos
8:00 American Idol
10:00 A Higher Loyalty: The Comey/Stephanopoulos Interview (Special)

CBS
CBS has its regular lineup except for Tuesday and Sunday. Tuesday has an Elton John Grammy special, which should do OK. Sunday has the Academy of Country Music Awards, which has gotten a lot of promotion and is hosted by Reba McEntire.

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 Elton John: I'm Still Standing - A Grammy Salute (Special)

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 Ransom
9:00 48 Hours
10:00 48 Hours

SUNDAY
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 53rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (Special)

NBC
NBC has its regular lineup all week including Thursday when they are planning to air repeats of Will & Grace in the 9pm slot for the rest of the season. They are giving Chicago Fire terrible lead-ins. They should cancel Champions, move Chicago Fire to 9pm for the rest of the season, and air repeats or Dateline at 10pm. That would be a little kinder to Fire and could hurt ABC's Station 19.

MONDAY
8:00 The Voice
10:00 Good Girls

TUESDAY
8:00 The Voice
9:00 Rise
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 (Repeat)
9:30 Champions
10:00 Chicago Fire

FRIDAY
8:00 Taken
9:00 Dateline NBC

SATURDAY
8:00 NHL Hockey Playoffs

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

FOX
FOX is in repeats on Monday but new the rest of the week including a double pump of Brooklyn Nine-Nine on Sunday. Tuesday night has the season premiere of the final season of New Girl. It has gotten a lot of promotion but it's in a tough slot and so far past its prime, hence it being its final season.

MONDAY
8:00 Lucifer (Repeat)
9:00 The Resident (Repeat)

TUESDAY
8:00 Lethal Weapon
9:00 LA to Vegas
9:30 New Girl (Season Premiere)

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Empire
9:00 Star

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

FRIDAY
8:00 Masterchef Junior

SATURDAY
8:00 UFC Fight Night

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

CW
The CW has some specials and repeats mixed into its regular lineup. Monday has the season finale of DC's Legends of Tomorrow.

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

TUESDAY
8:00 The Flash
9:00 Black Lightning

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Harry Potter: A History of Magic (Special)
9:30 Masters of Illusion (Repeat)

THURSDAY
8:00 Supernatural
9:00 Arrow

FRIDAY
8:00 Penn & Teller: April Fool Us Day (Repeat - Special)
9:00 Jane the Virgin

TV NEWS & THOUGHTS
- The CW has renewed 11 series for next year. This includes no brainers like The Flash, Arrow, Supernatural (for its 14th season!), Supergirl, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Riverdale, and the new Black Lightning. It also includes critically acclaimed but low rated Jane the Virgin and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. It will be Crazy's final season and could be Jane's as well. The biggest surprise renewal happened for Dynasty, but this is clearly a decision based on factors other than ratings since it got a 0.1 demo already this year. No decision has been made yet on Valor, Life Sentence, iZombie, or the yet to premiere The 100 though it seems like Valor and Life Sentence are as good as dead.

- NBC has decided that the upcoming Season 3 will be the last for Shades of Blue. The Jennifer Lopez cop drama will have its final season premiere on June 17 at 10pm.

- The CW has picked up the Canadian Kristen Kreuk drama Burden of Truth for a run this summer.

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