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THE WEEK AHEAD: November 12-18, 2018

Here's a look at Week #8!

ABC

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

TUESDAY
8:00 The Conners
8:30 The Kids Are Alright
9:00 Black-ish
9:30 Splitting Up Together
10:00 The Rookie

WEDNESDAY
8:00 52nd Annual CMA Awards (Special)

THURSDAY
8:00 Grey's Anatomy
9:00 Station 19 (Thanksgiving episode)
10:00 How to Get Away with Murder

FRIDAY
8:00 Fresh Off the Boat
8:30 Speechless (Thanksgiving episode)
9:00 Child Support
10:00 20/20

SATURDAY
8:00 College Football

SUNDAY
7:00 America's Funniest Home Videos
8:00 Dancing with the Stars Juniors
9:00 Shark Tank
10:00 Shark Tank (Repeat)

 CBS

 MONDAY
8:00 The Neighborhood
8:30 Happy Together
9:00 Magnum P.I.
10:00 Bull

TUESDAY
8:00 NCIS
9:00 FBI
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 (Thanksgiving episode)
9:00 Mom
9:30 Murphy Brown
10:00 S.W.A.T.

FRIDAY
8:00 MacGyver
9:00 Hawaii Five-0 (Thanksgiving episode)
10:00 Blue Bloods

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

SUNDAY
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 God Friended Me
9:00 NCIS: Los Angeles
10:00 Madam Secretary

 NBC

 MONDAY
8:00 The Voice
10:00 Manifest

TUESDAY
8:00 The Voice
9:00 This is Us
10:00 New Amsterdam

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Chicago Med
9:00 Chicago Fire
10:00 Chicago PD

THURSDAY
8:00 Superstore
8:30 The Good Place
9:00 Will & Grace
9:30 I Feel Bad
10:00 Law & Order: SVU

FRIDAY
8:00 Blindspot
9:00 Midnight, Texas
10:00 Dateline NBC

SATURDAY
8:00 Dateline NBC
9:00 Dateline NBC
10:00 Saturday Night Live (Repeat)

SUNDAY
7:00 Football Night in America
8:30 Sunday Night Football: Minnesota at Chicago

 FOX

 MONDAY
8:00 The Resident
9:00 9-1-1

TUESDAY
8:00 The Gifted
9:00 Lethal Weapon

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Empire
9:00 Star

THURSDAY
8:00 Thursday Night Football: Green Bay at Seattle

FRIDAY
8:00 Last Man Standing
8:30 The Cool Kids (Thanksgiving episode)
9:00 Hell's Kitchen

SATURDAY
8:00 College Football

SUNDAY
7:00 NFL Overrun/The OT
8:00 The Simpsons
8:30 Bob's Burgers (Thanksgiving episode)
9:00 Family Guy
9:30 Rel

 CW

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

TUESDAY
8:00 The Flash
9:00 Black Lightning

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Riverdale
9:00 All American

THURSDAY
8:00 Supernatural
9:00 Legacies

FRIDAY
8:00 Dynasty
9:00 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

SUNDAY
8:00 Supergirl (Thanksgiving episode)
9:00 Charmed

TV NEWS & THOUGHTS
- ABC has handed a full season order to The Rookie. The Tuesday cop drama has done okay in its difficult slot. It has basically performed similarly to other ABC 10pm dramas A Million Little Things and How to Get Away with Murder.

- ABC also handed full season orders to Tuesday comedies The Kids Are Alright and Splitting Up Together. It will be a full 22 episode season for Kids, but 18 episodes for Splitting. Still, this is a vote of confidence for the Tuesday lineup as a whole and ABC didn't have much comedy on the bench. It seems likely that Schooled will replace The Conners as everything else has a full season now on Tuesday and Wednesday.

- NBC announced plans for Thursdays at midseason. FOX transplant Brooklyn Nine-Nine will premiere on January 10 and take over the Thursdays 9PM timeslot following The Titan Games, which will now air on Thursdays instead of Wednesdays (presumably to keep #OneChicago in tact all season). The Good Place will follow at 9:30pm for three weeks and then Will & Grace will take over the 9:30pm slot starting January 31. Superstore will go on hiatus and return in March (not confirmed but likely with the new Abby's). Meanwhile, freshman comedy I Feel Bad will not get a back order. It's not officially cancelled, but that's obviously pretty close to a final nail in the coffin.

- Continuing NBC midseason plans, The Blacklist will have its season premiere on Friday, January 4 at 8pm with a two hour episode. It will settle into its 9pm timeslot the next week.

- ABC has yanked The Alec Baldwin Show off of Sunday nights and will burn off episodes on Saturdays starting in December. This is essentially the first cancellation of the season and Baldwin's recent arrest didn't help matters. Repeats of Shark Tank will take over the 10pm slot.

- The CW handed extended episode orders to all three freshmen dramas. Charmed will get a full season of 22 episodes while All American and Legacies have gained three additional episodes each. All three dramas have had positive and negative ratings moments.

- In an unsurprising move, NBC announced the cancellation of the low-rated summer drama Reverie.

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