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THE WEEK AHEAD: December 3-9, 2018

Here's a look at Week #11!

ABC

 MONDAY
8:00 The Great Christmas Light Fight
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 The Goldbergs
8:30 American Housewife
9:00 Modern Family
9:30 Single Parents
10:00 A Million Little Things

THURSDAY
8:00 A Charlie Brown Christmas (Special)
9:00 The Great American Baking Show (Season Premiere)

FRIDAY
8:00 Fresh Off the Boat
8:30 Speechless
9:00 The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Holiday Special (Special)
10:00 20/20

SATURDAY
8:00 The Great American Baking Show (Repeat)
10:00 The Alec Baldwin Show

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

 CBS

 MONDAY
8:00 The Neighborhood
8:30 Happy Together
9:00 The Big Bang Theory (Repeat)
9:30 The Big Bang Theory (Repeat)
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
9:00 Mom
9:30 Murphy Brown
10:00 S.W.A.T.

FRIDAY
8:00 MacGyver
9:00 Hawaii Five-0
10:00 Blue Bloods

SATURDAY
8:00 Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (Special)
9:00 Frosty the Snowman (Special)
9:30 Frosty Returns (Special)
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 Deal or No Deal: Happy Howie Days (Special)

TUESDAY
8:00 The Voice
9:00 SNL Christmas (Special)

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 (Hanukkah episode)
10:00 Law & Order: SVU (Repeat)

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: LA Rams at Chicago

FOX

 MONDAY
8:00 The Resident (Repeat)
9:00 9-1-1 (Repeat)

TUESDAY
8:00 The Gifted
9:00 Lethal Weapon (Christmas episode)

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Empire
9:00 Star

THURSDAY
8:00 Thursday Night Football: Jacksonville at Tennessee

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

SATURDAY
8:00 2018 MLS Cup

SUNDAY
7:00 NFL Overrun/The OT
8:00 The Simpsons (Christmas episode)
8:30 Bob's Burgers
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 The Flash
9:00 Charmed

TV NEWS & THOUGHTS
- CBS has announced some of its midseason plans with a big push for unscripted on Wednesday nights. Starting after its post-Super Bowl preview, The World's Best will take over the Wednesday 8pm slot until Survivor returns in late February and World's slides to 9pm (SEAL Team will get bumped to 10pm while Criminal Minds will not get more episodes ordered beyond its 15). When World's ends, the new Million Dollar Mile hosted by Tim Tebow will take the 9pm slot. Finally, the new season of The Amazing Race will premiere on May 22 and take over the Wednesday 8pm slot. CBS also announced a three week run for Big Brother: Celebrity Edition airing multiple nights a week starting Monday, January 21. I like that CBS sees some potential in these new franchises and is giving them an opportunity to succeed instead of making them afterthoughts.

- After announcing unscripted plans on Tuesday, CBS announced comedy plans on Wednesday. New comedy Fam will take over the Murphy Brown slot, Thursdays at 9:30pm starting January 10 while season three of Man with a Plan will replace Happy Together in the Monday 8:30pm slot starting February 4. Neither Murphy or Happy have been officially cancelled, but prospects don't look good for either show. Still TBA is a start date and time for season four of Life in Pieces.

- ABC announced that The Goldbergs spinoff Schooled will take over the Wednesday 8:30pm slot starting January 10. This will bump American Housewife, which will go on a short break and then take over the Tuesday 8pm slot from The Conners starting February 5. The Conners, which was only ever planned for an 11 episode first season, will end on January 22. I understand Schooled following The Goldbergs but launching the Tuesday lineup is a tall order for American Housewife.
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