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THE WEEK AHEAD: February 11-17, 2018

Here's a look at Week #21!

ABC
ABC has a mostly new week with some Valentine's Day episodes sprinkled in. The Tuesday lineup could be rough and it's unlikely anything will sniff a 1.0 demo. An airing of Star Wars: The Force Awakens replaces the Sunday lineup.

MONDAY
8:00 The Bachelor
10:00 The Good Doctor (Repeat)

TUESDAY
8:00 American Housewife
8:30 The Kids Are Alright (Valentine's Day episode)
9:00 Black-ish
9:30 Splitting Up Together (Valentine's Day episode)
10:00 The Rookie (Valentine's Day episode)

WEDNESDAY
8:00 The Goldbergs (Valentine's Day episode)
8:30 Schooled
9:00 Modern Family (Repeat)
9:30 Single Parents (Valentine's Day episode)
10:00 Match Game

THURSDAY
8:00 Grey's Anatomy
9:00 A Million Little Things
10:00 How to Get Away with Murder

FRIDAY
8:00 Fresh Off the Boat (Valentine's Day episode)
8:30 Speechless (Valentine's Day episode)
9:00 20/20

SATURDAY
8:00 America's Funniest Home Videos (Repeat)
9:00 America's Funniest Home Videos (Repeat)
10:00 20/20

SUNDAY
7:00 America's Funniest Home Videos
8:00 Movie: Star Wars - The Force Awakens

CBS
CBS has the season finale of Big Brother: Celebrity Edition on Wednesday night. It has been a solid performer this winter. It follows week two of The World's Best, which had a very disappointing start in its first airing after its Super Bowl preview.

MONDAY
8:00 The Neighborhood
8:30 Man With a Plan
9:00 Big Brother: Celebrity Edition
10:00 Bull

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

WEDNESDAY
8:00 The World's Best
9:00 Big Brother: Celebrity Edition (Season Finale)

THURSDAY
8:00 The Big Bang Theory (Repeat)
8:30 Young Sheldon (Repeat)
9:00 Mom (Valentine's Day episode)
9:30 Fam
10:00 S.W.A.T.

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

SATURDAY
8:00 Ransom (Season Premiere)
9:00 NCIS (Repeat)
10:00 48 Hours

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

NBC
NBC has an all new week capped by an Elvis tribute on Sunday night that has a lot of big names and could do decently on what seems like the only Sunday without a major event in January and February.

MONDAY
8:00 America's Got Talent: The Champions
10:00 Manifest

TUESDAY
8:00 Ellen's Game of Games
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 The Titan Games
9:00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
9:30 Will & Grace
10:00 Law & Order: SVU

FRIDAY
8:00 Blindspot
9:00 The Blacklist
10:00 Dateline NBC

SATURDAY
8:00 America's Got Talent: The Champions
10:00 Saturday Night Live (Repeat)

SUNDAY
7:00 Movie: How to Train Your Dragon
9:00 Elvis All-Star Tribute (Special)

FOX
FOX has the first series premiere in about a month on Friday night with Proven Innocent. It will have an hour of Last Man Standing as a lead-in but this is a sleepy timeslot for a show with no buzz. I think anything higher than a 0.7 or 0.8 demo would be very surprising.

MONDAY
8:00 The Resident (Valentine's Day episode)
9:00 The Passage

TUESDAY
8:00 Lethal Weapon
9:00 The Gifted

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back
9:00 The Masked Singer

THURSDAY
8:00 Gotham
9:00 The Orville

FRIDAY
8:00 Last Man Standing
8:30 Last Man Standing
9:00 Proven Innocent (SERIES PREMIERE)

SATURDAY
8:00 Boxing

SUNDAY
7:00 The Simpsons (Repeat)
7:30 Bob's Burgers (Repeat)
8:00 The Simpsons
8:30 Bob's Burgers
9:00 Family Guy
9:30 Family Guy (Repeat)

CW
The CW has a mix of new episodes, repeats, and specials this week.

MONDAY
8:00 Arrow
9:00 Black Lightning

TUESDAY
8:00 The Flash
9:00 Roswell, New Mexico

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Riverdale (Repeat)
9:00 All American (Repeat)

THURSDAY
8:00 The Top 14 Greatest Valentine's Day Movies of All Time (Special)
9:00 Legacies (Repeat)

FRIDAY
8:00 Whose Line is it Anyway? (Repeat)
8:30 Whose Line is it Anyway? (Repeat)
9:00 Penn & Teller: Fool Us (Repeat)

SUNDAY
8:00 Supergirl
9:00 Charmed

TV NEWS & THOUGHTS
- NBC has renewed New Amsterdam for a second season. The medical drama has been a solid performer behind This is Us. It did especially well early on, but is still holding on decently for a 10pm drama. It will take several weeks off in March for the first few weeks of The Village.

- CBS has renewed Mom for two more seasons. The hit CBS comedy had some negotiations to get through with series stars Anna Faris and Allison Janney and that resulted in a two season renewal, something that seems increasingly important with The Big Bang Theory ending.

- ABC renewed Modern Family for an 11th and final season. The multi-year Emmy winner that helped turn around ABC's comedy fortunes will get a proper sendoff with an announced final season. Also joining the renewal list for ABC is A Million Little Things for season two and The Good Doctor for season three. There was also clarification that Dancing with the Stars will be back in the fall after not airing this spring.

- NBC has moved the series premiere of The Village back a week to March 19 at 10pm. It will follow This is Us for three weeks and then take over the This is Us timeslot on April 2.

- FOX has renewed The Simpsons for two more seasons, which will take it through an amazing 32 seasons and 713 episodes. The iconic animated series has been speculated about as FOX transitions to New FOX but it is the legacy of all legacy shows and seems likely to stay as long as FOX is still airing in some form of a traditional broadcast network.

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