Monday, March 18, 2019

THE WEEK AHEAD: March 18-24, 2019

Here's a look at Week #26!

ABC
ABC has a series premiere on Monday night with The Fix, which will follow a two hour Monday edition of American Idol. Idol hasn't really done much this season and I don't think The Fix will be able to do much given that The Crossing opened low last year and Idol is diminished. The rest of the week is new for ABC with the exception of America's Funniest Home Videos on Sunday night.

MONDAY
8:00 American Idol
10:00 The Fix (SERIES PREMIERE)

TUESDAY
8:00 American Housewife
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 Schooled
9:00 Modern Family
9:30 Single Parents
10:00 Whiskey Cavalier

THURSDAY
8:00 Grey's Anatomy
9:00 Station 19
10:00 For the People

FRIDAY
8:00 Fresh Off the Boat
8:30 Speechless
9:00 20/20

SATURDAY
8:00 American Idol (Repeat)
10:00 20/20

SUNDAY
7:00 America's Funniest Home Videos (Repeat)
8:00 American Idol
10:00 Shark Tank

CBS
CBS has a weird week with repeats peppering the first couple nights and then the NCAA Basketball Tournament taking over the network for most of the rest of the week. Although the NCAA Tournament overall does well, the availability of other games on other networks has diminished the CBS strength.

MONDAY
8:00 The Big Bang Theory (Repeat)
8:30 Man with a Plan
9:00 The Big Bang Theory (Repeat)
9:30 The Neighborhood (Repeat)
10:00 Bull

TUESDAY
8:00 NCIS (Repeat)
9:00 FBI (Repeat)
10:00 NCIS: New Orleans (Repeat)

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Survivor
10:00 SEAL Team

THURSDAY
8:00 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament

FRIDAY
8:00 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament

SATURDAY
8:00 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament

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

NBC
NBC has a series premiere on Tuesday night with The Village, a show that is definitely trying to appeal to the This is Us audience. That didn't work for Rise last year and I'm pretty skeptical The Village will be able to with little buzz. Breaking a 1.0 premiere would frankly surprise me. #OneChicago is off again this week, this time replaced by a special of The Voice and a Michael Buble special.

MONDAY
8:00 The Voice
10:00 The Enemy Within

TUESDAY
8:00 Ellen's Game of Games
9:00 This is Us
10:00 The Village (SERIES PREMIERE)

WEDNESDAY
8:00 The Voice: Best of the Blinds (Special)
10:00 Buble! (Special)

THURSDAY
8:00 Superstore
8:30 A.P. Bio
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 World Figure Skating Championships
10:00 Saturday Night Live (Repeat)

SUNDAY
7:00 Ellen's Game of Games (Repeat)
8:00 World of Dance
10:00 Good Girls

FOX
FOX also has a series premiere this week with the reality competition Mental Samurai on Tuesday night. It's not going to be the next The Masked Singer, but it could be an improvement on The Gifted. FOX also has 9-1-1 coming back after last being seen in early December. It was one of FOX's top shows before the hiatus, it will be interesting to see how it returns.

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

TUESDAY
8:00 Masterchef Junior
9:00 Mental Samurai (SERIES PREMIERE)

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Empire
9:00 Star

THURSDAY
8:00 Gotham
9:00 The Orville

FRIDAY
8:00 Last Man Standing
8:30 The Cool Kids
9:00 Proven Innocent

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

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 is all new all week for the first time in quite awhile. This includes season finales of Black Lightning, which has been renewed for next season, and All American, which has not.

MONDAY
8:00 Arrow
9:00 Black Lightning (Season Finale)

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

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Riverdale
9:00 All American (Season Finale)

THURSDAY
8:00 Supernatural
9:00 Legacies

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

SUNDAY
8:00 Supergirl
9:00 Charmed

TV NEWS & THOUGHTS
- NBC has renewed The Blacklist for a seventh season. Despite very sleepy ratings in its new Friday timeslot this season, it continues to be a decent delayed viewing player and is starting to be considered somewhat of a legacy show for NBC that was once the biggest new drama to hit the network in years.

- CBS announced its finale dates and notably, the one hour series finale of The Big Bang Theory will air on May 16, an end of an era for CBS.

- ABC has announced two more "retro" game shows to join its stable of shows like Match Game and The $100,000 Pyramid. It will now include revivals of Press Your Luck and Card Sharks, both popular in the 1980s. No word yet on an air date but this summer seems likely.

- NBC has ordered 10 episodes of That's My Jam, a music/dance show inspired by bits on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. There is no host attached yet or time frame for airing.

- ABC announced The Bachelorette will premiere a week earlier than usual this year, starting May 13 at 8pm.

- NBC will premiere two reality shows this summer after America's Got Talent. First up is Songland, premiering May 28 followed by Bring the Funny starting July 9.

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