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By Rich Heldenfels
Beacon Journal staff writer
POSTED: 06:08 p.m. EDT, May 19, 2009
ABC and NBC have both significantly overhauled their schedules for the fall and winter.
The lineups have Northeast Ohio flavor, with new ABC shows featuring Patricia Heaton and Ed O'Neill; writer-producer Brannon Braga involved with a new ABC drama; Monica Potter in an NBC comedy-drama; and writer-producer-directors Joe and Anthony Russo helming an NBC comedy that co-stars Yvette Nicole Brown.
ABC will add eight new shows, making room by jettisoning the likes of Samantha Who?, Cupid, The Unusuals, Dirty Sexy Money, Eli Stone and According to Jim.
Returning in the fall are Dancing With the Stars, Castle, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, Supernanny, Ugly Betty, 20/20, America's Funniest Home Videos, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters and college football.
The Bachelor, Scrubs, True Beauty, Wife Swap, Lost and Better Off Ted will be back later in the season.
NBC will, as previously announced, fill the 10 p.m. weeknight hour with The Jay Leno Show. But it is still adding four shows to its lineup in the fall and then making more changes in March, after the Winter Olympics.
It has dropped My Name Is Earl and Medium (although there are reports that each will be picked up by another network), as well as Kings, Knight Rider and other shows.
It has brought back Chuck, but for March 2010. A campaign for the show involving Subway sandwiches was such a success that Subway will be a major sponsor for the program, which according to NBC ''will include significant [product] integration into the show, as well as traditional advertising tie-ins.''
A new season of Friday Night Lights will air on NBC in summer 2010, and on DirecTV before then.
A new round of SNL Weekend Update Thursday Edition will fill the 8 p.m. half-hour in the network's comedy block early in the season; new show The Community will be in the 9:30 p.m. half-hour until SNL is done, when it will move to 8 p.m. and 30 Rock returns.
Also back on NBC in the fall are Sunday night NFL games, Heroes, The Biggest Loser, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (although stars Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni are still negotiating their contracts), Parks and Recreation, The Office, Law & Order, Southland and Dateline NBC.
After the Olympics Feb. 12-28, 2010, NBC will bring back Chuck and Celebrity Apprentice.
As for new shows, ABC will start the fall with three new hourlong shows: Eastwick, a reworking of the book/movie The Witches of Eastwick, with Rebecca Romjin and — from the movie! — Veronica Cartwright; Flash Forward, a thriller with Canton's Brannon Braga as executive producer, in which people get a glimpse of their future and then have a chance to change it; and The Forgotten, in which amateur sleuths work on cases involving unidentified crime victims.
ABC has four new comedies forming a two-hour block on Wednesdays: Cougar Town, with Courteney Cox as a single mother; Hank, starring Kelsey Grammer as a businessman suddenly thrown out of work; The Middle, with Bay Village native Patricia Heaton as a wife and mother in Indiana; and Modern Family, about a family (including Youngstown's Ed O'Neill) being shadowed by a documentary maker.
The network will also unveil Shark Tank, a reality show with would-be entrepreneurs trying to get funding from five multimillionaires.
NBC, meanwhile, will start the season with two new hour-long shows: Trauma and Parenthood. The latter is the second attempt to adapt a series from Ron Howard's movie of the same name; the cast includes Peter Krause, Maura Tierney, Craig T. Nelson and Cleveland's Monica Potter.
The drama Trauma focuses on first-responder paramedics and comes from the makers of Friday Night Lights.
The NBC comedy Community, with the Russo brothers, formerly of Cleveland, as executive producers, follows a group of misfits at a community college; the cast includes Chevy Chase and University of Akron graduate Yvette Nicole Brown.
In March, NBC will shelve some series and introduce Day One (about life after a global catastrophe); 100 Questions (a comedy with a woman recalling moments from her life while answering a dating-compatibility test); Mercy (a medical drama focusing on nurses); and The Marriage Ref (a reality show with celebrities discussing who is right in disputes between spouses).
Due at midseason at ABC are The Deep End, a drama about first-year associates at a law firm; V, a new version of the '80s drama about alien ''visitors'' to Earth; and Happy Town, where a crime in a small town starts to expose some old secrets.
Rich Heldenfels writes about popular culture for the Beacon Journal, in the HeldenFiles Online blog at http://heldenfels.ohio.com and now on Twitter. He can be reached at 330-996-3582 and rheldenfels@thebeaconjournal.com.
ABC and NBC have both significantly overhauled their schedules for the fall and winter.
The lineups have Northeast Ohio flavor, with new ABC shows featuring Patricia Heaton and Ed O'Neill; writer-producer Brannon Braga involved with a new ABC drama; Monica Potter in an NBC comedy-drama; and writer-producer-directors Joe and Anthony Russo helming an NBC comedy that co-stars Yvette Nicole Brown.
ABC will add eight new shows, making room by jettisoning the likes of Samantha Who?, Cupid, The Unusuals, Dirty Sexy Money, Eli Stone and According to Jim.
Returning in the fall are Dancing With the Stars, Castle, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, Supernanny, Ugly Betty, 20/20, America's Funniest Home Videos, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters and college football.
The Bachelor, Scrubs, True Beauty, Wife Swap, Lost and Better Off Ted will be back later in the season.
NBC will, as previously announced, fill the 10 p.m. weeknight hour with The Jay Leno Show. But it is still adding four shows to its lineup in the fall and then making more changes in March, after the Winter Olympics.
It has dropped My Name Is Earl and Medium (although there are reports that each will be picked up by another network), as well as Kings, Knight Rider and other shows.
It has brought back Chuck, but for March 2010. A campaign for the show involving Subway sandwiches was such a success that Subway will be a major sponsor for the program, which according to NBC ''will include significant [product] integration into the show, as well as traditional advertising tie-ins.''
A new season of Friday Night Lights will air on NBC in summer 2010, and on DirecTV before then.
A new round of SNL Weekend Update Thursday Edition will fill the 8 p.m. half-hour in the network's comedy block early in the season; new show The Community will be in the 9:30 p.m. half-hour until SNL is done, when it will move to 8 p.m. and 30 Rock returns.
Also back on NBC in the fall are Sunday night NFL games, Heroes, The Biggest Loser, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (although stars Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni are still negotiating their contracts), Parks and Recreation, The Office, Law & Order, Southland and Dateline NBC.
After the Olympics Feb. 12-28, 2010, NBC will bring back Chuck and Celebrity Apprentice.
As for new shows, ABC will start the fall with three new hourlong shows: Eastwick, a reworking of the book/movie The Witches of Eastwick, with Rebecca Romjin and — from the movie! — Veronica Cartwright; Flash Forward, a thriller with Canton's Brannon Braga as executive producer, in which people get a glimpse of their future and then have a chance to change it; and The Forgotten, in which amateur sleuths work on cases involving unidentified crime victims.
ABC has four new comedies forming a two-hour block on Wednesdays: Cougar Town, with Courteney Cox as a single mother; Hank, starring Kelsey Grammer as a businessman suddenly thrown out of work; The Middle, with Bay Village native Patricia Heaton as a wife and mother in Indiana; and Modern Family, about a family (including Youngstown's Ed O'Neill) being shadowed by a documentary maker.
The network will also unveil Shark Tank, a reality show with would-be entrepreneurs trying to get funding from five multimillionaires.
NBC, meanwhile, will start the season with two new hour-long shows: Trauma and Parenthood. The latter is the second attempt to adapt a series from Ron Howard's movie of the same name; the cast includes Peter Krause, Maura Tierney, Craig T. Nelson and Cleveland's Monica Potter.
The drama Trauma focuses on first-responder paramedics and comes from the makers of Friday Night Lights.
The NBC comedy Community, with the Russo brothers, formerly of Cleveland, as executive producers, follows a group of misfits at a community college; the cast includes Chevy Chase and University of Akron graduate Yvette Nicole Brown.
In March, NBC will shelve some series and introduce Day One (about life after a global catastrophe); 100 Questions (a comedy with a woman recalling moments from her life while answering a dating-compatibility test); Mercy (a medical drama focusing on nurses); and The Marriage Ref (a reality show with celebrities discussing who is right in disputes between spouses).
Due at midseason at ABC are The Deep End, a drama about first-year associates at a law firm; V, a new version of the '80s drama about alien ''visitors'' to Earth; and Happy Town, where a crime in a small town starts to expose some old secrets.
Rich Heldenfels writes about popular culture for the Beacon Journal, in the HeldenFiles Online blog at http://heldenfels.ohio.com and now on Twitter. He can be reached at 330-996-3582 and rheldenfels@thebeaconjournal.com.
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