Fox’s animated comedies are shelf stable for the time being.Įven most of the new fare colors comfortably inside the lines. ABC will keep “America’s Funniest Home Videos” alive until the sun eats the earth.
NBC is spreading out the reruns of the “Law & Order” and “Chicago” franchises, its reliance on the Dick Wolf universe a core programming strategy for much of the past three decades. Even though the CW is largely ceding any claim to original programming, opting instead to fill out its fall schedule with an array of existing foreign shows, it is still airing new episodes of its version of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?,” which begins its 12th season in November. ABC was always going to air another season of “Dancing With the Stars” (this will be its 32nd) NBC was always going to air “The Voice” (Season 24) CBS was always going to air “Survivor” (45) and “The Amazing Race” (35) and Fox has slotted “Hell’s Kitchen” (22) in its fall line-up plenty of times.
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This is hardly the first fall to be full of reality shows.
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Think not of HBO as a refined tastemaker in a separate TV universe from home-makeover shows and insects pulled from people’s bodies - imagine instead an array of treasures and garbage and the “Friends” catalog all piled up under one meaningless heading: Max.) (This shift isn’t limited to networks, of course. CBS? Oh, you mean the broadcast home of the Paramount Global empire, where you can also watch repeats of Paramount shows like “FBI True” and “Yellowstone?” It is little wonder ABC is happy to offer up singing contests and celebs spinning the Wheel when Disney, its owner, would like you to subscribe to Hulu and Disney+ for scripted family and prestige shows along with franchise fare like the Marvel and “Star Wars” series. What are we to assume about the studios’ feelings toward the people who make television when their offerings suggest apathy regarding the people who watch it? Or perhaps these lackluster lineups are the product of corporate strategy, now that seemingly all of TV has been consolidated within a few media megaliths that are transforming how shows get made and creators get paid. Overall, their lineups are eerily steady, more like an extended summer season of familiar titles and reruns than an uncharacteristically barren fall slate. However, aside from “Buddy Games,” essentially summer camp competitions for groups of adult friends, none of the shows in the previous paragraph are new - the networks have been churning out unscripted prime-time shows by the bushel for years. The streaming archives beckon.Īt first glance the fall network schedules suggest the work stoppages have had an impact: They are overstuffed with reality competitions and game shows, whose employees generally work under different contracts from those of the Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA.ĪBC’s Wednesday prime-time lineup consists of “Celebrity Jeopardy!” followed by “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune” followed by “The $100,000 Pyramid.” On Thursdays CBS added a new competition called “Buddy Games” to go along with the long-running “Big Brother” and another installment of “The Challenge: USA.” On Fox, celebrities endure military training on Mondays (“Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test”), guess songs on Tuesdays (“Celebrity Name That Tune”) and croon in ridiculous outfits on Wednesdays (“The Masked Singer”). Cable outlets have been bumping the release dates of in-the-can shows, lest they wither without promotion by their stars, an activity prohibited by the actors’ guild during the strike. The networks have been slow to commit to their schedules, still rejiggering their lineups for September and beyond. Fall TV this year rolls in amid the fog of the writers’ and actors’ strikes.
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