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NETWORK TV Fall 2024
It's that time of year again! The networks are releasing their fall line ups
Antenna TV has announced their new fall line up ,which includes the addition of 80's sitcom "Family Ties" which will air weeknights at 10pmET, and Weekends 8pmet. They are also adding 60's sitcom "My Mother the Car" , which will air Saturdays at 1PMET , followed by other short-lived 60's sitcom "It's about Time" which will air Saturdays at 2PMET. Leaving the line up (though are most likely being rested) : McHale's Navy , Flipper, The Monkees , Here Comes the Brides, Patty Duke Show,
Other shows change time slots all this begins September 14th.
Here it is..THE FALL SCHEDULE!! Coming to Antenna TV this Fall: Family Ties, My Mother the Car, and It's About... http://t.co/UAaOUZPyw3
This time on Joshuaonline we take a lokback at daytime sitcoms repeats because... (Wait! We got mail!)
Hello authors of Joshuaonline , I was wondering if you could do a lookback of Cartoon Network's Cartoon Cartoon Fridays , that is something I grew up with but I hope maybe you could feature it.
That was an email sent to us by a nice (we hope so) reader who thinks we should look back at Cartoon Cartoon Fridays. So thanks David for the idea. (You can email us too mychiller@inbox.com)
I too remember this program block well , so why not take a look back at it. While most of the the network TV blocks we lookback at for Children's shows was Saturday Morning. Cartoon Network had the freedom of a different time , Friday Night. Nowadays, Friday TV is bleak nobody does anything anymore. (We mean it , besides Disney Channel) The networks do put new programming on Fridays , but in many cases it's either shows they didn't have room for anywhere else or sometimes in Fox's case shows to kill. But that wasn't always the case.
Cartoon Cartoons were what they called their original series programming to difference it from the repeats of shows they were airing.
Cartoon Network carved 4 hours on a Friday night starting at 7PM ET /PT and started on June 11th 1999. Originally the interstitial segments were odd things like fake weather forecasts , It also had live-action humans featured and it looked like a PBS station during drives.
Either that or Cartoon Network has lost it / watch some of the first day bumpers here
I don't remember this style of presention as much I as remember the next (which we will get to in a second) .
Cartoon Cartoon Fridays featured new episodes of CN's originals meaning we started with "Dexter's Laboratory" , "The Powerpuff Girls" , "Edd,Ed, n' Eddy", "Johnny Bravo" , and a few other shows that the network made themselves.
By 2000 the block change to presentation I remember more where a character or 2 from a Cartoon Network show would "host" the block.
Makes sense , plus you get some cool intro and apparently other cartoons in background.
Not every show on the block was created by Cartoon Network ,well if there was a special occasion (like the month of December referenced above) or a new Cartoon Network show made by a corporate partner. If you noticed unlike when I talked about "Disney's One Saturday Morning" for example I talked about their schedule , well technically CCF didn't have that it was 4 hours a mash up of Cartoon Cartoons and it was more an event of TV for a Friday Night.
Every summer from before the block launched to 2002, they had big weekend called Cartoon Cartoon Weekend. For the 1997 and 1998 it ran around Thanksgiving , while 1999-2002 it ran in August. They had a "Big Pick" where viewers could pick which pilot they saw on the air they think should be a new CN show.
In 2000 viewers picked "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy" which then premiered in 2001.
In 2001 "Codename Kids Next Door " won.
This is one of the shows that lost
Though for as well as it did changes were made (dun dun dun) with it renamed in 2003 to "Fridays" and hosted by humans. In May of 2003 , Cartoon Cartoon Fridays bowed out was replaced with Cartoon Cartoon Summer until October when the new format launched. It did keep most of the spirit of the original and the whole point is the cartoons. (Yeah, I guess ....)
That was one of the intros
Fridays was hosted by Tommy Snider and Nzinga Blake, later on replaced by Tara Sands. They were featured between your cartoons with skits , guest stars and more. (Yay more!) It ran 4 hours and then looped through out the evening. (As Adult Swim began take other nights) by it's end it was the only time of the week where Cartoon Network was broadcasting after 11PMET. But as all things in our lookbacks do .. it ended in February of 2007 ,after almost 10 years of Cartoon Cartoon and Fridays. Fridays on Cartoon Network changed hands a few times before they gave up .
We might not get into that...but don't say might.
But yes that's our lookback at what I think is great thing that when networks on cable and broadcast still thought Friday was special. That hey Friday Night could be the night to get new cartoons , not just Saturday Morning (which by 1999 was near death) and that fun TV presentation could make a few hours of shows something special.
Tune in next time when we try and make Wednesday the best night of the week for TV. Thanks David.
Our seventh installment of our fun of (kind of ) celebrating the 65th anniversary of The Peanuts coming out. As you know , our criteria is to not look at holiday specials and thankyou August for not having a Holiday , I guess.
Our special we are lookback at this time is "It's a Mystery , Charlie Brown" (ahh why not It's Murder , Charlie Brown , it's not real but it should have been ). This special came out on CBS in February 1974. Woodstock's nest goes missing one afternoon (probably a Tuesday) and he consults Snoopy to help him.
He looks shocked / Copyrights Peanuts
Snoopy does what Snoopy does and dresses like Sherlock Holmes and they go on a mission to search for the nest. (hence the name of the special) Charlie Brown is the first to be integrated by the duo. They continue searching for clues and questioning (as well as Snoopy can) the others . They discount Pig-pen as a suspect.
Poor Pigpen /Copyright Peanuts
Then they visit Peppermint Patty , who thinks they are playing cops and robbers and she plays the robber . This causes Snoopy and Woodstock to leave . (Never shoot your guests that makes them leave) They then notice footprints at Woodstock's tree (open 24 hours) and followed them to the school. They enter the school from an open window and see the nest labeled as 'Prehistoric Bird's Nest' they grab it and return it. The next day Sally is unhappy, when she finds out her science experiment (can you guess what it was? ) is missing. When she tells Charlie Brown he figures out that she took Woodstock's nest. Charlie Brown doesn't want Sally to fight Snoopy ( because he knows Snoopy would win) and takes them to an objective person. (or Lucy , because they couldn't find one)
Judge Lucy , Weekdays at 5 on Channel 32 /Copyright peanuts Lucy hears the case , Snoopy becomes Woodstock's Lawyer , and eventually finds in case of the bird (Woodstock). Snoopy and Charlie Brown help out a sad Sally (we didn't mean the alliteration) and eventually Snoopy becomes part of her new experiment. The experiment of Pavlov (the nervous system) , to prove if a dog will drool if you ring a bell.
It's a good special , and it's fun to have a Snoopy and Woodstock driven episode for characters who don't talk much, and dialogue added by the characters is fun. Also the scenes of Snoopy's investigation were fun , like Macy not understanding dog talk so she slams the door , and Peppermint Patty wanting to play cops and robbers. Also we love the use of a factual scientific thing.
That's our look at "It's a Mystery Charlie Brown" tune in next time for when Judge Lucy looks after a case about a man not paying his former friend not paying $1000 for watching his cat.
Antenna TV will be celebrating the 45th anniversary of show's beginning. (It premiered on September 25th ,1970) It starts August 15th at 5PMET and will run for 22 and half hours of 45 memorable episodes of the series. "The Partridge Family" ran on ABC from 1970-1974 and had 96 episodes.
As reported by Mediate last week , as part of MSNBC's changes as they go away from liberal talk channel in daytime in to so called hard news , 3 talk shows have been canceled that ran from 3-6pmet. "The Cycle" which was hosted by Abby Huntsman, Krystal Ball , Ari Melber , and Toure' , Now with Alex Wagner , and the Ed Show , hosted by Ed Schultz, have been canceled by the network , their final shows are set for July 31st.
Per TV Newser
MSNBC Changes: “The Cycle,” “Now with Alex Wagner” and “The Ed Show” will air their final shows on Friday.
The 5PMET slot is expected to be taken over by "Meet The Press" host and former MSNBC anchor , Chuck Todd. It is unknown what happens to the 3-5pm ET hours. Toure', Huntsman, Ball ,and Schultz are out at the network , while Melber and Wagner are expected to stay.
Mediate has the full memo from the MSNBC president , Phil Griffin .
Brian Willams is also set to join the network once his suspension is over , it is unknown if he will be getting a slot.
Here's a story of a TV show , called the Brady Bunch , the series began in 1969 and ran until 1974 (Pretty Much Nixon's presidency ) , but that wouldn't stop the Bradys.
That brings us to the spin offs (or revivals or something) , we already talked of one .. "The Brady Kids" that was in our "Animated versions of live-action shows" article and that one ran around the same time as original series. The shows we are talking about ... well didn't.
1. The Brady Bunch Hour
It's 1976 ( yay , bicentennial ,baby!) and it's been about 2 years since the Brady Bunch ended. ABC decided they want them back. Everybody came back , except for Eve Plumb (Jan Jan Jan ) who was replaced by Geri Reischl . Jan went away for one year and came back...different
Instead of it being sitcom or anything it was a variety show. ABC first tired this idea with The Brady Bunch Variety Hour on November 28, 1976 ,the ratings were good enough for ABC and they made it a series with the word variety taken out and it aired between January-May 1977 in various times with 8 episodes. It was produced by Paramount (who also are producers of original Brady Bunch) and Sid and Marty Kroft. The idea came from ABC's head at the time Fred Silverman (the guy who didn't any farm shows on CBS anymore) he wanted to reunite the Brady cast. 4 members came on the popular Donny and Marie Show , that made great ratings so they tried this variety show thing.
Since this is a variety , and most of these things are shows with skits , singing and dancing numbers it's not like a sitcom or drama where the episodes had to have a strong plot line. They had some sort of premise for the show where Mike Brady founds that ABC wanted him and his family for a variety show . (Inside Joke?) He gives up his job and moves the family to a beach house in Southern California. ( San Diego?)
The series ran for 9 episodes and then ended.
2. The Brady Girls get Married (or The Brady Brides)
Ever wonder if Bobby got married ?( he was the best character besides Alice...this is called bias)
Well that had nothing to do with this , in 1981 NBC wanted some Brady fun ( just not on Supertrain) so they had a Brady movie made. Well it was going to be a movie but NBC decided to let it go longer so they broke up the movie to 3 parts airing in 30 minute increments. This was called The Brady Girls get Married. There was more they then stared a new sitcom called The Brady Brides . This is the one time everyone from the original cast (except the dog) was together for something Brady related. We also find out what happened after the original series (the Variety show ,thankfully didn't count) Mike is still an architect , Carol is now a real-estate agent. (He designs them , she sells them) Marcia is a fashion designer ( it's like houses but with clothes) , Jan is also an architect, Greg became a doctor , Peter is in the Air force , (why does no one have an office job or something they hate or something?) . Bobby and Cindy are in College. (Possibly becoming lawyers?) Alice got married to Sam. The Movie was about Jan and Marcia's double wedding. (saves on having to do another movie) The series was about Marcia and Jan living together with their husbands. (because it saves on sets?)
Carol and Mike are not shocked they are sharing a house. /Copyright Paramount
Hello, I am personal fan of The Brady Bunch, I have watched every episode more at least 30 times , though some episodes I feel were not this show best at all. Instead of a normal lookback , I review 4 sidesteps of the Brady Bunch I think fits the category. So yes , this is subjective and this not to attack any episodes you like , plus as I said I am a fan of the show and still watch it alot.
4. "You're Never Too Old" Season 4 episode 21
This episode , I don't hate as much as I wonder if it only exists to see Robert Reed and Florence Henderson wearing make up to look like grandparents. (Marcia ! )
Premise : Carol's Grandmother (played by Florence Henderson ) and Mike's Grandfather (played by Robert Reed) come for a visit and the kids try to get them together because they both are single and they are there. After some work they get eloped in Vegas.
Why I don't like it: What is this episode? Why did the kids want to get their great-grandparents married and married to each other? It really seems as an episode to get Robert Reed and Florence Henderson to dress up like older people and the plot was thrown in for some odd fun.
"Next time , we marry Bobby and Cindy muahhaha" / Copyright Paramount
3."Top Secret" Season 5 Episode 19
Premise ; Oliver (and no it's not because of Oliver) and Bobby think that Sam the butcher is passing information to the Russians So then they capture him in a meat locker. Though it was all an understanding.
We have nothing against Oliver,/ Copyright Paramount
Why I don't like it : Ok , I could see this episode working better if it was Just Oliver, he's 7-years-old so maybe he could get confused like that , but why nearly 12 year-old Bobby ? How come he also gets in this scheme it seems less realistic. (as much as Brady Bunch episode could be)
2. "The Snooperstar" Season 5 Episode 20
Premise : Cindy is snooping in Marcia's Diary , so Marcia creates fake entries about a Hollywood agent wants to make Cindy the next Shirley Temple . (not the drink) Cindy then thinks that Mike's new client is a talent agent. Marica tries to tell her that it was all a fake but Cindy does an act and actually charms Mike's client into the contract.
Mike has odd clients / Copyright Paramount
Why I don't like it : First , Cindy snooping in a Diary seems like an episode you would have in season 1 or 2 when Cindy was 6 or 7 ,not when she's near 12. Even being the next Shirley Temple who started younger than say Cindy would be. It really doesn't fit with her being older. Also if Cindy was meant to learn a lesson , I think she learned in a past episode then why does it end up with a good ending ,where her act helps Mike get a contract. It's like the episode knows the plot was too old for Cindy so much they ran something else with it.
1. "Hair brained Scheme" The Final Episode
Premise : Series Finale , Greg is graduating in a few days , meanwhile Bobby and Cindy decide to get into business. Bobby gets hair tonic to sell ,and Greg buys some and it turns his hair orange.
"Guess it's to late for us to drop out of this episode too"/ Copyright Paramount
Why I don't like it: Mike is not this episode because Robert Reed got in fight with derangement because he didn't like the plot line of the episode. The episode kind of makes no sense as to why Bobby and to an extent , Cindy were doing get-rich quick schemes , as if the plot was only put together to do something goofy (gosh ) to Greg's hair before graduation. It's also sad as a graduation episode because Mike is not there at the time of his first born's biggest moment in life so far.
That's our review of these 4 episodes ,next time when we look at the worst episodes of "My Mother the Car"hmm (nevermind)
The classic 90's TV series "Baywatch" is coming to COZI TV starting August 1st with a 2 day marathon. Then will air weekdays at 6pm/5c , Monday Nights at 10pm/9c , and Tuesdays at 9/8c.
Other Changes include : "Simon and Simon" airing weekdays at 1pm/12c and "Hart to Hart" airing Weekdays at 2pm/1c ,Starting August 17th. These programs replace "Starsky and Hutch" and "Charlie's Angels" . Here's Lucy moves to 5:30/4:30c , replacing the 2nd episode of "Dick Van Dyke" then "Baywatch" comes in at 6/5c. Starting August 3rd.
Prime changes involve : "Baywatch" airing Mondays at 10/9c replacing "It Takes a Thief" , more Hasselhoff on Tuesday Nights with "Knight Righter" will air at 8/7c following two more episodes of "Baywatch". Wednesday Nights "Million Dollar Man" replaces "Bionic Woman" at 10/9c these coinages happen the week of August 3rd.
Thursday Nights Magnum P.I and Simon and Simon will air Thursday Nights from 8/7c this changes happens August 20th.
Starsky and Hutch airs Saturdays 7/6c starting August 15th.
"Charlie's Angels, The Bionic Woman , and It Takes a Theif" leave the channel for awhile .
