Fall TV 2021: The CW

The CW TvLookFall2021  Upfronts 

     The CW has released their fall schedule. A big thing to note is that this year they are expanding  into Saturday Night, in exchange the are giving that hour of daytime (a relic from the old KIDS WB days) to their affiliates.  It's predecessor networks the WB (whom the original schedule of the network was based from)  and UPN left Saturday nights to it's affiliates. This is curious since Saturday is usually a "dead" night on network TV.  

       The network is making moves for it's shows as well.  "Riverdale" is moving from it's long time Wednesday night slot.  Sunday will not have scripted shows instead they 'll have"Legends of hte Hidden Temple" (yes you read that right)  and "Killer Camp".    The fall line is filled mostly with familiarity.  There will only be one new scripted series that's a remake of "4400".  

      In midseason,  "All American: Homecoming"  and "Naomi" are the new series making their premieres.   Midseason will also have the returns of "Charmed" , "DC's Stargirl" , "Dynasty" , "In the Dark" , "Kung Fu" , "Roswell, New Mexico" , "Superman and Lois".  

Here's the schedule; all times ET/PT, new series highlighted in blue

Sunday 

8PM  Legends of The Hidden Temple 

9PM  Killer Camp 

Monday 

8pm All American 

9pm  4400 

Tuesday

8pm The Flash 

9pm  Riverdale 

Wednesday 

8pm  DC's Legends of Tomorrow

9pm Batwoman 

Thursday

8pm  Walker

9pm  Legacies 

Friday

8pm  Penn& Teller: Fool US

9pm Nancy Drew

Saturday

8pm  Whose Line Is It Anyway?

8:30pm  Whose Line Is It Anyway?

9pm  World's Funniest Animals 

9:30pm  World's Funniest Animals 

Press release after the jump

FALL TV 2021: CBS

CBS TVLookFall2021  Upfronts 

                        

    

  CBS has released their  fall lin eup.  For the first time in  its run "NCIS" is changing nights and times it will no longer air Tuesday Nights at 8pmet; it's moving to Monday nights at 9pmet.  Like NBC has done with Wednesday and Thursday night : giving them over to Dick Wolf series, CBS is giving the Dick Wolf series "FBI" Tuesday night. This is with the spin-off "FBI: Most Wanted" and in the middle a new series "FBI: International".     Monday will still have comedies in the first hour and they are adding a new "NCIS" spin-off "NCIS: Hawai'i".    

         The program that held that Monday 10pmet slot, "Bull" is moving to Thursday Nights at 10pmet.   Wednesdays will have a two hour of reality programming night with "Survivor" and "Tough as Nails"  and for the first time in a few years: a new CSI series, "CSI: Vegas".  Meanwhile. "S.W.A.T" will air Fridays at 8pmet for while, but will eventually be replaced with a reality show in the slot and moved to Sundays 10pmet.  "SEAL Team" is going to run a few episodes on CBS Sundays at 10pmet before being moved to Paramount Plus. "NCIS" Los Angeles is on Sundays at 9pmet now. 

    Thursdays will still have comedies for two hours, including new comedy "Ghosts" taking the former "Mom" slot at  9pmet. 

 

   Midseason has a new drama "Good Sam" planned, comedy  : "Smallwood"  and new reality show "Come Dance with Me"

      Some special programming includes: The Activist and two Christmas movies "A Christmas Proposal"  and "Christmas Takes Flight" 

   Here's the full schedule;  all times ET; new series highlighted in blue 

Monday 

8pm  The Neighborhood

8:30pm  Bob ♥ Abishola

9pm   NCIS    (new night and time) 

10pm  NCIS: Hawai'I 

Tuesday 

8pm  FBI 

9pm   FBI: International 

10pm  FBI: Most Wanted 

Wednesday

8pm  Survivor 

9pm  Tough As Nails

10pm CSI: Vegas 

Thursday 

8pm  Young Sheldon 

8:30pm United States of AL

9pm  Ghosts 

9:30pm B Positive 

10pm  Bull (new night) 

Fridays 

8pm  S.W.A.T/ Unscripted 

9pm  Magnum P.I

10pm Blue Bloods 

Saturdays

8pm Saturday Encores 

9pm  Saturday Encores 

10pm  48 Hours 

Sundays 

7pm 60 Minutes 

8pm  The Equalizer

9pm  NCIS : Los Angeles 

10pm  SEAL Team/ S.W.A.T 

Press Release after the jump 

Fall TV 2021: ABC

ABC  TVLookFall2021  Upfronts 

        

    ABC has released its  Fall line up.    This season, hit drama "Big Sky" moves to ABC' big Thursday drama night following  "Grey's Anatomy" and "Station 19" taking the slot of the recently canceled "Rebel".  Meanwhile, ABC seemed to like the idea of moving "The Bachelorette" after they delayed it to fill in gaps for pandemic line up, it will be back in fall this year. Tuesday 8pmet. 

  

      The remake of "The Wonder Years" has been given a slot next to "The Goldbergs"giving ABC an '80's themed hour on Wednesday nights.  "Home Economics" ,which is coming back for a 2nd season, is moving a tick down to 9:30pmet after  "The Connors" . "Black-ish" won't be back until mid-season to air the final season. Newest drama "Queens" will air after "The Bachelorette" on Tuesdays.   "Celebrity Wheel of Fortune" will be back now on Sundays before" Supermarket Sweep" and drama "The Rookie" finishing out Sunday. 

      During Midseason,  a new season of "American Idol"  , a new limited event series "Women of the Movement" , new comedies : "Abbott Elementary" and "Maggie". 

   Here's the  line up all times ET; new shows highlighted in blue 

Monday

8pm  Dancing with the Stars

10pm  The Good Doctor 

Tuesday 

8pm  The Bachelorette 

10pm Queens 

Wednesday 

8pm The Goldbergs 

8:30pm  The Wonder Years

9pm  The Conners 

9:30pm Home Economics (new time) 

10pm  A Million Little Things

Thursday 

8pm Station 19 

9pm  Grey's Anatomy 

10pm  Big Sky

Friday 

8pm Shark Tank 

9pm  20/20 (Two hours) 

Saturday 

8pm Saturday Night Football 

Sunday

7pm America's Funniest Home Videos

8pm  Celebrity Wheel of  Fortune 

9pm  Supermarket Sweep 

10pm The Rookie 

Press release after the jump 

FALL TV 2021: FOX

FOX  TVLookFall2021 Upfronts 

   

       FOX has released its fall  line up.    This season will be their last with "Thursday Night Football" taking up that said night.  WWE "Smackdown" continues on Friday nights.  There are two new dramas on the line up with "The  Big Leap" and "Our Kind of People"  no live-action comedies are in the line up due again to space. "Animation Domination" continues on Sundays with shows that will be sticking around for a while.  "The Great North" has been renewed for a third season meaning it'll be around for the 2022-23 season, 2nd season starts this year. Wednesday continues to be a reality night with "The Masked Singer" and new  series "Alter Ego"  

     In midseason, they'll have comedies joining the line up along with "9-1-1" spinoff series "9-1-1 Lone Star" .   New Comedies included are "Welcome to Flatch" and "Pivoting"   New dramas for mid season are "The Cleaning Lady" and "Monarch"  and a new reality series with Gordon Ramsey "Next Level Chef" ,  "Don't Forget the Lyrics" and "Domino Masters" round out their reality series additions. 

Here's their fall line up; all times ET , new shows highlighted in blue 

 Monday

8pm  9-1-1

9pm  The Big Leap

Tuesday 

8pm  The Resident 

9pm  Our Kind of People 

Wednesday 

8pm The Masked Singer 

9pm  Alter Ego 

Thursdays, beginning October 7

8pm/5pt   Thursday Night Football 

Friday 

8-10pm   WWE's  Friday Night Smackdown 

Saturday

7-10:30p  FOX Sports Saturday

Sunday 

7-7:30pm NFL on Fox

7:30pm  The OT/ Encores

8pm  The Simpsons 

8:30pm The Great North 

9pm  Bob's Burgers 

9:30pm  Family Guy 

Full Press Release after the Jump 

Fall TV 2021: NBC

NBC TVLookFall2021  Upfronts 

     

        NBC has announced their fall line up 

      

          Of note, NBC is making Thursday Night a "Law and Order" Night with the return of SVU and Organized Crime , a new series "Law and Order : For the Defense" . This matches their other Dick Wolf franchise "Chicago" series night they have on Wednesdays. Meanwhile, you'll notice that "This is US" is not on the fall line up, the series will return in midseason for  its final season.  NBC's fall line up has 3 new dramas and you will notice there's no comedy series.

NBC is planning to use the Olympics to launch the final season of "Brooklyn-Nine Nine" and won't be part of the traditional season. 

As stated above, while NBC won't have comedy in the fall, that doesn't mean they abandoned it. 

        Here's the schedule new series highlighted in blue  (all Times ET)

Monday 

8-10pm The Voice 

10-11pm  Ordinary Joe 

Tuesday 

8-9pm The Voice

9-10pm  La Brea 

10-11pm  New Amsterdam 

Wednesday

 8-9pm Chicago Med

9-10pm  Chicago Fire 

10-11pm  Chicago P.D 

Thursday

8-9pm  Law & Order : For the Defense 

9-10pm   Law & Order SVU

10-11pm  Law & Order: Organized Crime 

Friday 

8-9pm The Blacklist 

9-11pm Dateline NBC 

Saturday 

8-9pm  Drama Encores 

9-10pm Dateline Weekend Mystery

10-11pm SNL Vintage 

Sunday 

7-8:20pm Football Night in America 

8:20-11p  NBC Sunday Night Football 

   During the holiday period, NBC will continue their tradition of live TV musicals with "Annie Live!" They also have two new animated specials planned "Trolls Holidays in Harmony" and "Jimmy Fallon's Five More Sleeps 'Til Christmas" . Of course "Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade" , "The National Dog Show" , "Christmas in Rockefeller Center" .  Christmas episodes of their comedies "Kenan", "Young Rock" and, "Mr. Mayor". 

      In the mid season, new comedies:  "American Auto" and "Grand Crew" , new True Crime show, "The Thing about Pam". The final season of "This is US"  Also "American Song Contest," a US version of Eurovision.   Also AGT : Extreme, "The Wheel" (from the UK)  ,"That's My Jam" and "LA Fire and Rescue" 

      

          

Press Release after the Jump 

           

Peanuts Film Festival : Bon Voyage. Charlie Brown (And Don't come back!!)

Peanuts 

       This time we are looking at the last Peanuts movie made when Charles Schulz was alive, and until 2015 was the last Peanuts theatrical movie.  "Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back!!)"  (Which I 'm just going to call Bon Voyage)  came out in May of 1980.  This movie is a light Peanuts favorite of mine, probably because it was on rerunning on TV so much.  In our blogging order, this is the final Peanuts film we are looking at, this has been fun doing the Peanuts Film Festival theme of posts.  Let's get going. 

     The movie starts with a girl looking at  bag with the name S. Brown on it and writing a letter to some one named Charles. ( I wonder who that is) Meanwhile, in Charlie Brown land (what?)  at school Linus is talking to the class as if he was the teacher because that's how that works, and there are two new students named Babette and Jacques, who are exchange students.  In exchange, Charlie Brown and Linus have been chosen to go to France. 

I kind of want to see what these  French kids had to do for two weeks/ Copyright Paramount

       Charlie Brown then gets a letter, it's from the girl in the credits, in French, which is convenient  that he got a letter from France when he's going to France.  Peppermint Patty and Marcie are going to France too. (Which makes that Peppermint Patty being in Charlie Brown's class image earlier confusing since they go to different schools)   Lucy yells the title of the movie and we'll never see her again. This movie is literally 76 minutes long, which is shorter than a Hallmark Channel TV movie without ads. 

     And most of this movie that says our characters will be in France, barely gets to the France. There's an airplane ride scene where Snoopy does stuff on a plane (back when riding planes were fun) and the other characters do stuff.  They also have a meta moment of the movie being watched on the plane being a Paramount movie, which this movie is. Also Marcie knows French, which is convenient too!   She can read the letter, and the girl wants to meet Charlie Brown and welcome to stay at her home.  Which is called  , Château du Mal Voisin (House of the Bad Neighbor).  (Which means State Farm isn't there)    The girl's name is  Violette Honfleur.  

uhh Copyright Paramount / Paramount 

     This is movie is a movie that has time for stuff, which you can maybe forgive because it's Peanuts and you are here to see Peanuts, but if you wanted the plot to kick off, it's a long ride.  Linus knows Scottish geography  and they  are going to London. Yes, London. Which is not in France. (wow )  This movie feels like it's structured like the comic strip, where events happen with an arc through taking it's time to set it up then get to the meat. Some part of me wonders if this was an idea for a special but was given a theater run instead.  I don't want to be too hard on it, it's just something to note.

My life has been enriched , I'm Charlie Brown/ Copyright Paramount 

more after the jump 

      

But First These Messages: Like a Rock

Commercials 

    I haven't done a "But First These Messages" segment in sometime, so this is time. A special edition this is a look (but not a over detailed ) look at the famous "Like a Rock" Chevy campaign. This campaign ran from 1991-2003, using the Bob Segar also called "Like a Rock" This was used to promote Chevy trucks because the trucks are built "like a rock" get it?

Short Lived Series: Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1996)

The Lookback  

           Finally back to one of our favorite topics, random obscure shows that didn't last long.  This time, we are looking at "Mr. & Mrs. Smith"  from 1996.  That's right there's a series called "Mr. & Mrs. Smith"  that first aired on CBS on September 20, 1996 and ran for the long time of just over a month.  It has 13 episodes.    I don't think this series is based off the 1941 movie "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" about a married  couple who find out that their marriage is not valid and comedy ensues.  I also don't think it's based off the  2005 film with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, that would be hard to do. 

       This series is about two spies, Mr. Smith only known as Mr. Smith is played by Scott Bakula. (Meaning this is where Sam Quantum Leaped) . and Mrs. Smith is played by Maria Bello.  So now, you may be wondering what this series about?