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UPFRONTS 2013: TV Spinoffs’ Almost Perfect Year 
ABC’s hourlong procedural Body of Proof starring Dana Delany will succeed Detroit 1-8-7 in the Tuesday 10 PM slot. In preparation for the move, the network last month gave the modestly rated freshman cop drama Detroit 1-8-7 a short, 5-episode back order. Body of Proof will premiere on March 29, following Detroit‘s 18-episode run, with the Dancing with the Stars result show as a lead-in. The series, created by Christopher Murphey and produced by ABC Studios, centers on Dr. Megan Hunt (Dana Delany), a brilliant neurosurgeon who takes on a new career as a medical examiner following a car accident. Body of Proof, originally slated to launch in late October in the Friday 9 PM slot, was held back by new ABC chief Paul Lee for a proper launch in a better time period.
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I liked this pilot, and I love Dana Delaney. I hope this does well.
My only question is, what the hell is the point of the Nicholas Bishop character?
Paul Lee seems to be a more creative executive. Perhaps ABC will be more creative next season. Am i wrong in thinking this?
Very wise move by ABC to hold this back until midseason. I know alot of procedurals were greenlit this fall and most of them sucked, but this one peaked my interest mainly because it has a Crossing Jordan vibe. Love Dana Delany and I also like Jeri Ryan. I hope this is a hit so it keeps Katherine Mayfair away from Desperate Housewives.
I’ve never seen a year where networks have announced shows on their fall schedule only to premiere in late spring. Why is this 10P slot better — I guess it’s better than fridays or even Wed at 10. But I would launch it for the first couple of episodes after desperate housewives or a 9p Castle. They can’t just put shows on anymore and expect them to perform well.
I wonder if DWTS will now move back to 9p – for this premiere now that Idol is moving from wed/thurs.
‘Body of proof’ is set to premiere in Europe in the coming weeks and way ahead of it’s ABC premiere. I wonder if that will have any effect of it’s ratings in America. For the mass audience, it shouldn’t make a big difference, but with the Internet….who knows.
I just noticed something, this show has a 13 episode order and being that this is premiering March 29th, they are only going to get maybe 8 episodes aired before May sweeps.
I believe the show is supposed to benefit from DWTS results show. ‘Castle’ also only launched with a 10 episode season 1 and GA had only 9 episodes airing after ‘Housewives’. I don’t think it’s a big deal. But the ABC execs are clearly hoping that it does benefit better from DWTS than ‘Detroit’ did.
Oh good! Another medical procedural show.
Now I must choose between The Good Wife and this? TGFDVR!
This show gets pitched every pilot season…
and fails to impress. Hopefully this will be the last of McPherson’s bad ideas come to fruition.
Another show waiting to be cancelled
Shows don’t get held back because they are great. They get held for mid-season because they don’t have faith in them. Or they need to do a lot of reworking on the pilot/series to try and save it.
To the person who says: “Shows don’t get held back because they are great. They get held for mid-season because they don’t have faith in them. Or they need to do a lot of reworking on the pilot/series to try and save it.”
You’re forgetting Paul Lee didn’t develop this show… he came in, saw that it had been given crappy time slot, and thought that it deserved an upgrade.
And shows OFTEN benefit from launching mid-season. Here are just a handful of shows that launched mid-season:
Seinfeld
Grey’s Anatomy
The Simpsons
The Office
Three’s Company
Family Guy (both its original launch, and the relaunch after cancellation)
The Practice was a midseason.
And FBC has certainly launched a few shows after the World Series — House.
How many of those shows did the networks have faith in?
the list of shows that don’t do well are too long to list, which is more often the case. I like the Detroit 1-8-7 and hope it comes back rather than this.
Does she have to be a brilliant neurosurgeon? Couldn’t she have been consistent and workmanlike? So maybe adequacy is less exciting to the audiences, but hearing about characters in movies and TV shows that are THE BEST at what they do only makes me laugh anymore.
Time to stop blaming everything on McPherson. He’s gone. Anything that goes on ABC now is on the shoulders of Lee. His decision, his responsiblity! AKA Skating with stars.
Paul Lee gets ABC….he called it “American Storytelling” he knows his stuff. He knows what ABC is all about, should be, and he is going to make it that.
So does this mean that Detroit 1-8-7 is canceled? Seems that if ABC had faith in 1-8-7, they would pick it up for a full season, rather than replace it, right?
ABC’s spring schedule (before the idol move) was to have dancing move to 8 and no ordinary family to 9 — will that still be the case when body of proof premieres?