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NBC has unveiled its official fall primetime schedule, which begins Tuesday, Sept. 13 with the season premiere of Parenthood. The network’s Sunday Night Football is slated to bow Sept. 8 — if the NFL lockout ends and the season starts on time, that is. Here’s the schedule, with new shows in CAPS:
Thursday, September 8
8-8:30 PM: “NFL Kickoff Special 2011” (regular season)
8:30-11 PM: “Sunday Night Football” (regular season)
Sunday, September 11
7-8 PM: “Football Night in America” (regular season)
8-11:30 PM: “Sunday Night Football”
Tuesday, September 13
10-11 PM: “Parenthood”
Wednesday, September 14
8-10 PM: “America’s Got Talent” (season finale)
10-10:30 PM: “UP ALL NIGHT”
10:30-11 PM: “FREE AGENTS”
Monday, September 19
8-10 PM: “The Sing-Off”
10-11 PM: “THE PLAYBOY CLUB”
Tuesday, September 20
8-10 PM: “The Biggest Loser”
Wednesday, September 21
8-8:30 PM: “UP ALL NIGHT” (regular time period debut with original episode)
8:30-9 PM: “FREE AGENTS” (regular time period debut with original episode)
9-10 PM: “Harry’s Law”
10-11 PM: “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”
Thursday, September 22
8-8:30 PM:. “Community
8:30-9 PM: “Parks and Recreation”
9-9:30 PM: “The Office”
9:30-10 PM: “WHITNEY”
10-11 PM: “PRIME SUSPECT”
Friday, September 23
9-11PM: “Dateline NBC”
Friday, October 21
8-9 PM: “Chuck”
9-10 PM: “GRIMM”
10-11 PM: “Dateline NBC”
Saturday, September 24
8-9 PM: “Harry’s Law” (Repeat)
9-10 PM: “Prime Suspect” (Repeat)
10-11 PM: “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” (Repeat)
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I read that NBC under Bob Greenblatt is tweaking Prime Suspect to make the stories more engaging.
Is PRIME SUSPECT (finally) the only new thing perhaps even interesting on the schedule?
Wasn’t NBC looking to bolster its ratings?
They’re saving their most important debuts (Smash and Awake) for midseason in order to promote each during the Super Bowl and The Voice.
Is 30 rock just missing until Whitney gets pulled after 2 episodes?
Tina Fey is pregnant. That’s why 30 Rock is being saved for midseason.
No, 30 Rock was announced at the upfronts as a midseason show along with many others: Smash, Awake, The Firm, Are You There Vodka?, Bent, BFF, The Voice and The Celebrity Apprentice.
Tina’s pregnancy and pushed production to October. They’re running the 6th season starting in early 2012.
No, they’ve moved Season 6 to January to accommodate Tina Fey’s pregnancy.
They really need to cut back the budget and replace “The Sing Off” (music but without musicians) with “The Hum Job.” Have a kazoo tie-breaker. Prime Suspect seems like a possibility for being watchable, but its opposite a more watchable show. Maybe they’ll repeat it on Saturday.
Otherwise, we have new NBC management and the same old dreck on-air. Maybe they can just carry frenetic Japanese game/endurance shows. In Japanese.
So, we will wait until next year to see NBC add more intelligent scripted shows and comedies…or, replace the entire schedule with Jerry Springer 24/7. Of course, Jerry will be a judge on AGT, The Voice, The Sing Off and all the NBC reality shows…including the new one secretly being developed by Zucker for NBC…The Jack Off.
Thank God, they have football…but, wait…we have no season as of this moment in time.
Damn, I have been predicting that Grimm would be the first show of the season canceled, but now because of it’s late premiere date I will have to go with Playboy Club. Any other predictions?
WHITNEY.
Lets see four shows to watch on NBC. Playboy Club for obvious reasons. Prime Suspect for Maria Bello and Chuck plus Grimm. The rest ech.
I’m excited for Grimm, as I’m a big David Greenwalt fan, but I think NBC is making a huge mistake holding it back until the end of October.
Grimm will be in direct competition with similar fantasy series Supernatural and sci-fi series, Fringe.Also throw in CSI: NY.
This is the start of the season and you have to get your audience at the jump, as it’s Friday and less people are watching TV.Having those 3 shows get a full month jump on Grimm is going to be very damaging to the show.
They were going to have a hard enough time as it was pulling people away from Supernatural and Fringe at the start of the season.It’s going to be even more difficult doing it once the audience is already 4 episodes deep into the new season.
I completely agree. NBC programming makes no sense to me.
Ooops I forgot one more show Parenthood.
2 episodes? WHITNEY might actually be the first show to get pulled during the pilot’s airing. Sorry Whit, but your talent at networking doesn’t mean that you’re actually talented.
Smash and Awake are absolutely phenomenal pilots.
I have FB friends in SoCal who got their hands on the Smash pilot and cannot stop talking about it. Jealous.
The problem with Playboy Club is that Eddie Cibrian is a terrible actor. They should have looked at hiring James Callis for the role of Nick Dalton. He did a very good job on Eureka.
Up All Night never struck me as a 10 pm program. I like too many people involved to toss it aside but that is a weird hour that makes me wonder if NBC is stupid or they want it to fail. Could be both.
Parenthood, Community, Chuck, and Parks & Rec are back so that is good enough for me. Will look into The Playboy Club (even though I hate Eddie Cibrian), Up All Night, Free Agents, and Prime Suspect.
It only has one episode at 10pm… it’s debuting after AGT’s season finale and then going to its regular slot at 8pm the next week.
Up All Night is not a 10pm program. It’s just being run in that slot to take advantage of the America’s Got Talent lead in, then it returns to its normal 8pm slot on the following Wednesday.
Let’s just wait and see how the line-up does in the Fall. I’ll be interested myself.
Wow, what a crapass lineup.
Not a very exciting schedule. WONDER WOMAN would have been a provocative addition to this lineup. Looking forward to THE PLAYBOY CLUB, but NBC’s last minute decision to ax Jeff Hephner (HELLCATS) in favor of Eddie Cibrian is a huge mistake.
Wonder Woman was a disaster. If it had been even marginal, NBC would have put it on the air.
What’s provocative about Wonder Woman? It’s silly, it’s stupid but above all it would not have made any sense in NBC’s Drama line-up. The Plaboy Club – now THAT’S provocative for a network like NBC. I’m very happy they picked this one over Wonder Woman.
Looks like Chuck might get some more episodes after all. Gosh. Maybe NBC should just broadcast cable show repeats…
What an awful line up. I watch Harry’s Law once in awhile, if nothing better is going on it’s mildly entertaining, though the great Kathy Bates isn’t really allowed to shine in the format. Prime Suspect might be OK.. we’ll see. Otherwise, I’ll be watching cable and my DVR. There’s precious little on any of the so called “major networks” except un-reality garbage and formula shows.
Its still stupid of nbc to go head to head with the sing off and the voice against dancing when they can have tuesdays to themselves. They can have a huge hit on tuesdays instead of moderate ratings
Is there a reason why Free Agents is not behind The Office? Surely it’s a much better fit for that comedy block than Whitney. How the hell did Whitney get that timeslot?
Wow, this is great! Based on that line-up, I will certainly have some free time on my hands, since there is nothing that I will be watching on NBC this season.
Monkeys could throw feces at a wall and make a better schedule.
Wait that would be FOX.
Very disappointing but good to see Harrys Law, Prime Suspect again. Thank you for not having reality shows.
Wasn’t Prime Suspect already mangled by some DCI chick with cleavage up to her nostrils skirt hiked up to her crotch! Helen Mirren was a real woman with realistic flaws. Wonder how they’ll screw this 2nd attempt up.
God are these actual GUYS crying about Eddie Cibrian? You sound like bitches. Gossip rag-reading females I can understand. Good looking guy, decent actor. Thought he was good on CSI: Miami. I for one am looking forward to Playboy Club. Not holding my breath for a back-nine pickup, but kudos to NBC for the attempt. Get off Eddie’s back, damn.