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NBC Unveils Midseason Schedule, Moves ‘Whitney’, ‘Up All Night’, ‘Rock Center’ & ‘Harry’s Law’
I hear that NBC is about to make some scheduling moves. The network is keeping mum, but there is speculation that rookie comedies Up All Night and Whitney, both with full-season orders, may be swapping places. Up All Night is getting murdered in the Wednesday 8 PM slot, so it will probably benefit from a protected run behind The Office. It also is single-
camera and has a workplace element like the rest of NBC’s Thursday’s lineup. Up All Night will likely move to the Thursday 9:30 PM spot, but Whitney may be a bit too racy for the Wednesday family hour. Also possibly on the move is NBC’s new fairytale drama Grimm, which started off strong in the Friday 9 PM slot but has been slipping since. While the series’ long-term potential is still unclear, given the dearth of strong prospects at NBC this fall — especially on the drama side — the network probably should give the newbie a shot. Even before Grimm premiered, I had been lobbying for a swap of the older-skewing Harry’s Law, which would be perfect on Friday (as long as it doesn’t face Blue Bloods), and the hipper Grimm. Word is Harry’s Law is definitely on the move but may end up on Sundays. NBC has other holes to fill too as Prime Suspect doesn’t look like a long-time player despite the patience of NBC brass, and new newsmagazine Rock Center With Brian Williams may be tried out on a different night too as it is definitely not working on Monday.
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HARRY and PRIME both belong on Fridays. Make it so!
yeah but then they would need to cancel Chuck and i think NBC will let it play out its last few day. although .9 is terrible (Chuck’s last demo). i wish they could pair grimm with awake. can they move awake up?
NBC could always move Chuck; let him die quietly opposite H5O and Castle.
Harry’s Law is one of NBC very best shows, give it a good spot on schedule!!! I read it was cancelled and I hope not! Kathy Bates couldn’t get any better! And, cast is just great! everything is a really good fit! Think NBC would know a really good show when they see it! My tv is on all day, mostly listening to it, after 7 o’clock I sit down and watch til Jimmy Fallon Is over. I am big time tv watcher!!!
Rearranging the deck chairs…
At this point, NBC hardly qualifies as the Titanic – more like the Minnow…
Yay! i love GRIMM and it is being seriously hurt by crappy Chuck as a lead-in. Plus being up against SPN and Fringe can’t help. I hope they put Grimm in a better time slot because I still have to DVR it because of SPN.
agree to move whitney as well. I like Up all night but don’t watch it regularly however I would if it was after the office. whitney is not good enough for such a great time slot and NBC knows it.
Whitney is so painful to watch. Unfunny and unlikeable. Acting is awful and the jokes are worse. What is going on here? UP ALL NIGHT is delightful. Funny, likable, all-around great half hour of television. Should have been on Thursdays to begin with.
Please move ‘Up All Night’ to Thursday until ’30 Rock’ returns. Not only does it fit in a hell of a lot better with NBC’s Thursday lineup- sometimes I zone out during ‘The Office’ and, to my horror, accidentally watch ‘Whitney’.
‘Whitney’ is going to reside in the memory of this generation the way ‘The Single Guy’ (had to google for the name) and ‘Veronica’s Closet’ vaguely lingers as something to kill the time around ‘Seinfield’ and ‘Friends’ in the minds of my peers. We watch out of boredom, but won’t miss it when it is gone.
Lorne must have phoned in a favor, because Up All Night would have surely been canceled if it remained a 8 PM on Wednesday. The interesting thing seems to be that The Office is not a good lead-in to anything. Nothing holds nor grows after it. It doesn’t launch any new hits for the most part, yet it remains in the plum 9 PM spot. I think it should lead off the night or move to 9:30. See if something new could be the anchor. BTW, I am speaking in the Fall of 2012 here.
I believe Parks and Rec’s overall viewers gradually went down last season (when it aired after The Office starting with a January premiere) but its 18-49 permanently went up. I could easily be wrong.
The should certainly move GRIMM…to the CANCELLED PILE!
what are you smoking? you must be high. it’s NBC’s underdog that is doing quite well for them. they won the demo first two outings, and 3rd slipped a bit but um, so did Blue Bloods and almost every other show last Friday night. I for one love Grimm and I know it will go. sorry you obvious Fringe fan, sorry your show jumped the shark and slipped to all-time new lows. there is a new fantasy show in town on friday nights at 9 and it is called GRIMM.
Here’s hoping Harrys Law stays away from Fridays. I’d love to see it paired up with Parenthood on Tuesdays.
Why the hate for Rock Center? That’s s good show. Great set and production, not to mention great reporting.
This is smart. ‘Whitney’ doesn’t fit in with the rest of the Thursday block. Now that they used the lead-in from ‘The Office’ to get people to try it out, it’s time to move it somewhere else.
The Wednesday comedy block was a great example of poor execution as it was two new shows thrown on with no established lead-in, even though ’30 Rock’ was being held back until January (rather than capitalizing on the increased interest generated from its hitting syndication). ‘Whitney’ can be paired with the new Chelsea Handler TV show and/or another new comedy to build a low-brow Wednesday comedy block.
‘Community’ has never really had a chance to build an audience, debuting at the 8 PM slot and going up against ‘American Idol’ and now ‘Big Bang’ and ‘X-Factor’. Move it to 9:30 and use that ‘Office’ lead-in to build ‘Community’ to a Thursday anchor that they can use when ‘The Office’ is finally put out of its misery.
Finally, ‘Grimm’ seems like perfect counter-programming against ‘MNF’ on Monday nights, while the older demo that ‘Harry’s Law’ draws would be great for Friday nights. The Brian Williams news show also would be better off on Friday nights.
Regardless of what they end up doing, it’s clear that there needs to be a change, so kudos to NBC for making an effort to maximize the potential of their shows and give them a better idea of what long term value they have to the network.
Community has been on for three or four seasons, it’s not to build an audience behind The Office or anything else higher rated, or will it ever will. Community is a niche show with a tiny, yet annoyingly vocal, cult audience. Give it up, Community fans.
Office needs to go at 8pm ASAP to make the night strong, will put a dent in Big Bang, and not make Community a sacrifice.
8 Office
830 Up All Night
9 Parks & Rec
930 Community
with a possible flip of UAN and Community
I’m curious as to what they’ll put in the 8 o’clock slot on Fridays once Chuck finishes it’s run. Honestly, a Friday consisting of, say, Dateline/Harry’s Law/Prime Suspect would probably make for a great Friday night lineup.
Then have Awake air Thursdays at 10, which is the slot I’ve been hoping it would get since the show was first announced as picked up.
Then have Parenthood move to Wednesdays at 9, with its lead ins being Whitney/Are You There Voldka, It’s Me, Chelsea.
Then have Grimm be placed on Tuesdays at 10. Though, I could see Grimm being temporarily moved to Mondays at 10 to see if it works there.
Chuck did better on Mondays.
Nothing does great on Friday.
This was necessary a few weeks ago.
the last deadline topic about Grimm ratings was pretty bad. Most people seem to dislike the show.
I don’t think it would work any better on another night. Unless you’re talking about a Saturday burn off?
You’re kidding, aren’t you? Grimm has one of the largest NBC premieres of the season (FWIW) and now you’re talking about a “Saturday burn off”? Seriously?!? Even with a dip in the ratings last week, it still did infinitely better than its lead-in, CHUCK, and much better than most other NBC shows.
NBC needs to move it to a different night just because. You don’t throw in the towel on a show that premiered strong on a crappy night after 3 episodes, especially when you’ve got nothing else going! What sense does that make? (And judging a show’s worth from the comments section of this or any other website is a foolish move too).
i second that. all things considered: nbc CLEARLY did not spend as much time/money on advertising Grimm as they did their other fall premieres, having to PREMIERE against GAME 7 of the World series (and still being 2nd highest rated show of night), and yes they slipped but last Friday was quiet night for TV all around (Blue-Bloods fell .4 in demo), Grimm is performing better than NBC’s other shows, like it or not. There’s no way this show isn’t going a full season.
This has got to be one of the most ignorant statements I’ve ever seen on Deadline. And there’s hundreds of dumb comments daily.
I’m so inundated with these so called witty dialogue shows! I wan’t lower middle white class folks who ain’t so sharpie!
Then watch CBS instead.
Another spectacular season of NBC programming.
I’ve been saying this for weeks, but move Chuck and Grimm to Wednesdays between 8 and 10, and then send Harry’s Law back to its old haunt of Monday nights. Friday? Rock Center.
I own every season of Chuck on DVD, but have not watched a single episode this season. That should tell you everything you need to know about this final season.
Grimm needs to switch places with Harry’s law, plain and simple. It has no business being stuck on Friday night.
Someone who has been watching the final season of “Chuck” is probably more qualified to tell us about it.
I second that, SD.
Prime Suspect’s placement has irked me all season. They seem to really believe in the show and want it to work yet they put it on comedy night. I don’t see how Whitney’s target audience is the same target audience for Prime Suspect. I don’t get why they didn’t put it on Wednesday with SVU.
Prime Suspect is the best new cop drama on t.v. and Maria Bello is killin it (that’s good, not bad). If NBC cancels it, I will officially withdraw my longtime allegiance to the peacock.
NBC needs to stop holding on to flops that will never gain an audience. Community and Parks and Recs have been on for years, and both had chances behind higher rated programs. It’s time to put both of them out of their misery.
NBC must be making money off of those shows somehow. If you only look at ratings, and don’t take things like demographics and pvr viewership and downloads into account, the only popular shows are the ones your Grandma watches—your procedurals, reality shows, and laugh-track sitcoms. Anybody under 50 knows how to use a pvr and a computer–or at the very least a remote control, so the actual quality shows need to be looked at more carefully, and more thought needs to go into how to profit from them. Giving up on them in favor of a schedule completely devoted to Grandma shows is short-sighted and will eventually bite a network in the ass.
Maybe it’s short-sighted, but what NBC is doing now is not working. PVR and internet viewers count, but viewers watching it live count more. No one is watching Community, and they didn’t watch before it was on opposite Big Bang Theory.
And Community must not be making enough money for NBC, it’s missing from the midseason schedule. NBC should be congratulated for catching a clue, though I feel bad for them because they now have to deal with Community’s tiny, delusional fanbase.
Community should be on TV. This is silly.
Please tell me Community won’t be canceled. The one true joy of my entire week. The one truly innovative comedy left on NBC or any other non-cable station. NO-ooooo-oooooh!
Community is a good show and just needs a better time slot.