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NBC just made several scheduling changes, with low-rated Smash moving to Saturdays, and Go On getting a tryout on Thursday following the last episodes of the The Office. There is still some good news for loyal Smash fans — NBC is committed to airing all 17 episodes of the series’ second (and certain to be final) season. New reality series Ready For Love is getting a major upgrade. The two-hour show was originally slated to premiere on March 31 and air from 8-10 PM on Sundays, leading into The Apprentice. The dating series executive produced by Eva Longoria, which NBC brass have very high hopes for, is now getting the plum Tuesday 9-11 berth behind The Voice as of April 9. It will take over NBC’s Tuesday comedy block of Go On and The New Normal and drama Smash, which will all still get two airings on Tuesday with The Voice as 8 PM anchor. With Ready For Love relocating, NBC will air reruns of the Monday and Tuesday episodes of The Voice on Sunday, followed by Celebrity Apprentice, which will expand to two hours beginning April 14. We started the season with a three-way comedy face-off in the Tuesday 9 PM hour as Fox, ABC and NBC all scheduled single-camera half-hours in the slot. As of next month, only Fox will air comedies in the hour. Starting next week, Fox also is scaling back its comedy presence on the night from two to one hour (9-10 PM) but I hear the network brass remains committed to keeping comedies on Tuesday next season. Here are all the NBC changes:
READY FOR LOVE
- Will now air Tuesdays, beginning April 9 (9-11 p.m. ET) following “The Voice.”
CELEBRITY APPRENTICE
- Beginning April 14 (9-11 p.m ET) will be expanded to two hours through the end of May.
THE VOICE
- Will air encore episodes on Sunday, March 31 and Sunday, April 7 (7-10 p.m. ET), leading into original episodes of “The Celebrity Apprentice” (10-11 p.m. ET).
GO ON
- Moves to Thursdays on April 4 and April 11, which will be the season’s final episode. Both episodes will air at 9:30-10 p.m. ET following “The Office.”
THE NEW NORMAL
- One-hour season finale on Tuesday, April 2 (9-10 p.m. ET) following “The Voice.”
SMASH
- Moves to Saturdays at 9 p.m. beginning April 6 and will air its entire season of 17 episodes.
WHITNEY
- Will have a one-hour season finale on Wednesday, March 27 (8-9 p.m. ET).
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LOL – I don’t watch any of these shows. NBC’s downfall spreads like wildfire.
Smash is now the red-shirted ensign of prime-time TV.
thank you Rob J. great post. Hilarious.
-RnsW
Who cares? This network completely squandered any goodwill it had cultivated during its Summer Olympics advertising blitz, by presenting the very worst lineup of shows on all of television. This Fall, it seemed that they were finally starting to emerge from the ashes, yet they’ve recently fallen lower than anyone ever expected them to. Wherever they move their shows, whatever they do, they are the most acute example of the wrong side of the rapidly changing television business. They will never recover, and in five years, NBC will be obsolete. Their 2013 pilot development season is a joke.
LOL. What’s the matter, your pilot wasn’t picked up?
Given the ratings, I’m not too surprised that “Smash” is moving to Saturday. The Saturday move will probably make the ratings even lower, though. But I suppose they probably aren’t too worried about that because the ratings are already awful. There is 0% chance this show is getting renewed for a 3rd season.
I can already predict “Ready for Love” getting cancelled. I love Giuliana and Bill, but them hosting isn’t enough for me to watch a dating show.
It just gets better and better with NBC doesn’t it. I can’t even laugh anymore because it’s so sad.
Insert inevitable line about “rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic” here____________________________________________________________
As captain of the Comcast TV Network carnival cruise line luxury ship I take deep offense at your silly metaphor. The Titanic was unsinkable and it was the iceberg’s fault entirely. NBC is proud as a peacock with our new slate of pilots. We will be the #1 network a year from now or my name isn’t Captain Jebediah Smith.
How bad is Hannibal that NBC is not even giving it some exposure by airing it after The Voice?! That bad?
I’m thinking Hannibal is not a great match with the Voice. Seems a bit grim after a singing competition.
Unless, you’re right … stink, stank, stunk.
Actually, the show is very strong in terms of writing, acting, and visuals, but may be too strong in terms of graphic violence for network tv. Unfortunately, unless it’s given a good lead in either behind The Voice or Revolution somehow, I fear it will not succeed. Too bad, it honestly could be the best thing I’ve seen on any network in years. It really is the caliber of a strong AMC or HBO show.
At this point, quality is key. If critics say it’s good enough, NBC will bring it back, if only to say it has one more successful series.
And perhaps the gore is the reason NBC put it on Thursdays. If it starts strong and stays strong, and/or if it builds even after starting weak, NBC will have growth on Thursdays. It might not go there next year, but ratings are less important, all things considered, than critical strength for NBC at this point, so it just needs some sign of strength. If it happens to get ratings at the same time, so much the better.
SMASH is going to where NBC sends all series to die, Saturday at 9. They did the same thing with
THE FIRM last year. Maybe they better send their programming chief to Saturday at 9.
Hey! We’re out of deck chairs!!
So much ugly grousing here last season about SMASH. And so this is supposed to be the fix–fire the showrunner, hire a new guy who turns every powerful female character into a boring whiner who needs a guy to save the day. Debra Massing’s character needs a dramaturg, Angela Huston’s character needs her ex’s money, Katherine McPhee’s character needs a bad boy love interest (and of course he’ll save American theater along the way) and Bombshell is now about a Marilyn who is created by the men in her life. Poor Megan Hilty is forced to do as her character is forced to–play opposite a buffoon. And once it’s all set up, the writers will set about to tear it down, with no female really having agency. I am woman hear me roar. Written by guys. What else is new.
Beautifully put, Glynch!! Like, totally beautifully put. And since when is a fix making a show MORE about show business?
Ugh, there are only two things worse than being a show on NBC: Being a cancelled show on NBC and being a show on NBC that gets moved to Saturday nights! (In that order).
NBC = NOBODY CARES network.
Five episodes of ‘Go On’ during an international flight were rather entertaining for me. How the premise can exist for long, I’m not sure, but it kept me interested.
The rest, especially ‘Smash’…I have little interest.
Go On is just so bland and confused.
It’s like NBC took the basic premise of Community, sucked out all the fun and added a second workplace-based sitcom, complete with its own cast, that nobody was asking for.
Actually, “Go On” usually makes me laugh and cry several times in each episode.
Go On is terrific! And it just gets better and better as it finds its ensemble voice. Really good writing, really good acting, really good comedy.
Someone, call time of death for Smash, please.
So they won’t move Hannibal to Tuesdays to replace Smash when it would have a better lead in and weaker competition?
It will be interesting to see if the numbers remain roughly the same for “Smash” on Saturday nights. Also it looks less lush and expensive this season which is probably an additional turn-off. That was part of its appeal. Ivy turned into Patty Lane over the break squiring Sean Hayes/”Richard” around this year. Generally speaking if its C/W content you wish to pursue…it’s C/W numbers that you will get, a television-sized chat room. This season is cliche-addled about theatre. Last season looked like they were prepared to dissect theatre cliches. The hot young songwriters getting a bow from Jennifer Hudson’s go-ahead – ouch – Mickey Rooney stuff. I lay the blame entirely at the feet of NBC. Maybe it’ll pick up steam and course correct over the summer. I hope so. (In a way these were the problems of Aaron Sorkin’s S.N.L. show. Got timid and therefore didn’t smack of realism.) Maybe it’s a way for the networks to start reviving Saturday night in that most people don’t watch television in real time anymore anyway. And maybe, just maybe, I should stop putting on my Grizabella the Cat suit before writing these asinine save “Smash” posts when I should be putting my best efforts into bringing back “Cop Rock”…before it’s too late!
What do you even mean when you say “good will” for the network? Networks are corporations. They’re not your city sports team.
I just hope this isn’t the death of Smash. I love it. There is nothing else like it out there. Period. It sucks that common people like me don’t have a voice about which shows stay on the air, and which ones go away.
if the “common people” liked this show, it would be a success, not an utter failure.
To the Whitney haters, note that is says the “season” finale. It could be back!!
Poor Smash. If only they did cover songs like ‘Glee’ so viewers could enjoy the singing more! Now it’s moving to Saturdays which is basically saying “Nail, meet Coffin”.
Newsflash for you..it (Whitney) probably won’t be back either, like a lot of other shows on that network. There’s always DVD for you too, if you still want to watch it but the ratings dictate otherwise and last I checked, they’re abysmal for both shows.
Hate to tell you Zeke,
but Whitney probably will be back. NBC has many more problems on the comedy side.
Smash did many covers last year, and the ratings still tumbled. That wasn’t the problem; the majority of TV viewers just aren’t interested in the story it’s telling.
I cannot be a SMASH-trasher! I love it. It’s an entertaining SOAP people! Some missteps? (Sean Hayes; Angelica Houston: Sex Symbol; Hilty in ‘Liaisons’) – Yes. But it has a talented cast and something DIFFERENT on network TV. Maybe if they put some initials in the title? (CSI, NCIS, SVU). Bob needed to produce it as if it were SHOWTIME (add some edge) – and they should have run season one all over their nets (Style, Bravo, E!) all summer; done some concerts of the songs w/ cast. It’d actually fit fine as is on Lifetime. And with what is coming up (Ivy back in Bombshell and McPhee into the other musical), it is getting GOOD! At the core, again, its a SOAP surrounded by the Broadway creative community.
I so totally agree, I love the show! And now they are breaking out like you said, I too agree that there is no other show like it on TV. No violence, kiliing, blood. NBC, really! I am a follower! Sat 9:00 pm I’ll be there. I’m a caregiver and my friend loves it too!
Way to rearrange those deck chairs!
(Titanic reference)
Wow. Just wow. It’s hard to believe that a network can be such a disaster. But here we are. Wow.
Thanks, Jerome! you get it! Smash is a SOAP with an outstanding cast! too bad people didn’t watch it–they would rather read the sub titles on Honey Boo Boo or watch the Kardashians! bleh
Judging by the credits, Smash’s writing staff is 7 women and 3 men. Not excusing anything, just saying.
You also have to add in Josh Safran as a girl. He is a guy, but he writes like a teenage girl. Look at his past work: Gossip Girl. He is doing the same thing to Smash like he did with Gossip Girl: Ruining it.
So NBC clears out “Smash” to make room for lavishly produced REALITY programming.
So NBC continues to rely on “The Voice” to nurture unsuccessfully nurture its other programming instead of doing it with some sort of marketing and promotional strategy.
So NBC is going to use “The Voice” as a launching pad for more REALITY programming.
NBC is not interested in rebuilding. NBC is interested only in remaining at the bottom of the ratings heap. And deservedly so. As I said in the fall, their demo victory was hollow. And a 2.8 is nothing to crow about.
It amazes me that people get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to make one bonehead move after another.
Life can be a funny thang, gurl.