2012-2013 Pilot Season

[BillBrasky]

ABC's schedule:

MONDAY:
8:00 p.m. "Dancing with the Stars"
10:00 p.m. "Castle"

In January:
8:00 p.m. "The Bachelor"
10:00 p.m. "Castle"

TUESDAY:
8:00 p.m. "Dancing with the Stars the Results Show"
9:00 p.m. "Happy Endings"
9:30 p.m. "Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23"
10:00 p.m. "Private Practice"

In January:
8:00 p.m. "How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life)"
8:30 p.m. "The Family Tools"

WEDNESDAY:
8:00 p.m. "The Middle"
8:30 p.m. "Suburgatory"
9:00 p.m. "Modern Family"
9:30 p.m. "The Neighbors"
10:00 p.m. "Nashville"

THURSDAY:
8:00 p.m. "Last Resort"
9:00 p.m. "Grey's Anatomy"
10:00 p.m. "Scandal"

FRIDAY:
8:00 p.m. "Shark Tank"
9:00 p.m. "Primetime: What Would You Do?"
10:00 p.m. "20/20"

In November:
8:00 p.m. "Last Man Standing"
8:30 p.m. "Malibu Country"
9:00 p.m. "Shark Tank"
10:00 p.m. "20/20"

SATURDAY:
8:00 p.m. "Saturday Night College Football"

SUNDAY:
7:00 p.m. "America's Funniest Home Videos"
8:00 p.m. "Once Upon a Time"
9:00 p.m. "Revenge"
10:00 p.m. "666 Park Avenue"

[MrDys]

Grey's Anatomy is still on the air? Good god.

Strike that. America's Funniest Home Videos is still on the air?

How is NBC in last place when ABC is doing this shit?

[simpgeek]

Maybe the rankings of the networks has more to do with how many people watch their shows than how good you think their shows are.

[BillBrasky]

It's been a while since something like this happened, but Tuesdays from 9 to 10 will actually be a pretty crowded hour now for fans of comedy. You'll have "Happy Endings" and "Don't Trust the B" going up against "The New Girl" and "The Mindy Project" on FOX and "Go On" and "The New Normal" on NBC (assuming either of those is going to be any good).

[mueXog]

ABC's schedule is pretty close to what I expected, though I'm a little worried for "Happy Endings" having to go up against the somewhat more popular "New Girl", since they share a lot of the same fans, hopefully they won't take too hard a hit in the ratings from New Girl. So Damon Wayans, Jr. is competing against his former show, "DRAMA!" indeed!

[BillBrasky]

CBS's schedule:

CBS TELEVISION NETWORK
2012-2013 PRIMETIME SCHEDULE
(N=New, NT=New Time, all times ET/PT)

MONDAY
8:00-8:30 PM HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
8:30-9:00 PM PARTNERS (N)
9:00-9:30 PM 2 BROKE GIRLS (NT)
9:30-10:00 PM MIKE & MOLLY
10:00-11:00 PM HAWAII FIVE-0

TUESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM NCIS
9:00-10:00 PM NCIS: LOS ANGELES
10:00-11:00 PM VEGAS (N)

WEDNESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM SURVIVOR
9:00-10:00 PM CRIMINAL MINDS
10:00-11:00 PM CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION

THURSDAY
8:00-8:30 PM THE BIG BANG THEORY
8:30-9:00 PM TWO AND A HALF MEN (NT)
9:00-10:00 PM PERSON OF INTEREST
10:00-11:00 PM ELEMENTARY (N)

FRIDAY
8:00-9:00 PM CSI: NY (NT)
9:00-10:00 PM MADE IN JERSEY (N)
10:00-11:00 PM BLUE BLOODS

SATURDAY
8:00-9:00 PM CRIMETIME SATURDAY
9:00-10:00 PM CRIMETIME SATURDAY
10:00-11:00 PM 48 HOURS MYSTERY

SUNDAY
7:00-8:00 PM 60 MINUTES
8:00-9:00 PM THE AMAZING RACE
9:00-10:00 PM THE GOOD WIFE
10:00-11:00 PM THE MENTALIST (NT)

[BillBrasky]

Reading this article is super depressing; the networks managed to pass on pretty much every pilot this season that actually sounded good. "Susan 13", "El Jefe" with Ryan Hansen from Party Down, Nicholas Stoller's pilot for CBS, the Louis CK pilot, "Rebounding" with Will Forte, "Little Brother" with T.J. Miller, "Friday Night Dinner", the Ben Falcone/Melissa McCarthy pilot, etc. etc.

With so much comedic talent behind the scenes here, what happened? How'd we end up with shows starring Matthew Perry and Anne Heche?

The one thing we can maybe hope for is that some of these pilots might leak out and we might get a chance to see them. That used to happen all the time, around like 2004-2007 or so, but it's kind of stopped in recent years. Maybe the networks are cracking down on security more now and stopping pilots from leaking out.

[Famous Mortimer]

I think the networks generally have streaming programs where they can give people who need to see a pilot a login/password. This is probably more secure than back when DVD's were being sent around to a bunch of people.

And it really sucks about Rebounding. It looked like it was going to be great, and it sounded like a shock that it didn't get picked up.

[mueXog]

FX has just ordered 13 episodes of Australian stand-up comedian Jim Jeffries' new series

Also stars DJ Qualls (scrawny guy from Road Trip)
and
Dan Bakkedahl (funny actor whose name you might not know but you've probably seen in a lot of stuff. Was a former Daily Show correspondent, the nosey waiter in the Ricky Gervais scenes on CYE last season, recently in the last few episodes of Community playing the "vice dean" of the Air Conditioning Repair School, I think he also has a pretty big guest part in this weeks "Veep" season finale)

I recall Gillian Vigman (Mad TV, The Hangover, short-lived ABC show Sons & Daughters, plays Alan Tudyk's wife on Suburgatory, etc) was in the pilot too, not sure if she's still in this or not.

Expected to air in January 2013

[jkwall]

TJ Miller is now the lead of Goodwin Games. So now there is actually a show I'm looking forward to.

I think that picture of TJ might be my favorite part of the article.

[Blastronaut]

If this is NBC's idea of good television:

http://coopcooperberg.tumblr.com/pos...dies-of-sitcom

Then there's no reason to live. Where's my kayak?

[Blastronaut]

(delete) ugh. it posted twice. sorry.

[aenemaTron]

I like your style but I disagree with your reasoning that marketing photo ∝ quality of show.

[jkwall]

If this is NBC's idea of good television:

http://coopcooperberg.tumblr.com/pos...dies-of-sitcom

Then there's no reason to live. Where's my kayak?

They couldn't possibly try harder to recreate the What to Expect trailer with that. They even photoshopped sunglasses onto them. Oh boy.

[Blastronaut]

They couldn't possibly try harder to recreate the What to Expect trailer with that. They even photoshopped sunglasses onto them. Oh boy.

Unbelievable...They should have given Susan 313 a chance.

[BillBrasky]

They couldn't possibly try harder to recreate the What to Expect trailer with that. They even photoshopped sunglasses onto them. Oh boy.

At least there's no shade tippin'.

[Blastronaut]

At least there's no shade tippin'.

Coupled with a wink and a gun. That would have taken it too far! hahahaha!

[BillBrasky]

Fall premiere dates

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8
Go On (following Olympics) [new series]

SUNDAY, AUGUST 12
Animal Practice (following Olympics closing ceremonies) [new series]

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
9 pm Go On (regular time period debut)
9:30 pm The New Normal [new series]
10 pm Parenthood

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
10 pm Guys With Kids (following finale of America’s Got Talent) [new series]

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
8:30 pm Up All Night
9 pm The Office
9:30 pm Parks and Recreation

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
8 pm Animal Practice (regular time period debut)
8:30 pm Guys With Kids (regular time period debut)

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4
8 pm 30 Rock

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19
8 pm Whitney
8:30 pm Community

[BillBrasky]

John Cho joins the cast of "Go On"

I don't know, with him, Seth Morris, and Brett Gelman involved, maybe the show won't be so bad.

[BillBrasky]

Moshe Kasher is apparently on the writing staff of "The New Normal", according to his Twitter
(also Mike Scully from The Simpsons)