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Midseason Review – Thursdays

We are on the back half of our look back at the offerings for the new fall season. Thursday night is traditionally the busiest night of the week for my television viewing habits, but not this year. Here’s what was on the slate for this season.

7:00

9-1-1 – Returning for its ninth season, and its third on ABC, although without star Peter Krause.

I’m not saying that sending two of the characters on a space adventure for the first three episodes of the season was a jump the shark moment, but I’m also not saying it wasn’t.

8:00

9-1-1: Nashville – Another spinoff, moving the franchise to Tennessee.

This isn’t clicking for me.  It doesn’t have the heart of the original.

9:00

Elsbeth – The The Good Wife spinoff returns for its third season, but I still have to watch the second one.

I’ve stopped recording this one but may circle back one day on streaming.

Grey’s Anatomy – The medical drama enters its 22nd season with the follow-up on last season’s explosion.

What can I say after 21+ seasons?  The show is what it is at this point.

And now the new entries:

Scrabble – The game show returns to The CW with a new host: Craig Ferguson.

Trivial Pursuit – LeVar Burton returns for a second go-around of the board game-based quiz show.

 

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Midseason Review – Mondays

We continue our annual look back at my thoughts from the beginning of the season and look ahead at what’s to come for Monday nights, which looked a little barren in the fall, leaving me with nothing to watch.

7:00

Scrabble – Another attempt to turn the venerable board game into a game show, this time starring Raven-Symoné.

A good enough interpretation of the board game to a show, completely different from the 80s version with Chuck Woolery.  I’m not sure if it ever ended up airing on Monday nights, though, as it and Trivial Pursuit have been airing on Thursdays.

7:30

Poppa’s House – Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr. team up on a new family comedy.

I never ended up watching this.

8:00

Rescue: HI-Surf – A lifeguard drama set in Hawaii from one of the producers of ER and starring Arielle Kebbel seems worth a shot, at least.

A decent way to spend an hour, especially with the nice views of Hawaii.

Trivial Pursuit – A new game show, hosted by LeVar Burton, based on the classic board game.

Another good translation of a board game to television.

It doesn’t look like there is anything intriguing coming to Mondays this winter.

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2024 New Fall Season – Mondays

We continue our annual look at the new fall season with Monday night’s offerings, a night that hasn’t offered something even halfway intriguing since 2018.

7:00

Scrabble – Another attempt to turn the venerable board game into a game show, this time starring Raven-Symoné.

7:30

Poppa’s House – Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr. team up on a new family comedy.

8:00

Rescue: HI-Surf – A lifeguard drama set in Hawaii from one of the producers of ER and starring Arielle Kebbel seems worth a shot, at least.

Trivial Pursuit – A new game show, hosted by LeVar Burton, based on the classic board game.

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The CW Upfronts

It’s another year of upheaval at The CW, as new owners Nexstar continues to cut new fiction programming in favor of re-airing existing content from other markets and live sports (or “sports”).  Monday has an all-new look, with two hours of game shows based on board games.  Trivial Pursuit, hosted by LeVar Burton, kicks off the night, followed by Scrabble, hosted by Raven-Symoné.  Tuesday’s programming is devoted to the network debut of WWE NXT.

The Canadian production Sullivan’s Crossing returns for its second season to kick off Wednesday nights, followed by Joan, an import from the UK starring Sophie Turner as a notorious jewel thief and which only runs six episodes.   Thursday’s start with the fourth and final season of Superman & Lois, followed by The Librarians: The Next Chapter, centering on a librarian from the past who finds himself stuck in the present.  Friday will have back-to-back episodes of Whose Line Is It Anyway? followed by season two of Inside the NFL.  Saturday and Sunday will feature sports and/or movies.

Waiting in the wings for midseason are Good Cop/Bad Cop, a dramedy about a brother and sister detective team starring Leighton Meester, and Sherlock & Daughter, where the famous detective is forced to team up with an American girl who may be his daughter.  All American: Homecoming is expected to return next summer.

The fates of All American, Penn & Teller: Fool Us, Sight Unseen, Walker, and Wild Cards are undecided at this point.  Gone and probably forgotten are FBoy Island and its female-skewing spinoff, Lovers and Liars.