{"id":23621,"date":"2026-01-29T03:47:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23621"},"modified":"2026-01-03T15:12:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:12:36","slug":"midseason-review-thursdays-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/midseason-review-thursdays-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Midseason Review \u2013 Thursdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/old-tv-set1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2460\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/old-tv-set1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/old-tv-set1.jpg 315w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/old-tv-set1-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are on the back half of our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/2025-new-fall-season-thursdays\/\">look back<\/a>\u00a0at the offerings for the new fall season.\u00a0Thursday night is traditionally the busiest night of the week for my television viewing habits, but not this year. Here\u2019s what was on the slate for this season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>9-1-1<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Returning for its ninth season, and its third on ABC, although without star Peter Krause.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;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&#8217;m also not saying it wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>9-1-1: Nashville<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Another spinoff, moving the franchise to Tennessee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t clicking for me.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t have the heart of the original.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Elsbeth<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0<em>The Good Wife<\/em>\u00a0spinoff returns for its third season, but I still have to watch the second one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve stopped recording this one but may circle back one day on streaming.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 The medical drama enters its 22nd season with the follow-up on last season\u2019s explosion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What can I say after 21+ seasons?\u00a0 The show is what it is at this point.<\/p>\n<p>And now the new entries:<\/p>\n<p><em>Scrabble<\/em> &#8211; The game show returns to The CW with a new host: Craig Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p><em>Trivial Pursuit<\/em> &#8211; LeVar Burton returns for a second go-around of the board game-based quiz show.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are on the back half of our\u00a0look back\u00a0at the offerings for the new fall season.\u00a0Thursday night is traditionally the busiest night of the week for my television viewing habits, but not this year. Here\u2019s what was on the slate for this season. 7:00 9-1-1\u00a0\u2013 Returning for its ninth season, and its third on ABC, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[7925,12023,8875,807,10605,237,11297,5193,11296],"class_list":["post-23621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-9-1-1","tag-9-1-1-nashville","tag-craig-ferguson","tag-cw","tag-elsbeth","tag-greys-anatomy","tag-levar-burton","tag-scrabble","tag-trivial-pursuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23621"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23667,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23621\/revisions\/23667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}