{"id":24287,"date":"2026-05-13T05:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=24287"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:07:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:07:36","slug":"nbc-upfronts-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/nbc-upfronts-14\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC Upfronts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Rockford-Files.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24288\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Rockford-Files.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Rockford-Files.jpg 500w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Rockford-Files-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Sports continues to be a big driver for NBC For the first time in 23 years, with the NFL, MLB, the NBA, and college football taking up a good part of the fall schedule, which was released on Monday.\u00a0 The week gets off to a familiar start in September with two hours of <em>The Voice<\/em>\u00a0returning for another round on Mondays, followed by\u00a0<em>Line of Fire<\/em>, a new drama starring Peter Krause.\u00a0 Come November, <em>St. Denis Medical<\/em> and <em>The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins<\/em> take over the first hour as <em>The Voice<\/em> goes to a single hour.\u00a0 Tuesday will belong to the NBA when its season begins in October.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday and Thursday continue to be dominated by Dick Wolf franchises, with his three Chicago series running back-to-back-to-back on Wednesday and the two original entries in his\u00a0<em>Law &amp; Order<\/em> franchise the following night.\u00a0 Thursday starts with a civilian version of the Peacock hit reality show <em>The Traitors<\/em>, hosted by Alan Cumming.\u00a0 <em>Happy&#8217;s Place<\/em> and <em>Newlyweds<\/em>, a new comedy starring T\u00e9a Leoni and Tim Daly, kick off Friday, followed by a two-hour block of\u00a0<em>Dateline<\/em>.\u00a0 The weekend is dominated by football, with the Big Ten or Notre Dame on Saturday and the NFL on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>On the bench, NBC has one drama, one comedy, and a game show waiting for midseason.\u00a0 <em>The Rockford Files<\/em> stars David Boreanaz in the role originally made famous by James Garner in the 1970s.\u00a0 <em>Sunset P.I.<\/em> takes a comedic approach at the private investigator space, starring Jake Johnson and Jane Levy.\u00a0 Finally, <em>Today<\/em> co-host Savannah Guthrie will host a live version of <em>Wordle<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Shows gone from our television sets include\u00a0<em>Brilliant Minds <\/em>and\u00a0<em>Stumble.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports continues to be a big driver for NBC For the first time in 23 years, with the NFL, MLB, the NBA, and college football taking up a good part of the fall schedule, which was released on Monday.\u00a0 The week gets off to a familiar start in September with two hours of The Voice\u00a0returning [&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":[5874,2698,11345,7378,9545,9546,8418,2539,7916,11348,3832,12609,1655,329,7918,12607,2244,8255,500,11556,4075,2106,9937,12133,12611,11346,11995,12610,340,11994,2990,12608,3414,3624,10618,12197],"class_list":["post-24287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-alan-cumming","tag-big-ten","tag-brilliant-minds","tag-chicago-fire","tag-chicago-med","tag-chicago-p-d","tag-dateline-nbc","tag-david-boreanaz","tag-dick-wolf","tag-happys-place","tag-jake-johnson","tag-james-garner","tag-jane-levy","tag-law-order","tag-law-order-svu","tag-line-of-fire","tag-mlb","tag-nba","tag-nbc","tag-newlyweds","tag-nfl","tag-notre-dame","tag-peacock","tag-peter-krause","tag-savannah-guthrie","tag-st-denis-medical","tag-stumble","tag-sunset-p-i","tag-tea-leoni","tag-the-fall-and-rise-of-reggie-dinkins","tag-the-rockford-files","tag-the-traitors","tag-the-voice","tag-tim-daly","tag-today","tag-wordle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24287","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=24287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24289,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24287\/revisions\/24289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}