Tuesdays are All-New on ABC:
In a rare move, ABC will be premiering an entire night of new programming starting with Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D at 8pm. It seems that ABC is banking on the Marvel brand, the popularity of The Avenger’s movie, and Joss Whedon’s new found mainstream popularity to create a strong lead-in for Tuesday night’s primetime schedule – I personally hope it succeeds.
At 9pm they’ll try a new duo of comedies: The Goldbergs and Trophy Wife. If you recall, last season, Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23 and Happy Endings failed to find a sizable audience in the same time slots. I really enjoyed both of those shows so I’m feeling pretty nonchalant about their replacements’ success.
Lucky 7 caps the night off in the 10pm time slot. Out of all of the new ABC Tuesday night shows I have the least amount of faith in this one.
Other New Tuesday Night TV Shows:
FOX will be debuting two new comedies. Brooklyn Nine-Nine starring Andy Samberg, Andre Braugher, and Fred Armison, which looks like it could be amusing; however, Dads is this year’s new show that begs the question, “How did this ever get the go-ahead?”
Meanwhile The CW will stick with its moderately successful formula of supernatural remakes/re-tellings/adaptations with The Originals, a spin-off of The Vampire Diaries. The show will be airing on Tuesday nights but will make its network debut on Thursday October 3rd at 9pm, following the 4th season premier of The Vampire Diaries.
New Show I Hope Will Fail Miserably:
- Dads
Seriously just watch the current FOX promo for Dads. The show was created by Seth MacFarlane though, so I might be out-of-luck since he’s got a good track record of success – i.e. Animation Domination.
Returning Show I’m Most Excited About:
- New Girl
The second season of New Girl was excellent, so I cannot wait to see what kind of hijinks Jess, Cece, Nick, Schmitt, and Winston get themselves into this year. Also Coach is set to return for a handful of episodes. Should be fun.
Reality Competitions:
- The Biggest Loser
- The Voice
# of Shows Staring Joss Whedon Alumni:
- 3
If you’re seeing a pattern develop here then you’d be correct, next week I’ll be taking a look at Wednesdays’ new and returning TV shows.
