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Just 10 days after unveiling its fall schedule, fourth-place NBC made changes on five of seven nights in response to competitors’ moves.
As expected, the chief move was switching its touted Matthew Perry drama, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, to Mondays at 10 ET/PT from Thursdays at 9, to avoid facing top-5 series CSI and Grey’s Anatomy.
Instead, Deal or No Deal will do battle there. That triggered switches for two Law & Orders and three other new series, and led NBC to bench Medium until midseason while returning Crossing Jordan in the fall, months earlier than planned.
ER will take a break starting in January for new drama Black Donnellys, while Lost will rest come December for another new drama, Day Break. And Fox will make several changes in January once American Idol and 24 return to their regular time slots, moving Bones to Friday and returning The Loop on Wednesday.
Also due: My Network TV, a new two-hour weeknight block from Fox parent News Corp. that will air on many stations that now carry UPN and WB, to be replaced in September by the new CW network.
Starting Sept. 5, My Network will air a pair of soaps each weeknight — patterned on Spanish telenovelas— that will run in 13-week cycles. Desire and Secret Obsessions, which stars Bo Derek, are the first titles. via USA Today
Tags: medium, nbc, patricia arquette
Medium is one of the very few shows I bother to watch. I am very disappointed with NBC’s changes.
i don’t care what day and time it comes on, as long as it come to tv, and i’m happy that it’s starting in early this year and not in febuary or march like this past year, i don’t see why it doesn’t start in september like all of the other show’s, and what’s this about crossing jordan, i thought that was cancelled.