Actually, NBC already had its upfront over a month ago. This is a "spotlight event," a Part 2, if you will (a walk-thru set up at 30 Rock for advertisers and the media), but they did make some interesting announcements today.
This biggest announcement (though hardly a surprise at this point) was that Jimmy Fallon will take over on Late Night when Conan O'Brien takes over for Jay Leno. This will happen next year.
Here are some of the other announcements made at today's even and a recap of the new shows and the shows that have been canceled. And in this post, I promise not to fail you, rainbow chicken.
New shows: My Own Worst Enemy, with Christian Slater as a spy and co-starring Saffron Burrows and Mike O'Malley (Monday at 10); Momma's Boys, a Ryan Seacrest-produced reality show where moms try to find mates for their sons (ugh); the island adventure series Crusoe (Friday at 8); the Molly Shannon sitcom Kath & Kim (Tuesday at 9:30); Celebrity Circus; and the remake of Knight Rider (Wednesday at 8). The new drama The Philanthropist (with David Eick as showrunner) will air in the My Own Worst Enemy's time slot in the winter. Two other dramas will also debut in the winter: Kings (with Ian McShane) and Merlin, as will the reality show America's Toughest Jobs.Returning: 30 Rock, Medium, The Office, Celebrity Apprentice, Life, Chuck, Heroes, Dateline, Deal Or No Deal, My Name Is Earl, America's Got Talent, Last Comic Standing, Nashville Star, The Biggest Loser, American Gladiators, SNL, ER, Law and Order, Law and Order: CI, and Law and Order: SVU.
Gone: Scrubs (probably moving to ABC), Bionic Woman, Las Vegas, Amnesia, 1 vs. 100, Journeyman, My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad, Clash of the Choirs, The Singing Bee.
Also: There will be a spinoff of The Office, which will air after the Super Bowl (along with an episode of The Office). Friday Night Lights has been renewed for 13 episodes. The episodes will first air on DirecTV in the fall, and then air on NBC in the winter. Also: in the summer of 2009, the network will debut the new reality shows Shark Taggers, The Chopping Block, as well as The Listener, a drama.
NBC also announced some new shows for Telemundo.
Giveaway Monday: That '70s Show The Complete Series Stash box set
Giveaway Monday: Back to You season one DVD
Six shows that I am watching pretty regularly this season
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
5-12-2008 @ 4:22PM
miller980 said...
Hopefully next time you won't be so quick to lambast Roger Friedman's predictions, since when Friedman wrote this you said it probably wasn't true because he's wrong so often.
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5-12-2008 @ 4:42PM
willmore2000 said...
New shows in a word: Ugh.
Apart from the Office spin-off, what is there? Kings could be a good concept, and Ian McShane is a great talent, but they will likely make it a soap-y religious mumble with delusions of auteur-grandeur. And Merlin is a Heroes wannabe with a sprinkle of BBC's new Robing Hood. Really? A Young Merlin and a young King Arthur travel around? Who comes up with this stuff?
Philanthropist, Momma's Boy, Circus, Rider ... yuck.
My Own Worst Enemy ... cancelled after the first episode. A mix of Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde, Chuck, and a dozen 50-60s shows/movies, and not the good ones. Really, if this was a movie, it would star Christian Slater ... and that's bad.
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5-12-2008 @ 4:53PM
Edward said...
Law and Order: CI is still staying on USA?
5-12-2008 @ 5:17PM
Oreo said...
NBC - Nothing But Crap.
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5-12-2008 @ 10:28PM
0megapart!cle said...
While I am not overwhelmed with interest in the slate of new shows on NBC, I can tell you that I love most of their old shows, and there is a similar amount of quality shows on ABC, and barely anything on CBS. Give me a break. I just looked at CBS's lineup, and it is pathetic, quality-wise, even if it rakes in the ratings. NBC has many quality shows, while CBS has barely anything.
5-12-2008 @ 5:30PM
Christopher said...
The new shows sound horrible.
Heroes, Chuck, and Life thats it for me. You can throw the rest of that to the dogs.
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5-12-2008 @ 5:33PM
Wii60 said...
Saffron Burrows co-starring? Whats that mean for Boston Legal?
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5-12-2008 @ 6:06PM
Oreo said...
It means that she is hopefully fired. Out of all the lame ass characters they introduced on the show, and boy there were a lot, she is the worst.
5-12-2008 @ 5:41PM
MERVE-THE-PERVE said...
Boston Legal will probably be doing another cast shuffle, which is a good thing.
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5-12-2008 @ 7:29PM
Jimmy said...
Predictions/Hopes: Fallon will suck, and Seacrest's star will begin to tarnish with his foray into production.
Glad to hear Chuck is coming back, and I am curious to see what the Office spin-off is all about.
No mention of L&O:CI. Is it gone?
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5-12-2008 @ 10:42PM
Phil J Leitch said...
I miss Journeyman.
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5-12-2008 @ 10:42PM
Phil J Leitch said...
I miss Journeyman.
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5-13-2008 @ 2:00AM
summer said...
Zach Braff sent a myspace bulletin out today confirming that Scrubs is going to ABC - he said he knew about it for a while but today was the first day he could talk about it.
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5-13-2008 @ 9:22AM
DJ said...
Journeyman really should have been renewed. It was a good show, and definitely better than any of the reality crap that they're keeping.
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