Last week, the networks all announced their initial schedules for next season. Beginning September 2007, this is what the Wednesday grid is going to look like, at least tentatively. There is always the chance of reshuffling and other various changes to be made before the schedules actually go live.
Now rather than take a look at each of the networks, I thought it would be better to take a look at the daily grids. Better to see how the networks stack up against one another. Today is Wednesday, so let's see how it looks.
| Wed | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
| ABC | Pushing Daisies | Private Practice | Dirty Sexy Money | |||
| CBS | Kid Nation | Criminal Minds | CSI: New York | |||
| NBC | Deal or No Deal | Bionic Woman | Life | |||
| FOX | Back to You | Til Death | Bones | Local Programming | ||
| CW | America's Next Top Model | Gossip Girl | Local Programming | |||
ABC features an entirely new lineup for Wednesday nights. The evening kicks off with Pushing Daisies, an interesting high concept crime/fantasy/romance series. It is about a man, a baker, who can bring people back to life for a short period of time, enough for them to name their killers, although if he touches them again, they are gone for good. That is followed up with Private Practice, the spin-off to their hit Grey's Anatomy. My interest in Anatomy has waned, so I have not that much interest in this, although it does look like a good cast with Kate Walsh joined by Paul Adelstein (Prison Break), Amy Brenneman, Tim Daly, and Taye Diggs. The night is anchored by Dirty Sexy Money, a show whose synopsis reads like that of Arrested Development, only without the clever humor and wit. It is about Nick (Peter Krause) who had a falling out with his family and now may be the only one that can keep it going. It is about a wealthy family that always seems to be getting into trouble, clips look a little dull to me.
CBS is replacing Jericho with a reality series called Kid Nation. This new show has 40 kids spending 40 days on their own in an abandoned mining town in New Mexico, where they have to build a new society. Sounds lame to me. I would much rather have Jericho back, it was really picking up in the second half of the season.
Article comments
1 - Lynda
David Eick rather than Ron Moore is heading up the Bionic Woman remake.
2 - fanfarecafe
I saw "Back to You" and loved it!!1
3 - jessica
You say that you would much rather watch Jerich, well so would a million or more other fans. Google Save Jericho and just see how many other people are out there that would rather watch Jericho than kid nation. CBS has received over 5000 pounds of nuts, yes that's right over 5000, with still more to come. If you watched the last episode you would understand why nuts, if you haven't check it out. Fans of Jericho have ordered over 14000 POUNDS of nuts all to be sent to the LA and New York offices of CBS. Talk bout crazy fans, but interesting story, especially since CBS is starting to fall to the fans!!