Thursday, May 28, 2009

ABC Summer Changes

In The Motherhood, which was set to premiere for its last 3 episodes on Friday, June 5, will now be pushed back to Thursday, June 25. The show will air for a 3-week run its final 3 unaired episode at 8:30. Samantha Who? will supposedly be airing at 8:00, but it's unclear if these airings will be repeats or unaired episodes.

Also interesting, Samantha Who? will be encoring on Fridays at 9:00 and 9:30 starting June 5th. The show has quite a few unaired episodes left, so its strange as to why ABC is airing repeats of it, especially since the show has been cancelled. Perhaps ABC isn't quite done with it afterall?

Source: http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=8135

EDIT: We now have the full ABC summer schedule changes. Fridays, June 5-19 will be Samantha Who? repeas 9-10pm. On Friday, June 26, According to Jim repeats will air at 9pm. And, beginning on Friday, July 3 will be According to Jim repeats at 9pm and the third timeslot premiere of Surviving Suburbia with continued new episodes. 4 or 5 episodes should be left to air at this point. Surviving Suburbia and Goode Family will continue to air at 9pm on Wednesdays it seems until then.

Tuesdays, beginning June 23, will now be Better Off Ted and Scrubs repeats out of The Superstars, at 9pm. Thursdays, beginning June 25 will be all new Samantha Who?s and In the Motherhoods at 8pm. Meanwhile, it's still unclear what will air once In The Motherhood airs its 3 planned episodes. It could possibly be SW? or more Jim repeats.

Both Goode Family and Surviving Suburbia did terribly last night, so both are clearly done with after finishing their runs. Seems like ABC is trying to pump up Better Off Ted, though, by airing it after The Superstars, which will probably be a modest hit for summer.

Source: http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showpost.php?p=4209619&postcount=1046

ANOTHER UPDATE: The return of Better Off Ted will now be new episodes instead of repeats. And, Surviving Suburbia will not be airing next week - a second The Goode Family will air instead.

Source: http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=20090529abc01

2 comments:

  1. Julie, do you know of any pilot that could have cost $10 million? This from Twitter...
    "Shooting a $10million dollar pilot is cheating. There, I said it. It is just...cheating."
    about 9 hours ago from web

    I thought they all had roughly the same budget to spend.

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  2. From what I know, pilots cost around $500,000-$1 million, which is the budget networks will give the pilot creators. $10 million is insane for a pilot. Do you know what pilot they're referring to?

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