All five networks announced Fall schedules this week and revealed a couple of interesting trends. The first is how few new programs are on the schedule. There are only twenty-six new programs requested across all five networks for the 2017-18 season compared to thirty-nine new pilots for the 2016-17 season. Also of note is how many programs are now produced in-house at each network.
CBS and NBC will share the Thursday Night Football honors next season. CBS will have the first half of the season and NBC the back half starting in November. As a result the Thursday night schedules for both networks will be a bit scrambled until football ends.
New programs are in bold text, programs that moved to a new night/time are noted on the schedule. All times are Eastern Standard.
Day/Time | ABC | CBS | NBC | FOX | The CW |
SUNDAY | SUNDAY | SUNDAY | SUNDAY | SUNDAY | SUNDAY |
7:00 | America's Funniest Home Videos | 60 Minutes | Football Night in America | NFL Overrun | n/a |
7:30 | Bob's Burgers | n/a | |||
8:00 | To Tell The Truth | Wisdom of the Crowd | The Simpsons | n/a | |
8:30 | Sunday Night Football | Ghosted | n/a | ||
9:00 | Shark Tank (new night) | NCIS Los Angeles (new time) | Family Guy | n/a | |
9:30 | Last Man On Earth | n/a | |||
10:00 | Ten Days in the Valley | Madam Secretary (new time) | n/a | n/a | |
MONDAY | MONDAY | MONDAY | MONDAY | MONDAY | MONDAY |
8:00 | Dancing with the Stars | The Big Bang Theory (Kevin Can Wait takes the slot starting in October) | The Voice | Lucifer (new time) | Supergirl |
8:30 | 9JKL | ||||
9:00 | Kevin Can Wait (Me Myself & I takes the slot in October) | The Gifted | Valor | ||
9:30 | Me Myself & I (Superior Donuts takes slot in October) | ||||
10:00 | The Good Doctor | Scorpion | The Brave | n/a | n/a |
TUESDAY | TUESDAY | TUESDAY | TUESDAY | TUESDAY | TUESDAY |
8:00 | The Middle | NCIS | The Voice | Lethal Weapon (new night) | The Flash |
8:30 | Fresh Off The Boat (new time) | ||||
9:00 | Black-ish (new night) | Bull | Superstore (new night) | The Mick | Legends of Tomorrow |
9:30 | The Mayor | The Good Place (new night) | Brooklyn Nine-Nine | ||
10:00 | The Gospel of Kevin | NCIS: New Orleans | Chicago Fire | n/a | n/a |
WEDNESDAY | WEDNESDAY | WEDNESDAY | WEDNESDAY | WEDNESDAY | WEDNESDAY |
8:00 | The Goldbergs | Survivor | The Blacklist (new night) | Empire (new time) | Riverdale (new night) |
8:30 | Speechless | ||||
9:00 | Modern Family | SEAL Team | Law & Order:SVU | Star | Dynasty |
9:30 | American Housewife (new night) | ||||
10:00 | Designated Survivor | Criminal Minds (new time) | Chicago PD | n/a | n/a |
THURSDAY | THURSDAY | THURSDAY | THURSDAY | THURSDAY | THURSDAY |
8:00 | Grey's Anatomy | Thursday Night Football (Big Bang Theory takes slot in November) | Will & Grace | Gotham (new night) | Supernatural |
8:30 | Young Sheldon (starting Nov 2) | Great News (new night) | |||
9:00 | Scandal | Mom (starting Nov 2) | This Is Us (new night) | The Orville | Arrow (new night) |
9:30 | Life In Pieces (starting Nov 2) | ||||
10:00 | How to Get Away With Murder | SWAT (starting Nov 2) | Law & Order: True Crime The Menendez Brothers (Chicago Med will take over slot mid season) | n/a | n/a |
FRIDAY | FRIDAY | FRIDAY | FRIDAY | FRIDAY | FRIDAY |
8:00 | Once Upon A Time (new night) | MacGyver | Blindspot (new night) | Hell's Kitchen | Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (new time) |
8:30 | |||||
9:00 | Inhumans (Agents of SHIELD will take over the slot later) | Hawaii Five-0 | Taken (new night) | The Exorcist | Jane the Virgin (new night) |
9:30 | |||||
10:00 | 20/20 | Blue Bloods | Dateline | n/a | n/a |
SATURDAY | SATURDAY | SATURDAY | SATURDAY | SATURDAY | SATURDAY |
8:00 | Saturday Night College Football | Crimetime Saturday | Dateline Mystery | College Football | n/a |
8:30 | n/a | ||||
9:00 | Crimetime Saturday | n/a | |||
9:30 | n/a | ||||
10:00 | 48 Hours | Vintage SNL | n/a | n/a |
Renewed or pilot programs not on the Fall schedule:
ABC
Scripted renewed: Quantico (mid season)
Unscripted renewed: American Idol (new network)
Pilots: Alex, Inc, Splitting Up Together, Roseanne, The Crossing, Deception, For The People, untitled Grey's Anatomy spinoff, Dancing with the Stars Junior, The Bachelor Winter Games (mid season/Spring 2018)
CBS
Scripted renewed: Elementary, Code Black, Man with a Plan (mid season)
Unscripted renewed: The Amazing Race, Undercover Boss (Spring 2018) Big Brother (Summer)
Pilots: By The Book, Instinct (mid season)
NBC
Scripted renewed: Shades of Blue, Timeless (mid season)
Unscripted renewed: Little Big Shots, The Wall (Spring 2018)
Pilots: Rise, Good Girls, Reverie, A.P.Bio, Champions, Ellen's Game of Games, The Awesome Show, Genius Junior, The Handmade Project
Unknown: Chicago Justice, Trial & Error
FOX
Scripted renewed: New Girl, The X-Files (Spring 2018)
Pilots: The Resident, LA To Vegas, 9-1-1 (mid season)
Unknown: 24: Legacy, Prison Break (noises were made that both could return after the 2017-18 season)
The CW
Scripted renewed: The 100, The Originals, iZombie (mid season)
Pilots: Black Lightning, Life Sentence (mid season)
And that's the Fall 2017-18 season! What new shows are you looking forward to?
Written by LadyShelley on May 18, 2017
Looking forward to it!
Code Black glad its getting a new season
The Originals, wow another season
Lady Shelley - you may have fixed the typos, but "There" should have been "There are"
This is Us wont move to the Thursday. So happy we get to see this still on Tuesday. Prefer a more spread schedule
While I agree it might be nice to have every show listed with a link, the current way to write articles would make it *very* time consuming. There fifty or so shows listed and I'm not sure if all the pilot shows even have pages yet. :-) Also from an aesthetics POV, I'm not sure it would look good to have a page full of links.
And I fixed the typo. Cheers. :-)
Yes, linking to each and every show to a page on TVM would be great.
btw. there's a tiny typo. iZomibe instead of iZombie
Not sure what you're requesting hamzaoglu, did you want a link to the Maze page for every series listed?
Nice article thank you. If possible a link to the series homepage would be nice.
When I saw that Young Sheldon is about Sheldon from Big Bang Theory, my first thought was really, with how lackluster seasons 9 and 10 were, why do a spinoff? Those associated with both shows should work on improving the writing of Big Bang. It seemed really off in this past season to me.