ABC adding five new comedies, six dramas
Stephen McPherson, President/ABC Entertainment, outlined yesterday ABC's plans for next season and announced the net's new 2005-06 fall schedule. ABC will add two new comedies and three new dramas. An additional three new comedies, three new dramas and one new alternative series were announced for midseason. McPherson spoke before ABC affiliates and representatives of the ad and media communities at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall in NYC.
The new fall schedule includes new comedy series "Freddie" and "Hot Properties" and dramas "Commander-in-Chief," "Invasion" and "The Night Stalker." For midseason, the three new comedies are "Crumbs," "Emily's Reasons Why Not" and "Sons & Daughters." The three new midseason dramas are "The Evidence," "In Justice" and "What About Brian." The new midseason alternative series is "The Miracle Workers."
In addition to the returning series that have already been announced, the new fall sked will also see the return of "George Lopez," "Hope & Faith," "Rodney," "Supernanny" and "Wife Swap," with "The Bachelor," "Jake in Progress" and "Less than Perfect" to return midseason.
McPherson also announced that the new season episode order for "Grey's Anatomy" has been upped to 22. With four episodes unaired from this season's order, ABC will have 26 original 'sodes of "Grey's" available to air in 2005-06.
See ABC's complete 22-hour fall primetime schedule, with descriptions:
MONDAY:
8:00 p.m. "Wife Swap" (through January. New night and time)
9:00 p.m. "Monday Night Football" (through January)
(the following will premiere after MNF)
8:00 p.m. "The Bachelor" (new time)
9:00 p.m. "Emily's Reasons Why Not" (new comedy series)
9:30 p.m. "Jake in Progress" (new night and time)
10:00 p.m. "What About Brian" (new drama series)
TUESDAY:
8:00 p.m. "According to Jim" (new time)
8:30 p.m. "Rodney" (new time)
9:00 p.m. "Commander-in-Chief" (new drama series)
10:00 p.m. "Boston Legal" (new night)
WEDNESDAY:
8:00 p.m. "George Lopez" (new night and time)
8:30 p.m. "Freddie" (new comedy series)
9:00 p.m. "Lost" (new time)
10:00 p.m. "Invasion" (new drama series)
THURSDAY:
8:00 p.m. "Alias" (new night and time)
9:00 p.m. "The Night Stalker" (new drama series)
10:00 p.m. "Primetime Live"
FRIDAY:
8:00 p.m. "Supernanny" (new night and time)
9:00 p.m. "Hope & Faith"
9:30 p.m. "Hot Properties" (new comedy series)
10:00 p.m. "20/20"
SATURDAY:
8:00 p.m. "ABC Movie of the Week"
SUNDAY:
7:00 p.m. "America's Funniest Home Videos"
8:00 p.m. "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition"
9:00 p.m. "Desperate Housewives"
10:00 p.m. "Grey's Anatomy"
Descriptions:
"Commander-in-Chief" Mackenzie Allen (Geena Davis) has a lot on her plate- twin teenagers and a six-year-old at home, an ambitious husband at the office, and she is about to become the first female President of the United States.
"Freddie" Freddie is a young, successful chef with his own restaurant, a stylish bachelor pad and a trust fund baby for a best friend. The world should be Freddie's oyster at this stage in life, but bachelorhood isn't working out exactly as he envisioned.
"Hot Properties" In a Manhattan real estate office, four very different women cater to high-end clients while coping with their own personal predicaments.
"Invasion" For centuries man has searched the skies for signs of intelligent life... but to no avail. What if the explanation lay in the fact that aliens were already here... already among us? And what if all of the natural disasters we've been experiencing of late were smokescreens designed to mask something far more ominous?
"The Night Stalker" When a pregnant woman is snatched from her home, the shocked citizens of L.A. believe it's an act of domestic violence. But crime reporter Carl Kolchak suspects that the truth is far more complicated. That's because 18 months ago Kolchak's wife was killed in a bizarre fashion and he has been the FBI's no. 1 suspect ever since.
"Crumbs" Estranged brothers Mitch and Jody Crumb reunite in their small hometown to deal with their mother, Suzanne, who is being released from a psychiatric country club and has yet to discover that her ex-husband, Billy, is about to have a baby with his new girlfriend.
"Emily's Reasons Why Not" Emily Sanders is a successful young woman with terrific taste, great friends and a fabulous job in publishing. She didn't get to this place in life by accident. She worked hard and always followed a set of self-imposed guidelines referred to as the "Reasons."
"The Evidence" (one-hour drama) -- People lie. The evidence doesn't. It's the foundation of every conviction - with evidence, justice is possible; without evidence, guilty men walk free.
"In Justice" (one-hour drama) -- There are a lot of procedurals on the air that focus on putting people in jail. This is a show about getting them out.
very year, hundreds of innocent men and women get convicted of crimes they didn't commit.
"The Miracle Workers" The Miracle Workers are an elite team of physicians who embrace revolutionary medical treatments many never knew existed. Each week, the show will focus on a single patient with a serious medical condition and follow as this dream team of medical professionals changes his or her life forever through treatment.
"Sons & Daughters" Family is always unpredictable, so why write a family comedy when you can live dangerously and improvise instead? Like real families, you never know what will happen when you give characters total freedom.
"What About Brian" At 34, Brian is the last single guy in his group of friends: his best friend, Adam, was going to break up with picture-perfect Marjorie, but proposed instead. Brian's sister, Nic, and her boy-toy husband, Angelo, are trying hard to have kids. The bohemian Dave and Deena have three little girls and no sex life. And, like all married people, they can't wait for Brian to join their "club," though they're not exactly sure why. As for Brian, well, he's a serial monogamist but still holds out hope that one day he'll open the door and be blinded by love.
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