Interesting Scheduling Notes: 2018 Version

I’ll never know when I’ll be stretched for time and needing to make a quick post of some sort in the future. What I do know is that some of what I do could be the start of a new, annual tradition of posts that I do. I might do a lot of them. Then again, I might not have time. But what I do want to make sure that I write at least three of these posts for the future any time I need them. Here is one that I thought of. What can we make note of in the future regarding the recently announced schedules of networks? Well, I thought that I would do a quick rundown.

NBC is putting all of the Chicago franchise on Wednesday. Seems like an odd thing to do. CBS has never put all of the CSI or NCIS shows on one day of the week. Why would they do such a thing? Does this make sense to people?

First, FOX cancelled American Idol. Then ABC rebooted it after it was gone a whole season. In a sort of alternating fashion, ABC cancelled Last Man Standing. Only now FOX is bringing it back after it was gone for a season. Will this continue? Will it continue with shows that I don’t like? Will The Mick or Lucifer be brought back for the 2019-2020 TV season?

While Scorpion’s cancellation makes no sense, the warning signs were there. They never aired reruns of it, which is unusual for a CBS show that they care about. They also pulled it from the schedule before May sweeps happened. While that actually isn’t unusual as it has happened before, you do have to wonder what else happened with the show that caused it to end.

With the CW airing shows on Sundays again, will anyone care enough to watch it? It has been nearly 10 years since they last aired any primetime programming on Sundays. This makes me wonder if the shows there will suffer from bad ratings or not.

Speaking of Sundays, it seems that ABC has forever changed what airs then. They must know that all of their dramas keep getting cancelled that air on that day. It makes you wonder why they ever got rid of Desperate Housewives or Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Those were much watch things that aired on those days. With American Idol being a success then, they must be beginning to change how they do things. If you keep failing, maybe you’ll try something else.

I’ll admit: this wasn’t much of a post. But I do think that I could talk about something with each network going into the season at hand. I mean, I already do this with CBS and the CW. You will see them in the future as soon as I’m able to write them. I hope to have more time this summer to write and do other things that I want to. But I’ll also be busy at some points as well. Remember that random posts could happen at any time and Saturday posts could stop with or without warning. If I move this blog to a new day of the week, I’ll let you know.

Sliver Globes Award Winners 2017

I did the nominees of this earlier. I’m now getting to the winners in this post. I will also be mentioning the nominees for best show on television relating to the year of 2017. I hope that you like this post and am glad that I could do it now instead of sharing a drinking game instead. I don’t like sharing those and will try to avoid them in the future. You may never see those again. It all depends on what I can write and when. I hope to have a lot more written in the future. As usual, the best show on television winner will come sometime later. For now, enjoy my thoughts on what the best of TV was last season.

Main awards

Best new show: The Good Doctor

Best one season show: Time after Time

Best cancelled or ending show: Time after Time

Most screwed show: Powerless

Best theme song: Hooten & the Lady

Best idea for a show: The Good Doctor

Best series premiere: Time after Time

Best series finale: Bones

Best cliffhanger ending: The Good Place

Best cliffhanger resolution: NCIS

Best cast: Bones

Best writers: 10 Days in the Valley

Best editing: The Good Doctor

Most interesting show: Time after Time

Best music in a show: Riverdale

Time well spent award: Inhumans

Most memorable: Time after Time

Most underrated TV show: Inhumans

Best retooling of a show: NCIS: Los Angeles

Shouldn’t have been cancelled award: Time after Time

Why was it a midseason replacement award: Time after Time

Best comedy-drama: Hooten & the Lady

Groundbreaking show: The Good Doctor

Best news show: CBSN: On Assignment

Best comedy: The Good Place

Best drama: Time after Time

Best PBS special: Celtic Woman: Homecoming

Best show on CBS: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Best show on ABC: Time after Time

Best show on the CW: Hooten & the Lady

Best show on NBC: The Good Place

Best show on FOX: The Gifted

Best show on any other network: Nashville

Best syndicated show: The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Best show on television nominees: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Time after Time, Hooten & the Lady, The Good Place, The Gifted, Nashville, The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Other Section

Best villain: Prometheus on Arrow

Best hero: Dr. Shawn Murphy from The Good Doctor

Best bromance: Howard and Raj from The Big Bang Theory

Best anti-hero: The lead of Shades of Blue

Best facial expressions: Alec Baldwin on Saturday Night Live

Best badass: Fitz from Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Best shocking moment: It’s actually the bad place from The Good Place

The dearly departed award: Jim Nabors

Best story arc: The search for the child from 10 Days in the Valley

Best character transformation: Eleanor Shellstrop from The Good Place

Best new character: Dr. Shawn Murphy from The Good Doctor

Most underrated character: Phil “Tandy” Miller from The Last Man on Earth

Best original song: Running Home to You from The Flash

Best crossover event: Crisis on Earth X- Arrowverse

Favorite actor: Freddie Highmore

Favorite actress: Sara Rue

Best episode yet: Michael’s Gambit from The Good Place

Best episode this year: Michael’s Gambit from The Good Place

Best season yet award: Blindspot season 3

Keeping an Eye out for Things

While I’m not sure that I can promise that I’ll never share a drinking game again, what I should do is work harder on coming up with some other type of post to share instead. It will have to have some sort of theme to it that relates to any and every unusual thing that happens on TV. Here are some examples of what to look out for.

Delays: Any time a show winds up airing later than at one point it was supposed to, the show is more or less going to end that season. It applies to one season shows too. The only season that I can think of that was delayed and wasn’t the last season was the fourth season of Community. Look at Taken when it aired this season. It was supposed to start during the fall, but didn’t start airing until the new season had begun. Now the show is officially cancelled.

No announced timeslot: This is a variant of the whole delay thing. The longer a show goes without a set time that it will air, the more likely it will end. What you’d think wouldn’t be concerning is if it suddenly shows back up in place of a cancelled show or show otherwise pulled from the schedule. That can make it dead at the end of the season as well. The longer that Shades of Blue went without a timeslot this season, the more I correctly thought that it would be cancelled later.

Hiatus: Sometimes these make sense and sometimes they don’t. Often, they will be so that another show will air in its place before it returns. Other times are more concerning. When Brooklyn Nine-Nine went on hiatus in the middle of the season, we had no idea for a while when it was coming back. It then took over the timeslot for Ghosted. With Ghosted on hiatus, you’d think that it would make sense that it doesn’t have a time to air. But the 6 to 6:30 FOX timeslot on Sundays keeps airing reruns of shows. This is a very bad sign for Ghosted, which you’d hope air the rest of its episodes in the future. I’d hope that it would, but I have no idea for sure if it will.

Late airtime: Yet another bad sign for a show is the when of a season starting. If a show ends before May starts, that can be bad. But what is normally a death sentence is when the season of a show starts in April or a bit later. You can guess that the show probably won’t last. If a show is suddenly a summer show when it never used to be, that’s a very bad sign. If a show is midseason when it used to be on during the fall all the time, that is a bad sign as well. Now there could be other reasons why there could be a change and later airtime. But more often than not, it is a bad sign.

Lack of reruns: This isn’t always a bad thing because there are some networks that normally don’t show reruns of any shows that often, if ever. But other networks, like CBS or the CW, do air reruns of shows a lot, except when they don’t. This doesn’t always mean that a show will be cancelled that season or the next season. But if they don’t show reruns of it and put something else in its place instead, then you know that they care less about it. On the flip side, any shows getting reruns outside of its timeslot in addition to what it normally gets is a show cared more about and more likely to stay around.

Bad time for new episodes: Here’s one that isn’t typically thought of that much. But there are a lot of times when new episodes of shows happen at dumb times like on Thanksgiving or New Year’s Day. Now this doesn’t mean that the show is in any danger. It could just be a lack of time for showing all of the new episodes that they want to. It may be an annoyance more than anything else. But I do think that often shows that air on bad dates are often cared about less.

Unusualness with breaking news: This one is so rare that it is hard to know how to justify explaining it. I don’t even know for sure one way or another what means what and this could be based more on what the networks do than what shows networks care more about than others. But there are different ways of handling show airing when breaking news happens. Sometimes, they will air everything and put the other shows on delay. Sometimes, they will cut out what they should have aired. If there is a special rerun of the new show, that’s not too bad. It isn’t that bad either if they put the whole thing online. But if they air it all, even with the interruptions, then you know that they care about it, even if those who put it on DVR won’t get it right.

And that’s about it for this post. I think that maybe when it works every now and then, I’ll do a randomly titled post that explains things to those who may not know as much as I do about some of the whole various nuances of scheduling and other things. What does x mean? Why is y happening? Does any of this make sense in any way? I guess that you’ll have to see in the future what I could mean.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Drinking Game

Well, I'm afraid that I don't have time to do the post I was planning on doing today as I just have not had the time to write it. So I'm sharing another drinking game idea. What's bad is that the post was time sensitive and I will not be able to make it up this year. Hopefully I'll be able to remember that I need to do it next year. You might know what it is that I'm not doing. While I wasn't wanting to share a drinking game in this blog again, I feel that there is nothing better to do this time around. So enjoy the idea of what you could do if you want to do some late night drinking while watching Stephen Colbert.

• Stephen doing something odd is a shot.
• Stephen doing something political is a shot.
• Stephen saying the word dot is a shot.
• Stephen using an invisible prop is a shot.
• Stephen doing a Trump impersonation is a shot.
• Stephen talking to the band leader is a shot.
• Stephen mentioning the Catholic faith is a shot. However, this shot can only be taken during communion if given by a pastor, priest, deacon, elder, or something of the sort.
• Any links to The Colbert Report is a shot.
• A cameo by any of the following is a shot:
• Jon Stewart
• John Oliver
• Samantha Bee
• Trevor Noah