ABC knows how quickly success comes and goes in the TV world. Last year at this time, it was a network that was drowning and there was no life ring in sight. Now it owns five of the 15 most watched shows. So what do you when you’re on top? Keep pushing.
The Alphabet dumped “Eyes” and “Blind Justice,” a pair of ambitious new dramas that just didn’t pull in the ratings. “Eyes,” I think, should have been given another chance. Only five of its 13 episodes even aired before the network pulled the plug.
But some of the new shows on the slate look very promising, including “Commander In Chief,” starring Geena Davis. The show is about Mackenzie Allen, a female vice president who is about to take the highest office in the land despite the objections of her own party and the dying president. It also stars Donald Sutherland and is created, produced and directed by Rod Lurie (“Line of Fire”).
“Hot Properties” takes the female-perspective lead of “Desperate Housewives.” It’s a half-hour comedy about four women who work in a real estate office in Manhattan.
“Invasion” is an ambitious drama about evolution through the story of an alien takeover that’s starting, of all places, in Florida. (Insert your own jokes here).
“Emily’s Reasons Why Not” will begin after “Monday Night Football” ends and stars Heather Graham as the title character, a “successful young woman with
terrific taste, great friends and a fabulous job in publishing,” ABC says. She’s reached her success by following her “reasons” why not to do things and things get turned upside down when she gets involved with the wrong guy.
“Lost” will move to 9 p.m. Wednesday from its 8 p.m. slot.
“Boston Legal moves to 10 p.m. Tuesdays to make room for “Grey’s Anatomy” to stay on at 10 p.m. Sundays.
“Jake in Progress” returns at 9:30 p.m. Mondays. The show didn’t get great ratings, but Stephen McPhearson, president of ABC Entertainment, said it wasn’t given a fair chance. “We feel like it was a great show that probably by our own doing didn’t get the shot is deserved,” McPhearson said at a teleconference Tuesday morning. “We could have done a better job in getting it the launch it deserved.”
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