Category — Fall TV Sked

Fall TV Sked: Vet CBS laffer replaces ‘Stones’ on fall sked — Things just keep looking up for the few, the proud, the “Becker” fans. The Ted Danson laffer – which hadn’t even been renewed until a few weeks ago – has now landed a spot on CBS’ fall schedule.

Fall TV Sked: Show landed in top 15 when airing after ‘Raymond’ — Ted Danson’s cranky Dr. John Becker hasn’t shut down his practice after all. After a month of speculation regarding the fate of the CBS sitcom “Becker,” Eye execs confirmed Monday the network had ordered 13 episodes for next season.

Fall TV Sked: Fox, NBC will challenge ‘Raymond’ on Mondays — The fall’s 36 new offerings, combined with more sked shuffling of returning series than we’ve seen in years, has created some intriguing matchups.

Fall TV Sked: ‘Mullets,’ ‘Sex,’ ‘Baby’ among new fall shows — Call it the unvertically integrated net: Viacom-owned UPN has ordered four new comedies for its fall schedule — all from Warner Bros. Television.

Fall TV Sked: Rival nets plot how to take over Thursday night — NBC is about to lose its “Friends” — and the Peacock’s enemies are scrambling already to figure out how they can thrive once Central Perk serves up its last latte.

Fall TV Sked: Channel programs ‘fun’ fare — ABC Family’s prescription for seriously run-down ratings is heavy doses of original programming, led by a group of fresh reality series and eight made-for-cable movies.

Fall TV Sked: Mediocre ratings are rewarded with pickups — With primetime ratings hitting all-time lows, it’s more difficult than ever to know when to cheer — and when to panic.

Fall TV Sked: Alphabet signs ‘You,’ ‘Family Affair’ to full season — ABC has booked another year of “NYPD Blue,” picking up the Steven Bochco cop drama for an 11th season.

Fall TV Sked: Alphabet picks up, shuffles as other nets tinker, too — ABC believes “Less Than Perfect” is more than fine, ordering a full season of the frosh Tuesday night laffer from Touchstone Television.

Fall TV Sked: The first three episodes show the potential and the potential downfall of NBC’s “Boomtown.” Premise is simple — a crime as seen from various points of view — and the execution runs from the mundane to the brilliant.

Fall TV Sked: A lightweight charmer, ABC’s “That Was Then” takes most of its cues from “Back to the Future” while hitting some clever notes of its own. One of the fall season’s two time-travel series, along with the WB’s “Do Over,” show is poignant and smart, and its cast is a pleasant lot that mixes unknowns with vet thesps Bess Armstrong and Jeffrey Tambor.

Fall TV Sked: Robbery Homicide Division” has a team that makes CBS’ gritty cop drama look like nothing else on network television.

Fall TV Sked: What is likely NBC’s biggest clunker of the season is plopped into the “Will & Grace”-”ER” Thursday hammock, benefiting neither show. Based on “Good Morning, Miami’s” opening dud of a joke, viewers may be hitting the remote in droves to escape the banality of what appears to be the Peacock’s version of “The Jeff Zucker Story.”

Fall TV Sked: With “Haunted,” Matthew Fox is exorcising the ghost of “Party of Five’s” Charlie Salinger. UPN drama has a comfy post-”Buffy the Vampire Slayer” timeslot that offers auds a tempting two-hour adrenaline fix.

Fall TV Sked: UPN has the opportunity to achieve crossover success with “Half and Half,” a family sitcom that, like ABC’s “My Wife in Kids,” explores universal experiences through a predominately black cast.

Fall TV Sked: As networks peer into HBO’s groundbreaking series for inspiration sitcoms like “Hidden Hills” are bound to happen. Laffer finds its inspiration in “The Mind of the Married Man,” cleans it up a little and presents a look at family life, full of drooling, sex-crazed men; overworked mothers; and the hot mom down the street who runs a porn Web site.

Fall TV Sked: Nets’ Monday night sees new skeins — CBS hasn’t had much luck in capping its otherwise strong Monday lineup in recent years: It’s tried big-city doctors (”L.A. Doctors”), cops (”Brooklyn South”) and lawyers (”Family Law”), but each has produced limp ratings.

Fall TV Sked: Blightly dramas, science series among p’gramming — Like many of the commercial channels, PBS is offering its version of comfort food to keep its longtime viewers from grabbing the remote control.

Fall TV Sked: Weblet optimistic despite distrib shakeup — UPN launches its fall season Wednesday with a slightly weaker distribution system than a year ago, but network officials don’t expect to take much of a hit.

Fall TV Sked: Fall shows aim for critical mass rather than critical approval — Earlier this summer, ABC topper Lloyd Braun summed up the Alphabet’s fall programming strategy by saying he would “leave the groundbreaking to someone else.” He’s not alone. They’d never admit it, but in offices all over Hollywood and Burbank, Braun’s Big Six colleagues were silently nodding their heads in approval.

Fall TV Sked: With “Haunted,” Matthew Fox is exorcising the ghost of “Party of Five’s” Charlie Salinger. UPN drama has a comfy post-”Buffy the Vampire Slayer” timeslot that offers auds a tempting two-hour adrenaline fix.

Fall TV Sked: UPN has the opportunity to achieve crossover success with “Half and Half,” a family sitcom that, like ABC’s “My Wife in Kids,” explores universal experiences through a predominately black cast.

Fall TV Sked: As networks peer into HBO’s groundbreaking series for inspiration sitcoms like “Hidden Hills” are bound to happen. Laffer finds its inspiration in “The Mind of the Married Man,” cleans it up a little and presents a look at family life, full of drooling, sex-crazed men; overworked mothers; and the hot mom down the street who runs a porn Web site.

Fall TV Sked: A lightweight charmer, ABC’s “That Was Then” takes most of its cues from “Back to the Future” while hitting some clever notes of its own. One of the fall season’s two time-travel series, along with the WB’s “Do Over,” show is poignant and smart, and its cast is a pleasant lot that mixes unknowns with vet thesps Bess Armstrong and Jeffrey Tambor.

Fall TV Sked: Robbery Homicide Division” has a team that makes CBS’ gritty cop drama look like nothing else on network television.