american housewife abcWEDNESDAY
CRAIG:
 8:00 The Goldbergs; 8:30 Untitled Goldbergs Spinoff (fka Schooled); 9:00 Modern Family; 9:30 Man of the House; 10:00 A Million Little Things
SHILO:
8:00 The Goldbergs; 8:30 Untitled Goldbergs Spinoff (fka Schooled); 9:00 Modern Family; 9:30 American Housewife; 10:00 A Million Little Things

SHILO: If ABC is confident enough in the Goldbergs spinoff, I absolutely see the value in using something with that type of association on another night/in another slot. However, where there are no actual Goldbergs as series regulars (as least thus far) and the show is off-brand from what ABC tends to do, I think they’ll use the parent show to nurture the spinoff. It wouldn’t be far fetched to move the spinoff to Tuesdays if it’s enough of a breakout, or if they think The Goldbergs could launch something else, but for the time being, I think the fall will feature a Goldbergs power hour at 8:00. American Housewife isn’t super compatible with Modern Family, and didn’t take the next step after solid first season ratings, but to me, it’s boxed in by the network’s success. It would be a pretty good Roseanne lead-out, but I don’t think they’d use 8:30 on a veteran; it’d be a decent 9:00 anchor after Man of the House at 8:30, but it’s not overtly compatible with Black-ish. Maybe they’d be willing to use it Tuesdays at 9:00 and hope that Black-ish has an independent enough audience to launch a 10:00 drama (Get Christie Love?), but Black-ish‘s performance this season, and the clear adoration the network has for it, would make that a risk that I don’t know ABC would take.

As far as 10:00, I put a hope more than an expectation. ABC needs to get Designated Survivor out of this slot and they would be foolhardy in trying a procedural unless CBS or NBC makes a significant downgrade. I went with new drama A Million Little Things, which has a premise that reads like the cross-section of Desperate Housewives and This Is Us, because of the show’s buzz in the trades and ABC’s need to keep itself in the serialized content game.

CRAIG: I’ve got Man of the House on after Modern Family. They might not mix, but they might mix. We’ll see.

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