WEDNESDAY:
SHILO: 8:00 Law & Order: SVU; 9:00 Shades of Blue; 10:00 Chicago PD

CRAIG: 8:00 Shades of Blue; 9:00 Law & Order: SVU; 10:00 Chicago PD
ACTUAL SCHEDULE: 8:00 The Mysteries of Laura; 9:00 Law & Order: SVU; 10:00 Chicago PD
SHILO: What’s entertaining about Mysteries of Laura’s scheduling is that it was very clearly placed on Wednesdays to blunt the Empire impact. NBC thought that FOX would move the hip-hop soap to 8:00 and understandably didn’t want to launch anything in that hour. Yet now, the 8:00 hour will be fractional pretty quickly into the fall and Law & Order: SVU will take the brunt of the Empire effect, thereby weakening the night as a whole. If any broadcast net follows ABC’s lead and calls an audible on a shaky night, I think that NBC would be in the right to shuffle their Wednesdays, because otherwise, this might be the biggest surrender night on their schedule.
CRAIG: Here’s a mystery for you: How did Grace Adler Solves A Mystery get renewed? To be fair, I’m more interested in that than I am in Heartbreaker, but that one shocks me. Or maybe I’m just bitter that Constantine didn’t get a second season. Anyway, business as usual, I guess. I don’t see Wednesday nights growing, but I don’t see them falling much further either.
I’m also still not convinced FOX ever planned to move Empire to 8 – we’ll have to disagree on that – so the notion that The Mysteries of Laura was renewed just to die at the hands of Cookie Lyon isn’t a thing I really believe in…. unless there was something said about it that I was just not paying attention to.
Besides, if NBC really wanted to kill Laura, they’d bring her old pal Jack – Sean Hayes – who has killed two shows in the last two TV seasons, becoming a Ted McGinley for the 21st century. (Hayes has been quite successful as a producer, though.)
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