A Beauty. A Beast. Stars to dance with. The Headless Horseman. Ichabod Crane. Red Reddington. 2 Broke Girls. Bones. Booth. Learning how someone finally met their kids’ mother. Shirtless Wilson Bethel. The Voice. These are just a few of the things TV audiences have to look forward to in the very crowded new Monday night TV schedule, which, in the case of FOX and ABC, begins tonight.
After making our Fall schedule predictions and then analyzing every night earlier this year, KSiteTV’s Craig Byrne is again teaming up with TVHackr and ScreenFad writer Shilo Adams, asking one another a few questions about what we have to look forward to this Fall. We’ll be running a piece every day this week, aside from Saturday, because the networks have pretty much given up on Saturdays.
This article will be split onto multiple pages, with one question per page, so be sure to check the nifty pagination thing at the bottom.
Let’s go, eh?
CRAIG: I really, really hope the former, but I think I’ll take it a step further — it will do even better than The Following did. I admit I am totally biased as I loved the Sleepy Hollow pilot, but the way the show takes the familiar legend into the 21st century, paired with being one of the most diverse casts in Fall TV… I’m really pulling for it. Tom Mison and Nicole Beharie have a very Bones-and-Booth type chemistry, which I think will keep the show from falling into the trap of some other, similar launches.
That’s not to suggest that The Following isn’t good — but there was a distinct feeling, for me, that if you missed an episode or two, you were missing out. Here, I think the more casual viewer will be able to follow it, even with some continuing story lines. Now, I could see Episode 2 and find that I’m totally wrong here, but I’m hopeful.
SHILO: There will be no middle ground for Sleepy Hollow. Either it’s going to come out of the gate with guns blazing and become the Monday drama that FOX so desperately needs or it will fall flat on its face and be soundly rejected. I’m inclined to think that the prior is more likely, considering the good word-of-mouth and the very distinct, very big marketing campaign that touts the pilot as the event of the year. In a year where new dramas have been considered decidedly blah, it will garner quite a bit of attention and with the Bones pairing not as much of a head scratcher as one might think, considering that the series looks like an episode of Bones through an American Horror Story filter, both FOX dramas could help each other prosper.
FOX has to be worried, though, because if Sleepy Hollow proves to be too polarizing or doesn’t stand up against the likes of The Voice, they’ll need to do some major reshuffling so as to not harm Bones and allow themselves room to launch something else. I could maybe see it working on Friday a’la fellow supernatural procedurals Grimm, Supernatural, and Fringe, but that’s not the type of hit that FOX needs right now and I think they would look at it as a disappointment if it became solid for Friday vs. a weeknight player.
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Sleepy Hollow had excellent premiere numbers. I liked it, so hopefully people keep coming back. But oh man, I wish it was on a different night just because my DVR only records 2 shows at once.
I’ll be watching HoD, recording The Voice, watching BATB, watching Castle, checking out The Blacklist, and Sleepy Hollow will have to be watched On Demand. Or maybe I’ll watch The Voice On Demand. Haven’t figured it all out, yet.