SHILO: 8:00 Emerald City; 9:00 Grimm; 10:00 Dateline
CRAIG: 8:00 Emerald City; 9:00 Grimm; 10:00 Dateline
CRAIG: Emerald City has already been picked up but the early word isn’t good, so they may as well put it on Friday and see if this genre show will work. At midseason, something like The Mysteries of Laura could come back and sub in. Grimm and Dateline just plain seem to work. So far, Grimm only has a 13 episode order, so who knows what will happen to that spot at midseason.
SHILO: I face the same problem with Emerald City that I did with FOX’s similarly delayed Bordertown, in that I always think it’s going to premiere and then it gets held again. So there’s a strong likelihood that NBC will push the show to midseason and make me look dumb once again, but I do think it premiering in the fall would make sense. It shares the genre connection with Grimm, it has a hook that could allow it to be sampled (provided it has a presence in the network’s Olympic marketing), and in addition to event-izing the show, its 10-episode order would turn it into a bridge of sorts, allowing something else (The Mysteries of Laura?) to premiere sometime in 2017.
I do wonder if NBC could keep its comedy hour here with The Carmichael Show and another multi-cam, given that the network has made no secret that they want a stronger comedic presence on their schedule. What stopped me from putting that on my schedule, though, is that NBC has gone above and beyond in order to protect The Carmichael Show (i.e. its lead-ins have been America’s Got Talent, The Voice, and Little Big Shots), so I didn’t think that they would move it to Friday unprotected, especially since it’s never shown the ratings might that would allow it to survive such a move.
