FRIDAY
CRAIG: 8:00 Blindspot; 9:00 The Blacklist; 10:00 Dateline
SHILO: 8:00 Midnight, Texas; 9:00 The Blacklist; 10:00 Dateline
CRAIG: In a perfect world, Timeless would be here. Realistically, though, I think NBC will ride out some veterans, and that means more Blindspot, more Blacklist, and more Dateline.
SHILO: My first Hot Take of our upfronts coverage this year. With Blindspot being unowned, putting up soft ratings, and recently downgraded by The Hollywood Reporter’s Broadcast TV Score Card, I really think that NBC could let it go or, at the very least, shift it to later in the season. Their partial ownership of The Blacklist, which still has some life in it and could help Dateline more than Taken did, as well as their relationship with James Spader keep the Sony-produced show on the fall schedule one more time. As far as Midnight, Texas, production isn’t set to begin until July, putting it in line for a fall premiere. Couple that with Charlaine Harris, author of the book series the show is based upon, mentioning a possible October premiere and boom – NBC goes back to supernatural shows after putting Grimm out to pasture. In addition to being owned by NBC, the series is helped out by its lengthy hiatus, as a late midseason berth could have it on the cusp of being off air for two years and I don’t think the network would want to risk that. Where I don’t think they would, say, put it after The Voice a’la The Night Shift, I think we’ll see it in the fall.
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Part of why they didn’t want to move This Is Us was because of the interruption of Thursday Night Football. With one more solid season under its belt, a post-Super Bowl ep and ThNF now on FOX, I don’t see any reason for them to not move it.