January 1 is a New Year and time for fresh starts. Those fresh starts also apply to TV Land as well with the networks shuffling up their line-ups to make sure TV watching continues to be a routine for us in the New Year. They’ll be getting rid of struggling shows, bringing in new, promising shows and otherwise just shaking up the schedule. Don’t forget to reprogram your Tivos!
NBC: Variety recently broke the news of NBC’s new TV schedule starting in January:
On Mondays starting January 5, “Superstars of Dance,” will air at 8 to 10 p.m. until its finale on Jan. 26. (It will premiere on Sunday, Jan. 4, however, with a special two hour episode.)
Ryan Seacrest’s reality show, “Momma’s Boys,” will also air at 10 -11 p.m.
Monday night staples “Chuck” and “Heroes” won’t be shown in January but will start back up again in February. Mitch Metcalf, NBC exec VP of programming planning and scheduling, told Variety that these shows don’t repeat too well so they will take a break before airing new episodes in continuous blocks.
“Law and Order: SVU” repeats will take “Life’s” place Wednesdays at 9 p.m starting Jan. 7, and “Life” will return with new episodes in February.
The new Friday line-up consists of Howie Mandel’s new reality show, “Howie Do It,” at 8-9 p.m. starting Jan. 9. Critical hit, “Friday Night Lights” returns Jan. 16 and will air at 9 p.m. “Dateline NBC” will wrap up the night at 10 p.m.
Meanwhile, “Deal or No Deal” is taking a break and will only air with specials or holiday episodes. It hasn’t been determined if the show will be cancelled or return again in a regular time slot. Other shows that are likely not to be continued include “My Own Worst Enemy,” “Lipstick Jungle” and “Crusoe.”
It has not been announced when the new show, “Kings,” as well as “Medium” and “Law and Order: Criminal Intent” will air.
And don’t forget about the weekends. “Sunday Night Football” will give way in January to specials including The Golden Globes (Jan. 11), “Saturday Night Live Film Festival” (Jan. 18), “The Last Templar” (Jan. 25-26) and “Super Bowl XLII” (Feb. 1). After these specials are over, regular series will then settle into their regular times slots on Sunday nights.
ABC: It also recently announced its new line-up per Sitcoms Online:
Tuesday nights will look different starting in December. “According to Jim” will return in December airing in the 9 p.m. hour, but in January it will start airing in the 8 p.m. hour before “Scrubs.” ABC brought new life to the hospital comedy show after NBC cancelled it. It will start airing new episodes on Jan. 6 with back-to-back episodes at 9 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
Wednesday and Thursdays are also going to look different with mysterious island survivors replacing sexy doctors. “Lost” will take “Private Practice’s” slot on Wednesdays at 9 p.m. starting Jan. 21, and the latter show will move to Thursdays where it will start airing new episodes Jan. 8. It will air at 10 p.m. after “Grey’s Anatomy” where “Life on Mars” has been. The 70s cop show will start airing in the recently cancelled “Dirty Sexy Money’s” time slot Wednesdays at 10 p.m.
It hasn’t been determined yet what will air Wednesdays at 8 p.m. where the recently canceled “Pushing Daisies” was airing.
Meanwhile, “Pushing Daisies,” “Eli Stone” and “Dirty Sexy Money” will air the rest of its 13 episodes, but ABC hasn’t ordered more.
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