Desperate Housewives vs. The Good Wife! CSI vs. SVU! With CBS having announced its schedule this morning, here’s how the Big Four broadcasters are stacking up their new shows for fall with a chart that adds a whole new dimension to the individual network schedule announcements we’ve been reporting this week (The CW will be unveiled Thursday and, let’s face it, they’re not about to challenge The X Factor for time period dominance).
ALSO, NEW SHOW TRAILERS: ABC, Fox, NBC, CBS (CW not released yet).
| MONDAY | ||||||
| Time | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
| CBS | How I Met Your Mother | 2 Broke Girls | Two and a Half Men | Mike & Molly | Hawaii Five-O | |
| NBC | The Sing-Off | The Playboy Club | ||||
| FOX | Terra Nova | House | ||||
| ABC | Dancing with the Stars | Castle | ||||
| CW | Gossip Girl (NT) | Hart of Dixie | ||||
| TUESDAY | ||||||
| Time | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
| CBS | NCIS | NCIS: Los Angeles | Unforgettable | |||
| NBC | The Biggest Loser | Parenthood | ||||
| FOX | Glee | New Girl | Raising Hope (NT) | |||
| ABC | Last Man Standing | Man Up | Dancing with the Stars (Results Show) | Body of Proof | ||
| CW | 90210 (NT) | Ringer | ||||
| WEDNESDAY | ||||||
| Time | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
| CBS | Survivor: South Pacific | Criminal Minds | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (NT) | |||
| NBC | Up All Night | Free Agents | Harry’s Law (NT) | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | ||
| FOX | The X-Factor (Performance Show) |
I Hate My Teenage Daughter | ||||
| ABC | The Middle | Suburgatory | Modern Family | Happy Endings | Revenge | |
| CW | H8R | America’s Next Top Model | ||||
| THURSDAY | ||||||
| Time | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
| CBS | The Big Bang Theory | How to Be a Gentleman | Person of Interest | The Mentalist | ||
| NBC | Community | Parks and Recreation (NT) | The Office | Whitney | Prime Suspect | |
| FOX | The X-Factor (Results Show) | Bones | ||||
| ABC | Charlies Angels | Grey’s Anatomy | Private Practice | |||
| CW | The Vampire Diaries | The Secret Circle | ||||
| FRIDAY | ||||||
| Time | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
| CBS | A Gifted Man | CSI: NY | Blue Bloods | |||
| NBC | Chuck (NT) | Grimm | Dateline | |||
| FOX | Kitchen Nightmares | Fringe | ||||
| ABC | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (NT) | Shark Tank (NT) | 20/20 | |||
| CW | Nikita (NT) | Supernatural | ||||
| SATURDAY | ||||||
| Time | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
| CBS | Rules of Engagement (NT) | Comedytime Saturday | Crimetime Saturday | 48 Hours Mystery | ||
| NBC | Encore Programming | |||||
| FOX | Cops | America’s Most Wanted / Encore Programming | ||||
| ABC | Saturday Night Football | |||||
| SUNDAY | ||||||
| Time | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
| CBS | 60 Minutes (at 7) / The Amazing Race | The Good Wife (NT) | CSI: Miami | |||
| NBC | Football Night in America (Airs 7 – 8:15) | NBC Sunday Night Football (Airs 8:15 – 11:30) | ||||
| FOX | The Simpsons | Allen Gregory | Family Guy | American Dad | ||
| ABC | America’s Funniest Home Videos (at 7) / Once Upon a Time | Desperate Housewives | Pan Am | |||
| KEY: ABC: PINK | CBS: BLUE | FOX: ORANGE | NBC: GREEN | CW: PURPLE Note: New shows highlighted in red | NT: New Time Slot |
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Desperate Housewives vs The Good Wife. Trashy, sex-obsessed soap opera vs trashy, sex-obsessed soap opera. The viewers are the losers
If you think TGW is a “trashy, sex-obsessed soap opera” then you haven’t seen the show. Fact.
I STOPPED watching The Good Wife because it was becoming trashy sex-obessed soap opera.
LOL, you haven’t watched a single episode of The Good Wife.. haven’t you?
…actually it’s “have you”…but I get your point!
If you don’t like them, don’t watch them!
thank u shelly
He has watched The Good Wife and he aint liking it. Hes just pissed cause he loves Family Guy/American Dad
Well they just lost me for The Good Wife by moving it to Sundays because they will be airing it directly opposite of True Blood, won’t be skipping that show to continue watching The Good Wife and won’t bother DVR’ing it either…it wasn’t that important to me to watch as it was.
I’m guessing True Blood’s season will be mainly wrapped up by the time TGF kicks off in the fall, since True Blood starts at the end of June.
Isn’t True Blood on during the summer?
Sorry, that was supposed to be “TGW” for The Good Wife!
Think it’s June 25 or so and only 13 eps. So it won’t overlap.
True blood will start in June, and with 12 episodes only, it should be finished by September.
Ya it’s not like True Blood doesn’t repeat 10x during the week.
Yep, True Blood will be over by mid-September so there shouldn’t be any overlap.
True Blood aires during the summer, you obviously don’t watch, it just ended!
TVLINE.COM IS QUICKLY BECOMING A BETTER SOURCE FOR INFO THAN EW.COM
is that you ausiello?
Desperate Housewife’s is a soap opera. But The Good Wife in not even close to being a soap. Just because a show is serialized, does not make it a soap. Jeez, learn your terms.
That’s a really confusingly designed chart.
No UPN lineup? Total weaksauce!
My thought as well although it’s not UPN it’s the CW. I like a couple of shows on CW and would have liked to see what they are up against. Still disappointed there is no Cougar Town til midseason!
WTF??? Why is Cougar Town getting a midseason start?
He said in the article that the CW releases their schedule Thursday so it’s not on here yet.
UPN? You mean CW.
It is confusing. And they duplicated CBS’s Tuesday and Wednesday schedule. It’s either that or I didn’t realize Survivor was going to be shown two times per week.
Thanks for this!
Thanks guys for listening when we said we wanted a chart! Awesome!
It’s been updated now— Thx EW!
Where are the days of the week? I don’t understand this chart.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Everyone learns that when they are young. You must be a slow learner.
Oh you meant on the chart… well that’s the same as above.
The channels are
CBS, then NBC, then ABC, then Fox the open space after Fox is the break for the next day.
I learned mine from Happy Days.
Except everyone learns when they’re young that it’s Sunday,Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday… Which this chart is not in.
But hey, who am I to point out simple facts to you when you’re getting me to give your trolling post a comment?
Bottom line: the chart isn’t very good and needs some revamping. Charts (as we learn in middle school) should always be labeled on both the vertical and horizontal axes (which as you should’ve learned in school is the plural of axis.)
I won’t call you slow though I will suggest your memory is poor.
@ Lil Jo- knock it off! That chart was confusing and annoying and some ppl start the week off w/ Sundays on spreadsheets so THERE!
Actually they pretty much always start with Monday on these kinds of charts. Not very confusing at all.
Today’s kids are learning the days of the week from Rebecca Black. Well, the days that come after “Friday”, anyway.
@ lisa G
It was a JOKE!!! lighten up. I knew what the scorpo was saying. I agreed, hence why I added in the info on what the OLD chart meant (they’ve since changed it)
Sunday is the 7th day. God rested.
lol
It would be nice if this chart included the network names, or a key for the colors, or some indication of where the days are separated…
right! If only . . .
you’re missing days on side; plus file name reads “CBS” when you click on image.
BUTTON UP! ha
This chart is incomplete.
Nice chart – but you forgot Chartmaking 101 – there is no legend to identify which line is which network
Replaced, you picky chart critics, you …
Yea, god forbid someone should think a little and figure it out. What night is Sunday night football? What network has Simpsons been on for 20 years, OH theyre in order of how the channels appear!
moving ‘The Good Wife’ to Sunday night is the stupidest move!!! you go screwing around with the TV schedules, then they wonder why they loss viewers!!! Dah!!
Agreed!
Also, do not forget all those football over-runs so TGW will probably start closer to ten est.
Agreed moving TGW to Sunday is got to be one of the stupidest moves CBS has done. It will definetley loose viewers. I really hope it dosen’t bhecause it really is a good show.
Put The Good Wife back on Tuesday where it belongs! Does CBS think that their shows are so good that it doesn’t matter WHERE they put them people will watch? When the Good Wife’s rating fall below 5 million, then maybe they will get a clue.
I like the move to Sundays. I haven’t been watching TGW because Tuesdays are too crowded, but there’s nothing else to watch on Sundays. Welcome to my to-watch list, Alicia and Will.
Ace – highly recommend you check out seasons 1 & 2 before next fall’s premiere of TGW season 3. best show on network tv, in my opinion, and so layered – really worth watching from the beginning.
Dear EW – please make your own chart that is more user friendly. ALSO – please find out what the HELL is going on with 30 Rock and Cougar Town. WHERE ARE THEY?
Cougar Town will air on Tuesdays with Apt. 23 when Dancing with the stars ends.
30 Rock is coming back as midseason since Tina Fey is pregnant.
EW ALREADY reported on the status of 30 Rock and Cougar Town in the individual articles about NBC’s and ABC’s new schedules. They’re both coming back as mid-season replacements. 30 Rock was delayed because of Tina Fey’s pregnancy, and Cougar Town was delayed because the heads of ABC are idiots.
LOL! They’re all idiots.
@Brittany- I agree! What a horrible chart. EW, get on Excel and make/post ur own. This one gives me a headache!
The CW may not get time period dominance via the ratings but I will be watching more shows from that network than any other network.
That just means you have bad taste!
good god are you people morons. I mean seriously, if you are unable to figure this chart out then you shouldnt own a computer.
Beyond that, its so sad to see what TV has become. Yes there are some decent shows, but overall its a bunch of crap. While good shows continue to get canceled,crappy mind melting B.S. like American Idol , Dancing with the stars and X-Factor dominate. The decline of civilization. Just like the fall of the Roman empire.
it’s not that ppl cant figure it out; you shouldnt have to study a chart to make sense of it about a freakin tv schedule! it was horrible and everyone (incl EW) knows it! Get off ur hi horse partna.
Um, I agree with traffic light Lisa. though it sounds like EW made some changes so it looked a lot worse before. I’ll excuse everyone’s ignorance at not being able to read the chart because I don’t know what it looked like before all the complaints. Love your name BTW lol.
OMG! a hint of intelligence. Chart, readable. TV has been a drag, agreed. Taking it as a sign to get up off the couch and do some daily required exercise.
I’m excited about fall TV for a change. Lots of good shows to sample. The competition is fierce; that’s why they invented dvr’s and online viewing. Can’t wait!
Agree their should be a legend but if you know what stations ur favorite show is on it not hard to figure out
Red: is ABC
Orange: is Fox
Blue: is NBC
Yellow: is CBS
So I’m guessing by the chart football is moving to NBC and won’t interfere with CBS shows on sundays anymore? Or will football still be show on CBS but at an earlier time?
Sunday Night Football is different than late afternoon games that run long. CBS and FOX will both still have occasional run-overs.
NBC will air Sunday Night Football (as usual) from the start of the season (september 11th) until around the beginning of January… assuming of course that there IS a season this year…
Definitely a woman.
@ Leigh- wow at ur question about football and you had the NERVE to get all elitist about figuring the chart out. smh….
I’m not getting too excited about the new shows. I think that I will wait until they actually get renewed for a second season (or are allowed to complete their first season), and then I can just watch season 1 on DVD. I am really sick of putting my time into new shows that get cancelled right away.
Agree- Off The Map was interesting and is gone once they just started to scratch the surface. Happy Endings was mind boggling
this is the reason why they get canceled. because people are finding others ways to watch. i’m guilty as charged, depending on my TiVo and all, but don’t complain about a problem where you’re part of the cause.