I haven't seen the press release, but these dates have been officially announced -- just saw the official press release, it's identical to what was already posted, but note dates for Eastwick, Private Practice and Brothers & Sisters were not included in today's announcement.
ABC ANNOUNCES FALL PREMIERE DATES
ABC announced the following premiere dates for the 2009-10 season today. Additional premieres will be announced at a later date. All times listed are ET.
Saturday, September 5
8:00-11:30 p.m. “Saturday Night Football”
Friday, September 11
10:00-11:00 p.m. “20/20”
Monday, September 21
8:00-10:00 p.m. “Dancing with the Stars”
10:00-11:00 p.m. “Castle”
Tuesday, September 22
8:00-10:00 p.m. “Dancing with the Stars” (special two-hour episode)
10:00-11:00 p.m. “The Forgotten”
Wednesday, September 23
8:00-9:00 p.m. “Dancing with the Stars the Results Show” (special day and time)
9:00-9:30 p.m. “Modern Family”
9:30-10:00 p.m. “Cougar Town”
Thursday, September 24
8:00-9:00 p.m. “FlashForward”
9:00-10:00 p.m. “Grey’s Anatomy”
Sunday, September 27
7:00-9:00 p.m. “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” (two-hour season premiere)
9:00-10:00 p.m. “Desperate Housewives”
Tuesday, September 29
8:00-9:00 p.m. “Shark Tank”
9:00-10:00 p.m. “Dancing with the Stars the Results Show” (regular day & time period premiere)
Wednesday, September 30
8:00-8:30 p.m. “Hank”
8:30-9:00 p.m. “The Middle”
Sunday, October 4
7:00-8:00 p.m. "America's Funniest Home Videos"
8:00-9:00 p.m. "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" (regular time period premiere)
Friday, October 9
8:00-10:00 p.m. "Ugly Betty" (two-hour season premiere)
Friday, October 16
8:00-9:00 p.m. "Supernanny"
9:00-10:00 p.m. "Ugly Betty" (regular time period premiere)
awesome 5 hours of dwts
First week 5, next ones 4 hours of that crap. That’s frakked up, seriously.
btw, alert e-mailer noticed a few progs missing Brothers & Sisters, Private Practice and Eastwick. We’ll post the full sched, when it is released.
What do you think Nick C?
DWTS is only 5hrs for the first week, then it returns to its normal 3. It looks like “Shark Tank” will end its run on 9/15, so what is ABC airing at Tues 8pm?
That’s a lot of Dancing With The Stars although I don’t suppose you can fault the logic at work – give your new shows a strong lead-in for their debuts but five hours of Dancing in the first week seems incredibly excessive. And Alde it goes from five hours to the ‘normal’ three hours of Dancing a week after the first week of the schedule.
omfg where is shark tank?
star title, as previously announced Shark Tank is airing Tuesday 8pm 8/9 to 9/15.
star title: my bad. I’d left it off initially because of some airings in August, but its official fall premiere now included above is on Tuesday 9/29
I will be watching:
- The Forgotten
- Flash Foward
- Hank
- The Middle
- Cougar Town
Since they recast Rupert Penry-Jones, I won’t be watching The Forgotten.
Victor Hugo, you’re missing the one really good comedy on that list.
That much DWTS is ridiculous, lead in or no lead in. If they’re not careful, they’ll pull a Millionaire and the audiences might get sick of this show.
It’s the same amount of DWTS as last year. the first week there is more, but ABC has scheduled it that way before/ But then, Mondays 8p-10p and Tuesdays 9p-10p, just like last Spring.
None of ABC’s new shows sounds particularly promising. But since I usually give at least the one hour dramas a chance (then drop most within a couple of weeks; I write off most sitcoms anyway), I’m willing to try, though I’m far from enthusiastic (same goes for all of NBC and CBS’s freshmen dramas).
I have read raving reviews of some of the sitcoms – Modern Family, the Middle, Hank, Cougar Town. I may try them, but I think Hank stars Kelsey Grammer, who I personally can’t stand, so I’m unsure about that one.
DWTS – a puking emoricon would have been handy here. 5 hours of THAT? that’s fine, I’ll be watching something else.
I will watch Greys as usual but none of the others appeal. Like Julia, I would have watched Forgotten because of Rupert Penry Jones but will give it a miss now.
What about Friday? When does UGLY BETTY start?
Where’s Ugly Betty!!!
Like Karen and Julia, without Rupert P.-J. I have no interest in The Forgotten…
5 hours of DWTS ?????????????????????????????????????
I noticed ABC has another show this summer called SUPER STARS…oh really???
So if they have “Stars” on DWTS…then Super Stars would be more popular…and I saw a clip of it and recogonized nobody…if they were soooooo “SUPER” why haven’t they done any “Name Dropping”…please over hyped crap from so called atheltes & B rated people on TV….another Zzzzzzzzzzzzz for sure!