Maybe Trauma fans will embrace Jay Leno at 11:35pm? The post Leno scrambling seems to have netted Trauma fans more episodes, getting an order for four additional episodes and taking it up to a 20 episode season.
Law & Order: SVU got two additional episodes taking it up to 24 for the season. Parks & Recreation also got an additional two episodes to take it up to 24. Community got an order for an additional three episodes, stretching its season to 25 episodes.
Update: Law & Order also received three additional episodes bringing it up to 20 for the season. The Office will also be adding additional episodes, stretching its 6th season to 25 episodes.
Glad about SVU and PR and Community. Trauma is a terrible show. But I guess NBC has to fill up the rest of this TV season. I doubt anyting other than SVU will be around next season unless the comedies pick up some momentum
NBC should have ordered more episodes of Heroes to give it a proper finale in case it gets canceled.
Is that any indication NBC is moving Trauma to a 10pm slot (where you expect such show to be at)?
Community is awesome.
what about Mercy? any word on what is happening with that show? I actually think it is a really good show!
Marcos, unless I missed something, no. NBC already announced its post Leno schedule and Trauma wasn’t at 10pm. But pushing the stuff they pushed to 10pm was bound to create some holes elsewhere in the schedule.
Ha ha ha ha ha! Trauma is so sucktastic, it should have been dead and gone months ago. NBC must just want to keep me amused.
Joe I actually like the show but think it suffers from uncharismatic unrootable characters. I think if they recast or rid the show of a couple of them, it could be a really decent show. Not on the caliber of an ER but then what is.
Joe, Mercy already got its back nine pick up to get to 22 episodes for this season. I haven’t heard anything about additional episodes beyond that.
Why does Community have more episodes than Parks??
Great news for P&R, Community. Trauma seems like quite an expensive show, doesn’t it? And it keeps getting additional episodes instead of a cancellation notice. Strange.
YES TRAUMA! HUGE NEWS! Glad to hear it. Back in the fall I started watching Trauma and ignored Mercy, then when NBC started paying attention to the latter I had to check it out for myself. Frankly this move surprises me, as Mercy surely has more potential.
Isn’t 25 episodes for a new comedy kinda unheard of? Does this bode well on its renewal then? I’m talking about Community of course. I love the show and am stoked about this but I definitely wasn’t expecting it.
Fine… no one else has said it yet so I’ll be the first:
What about more episodes for Chuck?
Muhahahahaa……:-)
I don’t think 25 episodes is unheard of — certainly less unheard of than stripping a talk show Mon-Fri at 10pm and then getting rid of it in the middle of the season.
I wouldn’t read anything additional into show’s renewal prospects for next year as a result of this, but that’s just me.
I think this is an anomaly with 5 hours of primetime slots vaporizing for NBC. So a 25 episode order in these circumstances might not mean as much as Community fans are hoping… NBC just needs content. Surely 2 months ago they intended on cutting Trauma ASAP.
Law and Order also got 3 more episodes according to the THR Feed:
http://www.thrfeed.com/2010/01/nbc-orders-more-trauma-parks-lo-more.html
NBC liked Community and P&R so it’s not surprising. They’re also performing fairly steady in their hour (not great, but the 2.1-2.4 demo they average is decent) — so it’s not that surprising. With everything else sinking so horribly across the board they need to rely on what little success they have.
That’s too bad but I see what you guys are saying. Good news nonetheless.
I’m sorry, but I tried to watch Parks and Recreation a number of times and could not stand to see more than about 10 minutes before I turned off the TV. I do not like Amy Poehler, and think the show to be awful. Community I can watch for about 15 minutes before turning off the TV. I try, I really do, but these shows are the equivalent of nails on a blackboard for me. The rest of the Thursday comedy lineup on NBC is fine.