Continuing our hour by hour coverage of the fall schedule, we move to Friday nights at 10pm. Grizzled veteran 20/20 (and I do mean grizzled, this will be the show's 33rd season) takes on scripted newcomers Outlaw on NBC and Blue Bloods on CBS.
Friday Nights 9pm-10pm:
| FRIDAY | 10:00p | 10:30p |
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20/20 | |
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Blue Bloods New | |
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Outlaw New |
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Who'll Win?
After the fall premiere dust settles, the easy pick is the unscripted 20/20 with Blue Bloods in second and Outlaw in last. The question I have is how much pent-up demand is there for Tom Selleck, who is not a stranger to the fairly recent Friday night broadcast television landscape.
Selleck joined the cast of NBC's Las Vegas for its fifth and final season (2007-08). It's easy to say, "How'd that pent-up demand work out for Las Vegas?" But, CBS has had much better success with procedural shows than NBC. Indeed, even if I didn't know what the shows were about, CBS over NBC is the easy pick. But CBS over ABC?
I'm sticking with the easy pick of 20/20, but I'm very curious to see how Blue Bloods performs.
Fans of both Outlaw & Blue Bloods who check the ratings are likely to say things like, "of course hardly anybody 18-49 watches it, it's on Friday nights at 10pm! Just wait for the DVR numbers..." But those are exactly the sort of comments that make me wonder how much longer we'll see two scripted shows in the Friday 10pm time slot...or even one.
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This is Friday 10-11 lol.
I think Blue Bloods will win the hour, followed by 20/20 then Outlaw coming 3rd.
the curse of reusing last week’s template strikes again! fixed.
Blue Bloods is a serialized show on CBS i doubt it’ll last
Blue Bloods wins hands down. Probably 7-10M viewers and 1.7-2.0 in the demos. You can’t go wrong with Tom and his mustache, especially as Chief of Police in NYC.
is it really serialized or is it just a procedural with serialized elements (e.g. The Good Wife, The Closer, Burn Notice, etc)?
is it really serialized or is it just a procedural with serialized elements (e.g. The Good Wife, The Closer, Burn Notice, etc)?
I wouldnt rule out Outlaw on not being a sleeper on friday nights this fall.
I read on Deadline.com a month or so ago that Ken Sanzel (former Numb3rs showrunner), the original showrunner, quit because of conflicts with Selleck on the scripts. He wanted to make the show a weekly procedural, but Selleck wanted it more character-driven serial.
I read on Deadline.com a month or so ago that Ken Sanzel (former Numb3rs showrunner), the original showrunner, quit because of conflicts with Selleck on the scripts. He wanted to make the show a weekly procedural, but Selleck wanted it more character-driven serial.
If I had to guess, they are probably going to make Blue Bloods like The Good Wife.
it certainly has a procedural element but it’s also going alot more serialized/soapy than The Closer and The Good Wife, the pilot ends with a big twist and all not the typical CBS show
Good Wife is not exactly “Lost” or “Damages” or “24.” I can (and did!) watch that out of order and while perhaps not optimal it definitely didn’t impede my ability to watch it and enjoy it.
didn’t NCIS end its season on a cliffhanger?
I’m curious how the American public will react to Outlaw. Its premise is less realistic than most science fiction shows. I mean that literally: it is more likely that humans will go to war with robots than a hard-drinking, gambling, womanizing Supreme Court justice will step down from the bench to re-try cases he’s already ruled on as a sitting justice.
If only we could combine the premises and get a show about a Supreme Court justice who fights robots!
blue bloods has the best lead in
if you say so, i dont really follow procedurals (except Lie to Me), only shows on CBS i watched regularly were Worst Week, Moonlight and Harper’s Island. Blue Bloods isn’t 24 serialized but i see it as serialized as say Smallville or Grey’s Anatomy
They say Outlaw is the worst of the new fall pilots. I have a feeling Blue Bloods will get bunches of viewers. Selleck and CBS seem to be a good fit.
Blue Bloods has a strong cast especially with Selleck. Actually, I think BB may get more viewers than its lead-in CSI NY. 20/20 and Outlaw will be a draw. Outlaw just looks horrible. Won’t last past November.
Its good to see some scripted fare in this hour on a Friday Night between two networks and its new scripted fare so its numbers will be unpredictable.
For Blue Bloods this show looks like a winner with a great cast and original concept. Its hard to come up with original concepts for procedurals now in days so hopefully Blue Bloods gets a good amount of the CSI: NY audience. There’s some serialized elements to the show but that might be the factor that makes Blue Bloods standout more from the cookie-cutter procedurals on during the rest of the week. As long as there’s a case that gets solved in one episode people will watch it so no worries here on my end.
Outlaw on NBC is one of those shows where I just don’t know how to predict it. It can easily surprise us either way. Nobody can say I told you so on Outlaw b/c its just too impossible to really predict how its going to perform. For right now I say its in third place but 20/20 hasn’t been that dominate in recent years and if their lead-in Body of Proof slows up and Dateline does well then its a real possibility that Outlaw could be a surprising hit for NBC.
My predictions:
1.) Blue Bloods (CBS): 7-10 million viewers, 1.9 demo
2.) 20/20 (ABC): 6-7 million viewers, 1.5 demo
3.) Outlaw (NBC): 5-6 million viewers, 1.4 demo
Outlaw will finish last, and will either make it through season one and then get canceled, or just get canceled before it’s first season is over. NBC + Friday Night Timeslot = scripted show death.