NBC will preempt its hit freshman drama The Blacklist on Monday, November 18. It will air a yet-to-be announced The Voice special -- most likely some sort of a clip show - from 8-9PM. Then a new episode of The Voice will air from 9-11PM. The episode of The Blacklist originally scheduled to run on November 18, titled Anslo Garrick, will now air on Monday, November 25.
Source: TV Guide
Source: TV Guide
I'm actually really happy about this because I really wanted to watch both Castle and the Blacklist live next week. Two big episodes and now I can see them both live even if I have to wait an extra week for The Blacklist.
ReplyDeleteDamn, the promo looks so good and now I have to wait another week!!
ReplyDeleteDamn it, NBC!
ReplyDeleteNBC are gonna screw this up like they did with Revolution
ReplyDeleteNo. >.<
ReplyDeleteLet me get this straight NBC is preempted the most successful show they've had in years, a show that continues to break ratings records week after week all for jumbled up clips of crap people have already watched!?
ReplyDeleteAaaaaannnnd here we go: NBCs bad scheduling decisions are coming back to haunt us
ReplyDeleteNBC is really good at scheduling.......just kidding, they're horrible
ReplyDeletegod dam that was gonna be a great episode....
ReplyDeleteBoooooo
ReplyDeleteOMG NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
ReplyDeleteSo they're gonna hype the hell out of the episode then decide, oops, we wanna preempt it instead??? NBC, I want to hate you so so much.
ReplyDeleteSeriously? For a Voice clip show? Oh that makes perfect sense.
ReplyDeleteIn all likelihood, NBC has looked ahead and realized just how badly they need spackle for their schedule. This is just one way to make it 'look' slightly less bad than it is. I'm sorta happy because I'm saving several weeks of Blacklist on my DVR - which fills so rapidly now due to all HD -- and thus I'll have a wee bit more room going into the winter 'hiatus.' This a great show, NBC isn't trying to hurt it, they just have waaaay too many holes to cover, and The Voice is being burned out slowly but surely as it is NBC's fix to just about everything else wrong on this network. As long as Grimm and The Blacklist continue, I'm a happy viewer.
ReplyDeleteNOOOO. I don't care about The Voice. Is this a joke???? They have to be JOKING. I'm so frustrated right now!!!! Air that damn reality show EARLIER!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is extremely odd. Are they trying to guarantee the success of Almost Human? It seems comical, really. I cannot make anything of this decision. Seems crazy to have so many duds on the schedule, yet preempting the highest rated hour instead and leave the slot wide open for the competing network to premiere its brand new show.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone has a normal explanation for this thing? I mean, I am sure FOX is thrilled but if they wanted to save up episodes from the blacklist why not air the recap at 10? Or air an episode of a show that could use the exposure, like Grimm, Parenthood or Revolution there? It's very random.
The funny thing is that they are hell bent on guaranteeing that Almost Human on FOX premieres well lol. They want to give ABC a run for their money on bad scheduling!
ReplyDeleteAnd don't forget: leaving the way wide open for Almot Human to premiere well on FOX lol
ReplyDeleteThe move is totally odd but it is a totally different situation. And I don't even think NBC screwed up that much with Revolution (the hiatus was one month and a half too long, but what was it)
ReplyDeleteRemember: everything to give the competing new drama (Almost Human) the best chance at succeeding!
ReplyDeleteOut of all the nights they could do it, they decided to do it in a night that leaves the way wide open for Almots Human's timeslot premiere? How weird!!
ReplyDeleteExactly! :-)
ReplyDeleteDo you think Grimm, Parenthood or Revolution would get the ratings that a Voice clip show would? Don't they make more money in advertising from a Voice episode as well?
ReplyDeleteI guess I understand why they would air a Voice special over other shows, but not why they move back The Blacklist in the first place. Just odd.
Is it screwy,sure but I say good for Almost Human! Its not like NBC will lose all their viewers and switch to A.H. the following week.
ReplyDeleteTrue, it's good for AH and I happy about it, as odd as this is. But NBC is giving it a chance of building momentum. With two episodes in a row Sunday/Monday, if the show is good and the buzz is there, it could take away some live viewers from the voice on Mondays the week after. Why even risk it? It's odd!
ReplyDeleteNot to be mean, but people saying NBC is preempting The Blacklist because of a Voice clipshow, read again...it says a clipshow will run from 8-9, and then a NEW TV epiosde from 9-11:)
ReplyDeleteIts still being preempted,whether by a repeat,clipshow or new episode of The Voice. It not like its a holiday special..
ReplyDeleteTrue,it could have the potential to be the gift that keeps on giving...Now,that would be something,NBC takes two steps forward only take 4 steps back all because someone made a bad call.. This could prove interesting!
ReplyDeleteIf " Anslo Garrick " is 2 episodes , why don't they run it on the same day? I know it sounds impossible but whatever. NBC just when they make something great they screw it up somehow
ReplyDeleteI didn´t say it wasn´t a preemption, I only pointed that it won´t be a clipshow or repeat in the 10 p.m. timeslot like some people are saying:)
ReplyDeleteNow, the reason why NBC is doing this? Who knows!
There's no competition there. They don't even air in the same time slot.
ReplyDeleteThe pain of stupidity. Networks, please, learn. This is the TOP way to piss off your viewers.
ReplyDeleteThey will air a repeat (a clip show is basically a repeat) at 8pm which is AH's timeslot instead of their regularly scheduled highest rated show. How is that not avoiding the natural direct competition?
ReplyDeleteThe programming decision has nada to do with Blacklist vs. Almost Human. As you said, it's a repeat airing outside of its designated time slot. This is simply (and sadly) a continuation of years of inept NBC scheduling. They're not avoiding competition, they're avoiding competency.
ReplyDeleteasdffghjk. I love The Voice (don't judge me) but I NEED this episode of the Blacklist!!!! ugh.
ReplyDeleteI love the voice too ahah
ReplyDeleteI never said there was anything to do with The Blacklist. The fact is: at 8pm, instead of airing the normally scheduled high rated The Voice, they will air a repeat (clip show), exactly on the night and time that Almost Human is premiering. The Blacklist is irrelevant for the point I am making, which is that NBC is purposely taking away the competition from the premiere of Almost Human.
ReplyDeleteMakin sense of NBC's scheduling decision is like trying to makes sense of time travel, both give you a headache.
ReplyDeleteDamn, I was really look forward to this episode. What on earth would make them do this?
ReplyDeleteIf the head of scheduling at NBC were actually "purposely taking away the competition from the premiere of Almost Human" that would go beyond incompetence to something he/she should be immediately fired for. What you're suggesting is practically collusion.
ReplyDeleteWhatever the reason for NBC's continually awful scheduling decisions, I'm sure it has nothing directly to do with FOX or Almost Human at all. If it did, it would be a gigantic failure of oversight at the network and people should lose their jobs.
I was obviously being sarcastic. It's just shows how incompetent they are when they willingly clear the path for the premiere of a potential high rated new show without any need to do so. The fact that they don't think about it when deciding this, or the fact that they do and do not care is, in itself, a sign of incompetence. They are not as bad with scheduling as ABC (I don't think anyone can be as horrific as Paul Lee's ABC) but they are certainly terrible and making decisions like this shows that.
ReplyDeleteI agree with most of this but disagree that NBC can't be as bad as ABC. I have never, before last season, seen a network so brutally sabotage their own hit show like they did with Matthew Perry's Go On.
ReplyDeleteI don't find the Go On treatment that bad. Comedies are not serialized shows, it doesn't really make sense to put them on a 4 month hiatus, so what would have them do? Besides, they need to air something in winter. I am sure they would have been happy had the show declined to high 1s level or something, they were for sure expecting a decline. The low 1s level in which it ultimately ended was what doomed it but that was the show's only problem. They couldn't keep it behind the voice forever anyway.
ReplyDeleteGo On was a rock-solid 3+ demo hit for over the first month of the show then NBC bludgeoned the show with 3 preemptions, 2 hiatuses, and 2 time slot changes. By the time the show returned after its extended winter break the show was already done for before it hit series lows.
ReplyDeleteI don't have time now to check it all out but Go On was never a rock-solid 3+demo hit like you're claiming, that's a flat out lie. It hit two 3.4s for its first two airings and it never hit a 3.0 again. What's more it only hit >2.5 twice, for episode 4 and 6. I liked Go On and was with its trajectory, but your facts are not accurate.
ReplyDeleteYou're right. Hell, you're exactly right. I wasn't recalling the live numbers. What is true is that the show didn't start to plummet until NBC started screwing with it.
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