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4 some reason I started thinking about my pkmn au and katakuri’s team I made for him, and realizing that piers is a character that exists and then walking back to totally revise kat’s team 😭 piers even stole kat’s entire color scheme too.

I think I am much happier with the revised version now!! i have the urge to get all my charlotte family!pokemon thoughts out so the rest will be under the cut 😇

Idk much about Pokémon meta so idk if giving him a tyranitar is too much for a gym leader, but I thought it was fitting since kat is like a pseudo legendary himself- not really a villain but still the boss fight of wci 😭

Starting with Perospero! In this AU, I imagine that when he was younger, Perospero was a contest master, then taking over the role as leader at the family gym when big mom leaves (either retired or became an elite four member🤔). After many years as leader, Perospero finally retires to go back to contests as a judge. Retiring from the gym, he dumps it on Katakuri to take over.

Katakuri doesn't really want the responsibility of being gym leader, but pressure from his family and the high expectations put on him makes him accept. Katakuri is a strong trainer though, all his siblings think he is the best and believe he would make the perfect gym leader, so he doesn't want to disappoint them. The gym converts from a normal type gym to a dark type gym, but Kat doesn't bother redecorating the gym from Perospero's tea time theme, just paints over it with his own signature colors ahdfdhkgfadkfjhkgjlgfh.

I have thoughts about Brulee too!! Moreso if she was an actual game NPC and what role she would have :^3c She lives a bit separated from everyone else, a cottage near the woods outside of town. She gets called a witch by local children and puts up an unpleasant front🥺 But if you befriend her, she will let you battle her despite her believing that she isn't any good at it. She would operate similarly to the battle cafes in SWSH, always being a double battle and awarding you random but valuable goodies if you win. But the twist being that she pulls two random pokemon from her team of six for every battle, so sometimes it could be a very easy battle, sometimes pretty difficult! Just to keep the player on their toes :^)

And some thoughts about the pokemon selection!!!

I started out with lickilicky with perospero, and just created a team of what I thought was fitting- which turned out to be a lot of normal types!! I had haunter on his roster for a long time, but then I though to just commit to the normal typing.

(EDIT: I was about to go to bed when I decided to replaced kecleon with indeedee! Honestly I might keep pivoting between these two, but indeedee fits with the tea time theme for peros’ gym :^))

The shellos came from perospero making the candy sea slugs,, I imagine him treating them like little purse dogs,, his special slimy babies,,😭 🥺 And the ducklett was inspired by a twitter post! Came wandering into his house one day and would not leave,, a little marspero goodie for me,,

Before committing to dark type for Kat, it was half dark and half fairy!! But now the fairy types are just his lil buddies along side his gym team,, they watch his gym battles🥺

(EDIT: I’m crying, kat can be easily swept by fighting types 😭 I might go back to the drawing board and switch someone out! even though I really liked what I picked 😔) I think kat would combat the weakness by having absol and sneasel use psychic type moves.

I also do think kat would get a weavile and a kingambit, but I’m not sure when !

Snubbull is the pokemon that he has had the longest. As children, perospero found snubbull, gifting it to Kat and insisting that they looked alike. Baby kat denied this heavily at first, but eventually Kat and snubbull became the closest of friends. Ever since Kat became gym leader, snubbull has the dream of fighting in a gym battle with him 🥺

Brulee didn't really catch her team in the traditional sense! They just kind of gravitated towards her over the years. She has known her rapidash and morgrem since she was a little girl, back when they were just a ponyta and impidimp. When impidimp was wild, he used to tease and play tricks on her, when one day he spotted her in the woods crying, the day after she was attacked and got her face slashed open 🥺 that's when the wild ponyta appeared to comfort her 🥺 And instead of teasing like normal, impidimp ran over to comfort her too!!

thank you for enjoying my psuedo fanfic ramblings,, maybe i will add more later to this, who knows!! i just wanted to get this all out of my head asksjbfdlh;hlj

#one piece #op #pokemon #perospero #charlotte katakuri #charlotte brulee #charlotte perospero #my fuckin ramblings #this post stemming from me not wanting to accidentally steal piers' entire fucking thing #despite not having the same team at all kat in universe gets call out posts online from piers fans for trying to copy him #and kat doesnt understand bc he is old and doesnt understand stan culture

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eichy815 · 3 years

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Fall Fusion 2021 (The CW)

The Coronavirus pandemic undoubtedly altered the landscape of primetime TV throughout the 2020-21 season. Studio audiences were universally eliminated, due to safety precautions. Some series had to have their production delayed altogether. But with vaccinations ramping up, old slivers of normalcy should incrementally return to our screens across the course of next season.

Tentatively, NBC and Fox are set to unveil their “upfronts” on May 17; and, twenty-four hours later, ABC will follow suit on May 18. The final reveal of that week will occur on May 19, when CBS introduces its Fall 2021 slate to the world. The CW will wait until May 25 to hold its “upfronts.”

As always, a host of network programs are considered “on-the-bubble” – meaning their chances of getting renewed or canceled might be about as predictable as a coin-flip. The shows still waiting to hear if they’ve been renewed include: Kenan, Young Rock, Zoe’s Extraordinary Playlist, Manifest, Debris, Law & Order: Organized Crime, and Good Girls on NBC; American Housewife, The Goldbergs, Mixedish, Call Your Mother, For Life, Station 19, A Million Little Things, Big Sky, Rebel, and The Rookie on ABC; The Unicorn, B Positive, United States of Al, SEAL Team, All Rise, and Clarice on CBS; and Call Me Kat, Bless the Harts, 911, 911: Lone Star, The Resident, and Prodigal Son on Fox.

Although the fall/winter/spring divide will probably be a lot smoother than it was this past season, I wouldn’t be surprised if the networks decide to “chunk” their series into 8-, 9-, or 10-episode strings of uninterrupted airings. These would be strategically placed as “pods” intermittent between the fall, winter, spring, and summer.

In addition, “time-sharing” different programs within the same slot across the networks’ schedules would be a more efficient way of getting mileage out of successful programming – especially how it would bake in natural “backup programming” to leave fewer gaps in the event of unexpected Coronavirus-related interruptions in production. At a certain point, hopefully Coronavirus will become so contained that it no longer forces temporary shutdowns of specific productions with any regularity.

(All times are Eastern/Pacific; subtract one hour for the Central/Mountain time zones)

(New shows highlighted in bold)

Featured network for today’s column…

The CW

Sunday

7:00 – Local Programming

8:00 – Charmed

9:00 – Batwoman (fall/spring) / In The Dark (winter/summer)

In the fall, Charmed and Batwoman would be coupled together, once again. Batwoman can then temporarily move to Mondays in January, allowing In the Dark to begin airing its fourth season.

Monday

8:00 – All-American (fall/spring) / Batwoman (winter)

9:00 – All-American: Homecoming (fall) / Naomi (winter) / Roswell, New Mexico (spring/summer)

All-American should serve as a lead-in to its announced spinoff, All-American: Homecoming (centered around the Simone Hicks character, played by Geffri Maya). They both would go on hiatus in January, making way for Batwoman to migrate over from Sundays to cushion the new Ava DuVernay-produced superheroine drama, Naomi. If Homecoming doesn’t receive a Back-Nine Order, then Roswell, New Mexico could replace Naomi in the spring.

Tuesday

8:00 – The Flash

9:00 – Superman & Lois (fall/spring) / Legends of Tomorrow (winter)

The Flash can hold down the opening slot on Tuesdays all season long, nurturing Superman & Lois in the fall as the latter returns for its sophomore season. In January, Legends of Tomorrow would air a string of fresh episodes before turning the slot back over to Superman & Lois so it can finish the second half of Season 2.

Wednesday

8:00 – Riverdale

9:00 – Nancy Drew (fall/spring) / The 4400 (winter)

Riverdale would remain the Wednesday night anchor, once again buttressing Nancy Drew as the distaff sleuth returns for her third season. In-between fall and spring “pods” of Nancy Drew, the network’s reimagination of The 4400 (starring Arrow’s Joseph-David Jones) could air beginning in January.

Thursday

8:00 – Walker

9:00 – Powerpuff (fall) / Stargirl (winter) / Back-Nine Order (spring/summer)

Jared Padalecki’s Walker appears to be a hit for The CW, and it will most likely be secure as a permanent Thursday night anchor. In the fall, Walker can lend extra blast to the live-action superheroine ensemble Powerpuff (starring Dove Cameron, Chloe Bennet, and Yana Perrault).

Meanwhile, Stargirl could return for the first part of its third season in January, airing half of its total episodes before taking a hiatus prior to another summer return. The post-Walker time slot in the spring would go to a Back-Nine Order for Powerpuff…or else Roswell, New Mexico’s fourth season could slide in here.

Friday

8:00 – Legacies (fall/spring) / Masters of Illusion (winter/summer)

8:30 – Legacies (fall/spring) / Whose Line is it Anyway? (winter/summer)

9:00 – Dynasty (fall/spring) / Penn & Teller: Fool Us (winter/summer)

Legacies and Dynasty can air fall and spring “pods” concurrently, on Fridays. In-between (for mid-winter and summer), reliable players such as Masters of Illusion, Whose Line is it Anyway?, and Penn & Teller: Fool Us would air here to close out the week.

The pandemic has definitely forced networks to get creative with their programming. The higher turnaround time for production of scripted series may necessitate that programs split up their seasons into “chunks,” essentially “time-sharing” the same slot with other shows that get rotated in at other points during the season. As social-distancing restrictions gradually become more relaxed, unscripted programming with live studio audiences can be slowly integrated back into the studio itineraries.

Despite the year-plus lockdowns we’ve endured, primetime television has proved to be resilient and resourceful. There’s no reason to believe that won’t be the case as we head into 2022.

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Why Japanese Women Dominate America's Pastime

The world’s only active professional women’s baseball league was started in Japan in 2009 by the president of a health food company. The story goes that Kenichi Kakutani of Wakasa Seikatsu, a maker of supplements that “address things like specific eye problems and inner fragrance,” was moved to do something after watching a baseball tournament for high school girls.

As a spokesperson for the league told The New York Times in 2012, “he wanted to create an environment where they could focus on baseball and make money playing.”

Thus was born the Japanese Women’s Baseball League (JWBL). It’s tiny ― four teams in all ― but it exists. And it goes a long way toward explaining why, on the women’s side, America’s pastime is dominated by Japan, the smart money to win the Women’s Baseball World Cup, which opened Wednesday. It’s the infrastructure — inner fragrance, you might call it.

Most Americans’ knowledge of women in baseball comes from the 1992 film “A League of Their Own,” from which we learned that there is no crying in baseball and that during World War II and for a few years after the war, women played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Perhaps some have heard that a few women also played in the Negro Leagues, or maybe they watched Mo’ne Davis pitch in the Little League World Series a few years ago, or perhaps they caught an episode of the recent but canceled-too-soon fictional drama “Pitch,” which imagined what life would look like for the first woman to play in Major League Baseball.

The history of women in baseball, though, is as long as the history of men in baseball. “Women have always played the game,” says Kat Williams, a professor of women’s sports history and the president of the International Women’s Baseball Center. Since the 19th century, “we’ve always umpired and coached and tended the fields and kept the stats and owned the teams.”

And women are playing today. In fact, the very best female baseball players from across the world are in Viera, Florida, to participate in the Women’s Baseball World Cup, which runs until Aug. 31. The tournament has been held every other year since 2004, and this year features 12 teams: Japan, USA, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Chinese Taipei (Taiwan), Hong Kong, Cuba, Korea, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Canada and Australia. Together, they represent five different continents.

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Rina Taniyama (left) and Miku Kitayama (right) talk during the Women’s Baseball World Cup as Japan plays against Hong Kong.

This is the first time the event is being played in the United States. But the U.S. Women’s National Team is not the team to beat. Japan is the top-ranked team in the world and the winner of the last five World Cups. The team has won 21 straight games, its last loss at the World Cup coming in 2012 against the United States.

Ayami Sato, Japan’s star pitcher, is probably the best female baseball player in the world. She won the MVP award at the last two World Cups after shutting out the eventual silver medalists in the final (in 2016, Japan beat Canada; in 2014, the United States).

The JWBL has a lot to do with the country’s dominance. The women in the league play much more often at a higher competitive level than just about anyone else in the world.

Oscar Lopez, the head of communications for the World Baseball Softball Confederation, the organization that puts on the WBWC, says that the Japanese team has “a lot of support [from baseball fans] and also a lot of commercial support, sponsors, which may or not be an advantage to other nations.” He points out that this year, Forbes ranked the JWBL 16th among “the most powerful women in international sports.”

The average attendance at JWBL games is roughly 1,200, but on the high end, games can attract upward of 5,000 spectators, JWBL spokesperson Kana Kawabata told HuffPost via email. For the women’s game to grow in Japan, it won’t be enough for the league to expand; Kawabata would like to see more female teams at the high school level, too.

That’s another thing about Japan: The country has a pipeline from youth baseball to the pro league, something the U.S. can only envy at this point.

What we’re imagining is women in the major leagues, but that’s not even the issue. The issue is, why can’t we deal with the fact that girls and boys should play baseball together when they’re little? Jennifer Ring

Despite the positive impact that Title IX has had on women’s sports in the United States, it created a “separate but equal” regime that, in some ways, entrenched sexist assumptions about women and sports. This is particularly apparent with respect to baseball and softball, long held to be his and hers equivalents, even though the games are very different, down to the size of the field itself.

Baseball could skirt Title IX rules and regulations regarding equal access because women already had softball. Plenty of girls play baseball when they are young, but by the age of 12, when Little League ends, most have been pushed out of the sport. Some play middle school ball, though often as the only girl on an otherwise all-boys team. Fewer still play baseball in high school. Only a handful have ever played collegiate baseball, and there are some women who have played on a professional men’s team in the minor leagues and independent pro leagues.

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Team USA’s Malaika Underwood celebrates on Aug. 23, 2018, in Viera, Florida.

And then there is the U.S. Women’s National Team, which began in 2004, the same year as the first women’s Baseball World Cup. Both were formed after years of grassroots efforts to establish an international presence for the U.S. in women’s baseball and after a series of more informal competitions.

There is nothing connecting the national team to those young girls on the diamonds — no IMG Academy program, no national AAU circuit, no equivalent to soccer’s AYSO. What infrastructure does exist is regional and amateur.

American girls who play baseball are often left to make their own way, which they do because of how much they love the sport.

To witness the distance between how girls and women’s baseball is valued in this U.S., all you have to do is turn on your TV. There, you will find the Little League World Series on the Worldwide Leader in Sports. If you want to watch the Women’s Baseball World Cup, you have to go online to the YouTube channel for the World Baseball Softball Confederation, the organization putting on the tournament, and stream the games there.

Japan has a different relationship to baseball than the United State does, in part because “baseball in Japan happens in the spring and summer when it’s in the middle of the school year,” says William Kelly, a professor of anthropology and Japanese Studies at Yale. “So, baseball’s actually the equivalent of basketball or football here in the U.S., at the high school and college level. Everybody pays attention to it.”

There are only a handful of public high schools in Japan with girls’ teams but, Kelly says, roughly 25 or 30 private high schools have them. “The girls who want to play baseball can go to a private high school,” he explains. “They can go to a university, or they can join the professional women’s league, and they can aim for the national team and get enough support that they can actually train for it.”

Japan has “an organizational structure there that can take girls to the national team that we don’t have here in the U.S.,” he added.

American girls who play baseball are often left to make their own way, which they do because of how much they love the sport.

Still, it’s important to put the league in context. According to Kelly, while baseball is the most popular sport in Japan, the women’s version remains on the fringe.

“Women’s baseball, unlike say, women’s soccer, is in double jeopardy,” Kelly explains, “because women’s baseball is completely eclipsed by men’s baseball and has been, in Japan and the U.S., since the late 19th century, in the few times when women were able to play organized baseball. But it’s also in jeopardy to softball, because girls get tracked into the softball very early on.”

Softball, a sport originally created so that men could play baseball during the frigid winter months, was useful to men in different countries as they professionalized the sport of baseball and needed somewhere to direct women interested in a stick-and-ball game.

On the website for Little League, there is a timeline of major moments in the organization’s history. There are only two listed for 1974, and they are: “Little League rules are revised to allow participation by girls,” and “Little League Softball and Senior League Softball programs are created.” The former happened only because a court forced Little League’s hand. Little League officials fiercely contested the gender integration of baseball, with one league president worrying about incurring lawsuits should girls “get breast cancer from getting tagged out on the boobs.” The creation of the softball program shows how deliberately that sport was used to keep girls out of baseball.

It was a very effective technique that has now been entrenched throughout the world. Dana Bookman, founder of the Canadian Women’s Baseball Association, says she accidentally started an all-girls baseball league in 2016 when she put out feelers to try to find other girls to play baseball with her 6-year-old daughter. Bookman’s daughter had been the only girl in a league with roughly 400 boys, and had decided she didn’t want to play anymore.

There are now about 1,000 girls playing in leagues under CWBA auspices in three different provinces. This isn’t too surprising in Canada, which has a more robust (though still wanting) infrastructure for girls and women’s baseball than the U.S. does, including the annual Baseball Canada championships for U16 girls, U21 women and senior women’s teams from different provinces. Despite this popularity, Bookman says that she has had people say to her face, “Girls play softball, boys play baseball.”

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Stacy Piagno pitches for the U.S. Women’s National Team on August 23, 2018.

This idea that only boys play baseball is wrong. And more and more, it seems people are starting to appreciate that. The International Women’s Baseball Center was created a few years ago out of a general sense that change was coming, said Kat Williams, its president.

Williams can remember the eureka moment, down to the date: “Feb. 22, 2014, a group of us sat round over pizza and beer,” Williams said. She explained that they came up with the idea for the IWBC because “we felt that shift.”

The women involved in the IWBC knew there was “not a women’s baseball museum or educational center or focal point.” The center is being built in Rockford, Illinois, across the street from Beyer Stadium ― where the Rockford Peaches, of “A League of Their Own” fame, played. The center’s focus will be on education and preserving history.

The center also supports the annual Baseball For All national tournament, which recently concluded its fourth contest. This year, there were 24 teams and nearly 300 girls who competed. According to Justine Siegal, who founded BFA in 2010, the tournament is a yearly culmination of the work her organization does to help communities start their own girls’ teams or find a team nearby on which girls can play.

For Williams, the BFA tournament is a moment during which you can take in the history of women in baseball and also glimpse its future. You can see 91-year-old Maybelle Blair and 85-year-old Shirley Burkovich, two former players from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, greet each of the girls during the opening ceremonies. “And you have not lived until you have watched 10-year-old girls march in in their baseball uniforms into the arms of 91-year-old Maybelle Blair,” Williams says.

For those girls who participated in the BFA tournament, and really any girl who plays baseball in the U.S., their main goal is to play on the USWNT. “Nearly every single one of those girls at the Baseball For All tournament, when asked, ‘What do you want to do?’ their answer is, ‘Play for the U.S.A. team,’” Williams said.

To do that, though, one has to find a way.

Nearly every single one of those girls at the Baseball For All tournament, when asked, ‘What do you want to do?’ their answer is, ‘Play for the U.S.A. team.’ Kat Williams, International Women’s Baseball Center

Ashley Bratcher, senior director of baseball operations at USA Baseball, says that the World Cup is a “three-week opportunity” for many of the women competing who otherwise do not get to play on the highest levels in baseball. “They all have jobs and families,” she said, and “are juggling that to prepare for this stage.”

Training is an ad hoc affair. On the U.S. women’s team, Bratcher says, one player “owns a CrossFit gym, so she’s got a built-in way to stay in shape. Some are hitting instructors or giving lessons and things like that, so they’ve got regular access. Then you’ve got others who are hitting off a tee in the backyard and juggling being a mom, or going to a local high school to find someone who will catch a bullpen for them so they can get their pitching in.”

While there is a romantic element to this ― the hard-working woman who loves baseball so much she does whatever she can against whatever odds to play for her national team ― it’s mainly frustrating. Veronica Alvarez, a former member of the U.S. national team and now the pitching coach for the team at the World Cup, says: “Being Team USA, you expect gold. And the people, I assure you, among the higher-ups, they expect gold out of us.” But she wonders how anyone could expect gold from a team whose players see each other only at the trial and then for one week of practice together before the tournament.

“It’s hard to go from being a woman with a full-time career to practicing two-a-days, and getting her body ready, and on your own time,” Alvarez says. “It’s hard because nobody really sets us up for that success.”

Alvarez says that the women on the team will take what they call “baseballcations.” On their own and paid for out of their own pockets, small groups of players will choose a city and a weekend where they can meet up to practice. “They’re having these baseballcations in Jacksonville, and Atlanta, and different parts of the country where they’re able to come together. Whether it’s four of them or six of them, they’re finding the way to do it.”

Being Team USA, you expect gold. And the people, I assure you, among the higher-ups, they expect gold out of us … It’s hard because nobody really sets us up for that success. Veronica Alvarez, former member of the U.S. national team

Baseball For All founder Siegal knows the importance of the national team for the growth of the women’s game in the U.S., but she’s also realistic about how far the country has to go. “It’s correct to think that the Women’s National Team has inspired girls to stay in baseball,” she says. “I think it’s also correct to say we still have a major challenge in the U.S. of encouraging girls to stay in the game.”

There is support these days from Major League Baseball through its Trailblazers and Breakthrough Series, and there’s hope that having the U.S. host the Women’s Baseball World Cup this summer will capture attention for the sport.

Yet Siegal cautions that for real change to occur, “the next step is actually implementing that support at the local level so that girls as young as six and seven aren’t automatically shuffled to softball, but rather given the true opportunity to play baseball or softball.”

Jennifer Ring, a professor of political science and author of Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball, echoed Siegal’s thoughts. “What we’re imagining is women in the major leagues, but that’s not even the issue. The issue is, why can’t we deal with the fact that girls and boys should play baseball together when they’re little?”

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Team Japan bows during a game against Hong Kong at the Women’s Baseball World Cup.

Maybe one day, the United States will have a small professional women’s league like Japan ― and then it will benefit, like Japan does, from its national team players spending so much more time on the mound, behind the plate, or out in the field.

Maybe a rich CEO will see the women playing in the Women’s Baseball World Cup and decide he needs to help fund part of the pipeline and give these women more of a chance to play the game they love.

Through her work, Ring knows some of the players on the USWNT really well. Thinking about the team taking the field in Florida and competing against the best female baseball players in the world, she can’t help but feel a little sentimental bias. “They’re these great women who deserve gold,” she said. “And I hope they get it for their sakes.”

But there’s a larger picture. “If we’re not really going to support girls’ baseball as a nation and nurture the girls to a national team, of course we’re not gonna beat Japan,” she said. “In a sense, Japan deserves to win.”

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Fall Fusion 2021 (NBC)

(All times are Eastern/Pacific; subtract one hour for the Central/Mountain time zones)

(New shows highlighted in bold)

Featured network for today’s column…

NBC

Sunday

7:00 – Football Night in America (fall) / Dateline NBC (winter) / The Wall (spring)

8:00 – Football Night in America (fall) / Ellen’s Game of Games (winter/spring)

9:00 – Football Night in America (fall) / Getaway (winter) / Zoe’s Extraordinary Playlist (spring)

10:00 – Football Night in America (fall) / Transplant (winter) / The Weakest Link (spring)

After football finishes its autumn run, there is a lot more room for programming diversity here. Dateline and Ellen’s Game of Games are reliable players, and could serve as a good lead-in to Getaway, a scripted thriller about wedding attendees held hostage. Imported Canadian medical drama Transplant could fill the fourth hour of the night.

Midseason, The Wall and The Weakest Link should be available to fill space, along with a third (hopefully-uninterrupted) season of Zoe’s Extraordinary Playlist.

Monday

8:00 – The Voice (fall/spring) / American Ninja Warrior (winter)

9:00 – The Voice (fall/spring) / Who Do You Think You Are? (winter)

10:00 – Ordinary Joe (fall) / The Thing About Pam (winter) / At That Age (spring)

Fall and spring cycles of The Voice are basically a given on Mondays, with other reality programming on-deck as filler during the “winterim.” In the fall, the post-Voice slot should be given to the James Wolk-led alternate universe fantasy Ordinary Joe (held over from last season’s development cycle). January 2022 could see the arrival of Renee Zellweger’s six-episode limited crime series The Thing About Pam. By March, the slot can be turned over to either a Back-Nine order of episodes for Ordinary Joe…or the Emayatzy Corinealdi (Middle of Nowhere) family drama At That Age.

Tuesday

8:00 – The Voice Results Show (fall/spring) / Young Rock (winter)

8:30 – The Voice Results Show (fall/spring) / Hungry (winter)

9:00 – This is Us

10:00 – New Amsterdam

The duo of This is Us and New Amsterdam will probably hold firm, here – preceded, as usual, by The Voice’s results show. Young Rock has done well enough in the ratings that it should return for a sophomore season, and I’d pair it with the new Demi Lovato sitcom Hungry.

Wednesday

8:00 – Chicago Fire

9:00 – Chicago Med

10:00 – Chicago P.D.

NBC’s trademark all-Chicago lineup has been going strong since 2018, and there’s no reason to believe that will change.

Thursday

8:00 – Mr. Mayor (fall/spring) / Manifest (winter)

8:30 – American Auto (fall) / Manifest (winter) / Brooklyn Nine-Nine (spring)

9:00 – Kenan (fall/spring) / La Brea (winter)

9:30 – Grand Crew (fall) / La Brea (winter) / Back-Nine Sitcom (spring)

10:00 – Law & Order: Organized Crime

With the cancellation of Superstore, NBC needs to rebuild its Thursday comedy lineup. I’d put Mr. Mayor and Kenan as the anchors, with new entries American Auto (starring Ana Gasteyer) and Grand Crew (an ensemble led by Echo Kellum and Nicole Byer) airing in-between them. Law & Order: Organized Crime would continue to bring up the rear.

Midseason, Manifest’s fourth season can be paired with the new sci-fi action-adventure series La Brea, to temporarily sub in for the two-hour comedy bloc. When comedies return in April or May, it might be the night to air Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s announced final season (along with whichever of American Auto or Grand Crew receives a Back-Nine order).

Friday

8:00 – The Blacklist

9:00 – Law & Order SVU

10:00 – Dateline NBC

The only change I’d make to Fridays is moving Law & Order: Special Victims Unit here, paired nicely with The Blacklist. Because SVU is a venerable player with such a loyal audience, I’ve been saying for years how it should be able to survive a migration to the otherwise-sleepy Friday perch.

Despite the year-plus lockdowns we’ve endured, primetime television has proved to be resilient and resourceful. There’s no reason to believe that won’t be the case as we head into 2022.

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Fall Fusion 2021 (CBS)

(All times are Eastern/Pacific; subtract one hour for the Central/Mountain time zones)

(New shows highlighted in bold)

Featured network for today’s column…

CBS

Sunday

7:00 – 60 Minutes

8:00 – The Equalizer (fall/spring) / Undercover Boss (winter)

9:00 – NCIS: Los Angeles

10:00 – SEAL Team

The Queen Latifah-led reimagination of The Equalizer has performed well in the post-60 Minutes time slot. I’d say keep NCIS: Los Angeles where it is, and move SEAL Team into the slot being vacated by NCIS: New Orleans.

Monday

8:00 – The Neighborhood

8:30 – Welcome to Georgia (fall) / Wilde Things (winter) / Back-Nine Sitcom (spring)

9:00 – All Rise

10:00 – Bull

The Neighborhood has thrived for the past three seasons, leading off Sunday nights. Freshman sitcom Welcome to Georgia (headlined by New Girl’s Hannah Simone) should be tried out in the post-Neighborhood time slot. Midseason, the time period could be turned over to Wilde Things – an ensemble multi-cam starring Modern Family’s Julie Bowen.

All Rise and Bull would stay put as a two-hour courtroom drama blog. If Welcome to Georgia doesn’t get a Back-Nine Order, the post-Neighborhood slot could be given to B-Positive, United States of Al, or the new single-cam Ghosts.

Tuesday

8:00 – NCIS

9:00 – NCIS: Hawaii

10:00 – FBI: Most Wanted (fall/spring) / FBI: International (winter)

Nestled between NCIS and FBI: Most Wanted could be NCIS: Hawaii, the green-lit spinoff that seeks to fill the void left behind by the cancellation of NCIS: New Orleans. Midseason, the anticipated spinoff FBI: International should receive a 13-week tryout while FBI: Most Wanted prepares for a spring return.

Wednesday

8:00 – Survivor 41 (fall) / Tough as Nails (winter) / Survivor 42 (spring)

9:00 – FBI

10:00 – CSI: Vegas (fall) / Evil (winter/spring)

Survivor’s forty-first season is currently filming in Fiji. A new water-carrier to take over the immediate post-Survivor slot would be megahit FBI (original blend). The much-anticipated revival of CSI: Vegas can close out the night.

Midseason, Tough as Nails can pick up slack in-between the fall and spring cycles of Survivor. Assuming that Evil’s Summer 2021 does well enough to warrant a third season renewal, it could return in January and February in the post-FBI slot.

Thursday

8:00 – Young Sheldon

8:30 – The Unicorn (fall/winter) / Ghosts (spring)

9:00 – Bob Hearts Abishola

9:30 – United States of Al (fall/spring) / B-Positive (winter)

10:00 – Good Sam (fall) / True Lies (winter) / Back-Nine Drama (spring)

Young Sheldon and The Unicorn can remain a pair for the fall, but Bob Hearts Abishola would be a strong contender for moving into Mom’s old time slot. United States of Al’s sophomore season can be the fourth sitcom to air as part of CBS’s Thursday comedy lineup, with the Sophia Bush-helmed medical drama Good Sam closing out the evening.

By midseason, the small-screen adaptation of True Lies should be ready for a limited winter run. Whether Good Sam receives a Back-Nine pickup would determine whether we see it again in the spring…or another CBS series transplanted in its place. Also on deck: a midseason batch of episodes for B-Positive’s sophomore season, a possible Back-Nine order for United States of Al, or the debut of single-cam Ghosts.

Friday

8:00 – Magnum P.I.

9:00 – S.W.A.T.

10:00 – Blue Bloods

With MacGyver canceled, Magnum P.I. will probably be moved up to lead off the night. S.W.A.T., meanwhile, can be moved into the middle of Friday nights – and, topping off this night of crime drama nostalgia would be the return of Blue Bloods (which is most likely safe for however long Tom Selleck continues to want to do it).

Despite the year-plus lockdowns we’ve endured, primetime television has proved to be resilient and resourceful. There’s no reason to believe that won’t be the case as we head into 2022.

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Sunday

7:00 – AFHV

8:00 – Supermarket Sweep (fall/spring) / Card Sharks (winter)

9:00 – American Housewife (fall/spring) / The Chase (winter)

9:30 – Harrity Elementary (fall) / The Chase (winter) / Sitcom Back-Nine (spring)

10:00 – The Rookie (fall/spring) / The Con (midseason)

In the fall, America’s Funniest Home Videos, Supermarket Sweep, and The Rookie should all retain their time slots from last fall. In the 9pm hour, American Housewife could be paired with the new Quinta Brunson-led teacher single-cam, Harrity Elementary.

During the post-Christmas “winterim,” programs such as Card Sharks, The Chase, and The Con can pick up slack as “fillers.” The fall lineup would return for a second wind in the spring, with the post-American Housewife half-hour slot held for either a Back-Nine order of Harrity Elementary or another comedy series being moved there to make room elsewhere on the schedule.

Monday

8:00 – Dancing with the Stars (fall) / The Bachelor (winter) / American Idol (spring)

10:00 – The Good Doctor (fall/spring) / Dark Horse (midseason)

Dancing with the Stars would return as a lead-in to The Good Doctor (which I predict will eventually move into the Grey’s Anatomy time slot, at whatever point Ellen Pompeo decides to call it quits). In the spring, American Idol would fall into Dancing’s two-hour period.

For the winter, The Bachelor will probably be ready to return to its standard mid-winter premiere date, post-pandemic. Leading out the post-Bachelor nights could be Dark Horse, an intriguing political drama about an Indigenous woman who becomes a state senator; it is based on the Australian drama Total Control.

Tuesday

8:00 – The Hustler (fall/spring) / Celebrity Wheel of Fortune (winter)

9:00 – Blackish

9:30 – Mixedish (fall/spring) / Black Don’t Crack (midseason)

10:00 – Big Sky (fall/spring) / Queens (midseason)

Big Sky has defied expectations by earning respectable ratings in what has historically been an insurmountable time slot for new series on ABC. Assuming that it returns alongside of Blackish and Mixedish, I’d recommend putting The Hustler in the opening hour of Tuesdays (as counterprogramming to NCIS).

Celebrity Wheel of Fortune is logical “filler” programming for the winter. But, in-between 9- to 11-episode “pods” of Mixedish, ABC could try out Black Don’t Crack – a sitcom headlined by Sherri Shephard, Tisha Campbell, and Essence Atkins. Similarly, in-between Big Sky’s fall and spring “pods,” the hip hop drama Queens (starring Brandy Norwood and Eve) would round out the night.

Wednesday

8:00 – The Goldbergs

8:30 – Home Economics (fall/spring) / Back-Nine Sitcom (midseason)

9:00 – The Conners

9:30 – Bucktown (fall) / The Wonder Years (winter/spring)

10:00 – Promised Land (fall) / A Million Little Things (winter/spring)

Season 9 for The Goldbergs will most likely be its final one; it should continue to nurture Home Economics…and possibly a new/relocated comedy at midseason. The Conners would still anchor the center of the evening, giving coattails to Bucktown (the new Jane Lynch multi-camera family sitcom, which could move up an hour if it does well enough to earn a Back-Nine renewal).

The new Latinx family drama Promised Land would premiere in the fall during the 10pm hour, but its time slot would be turned back over to A Million Little Things for the first half of 2022. Concurrently, Lee Daniels’s reimagination of The Wonder Years (starring Henry Danger’s E.J. Williams) would accompany the return of A Million Little Things in January. If Promised Land performs so strongly that it warrants a Back-Nine order, it might need to be moved over to the post-Greys slot on Thursdays.

Thursday

8:00 – Station 19

9:00 – Grey’s Antaomy

10:00 – Epic (fall/spring) / Women of the Movement (winter)

There’s no reason to believe Station 19 and Grey’s Anatomy won’t return to fill the first two hours of what used to be “Shondaland.” As for the third hour: Epic, an anthology fantasy from the creative team behind Once Upon a Time, ought to be tried out in the post-Greys time slot. Only time will tell if Epic would bring in decent enough ratings to return for a Back-Nine in the spring; but its slot would still need to be filled at least for a few months in the winter, at which point the long-awaited Women of the Movement should clock in here.

Friday

8:00 – Shark Tank

9:00 – Emergency Call (fall/spring) / Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

10:00 – 20/20

Shark Tank is all but certain to retain its Friday night berth, followed by two-hour helpings of 20/20. The only exception might be during portions of the season when the 9pm hour is reserved for limited runs of Emergency Call or Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

Despite the year-plus lockdowns we’ve endured, primetime television has proved to be resilient and resourceful. There’s no reason to believe that won’t be the case as we head into 2022.

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