NBC: The Great American Roadtrip, Here Come the Newlyweds, Heroes, The Jay Leno Show, Kings, I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, Law & Order, The Listener, Mercy, Merlin, The Philanthropist, Southland, Trauma
FOX: 24, 'Til Death, Brothers, Dollhouse, Mental, More to Love, Our Little Genius, Past Life, Sons of Tucson, The Wanda Sykes Show
ABC: Better Off Ted, The Deep End, Defying Gravity, Eastwick, FlashForward, The Goode Family, Hank, Happy Town, LOST, Romantically Challenged, Scrubs, The Superstars, Surviving Suburbia, Ugly Betty
CBS: Accidentally on Purpose, Cold Case, Gary Unmarried, Ghose Whisperer, Numb3rs, Miami Medical, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Three Rivers
CW: The Beautiful Life, Blonde Charity Mafia, Fly Girls, High Society, Hitched or Ditched, Melrose Place
NBC:
The Jay Leno Show -- I'll say it: I was wrong last year. Clearly, what was a brilliant cost-cutting move, didn't work when you factored in the effect the lower ratings would have on local affiliate newscasts. Ooops! Unfortunately, it cost EVERYONE involved a lot of embarrassment, and made Jay look like a total jerk.
Law & Order -- Angela Bromstad had originally promised L&O would never ben cancelled under her watch. Suddenly, now it's a different tune she sings. At the heart of the issue is the fact that it performs poorly on original broadcast and NBC Universal is counting on revenue from it's exclusive contract with TNT to make the show profitable. TNT is only obligated to buy 20 seasons -- which they did. Unfortunately, this contract also stipulates that even if TNT passes on season #21, NBC Uni cannot shop the 21st season around to other nets. So, without a buyer, it would cause NBC to hemorrhage cash flow. Too bad. I hope S. Epatha Merkeson gets migrated into another version of L&O. She's wonderful!
Southland -- tanked on NBC, but has proven to be somewhat successful on TNT. So while NBC cancelled it, new episodes are in production for TNT.
Heroes -- Never watched it. However, reports say NBC is considering a two-hour Made-for-TV movie to wrap up the series since production has long ended.
Minute to Win It & Celebrity Apprentice -- Both shows will appear on Sundays beginning in March 2011. I didn't post the full NBC spring schedule because that's all the spring information they provided in the press release. If they reveal more at the actual upfront on Monday, I'll update it.
The Apprentice (reformatted non-celebrity version), Parks & Recreation, and The Marriage Ref -- All three are shows that have been renewed for additional seasons, but are not yet scheduled for the Fall or Spring. Parks & Rec will be midseason for sure. They went immediately into production on season 3 after wrapping season 2 because of Amy's pregnancy. They wanted to get shows in the can. However, I think this was a contributing factor to Parks & Rec being pushed back to January (at the earliest). The other two are likely also holdovers for mid-season, Summer 2011 (Apprentice, likely), or will be scheduled in the event one of the new shows tanks (and with so many hours of freshman shows, they inevitably will.
UPDATE: Love Bites - a new anthology series originally scheduled to premiere at 10pm on Thursdays - is experiencing problems with production. The show will not be ready for NBC Fall Season premier in September. On July 2nd, 2010, NBC announced it had pulled Love Bites off of the schedule and replaced it with the previously announced (but unscheduled) revamped version of The Apprentice. This will be a non-celebrity version with focus on contestants that have lost their jobs.
Perfect Couples (sitcom), Friends with Benefits (sitcom), Untitled Paul Reiser Show (sitcom), The Cape(drama), Harry's Law (drama), and America's Next Great Restaurant (reality) -- All are brand new shows that have been greenlit, but did not find a place on the schedule as of yet. As stated earlier, I'm sure there will be plenty of openings as the season progresses. However, I also think NBC bit off a little more than they can chew for this season.
The Rockford Files -- Surprisingly, NBC ended up passing on this pilot. It was one of the most buzzed pilot season shows. Huh.
FOX:
'Til Death -- It's about time!! I couldn't believe this show kept being defibrillated! Seriously, it's been brought back from death more times than Family Guy! I still can't believe they cancelled Back to You in favor of this mess. (But if they hadn't, I wouldn't be able to enjoy The Middle now!)
Our Little Genius -- This show is incredibly intriguing! In order to fill slots during Glee's hiatus (due to the show not being in production while awaiting ratings information), FOX greenlit a gameshow by reality-guru Mark Burnett. Suddenly, the week before airing, Burnett requested that FOX not air the show as he has discovered "problems" with the way questions were presented to the contestants. Most believe this is code for "Producers gave students answer or, at the very least, provided the questions ahead of time." Initially, Burnett and FOX had intended to reshoot the series (only a handful of episodes had been made, and gameshows have a relatively quick turnaround from production to air). However, the FCC got involved as they are investigating claims that a producer gave one contestant answers to four questions ahead of taping. IF these claims are true, and IF the producer is prosecuted, this would be the first time since the infamous gameshow scandals of the 1950's that were depicted in the movie "Quiz Show." In 1960, after the quiz show scandals, an ammendment was made to the Communications Act of 1934 that made rigging a game show a felony. FOX has since announced Our Little Genius is cancelled. They will not reshoot the series, and contestants will keep their winnings.
American Idol: Results -- Prayers do get answered: the producers have finally seen the light and downsized this to a half-hour program. Whew!
Terra Nova -- New midseason drama by executive producer Steven Spielberg. I don't know anything else about this show, so can't speculate. It is currently unscheduled, and midseason is pretty full, so I'm not sure where it will fit in.
So You Think You Can Dance? -- Show not appear on either fall or midseason schedules and no reports of it being a summer 2011 holdover show either. Its performance this summer (season 7) will determine whether we see it again or not.
The Wanda Sykes Show -- With the cancellation of the Wanda Sykes Show after one season, and no announcement of post-10pm programming on Fridays, it appears that FOX has exited the late night market entirely. This will return 1.5 hours of programming to the affiliates.
ABC:
FlashForward -- I started watching this show, but after about 3 episodes, I couldn't take it anymore. The acting was horrible, the writing was almost equally as bad, and I just don't think the producers took this show down the exciting path it could have gone.
Hank -- Good, wholesome, family fun! Unfortunately, the Kelsey Grammer sitcom arrived about 15 years too late. It's almost as if they hired the Full House writers. Not just the people who wrote Full House, but it's as if they went back in time and paid the current Full House writing staff from 1995 to create this new series. It was completely 90's sitcomtastic.
Surviving Suburbia -- Really, I'm not sure why this show didn't make it. It was sort of like Hank in the good-clean-wholesome way, but I actually found this amusing. Although, to be honest, I had forgotten all about it until I started writing this. It was a burnoff from last summer, so it's been off the air for a while.
LOST -- I don't want to live in a world without LOST, but alas, it's time to move on. And without the DHARMA Initiative being this secretive force anymore, it's lost some of it's spark. While I love this show, it too didn't go down the road I thought it was going. Maybe that's a good thing, but I think the good vs. evil thing is slightly heavy handed. I digress.
Romantically Challenged -- Well, that didn't last long, did it?
Happy Town -- Likewise... that didn't last long.
Cougar Town -- You do know there's a possible name change in the works, right? For more information on that, read my blog here. UPDATE: No name change.
V, Supernanny, and The Bachelor -- These series have been renewed and will broadcast in the spring. Like with NBC, I didn't do a full spring schedule because ABC didn't provide one.
Off the Map, Happy Endings, Mr. Sunshine -- These series have been greenlit for the midseason, although they may air earlier dependong on the performance of some freshman shows.
Shark Tank, Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution -- Both shows have neither been picked up, nor officially cancelled. Shark Tank can go into production relatively quickly, and they can produce probably 6 episodes in just one day! So this is likely going to be picked up if ABC needs to fill some slots. The show performed extremely well for the network on Fridays.
CBS:
Accidentally on Purpose -- It's over. This makes me very sad. It was a GREAT show. It sort-of got a wrap up, though, so it's better than what happened to The Class.
The New Adventures of Old Christine & Ghost Whisperer-- Both shows have been canned by CBS.... but ABC is supposedly likely to pick at least one of them up. We'll have to see how current programming performs, but while I take comments made by Julia Louis Dreyfus to mean there are current talks about ABC saving Christine (which is only one full 22-episode season away from the magic 100 episode syndication mark), other sources are reporting that those negotiations between Warner Bros. Television and ABC have come to a halt. Those same sources are also saying ABC needs a proven drama for their lineup. Ghose Whisperer is co-produced by ABC Studios, and ABC holds the non-American rights to the program. It does seem likely that ABC is seriously considering squeezing this show (which is already in syndication, and is already past the 100 episode mark) for at least midseason. It averages in the 8-10.5m viewer range over the past five seasons and peaked with a 3.7 share average for season 4 (08-09). Christine currently averages about 7m viewers and would be a welcome ratings boost for any network -- except #1 CBS.
Gary Unmarried -- It seems CBS is just cleaning house now. They are dumping any mildly-performing sitcom. While I never watched Gary Unmarried, the ratings for Gary, Christine, and AoP would be quite welcomed on fourth-place net NBC... if only they'd pick them up. As stated earlier, the only one likely to be salvaged is Christine by ABC.
Medium -- I really thought CBS would only give it one season after taking it off NBC's hands last year. Good for them!
Untitled "Criminal Minds" Spinoff -- Forest Whitaker heads a new midseasons series for CBS that is a spinoff of Criminal Minds. As with NBC and CBS, no midseason schedule is provided and this is the only note given about midseason schedules.
CW:
General commentary -- The CW has the fewest freshman shows of all networks! Of course, remember, they don't program weekends on the network and (like FOX) they only have two hours of net programming each weeknight. Still, to only have two freshman shows out of 10 hours of original programming (no encores), that's pretty respectable. However, CW can also allow shows with lower ratings to survive longer than they would on other nets. Frankly speaking, if I were to create or produce a pilot, I would want CW to pick it up -- I'd have a greater chance of survival, even if I'd garner lower ratings (thus lower revenue).
Blonde Charity Mafia -- This show is another one of those unique situations where the series was produced (it was a docu-drama, with 6 episodes produced) but then cancelled before ever airing on the network. No answer was ever given as to why, and the show has aired in other countries.