ABC PRIMETIME SCHEDULE FOR 2002-03

*New programs in CAPS

MONDAY
8:00-8:30 PM Drew Carey
8:30-9:00 PM Who's Line Is It Anyway
9:00-11:00 PM Monday Night Football/DRAGNET & MIRACLES

TUESDAY
8:00-8:30 PM 8 SIMPLE RULES FOR DATING MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER
8:30-9:00 PM According To Jim
9:00-9:30 PM LIFE WITH BONNIE
9:30-10:00 PM LESS THAN PERFECT
10:00-11:00 PM NYPD Blue

TWednesday
8:00-8:30 PM My Wife and Kids
8:30-9:00 PM George Lopez
9:00-10:00 PM The Bachelor 2
10:00-11:00 PM MEDS


THURSDAY
8:00-9:00 PM DINOTOPIA
9:00-10:00 PM PUSH, NAVADA
10:00-11:00 PM Primetime Thursday

FRIDAY
8:00-9:00 PM America's Funniest Home Videos
9:00-10:00 PM THAT WAS THEN
10:00-11:00 PM 20/20

SUNDAY
7:00-9:00 PM Wonderful World of Disney
9:00-10:00 PM Alias
10:00-11:00 PM The Practice

CANCELLED SHOWS
"Bob Patterson," "The Court," "Dharma & Greg," "The Job," "Once and Again," "Philly," "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher," "Spin City," "Thieves," "Wednesday 9:30 (8:30 Central)" and "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"

What a bunch of crap.

I expected nothing less. The last series I liked on ABC was Home Improvement. Before that, Twin Peaks. That is the extent of what I have cared to watch on their network.

Wow.. how low ABC has sunk.

In that line up, they will have 1.5 hours of my weekly viewing time (My Wife and Kids, Alias).

If it wasn't for that show and Alias being still on, I'd have written off ABC completely.

I'm still bitter over the whole Once and Again thing, but what can you do besides hope someone else resurrects it(big big hope, but will never happen)

More for me but that is mainly due to MNF. I'll watch Blue religiously. I'll record the Bachelor. That's it.

With PI gone, I'm down to Alias as my sole ABC show.

With Angel up against Alias on Sunday night now, I might just watch Alias on Friday nights if they still repeat them on ABC family.

I mean, since my viewership didn't matter to ABC where Once & Again was concerned, it shouldn't matter to them that I don't watch their Sunday night first-run line-up.

I liked The Job, I hate to see it gone

I just realized that I don't watch any shows on ABC.

Alias is the "ONLY" reason I still watch ABC. I hate their news, I hate all the rest of their shows,movies.

Geofferson you should give alias a try it is good stuff.

I think they should have the mole then alias.

Well, I'm down to "According to Jim" and MNF. From that lineup it seems that ABC couldn't care less about us, maybe they're hellbent on completely sinking the network!

I'm down to Alias, NYPD Blue, and The Practice (if it improves - this season has been horrendous). I don't think I'll ever understand the decisions ABC has made regarding cancellations.

Here the show descriptions for the new programs fromZap2it


The three new comedies are:


"8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter" -- Based on the best-selling book by W. Bruce Cameron, John Ritter stars as Paul Hennessy, a loving, rational dad who can't quite figure out how his sweet little daughters morphed into hormonally-challenged, incomprehensible teenagers. Luckily, he still has a 13-year-old son who still speaks his language.

"Less Than Perfect" -- A workplace comedy with big egos, backbiting assistants and screaming deadlines. Claudia "Claude" Casey (Sara Rue, "Popular") has moved up the secretarial world of television news, from permanent floater to the anchor's desk at a television network. Her assent to the high profile secretarial job puts her into the think of a competitive battlefield of coworkers. The show also stars Zackary Levi, Sherri Shepherd-Tarpley ("Emeril"), Andrea Parker ("The Pretender"), Andy Dick and Eric Roberts.

"Life With Bonnie" -- Bonnie Hunt stars (and writes ... and produces ... and directs) in this comedy about the host of a local TV show who leads the life of a sort-of celebrity.
On the drama front:


"Dinotopia" -- Picking up where the miniseries left off, the show depicts a lost world where man and dinosaurs live together in harmony. It follows a father and his two sons as they struggle to adapt to a land technology and humanity forgot.

"Meds" -- Two renegade doctors (William Fichtner and John Hannah) at an oversized, mega-frugal HMO in San Francisco clash with the system, bend the rules and find the loopholes in a constant struggle to treat their patients. The two practice medicine with a take-no-prisoners attitude and don't-take-no-for-an-answer tactics.

"Push, Nevada" -- From the folks behind "Project Greenlight" and the never-aired "The Runner" (Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Chris Moore and Sean Bailey), comes this scripted interactive mystery where each episode contains clues that leads viewers to a cash prize hidden somewhere in the country. It all starts with a mild-mannered IRS agent who travels to a remote desert region in search of missing money and stumbles into a strange small town where mystery, danger, and peculiar characters lurk around every off-kilter corner. Every word, every sign, every gesture holds a clue toward solving the riddle.

"That Was Then" -- A 30-year-old door-to-door salesman whose one true love is married to his brother goes back in time to one week where everything went wrong -- only to return to find that his tinkering has screwed things up more.
For midseason, ABC has also ordered the following five projects:


"Dragnet" -- A new incarnation of the old franchise from Emmy Award-winning producer Dick Wolf ("Law & Order"), set in Los Angeles and fleshed out to an hour. Will premiere in January following the end of "Monday Night Football."

"Miracles" -- Part detective story, part thriller, part spiritual quest, this show stars Skeet Ulrich as a young man assigned to investigate modern-day miracles. He teams up with a paranormal investigator (Angus MacFadyen) and the duo looking into the strange and unusual to find an explanation. Will premiere in January following the end of "Monday Night Football."

"My Second Chance" -- A advertising hotshot attempts to win back his family after fame and fortune has led him astray.

"Untitled Jimmy Kimmel Project" -- The co-host of Comedy Central's "The Man Show" brings his personal brand of humor to his own hour-long late night talk show.

"Veritas" -- An hour-long drama about a father and son archeology team who investigate the mysteries of the ancient world and are swept up in a race to uncover the past before a mysterious brotherhood can stop them. From the creators of "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider."

chalk me up for alias and mnf and that is it. abc sucks otherwise.

I'm interested to see if Drew Carey & Whose Line will survive in the new timeslot. I can't believe Dinotopia and the Bachelor is on the lineup.

I'm still bitter about the "Theives" cancellation.

I can't believe Drew is still in the lineup. Why they would move it to Monday is beyond me, very stupid.

This might be the winning line-up ABC needs to get
back on top....Well in fantasyland anyways.

Too bad about PI...Always enjoyed the show.
But I think many saw the demise since the 9/11
comments....On a postive note though.

Anytime a cop or laywer series bites the dust,
an Angel gets its wings in my book.
bye bye Philly...I will not miss you et all.

I am so glad they decided to bring back the "George Lopez Show" for a, hopefully, full season. I thought it was a very funny midseason replacement even though it was only on for four episodes. Partnered together with "My Wife and Kids", it makes for a great hour of comedy.


And what idiot keeps giving Bonnie Hunt her own show? I think this her third sitcom and the previous two didn't even last a month.

I was really hoping they were going to renew "The Job".

WOW!

How in the hell does Once & Again, P.I., The Job and Philly get cancelled..........and According To Jim stays on the air.

ATJ is one of the most poorly written, acted etc. sitcoms I've ever seen. (This coming from somone who goes to school where Belushi did and loves him to death).

Unbelievable and Dinotopia is a replacement. This is beyond hilarious. Is ABC trying to fall down to the WB or UPN level.

They royally suck now. They did before but now they have nothing left. Blue and Practice are on their last legs and everything else is reality tv. That fad will burst eventually.

It's official, there is nothing on ABC that I watch. Who am I kidding? I never watched it anyway-- it comes in crappy on cable and I always forgot and ended up watching O&A on Lifetime.

Word! I love those two shows! And on the same night...

WTF!!!!

Philly gone. Were the ratings that bad?

sukekekke

I now do not watch ABC...

@lias and MNF is the only shows i will be viewing on abc.

Damn, between this an Fox they've cancelled just about every show I watch. True, I only watched two ABC shows, The Job and Alias. But Damn, So far next season looks like The Simpsons and Alias. Oh, and Tuesday night for Fox is good too. Oh well...

Man, can I just say that the ONLY ABC show I'll be watching is Alias? And The Practice maybe. But, man, the rest of the week is awful. Who's Line Is It Anyway? is great, but I prefer to catch that on ABC Family...