ABC Announces Fall Premiere Dates for 19 Shows
Desperate Housewives' Marcia Cross, Grey's Anatomy's Patrick Dempsey
ABC, perhaps going alphabetically, has emerged as the first major network to unveil its calendar of fall premiere dates... for a good portion of its programming, at least.
And it looks a little something like this:
Saturday, September 5
8 pm/ET Saturday Night Football
Friday, September 11
10 pm 20/20
Monday, September 21
8 pm Dancing with the Stars
10 pm Castle
Tuesday, September 22
10 pm The Forgotten (from Jerry Bruckheimer, currently undergoing some recasting)
Wednesday, September 23
8 pm Dancing with the Stars results show (to normally air Tuesdays at 9)
9 pm Modern Family (with Julie Bowen, Ed O'Neill and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and hysterical)
9:30 pm Cougar Town (Courteney Cox Arquette on the prowl)
Thursday, September 24
8 pm FlashForward (Now one word? Yes. The next Lost? We shall see.)
9 pm Grey's Anatomy
Sunday, September 27
7 pm Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (two-hour season premiere)
9 pm Desperate Housewives
Tuesday, September 29
8 pm Shark Tank (reality TV)
Wednesday, September 30
8 pm Hank (Kelsey Grammer as an economically downturned CEO)
8:30 pm The Middle (Patricia Heaton makes like Roseanne Conner)
Thursday, October 1
10 pm Private Practice
Sunday, October 4
7 pm America's Funniest Home Videos
Friday, October 9
8 pm Ugly Betty (two-hour season premiere)
Friday, October 16
8 pm Supernanny
Premiere dates for any shows not listed above — namely Brothers & Sisters and Eastwick — have yet to be set.
