2) Conan O'Brien and TBS have agreed to terms to continue the Conan show on TBS to 2018. As a big Conan fan, I'm happy that he's staying on TBS as I think he's very happy with his deal there.
3) Nintendo is working on a Skylanders/Disney Infinity style collectible figure video game that will use the NFC capabilities of the system and will allow you to play with various characters in different games. Unlike Skylanders and Disney Infinity, the playability is going to be expanded beyond one core title and depending upon popularity will span over several different games. While I have avoided Skylanders because it's largely marketed towards children, the Disney Infinity game always garners my interest when walking through the video game department because Disney is awesome. However, I realize how much of a money suck it truly is to start investing. I'm not going to lie, the Nintendo idea is super compelling.
4) FX announced that it has cancelled their animated series Chozen, while FXX has also cancelled Legit. Wasn't a big fan of the Chozen pilot so I didn't stick with it, but I truly did enjoy Legit. It was kind of the poor man's Louie, but that's not a bad thing and I thought the show had some pretty funny moments. Plus, DJ Qualls was great as the main character's friend that was bound to a wheelchair because of muscular dystrophy.
5) CBS is the fourth of the five big networks to launch their 2014-2015 TV plans and probably most shocking of all is that they chose to not pick up the How I Met Your Mother spinoff show How I Met Your Dad. Considering how HIMYM bolstered their Monday night programming for 9 years, it's shocking but CBS said that the show wasn't where they wanted it to be at this point and I'm guessing they wanted to avoid a Joey-esque backlash if it failed to live up to the high HIMYM expectations. HIMYD isn't dead yet as other networks could pick up the rights to this.
Also, some great news is that after 12 seasons of Two & a Half Men, this upcoming season will be it's last.
CBS has done some minor tweaking to their schedule, including moving The Big Bang Theory to Monday nights initially, while football occupies their Thursday night line-up. When that comes to a close, on October 30, it moves back to Thursdays to headline their comedy line-up that evening. NCIS: Los Angeles breaks away from it's big brother and will air in the Monday 9:00 slot, while NCIS: New Orleans will get NCIS as a lead-in on Tuesdays. Also, CSI moves to the post Good Wife slot on Sunday nights. The Amazing Race is also on the move as it goes from Sunday nights to Friday.
Most networks announced more new shows than CBS, which is sticking with a lot of it's core programming and is only starting off the fall with 5 new shows and only 3 shows to air mid-season where other networks are in double digits with new show pickups. NCIS is to the 2010's what CSI was to the 2000's with spinoffs galore, and new NCIS: New Orleans, which stars Scott Bakula. Leading into Good Wife on Sunday is the new show, Madam Secretary, which stars Tea Leoni as the Secretary of State where she solves all sorts of international disputes and battles issues both at the White House and at home.... I'm already falling asleep. Stalker is a cop show where Maggie Q (Nikita) and Dylan McDermott (or Dermont Mulroney) investigate stalking incidents. Scorpion consists of a rag-tag group of misfits (including Eddie Kaye Thomas and Katherine McPhee) working together at Homeland Security to solve the nation's crisis and try to help each other to fit in. Lastly, The McCarthy's is CBS' lone fall comedy and centers around a Boston family, who's oldest, least athletic, and gay son is picked by his father to help coach the high school basketball team.
Here is the grid so far of all the networks shows that I make as a reference point for my wife and I. Orange are new shows, blue are shows that at least one of us watches, and green are shows we do not watch:
| NBC | FOX | CBS | ABC | |
| Sunday 6:30 | Sunday Night Football | Bob's Burgers | 60 Minutes | Funniest Home Videos |
| Sunday 7:00 | The Simpsons | MADAM | Once Upon a Time | |
| Sunday 7:30 | Brooklyn Nine-Nine | SECRETARY | ||
| Sunday 8:00 | Family Guy | The Good Wife | Resurrection | |
| Sunday 8:30 | MULANEY | |||
| Sunday 9:00 | News | CSI | Revenge | |
| Sunday 9:30 | ||||
| Monday 7:00 | The Voice | GOTHAM | 2 Broke Girls | Dancing With The |
| Monday 7:30 | Mom | Stars | ||
| Monday 8:00 | Sleepy Hollow | SCORPION | ||
| Monday 8:30 | ||||
| Monday 9:00 | The Blacklist | News | NCIS: Los Angeles | Castle |
| Monday 9:30 | ||||
| Tuesday 7:00 | The Voice | UTOPIA | NCIS | SELFIE |
| Tuesday 7:30 | MANHATTAN LOVE | |||
| Tuesday 8:00 | MARRY ME | New Girl | NCIS: New Orleans | Agents of SHIELD |
| Tuesday 8:30 | About a Boy | The Mindy Project | ||
| Tuesday 9:00 | Chicago Fire | News | Person of Interest | FOREVER |
| Tuesday 9:30 | ||||
| Wednesday 7:00 | MYSTERIES OF LAURA | Hell's Kitchen | Survivor | The Middle |
| Wednesday 7:30 | The Goldbergs | |||
| Wednesday 8:00 | Law & Order: SVU | RED BAND | Criminal Minds | Modern Family |
| Wednesday 8:30 | SOCIETY | BLACK-ISH | ||
| Wednesday 9:00 | Chicago PD | News | STALKER | Nashville |
| Wednesday 9:30 | ||||
| Thursday 7:00 | The Biggest Loser | Bones | Big Bang Theory | Grey's Anatomy |
| Thursday 7:30 | The Millers | |||
| Thursday 8:00 | BAD JUDGE | GRACEPOINT | Two and a Half Men | Scandal |
| Thursday 8:30 | A TO Z | THE McCARTHYS | ||
| Thursday 9:00 | Parenthood | News | Elementary | HOW TO GET |
| Thursday 9:30 | AWAY WITH MURDER | |||
| Friday 7:00 | Dateline NBC | Masterchef Junior | The Amazing Race | Last Man Standing |
| Friday 7:30 | CRISTELA | |||
| Friday 8:00 | Grimm | UTOPIA | Hawaii Five-0 | Shark Tank |
| Friday 8:30 | ||||
| Friday 9:00 | CONSTANTINE | News | Blue Bloods | 20/20 |
| Friday 9:30 |
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