The ABC Television Network unveiled its 2013-14 schedule on Tuesday morning to Madison Avenue advertisers at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center .
Possessing the hottest broadcast drama series at the moment,Scandal, the network didn’t waste any time to flaunt it to advertisers. ABC’s upfront presentation opened with a pre-taped skit featuring Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope and featuring Jimmy Kimmel.
Other highlights of ABC’s Presentation:
- The network slotted its highly anticipated television series spin-off of feature film franchise The Avengers, entitled Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Also slotted with high expectations is the Once Upon a Time spinoff Wonderland .
- ABC has canceled as many scripted shows as it is keeping, with only two first-year programs surviving: Nashville, and the once-ridiculed aliens-next-door comedy The Neighbors.
- Grey’s Anatomy, Once Upon a Time, and Scandal will likely find their seasons split in two, with approximately 12-episode runs this fall, followed by a hiatus in the winter (when new shows will premiere in their time slots) and then a return in the spring.
- Dancing with the Stars will be reduced to just one night a week, although it will continue to air in both the fall and spring.
- Altogether, the network will introduce seven new dramas (including a highly anticipated series set in Marvel’s Avengers universe), five new comedies, and one new reality series during the 2013-14 season.
- In addition to its new series, the network has ordered a new Toy Story Halloween special,Toy Story of Terror, to air in October; the original cast of the Pixar movie will return.
Renewed and Canceled
Renewed
20/20
America’s Funniest Home Videos
The Bachelor/Bachelorette
Castle
Dancing with the Stars
Grey’s Anatomy
Last Man Standing
The Middle
Modern Family
Nashville
The Neighbors
Once Upon a Time
Revenge
Scandal
Shark Tank
Suburgatory
The Taste
Canceled or Ended
666 Park Avenue
Body of Proof
Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23
Family Tools
Happy Endings
How to Live w/ Your Parents…
Last Resort
Malibu Country
Private Practice
Red Widow
Zero Hour
Fate Uncertain
Bet on Your Baby
Mistresses *
Motive *
Splash
Whodunnit? *
Wife Swap
* Season debuts this summer; status will be determined after show airs.
2013-2014 Schedules
ABC is trying something new on Tuesday nights. Make that many somethings new: the entire night will consist of first-year shows, led off by ABC’s splashiest new series, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The all-new Tuesday is made possible by a format change to Dancing with the Stars, where results will now be revealed immediately as part of the show’s once-a-week, two-hour Monday broadcast. Otherwise, the schedule is fairly stable, with the network attempting to break in yet another new drama at Sundays at 10p, while it will use The Middleand Modern Family as lead-ins to new comedies on Wednesdays in an attempt to finally find a half-hour that sticks. Those new comedies mean that the return of Suburgatory will be held back until midseason, as will the launch of five new shows. The Neighbors is the only returning show moving to a new night, and the shift to a less-demanding Friday slot could actually work in the show’s favor.
ABC’s 2013 Fall Schedule
