ABC Sticks With the Familiar for its Fall 2021 Schedule
ABC released its 2021 Fall schedule, and other than a few small changes, they are sticking with what works.
Rather than alternate its two reality hits, the network will air Dancing With the Stars on Mondays and The Bachelorette on Tuesdays. The long-running reality dating series will be paired with new drama series Queens.
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Queens stars Brandy, Eve, Naturi Naughton, and Nadine Velasquez as the members of ‘90s girl Nasty Bitches, who are now in their 40s and looking to make a comeback.
Reality staple The Bachelor is missing from the schedule. President of ABC Entertainment Craig Erwich told Deadline, “We’ll have more to share on The Bachelor itself soon enough.”
ABC’s most high profile new series, a reboot of the 1980s classic The Wonder Years, heads to Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m., between established comedies The Goldbergs and The Conners.
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The Wonder Years still takes place in the ‘60s, but now follows Black family the Williams in Montgomery, AL as they try to find their “Wonder Years.” Elisha “EJ” Williams plays 12-year-old Dean, with Don Cheadle as the voice of adult Dean. Dulé Hill and Saycon Sengbloh co-star as his parents. Original star Fred Savage is an executive producer and directs the pilot.
Unpredictable thriller Big Sky delivers another twist to fans, as it moves to Thursdays where it follows Grey’s Anatomy.
black-ish will wait until mid-season to debut its eighth and final season. Also hitting screens midseason is the network’s remaining game shows, American Idol, and new comedies Abbott Elementary and Maggie.
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From writer/executive producer/star Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary is a workplace comedy focused on teachers at one of Philadelphia’s poorest public schools. Despite the obstacles they’re still devoted to their students.
Maggie stars Rebecca Rittenhouse as a psychic who “regularly sees the future of her friends, parents, clients and random strangers on the street, but when she suddenly sees a glimpse of her own future, Maggie is forced to start living in her own present.”
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ABC will debut limited series Women of the Movement midseason as a big event series. It stars Adrienne Warren as Emmett Till’s mother Mamie Till-Mobley.
“Unwilling to let Emmett’s murder disappear from the headlines, Mamie chooses to bear her pain on the world stage, emerging as an activist for justice and igniting the Civil Rights movement as we know it today.” Tonya Pinkins, Ray Fisher, and Glynn Turman co-star.
Decisions are still being made on ABC’s other pilots.
Here is ABC’s new schedule. New series are in uppercase.
ABC FALL 2021 SCHEDULE
MONDAY
8:00 p.m. Dancing With the Stars
10:00 p.m. The Good Doctor
TUESDAY
8:00 p.m. The Bachelorette (new night)
10:00 p.m. QUEENS
WEDNESDAY
8:00 p.m. The Goldbergs
8:30 p.m. THE WONDER YEARS
9:00 p.m. The Conners
9:30 p.m. Home Economics
10:00 p.m. A Million Little Things
THURSDAY
8:00 p.m. Station 19
9:00 p.m. Grey’s Anatomy
10:00 p.m. Big Sky (new night)
FRIDAY
8:00 p.m. Shark Tank
9:00 p.m. 20/20
SATURDAY
8:00 p.m. Saturday Night Football
SUNDAY
7:00 p.m. America’s Funniest Home Videos
8:00 p.m. Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
9:00 p.m. Supermarket Sweep
10:00 p.m. The Rookie
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Stephanie Holland
Stephanie Holland is a nerdy lover of Star Wars, Disney, Doctor Who, Arrowverse, Star Trek and WWE. Is living the dream of turning a lifelong obsession with TV into an actual job. Still waiting for a reboot of the '80s classic Small Wonder.