The Short, Happy Life of NBC's New 'Must-See TV'
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Two weeks after indulging in a good deal of fanfare over the return of its Thursday night “Must-See TV” showcase, NBC has revised its most ambitious fall scheduling moves, sliding “This Is Us” back to its regular Tuesday 9 p.m. time slot and replacing the hit drama with a second hour of comedy.
Rather than anchoring Thursday night with the revamped “Will & Grace” at 8 p.m. and “This Is Us” in the 9 o’clock hole (the second-year sitcom “Great News” was meant to fill the gap between the two bold-face draws), NBC has shifted the reboot and its battery mate to the second hour of prime. They’ll now grab the baton from the ensemble comedies “Superstore” and “The Good Place” in the 8 o’clock hour.
Booking passage with “This Is Us” to Tuesday night from Thursday is the new anthology series “Law & Order: True Crime: The Menendez Murders,” which will take up residence in the 10 p.m. slot vacated by “Chicago Fire.” Entering its sixth season this fall, the bedrock of Dick Wolf’s Windy City franchise will swap places with “True Crime” to take the 10 o’clock hour on Thursday.
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