1) Tuesday 8PM- FOX
Masterchef Jr is an interesting choice, considering the show barely survived on Friday nights last year. What you need is a show that can actually save The New Girl and The Mindy Project from becoming obsolete. What you need are comedies you didn’t order. Once you realize Masterchef Jr isn’t helping, move Brooklyn Nine Nine back to Tuesday, and pair it with Last Man On Earth, and pray that you haven’t alienated fans of The New Girl and The Mindy Project completely.
2) Tuesday 8PM- ABC
Aside from the fact that you have a bigger problem called Agents of SHIELD, you have a Tuesday at 8PM problem that’s affecting your entire night. Your best bet is probably to cancel Selfie and Manhattan Love Story and replace them with Agent Carter, hoping that the spinoff will actually help bring an audience back to Agents Of SHIELD. It’s an unusual trick, but this is the one time where a spinoff might actually breathe life back into the original show. If you don’t do something, SHIELD will be dead by the end of the season. Also, don’t give up on Forever. I’d almost suggest pairing it with Castle, so Castle’s audience can bleed into Forever, but Castle is perfectly fine where it is.
3) Wednesday 9PM- FOX
Red Band Society didn’t work. Sorry. Although, Hells Kitchen is a bizarre show to pair with anything. Personally, I’d move Masterchef Jr to follow Hells Kitchen and have a “Night Of Gordon Ramsey”, and then try Red Band Society Tuesday at 8PM. It can’t do any worse than Utopia, could it? And the lighthearted show might do better at 8PM than at 9PM.
4) Friday Nights- All Networks
Start taking Friday night more seriously. More importantly, start using Saturday night more seriously too. People DVR shit now, and it really doesn’t matter where you put things. Especially once you’ve decided that a show is on its “final run” and it’s a show that underperforms anyway… why is Parenthood anchored on NBC Thursday at 10PM, a timeslot that ER once held? Parenthood should be on NBC Saturdays. Who cares what the ratings are? It’s the last season of the show. You’re not going to find new viewers, and old viewers will watch the show whenever… because they probably have DVR’s. You could even use Parenthood to bring viewers BACK to Saturdays (remember when networks used to actually air new shows on Saturdays, and it wasn’t a punishment?) If Networks used Fridays and Saturdays to get creatively struggling shows a large DVR audience, it might bring them success in the long run. Now it’s all about streaming deals instead of syndication. You could take a buzzy show with middling ratings, and stick it on Friday or Saturday where the ratings will be just OK, but the DVR ratings will make it worth your while. I’ve been waiting for a network to figure this out, and so far NBC and CBS are the only two networks that even believe there’s an audience on FRIDAY, let alone Saturday.