Six new series – dramas Red Widow (above left) and Zero Hour (above right), comedies Family Tools and How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life), and unscripted series The Taste and Celebrity Diving – highlight ABC’s mid-season premieres. Premiere dates for a revamped Body of Proof and a new cycle of Dancing with the Stars have also been released.
Follow the jump for details.
ABC ANNOUNCES 2012-2013 MIDSEASON PREMIERE DATES
New Series Red Widow, Zero Hour, Family Tools, How to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life), The Taste and Celebrity Diving Join the Schedule, along with Returning Series Dancing with the Stars and Body of Proof
ABC announced midseason premiere dates for new dramas Red Widow and Zero Hour today, along with new comedies How to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life) and Family Tools, and new alternative series The Taste and Celebrity Diving. Returning series Dancing with the Stars and Body of Proof will rejoin the schedule will all-new seasons in the new year, and Suburgatory will move to Wednesday nights at 8:30 p.m., beginning April 3, 2013.
Red Widow, from Twilight Saga films writer Melissa Rosenberg and starring Radha Mitchell, is a riveting new drama about one woman’s journey into the world of organized crime, and how far she will go to keep her family safe. Red Widow will debut with a two-hour premiere on Sunday, March 3 from 9:00-11:00 p.m., ET, and premiere in its regular timeslot, Sunday nights at 10:00 p.m., ET, on Sunday, March 10.
Zero Hour stars Anthony Edwards (ER) in his return to series television. Edwards’ character, Hank Galliston, has spent his life debunking myths, only to be drawn into one of the most compelling mysteries in human history after his wife’s shocking disappearance. Zero Hour will premiere on Thursday, February 14 at 8:00 p.m., ET.
How to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life) features Sarah Chalke (Scrubs) as a recently divorced single mom who moves back in with her eccentric parents, played by the multitalented and critically acclaimed Elizabeth Perkins and Brad Garrett. The series premieres on Wednesday, April 3 at 9:30 p.m., ET.
Family Tools debuts on Wednesday, May 1 at 8:30 p.m., ET and stars Kyle Bornheimer, J.K. Simmons and Leah Remini in a new family comedy that proves mixing family with business is never easy. Family Tools will take over for Suburgatory in this new timeslot following its season finale.
The Taste, a new innovative cooking competition show, will feature celebrity chefs Anthony Bourdain, Nigella Lawson, Ludo Lefebvre and Brian Malarkey, will debut with a special two-hour premiere on Tuesday, January 22 from 8:00-10:00 p.m., ET, and will premiere in its regular time period, 8:00-9:00 p.m., ET on Tuesday, January 29.
Celebrity Diving, based on the international hit reality series Celebrity Splash, will premiere on Tuesday, March 19 at 8:00 p.m., ET and will feature as judges legendary Olympic diver and four-time gold medalist Greg Louganis, along with David Boudia, who brought home the gold for diving at the 2012 London Olympics.
Dancing with the Stars will return for a 16th season on Monday, March 18 at 8:00 p.m., ET. “Dancing with the Stars the Results Show” will debut the following week on Tuesday, March 26 at 9:00 p.m., ET.
Photos by Kharen Hill and Craig Sjodin/Courtesy ABC
Thanks for sharing all of the details for these new shows! One of the gals I work with at DISH told me a few things about what these shows will have to offer, but out of all of them I’m looking forward to How to Live with Your Parents and Red Widow. I enjoy Sarah Chalke and Radha Mitchell, so I’m sure they’ll both be excellent! It looks like all of the premiere dates are all different too, so thankfully for me I won’t have to even try to remember to set recording timers for any of these, since they are a part of ABC’s primetime lineup. I just upgraded to a DISH Hopper DVR and have PrimeTime Anytime enabled (records all of the major networks primetime shows each night automatically), so I will be good to go come next year. I can’t wait to see what they have in store for us! 🙂