by Nellie Andreeva | October 23, 2014 6:47pm
The Goldbergs Image: ABC
ABC has supersized the orders of some of its top ratings performers — Modern Family, The Goldbergs, Black-ish, The Middle, Grey’s Anatomy, Once Upon a Time, Castle, and Resurrection.
For the first time in years, ABC has a Wednesday comedy block that is clicking, with tentpoles Modern Family and The Middle getting support from transplant The Goldbergs, which is regularly building on its Middle lead-in, and newbie Black-ish, which has showed solid retention behind Modern Family. Not surprisingly, all four ABC Wednesday comedies are getting two extra episodes each. (For Black-ish, the extra two episodes come on top of the Back 9-episode pickup the new comedy received earlier this month.) In contrast, ABC’s Tuesday comedies, freshmen Selfie and Manhattan Love Story, are fighting for survival as the network has not decided on back episodic orders yet.
Also expanded to 24 is Season 11 of Thursday drama Grey’s Anatomy, which is adjusting well to its new 8 PM time slot. The medical soap has been a hard worker on the ABC schedule, regularly delivering 24 episodes a season, which is not an easy task for a primetime drama.