NBC has given Grimm a full season pickup. The peacock will also try it out in the more competitive Thursday time slot.
The full season order follows the recent incremental script order.
NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt said, in announcing the news:
“We are very pleased to be making a full-season commitment for Grimm. This series is turning the traditional procedural drama on its head and is attracting a loyal following for us on Friday nights. We love where it’s going creatively and we’re excited to deliver more episodes to our audience.”
So confident are the network about the show, they’re going to try it out in the super competitive Thursday 10/9c time slot on Dec. 8. This will be followed by another new episode the following night in its original time slot.
I’m still waiting for Grimm to engage its serialized arc. Haven’t seen enough in that department so far, but it remains on the Seriable Potential list.
Source: THR
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i’ve actually been very pleasantly suprised how much i’m enjoying this show, i expected it to be terriable, moving it to thursday might help with it now competing with fringe, there’s the slight mytharc so far that i suspect it will be explored more
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After first 3 episodes, I am not hooked to the Grimm. It is a bland show fitting well in the another bad lineup of shows for NBC in this season. I still have some hopes for Awake. Considering NBC canceling most new shows, I guess Grimm was not the worst in the bunch, and that was enough for it to stay. Thing that surprised me most is that I like ‘Once upon a time’ much more than Grimm.
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This is good news as far as I’m concerned. I like Grimm enough for it to stick around but I think it would benefit for more serialization. It doesn’t have to be overly heavy but enough to keep the show a bit more engaging.
And being a die hard Fringe fan, I’m glad it will no longer be competition on Friday night.
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Just to clarify, Grimm will still air on Fridays. NBC are testing it out on Thursday (Dec. 8 ) to see how it performs and to attract more viewers.
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It’s too soon to tell for sure of course, but the show seems to be on the lightweight side. It’s literally a monster of the week show that I suspect audiences will tire of in short order if it stays as it is. We’ve seen a monotonous procession of such shows.
It’s amusing in places, but Once Upon a Time has greater promise and originality in the ‘adult fairytale reboot’ genre.
Of course it could ‘meaten up’ over time. That will depend on not neglecting the Grimm backstory – if it isn’t expanded further it will garner only casual viewers. Make it so the Grimms aren’t always the good guys perhaps?
Also if it went more for the dark, surrealistic black humour of ‘An American Werewolf in London’ it might have a future. I’ve seen some flashes of that so far but not much.
Right now I agree with Milan, it’s a tad bland and pasteurised, despite the gore. Gore needs grit in order not to feel like funhouse horror.
But let’s hope it does well on Thursday – not because I care about the show much, but I’m with everyone else on this, if it’ll lighten the load on Fringe then great.
Some of the stumbles in this (so far) underwhelming fourth season of Fringe may have a lot to do with conflicting pressures on the showrunners regarding ratings. If the pressure is lightened by a rating boost, perhaps they’ll be less conceptually timid and not worry about procedurals and resets for newbie watchers.
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I’ve enjoyed “Grimm” so far–maybe because it’s so good to see “Haywire” (from “Prison Break”) again as a recurring supporting character, in a sort of comic turn. I also like “Once Upon a Time,” which I think, is a somewhat better show, at least so far, and is quite a different take on a similar theme. Of course, “Fringe” is my first choice in that time slot over “Grimm.”
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