So to summarize: NBC almost moved This Is Us to Thursdays against football, Shonda Rhimes’ empire and The Big Bang Theory, nearly gave its biggest serialized hit an eight-week break, thought about moving it on the schedule for three episodes (to a new time or a new day, we don’t know), considered a standalone-on-the-schedule holiday episode to keep fans content before bringing it back in January to an audience that would be no doubt confused or exhausted waiting for it to come back.
And we all got excited about it, Dan [Fogelman, This Is Us creator] was on board, we all were up for it.
This Is Us returns for Season 2 on TUESDAY, Sept. 26 at 9/8c.
The Tuesday night lineup of The Voice into This Is Us into [Law and Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders] is going to be as compelling as any lineup can be.”