Midseason TV Replacements
Can you make it to syndication with this trivia game featuring midseason TV replacements, or will you get cancelled?
15 questions · Published December 28, 2022
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. What dramatic series replaced the retiring "Carol Burnett Show" in January 1978 and ran for over three hundred episodes?
Running for fourteen seasons, "Dallas" (1978-1991), which took over the "The Carol Burnett Show" (1967-1978) timeslot, remains one of the longest-running TV dramas of all time.
- Multiple Choice
2. What successful showrunner produced both "How to Get Away with Murder" and it's March 2016 midseason replacement, "The Catch"?
Because "How to Get Away with Murder" (2014-2020) had fewer episodes than other shows, it would frequently finish in March, giving ABC the opportunity to use the post-"Grey's Anatomy" time slot to launch new shows. One of the them was the Mireille Enos-Peter Krause project, "The Catch" (2016-2017) which lasted just two seasons.
Both "Murder" and "The Catch," along with "Grey's Anatomy" (2005-present), were executive produced by Shonda Rhimes.
- Multiple Choice
3. When Courteney Cox's "Cougar Town" went on hiatus in early 2011, ABC replaced it with a show starring her "Friends" co-star _____________.
After "Friends" (1994-2004) went off the air, Matthew Perry starred in several short-lived series, including "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" (2006-2007), "Go On" (2012-2013), "The Odd Couple" (2015-2017), and the show that temporarily replaced "Cougar Town" (2009-2015) on ABC's schedule, "Mr. Sunshine" (2011).
- Multiple Choice
4. Which of these hit TV shows did NOT originally appear on the schedule as a midseason replacement?
"Cheers" launched as part of NBC's lineup on September 30, 1982, at the start of the fall season and ran for 275 episodes.
- Multiple Choice
5. What was the original title of the Mick Jagger-produced 2006 midseason replacement comedy "The Knights of Prosperity"?
Mick Jagger was one of several executive producers of the short-lived "The Knights of Prosperity" (2007), which followed a group of friends who team up to rob celebrities and was originally titled "Let's Rob Mick Jagger." The series was cancelled after nine episodes.
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