Some additional notes from ABC President Channing Dungey, who spoke to reporters about the schedule:
- Scandal will replace Notorious at 9pm on Thursdays come midseason, while the current plan is to place The Catch at 10pm once How to Get Away With Murder ends its third season.
- New drama Time After Time will replace Secrets and Lies at 9pm on Sundays once it finishes its ten-episode second season, which Dungey describes as "closed" and "even better than the first."
- Still Star-Crossed, which will air at some point in midseason, was always intended to be placed there. Dungey didn't rule out the show finding a place on Thursday nights.
- Dungey describes The Middle as a "fantastic anchor show" and is very excited to build a new comedy block around it on Tuesdays. That new block has been opened up as ABC are very proud of their comedy line-up, and looking at their development, it "seemed to make sense."
- High praise for Kiefer Sutherland-starring Designated Survivor, calling it "a really cinematic hour of television."
- Production studios for both Castle and Nashville were looking for the best creative and financial reasons for an ninth and fifth season of the shows, respectively. ABC were looking for what fit best on their schedule, and in the end, the future for ABC "did not necessarily lie in those shows."
- Dungey calls When We Rise, an eight-episode limited series set for February 2017, a "powerful" drama.
- Agents of SHIELD's move to 10pm is "less about moving [it there], and more about being the right moment to open up a new [two hour comedy block]." Dungey says that the move will allow SHIELD to do some potentially darker things.
- Sticking with Marvel, ABC "are in extensive conversations with Marvel. We're very excited about a few things we have in development." There is "nothing definitive as yet," however.
- ABC are redeveloping pilots The Jury and Pearl, but have no plans at present to order any more pilots to series.