• HitFix, Monday, May 16, 2011 5:30 PM

Two TV critics sound off on the plusses and minuses of NBC's new prime-time schedule, just revealed in full.

According to Entertainment Weekly's Ken Tucker, NBC is "trying to build a bridge between what works on NBC now, and starting to create a new identity for the network's future. But what is that identity? Based on its new shows, NBC wants to do interesting work in mostly familiar genres."

Meanwhile, Hitfix's Alan Sepinwall also analyzes the schedule day by day, adding some highlights from a conference call with network entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt, who, Sepinwall notes, "tried to establish himself as a realist. He acknowledged that getting the network out of the enormous hole it's in wouldn't happen overnight, and that therefore, 'If we could do one or two things successfully, I would be thrilled.'"

Of course, Sepinwall adds, "Greenblatt's predecessor Jeff Gaspin also presented himself as a realist, and he no longer has that job nor is NBC any closer to fixing the mistakes made by Jeff Zucker, Ben Silverman, et al. Pragmatism is nice - and no doubt necessary in this gig - but some hits would help."

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