NBC Moves to Shore Up Its Wednesday, Friday Lineups

Top-rated NBC moved Thursday to shore up its weak Wednesday and Friday prime-time lineups, naming four series to take over for “Sonny Spoon,” “Baby Boom,” “Tattinger’s” and “Something Is Out There.”

“Baby Boom” and “Tattinger’s” will return to the schedule after some creative overhauling, the network said. The other two have been canceled.

Beginning Jan. 11, “Baby Boom” will be replaced at 9:30 p.m. Wednesdays by “My Two Dads,” a comedy that was on last season about a girl being raised by two men who loved her late mother.

“Tattinger’s,” which airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m., will be replaced Jan. 25 by “Nightingales,” a medical drama starring Suzanne Pleshette and Barry Newman.

Taking over for “Sonny Spoon” and “Something Is Out There” in the 8-10 p.m. block on Fridays will be “Father Dowling,” a mystery drama with Tom Bosley as a crime-solving priest (starting Jan. 20), and “UNSUB,” a law-enforcement drama from the creators of “Wiseguy” that will star David Soul, Kent McCord and M. Emmet Walsh (starting Feb. 3).