Revived and resurrected by the network who basically owned/owns the show, Last Man Standing is CRUSHING its time slot competition. It is especially far outperforming the cowardly, cruddy crap aired by the network which aired LMS for six seasons, mostly in the same generally bad for ratings Friday evening schedule, where it also crushed its competition.
Remember that Last Man Standing was constantly and consistently the ratings winner in that undesirable time slot and the network's second highest rated comedy. The highest rated sitcom at the time had a much better mid-week scheduling.
The popularity of Modern Family speaks less of quality programming, than it proves moreover that television is indeed "a vast wasteland", as Jack Kennedy's FCC Chairman proclaimed it to be a half century ago. It is a prime time prime example of television's devotion to the dumbed down lowest common denominator, paying homage to intergenerational and interracial marriage, homosexual marriage and adoption and overall permissive parenting. Overall, Last Man Standing was a top forty show in the Neilsens, with a very devoted, dedicated audience of intelligent and honest viewers with discerning and discriminating preferences in television programming.
Therein, in that last gerund adjective lies the truth. My use of that word has nothing to do with race, racism or racialism. It simply means "showing refined tastes or good judgment". A year and a half ago, newly named president of ABC Entertainment, Channing Dungee made the discriminating decision to cancel Last Man Standing. That decision was not based on good judgment or refinement. It was rooted in her radical racialism of multiculturalism and diversity dogma. I would say racism, but only pink faced Caucasoids can be racists. But Negroids, Mongoloids, and the myriad of other color and culture based sub-races of the human race can damned sure "base policy or practice on racial considerations" and that's perfectly permissible. That is exactly what Ms. Dungee did in cancelling LMS and basically replacing it with a politically correct piece of poop that was so bad that not even she could keep it on the air through its first season.
In all fairness to Channing, the decision was not wholly race based. The overall differences in politics in general probably played a bigger role.
LMS star Tim Allen is an outspoken, unabashed conservative. His character on the show, Mike Baxter is also Constitutionally conservative, often touting the greatness of capitalism and Ronald Reagan and citing the evils of socialism, Baracka Hussein O, Hitlary and the American Demoncat party. Interestingly enough, in the Hallowe'en episode one season, Mike Baxter labeled himself as a Libertarian. There was always plenty of liberalism in the show, as the wife, two of the three daughters and Negroid neighbor Chuck Larabee were all Obamabots and/or Hitlaryites. Of course, maybe for Ms. Dungee, some of that liberalism was too diluted, like when Chuck and his newly elected to the school board wife Carol exhibited conservative principles relative to taxes and government spending, or when Mike's uber liberal, trade unionist, kooky Canadian son-in-law referred to Baracka Hussein O as "your drone loving president."
Conversely, Chaning Dungee is just another Hollywood huckster, left coast lunatic LIAR. In denying that politics had anything to do with LMS's cancellation, she said that ABC was just not going to do comedy on Friday nights any longer.
Being about a non-Caucasoid family of immigrants and a cross cultural family with a disabled kid doing grand deeds, the two ABC sitcoms in the Friday evening eight o'clock hour are not funny, so maybe in some unintended way, ABC isn't doing comedy on Friday nights any longer.
On the other hand, FOX is. Last Man Standing continues to bring the funny, as well as insightful intelligence. The new show following it, The Cool Kids, stars legendary comedic icons David Alan Grier, Martin Mull, Vicki Lawrence and colossal (despite his diminutive stature) character actor Leslie Jordan In its first two episodes, it has been heartwarmingly hilarious with some real screamingly funny, laugh out loud moments. Last Man Standing's season premiere might be the most brilliant twenty-two minutes of television I've ever watched. It's second episode broke my heart, as my favorite occasionally recurring character, Mike's dad, Bud Baxter, proprietor of Bud's Buds had died. Maybe they'll let him intermittently appear as a ghost, as he did in Episode 2. I was looking so forward to his first interaction with Mandy, to compare it to his interaction with Kristen in the Thanksgiving episode of Season 2.
In her "business decision" to boot Last Man Standing, Channing Dungee has shown that she has no business acumen. As I know that they shall continue to do, LMS and The Cool Kids have had more than double the numbers of ABC's Friday fare, in terms of rating, share and total viewers. Dungee undoubtedly attained her position of prominence and power as an Affirmative Action jenny ass and probably through the tried and true entertainment industry avenue to success, by simply being in the right place at the right time to put the right penis (or clitoris, in this modern age) in her mouth. Now, she has her shot foot in there.
As for other shows, there aren't many. Going into their sixteenth season, Mark Harmon's Leroy Jethro Gibbs and David McCallum's Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard are all who remain of the original cast of NCIS. I have always appreciated and admired this show, because I know that if it had not been for medical issues precluding me from military service, I would have been the real life Air Force version of Gibbs.
With last season's finale' continued into this season's premiere, the show seems to be moving back away from the political correctness that was ruining it for me. In those two thrilling episodes, they dared to speak the truth that Islamofascist terrorists are Islamofascist terrorists who are "monsters", while we are "the good guys". I'll continue to watch, as long as they continue to write such story lines.
Like NCIS, Hawaii Five-0 enters its ninth season with Alex O'Loughlin's Lt. Cmdr. Steve McGarrett and Scott Caan's Det. Sgt. Danny Williams as the only two characters from the pilot episode. But it remains a smart, funny, thrill packed action adventure drama of which I remain a fan.
In its twelfth and final season, Big Bang Theory remains one of the funniest shows to ever air. With all five of its original players and several more, I am looking so forward to further character development as Chuck Lorre and his team of brilliant writers pen us to what I know will be one of the great series finale's of all time, much like Cheers and M*A*S*H.
Young Sheldon is still amusingly entertaining and entertainingly amusing. And I'm still a fan. Note to Chuck Lorre: Use the tumbleweed more in the opening credits in lieu of the cow. It's funnier.
Other than the aforementioned The Cool Kids, there was very little about which to get excited or be hopeful regarding new shows.
Legendary producer Dick Wolf probably has another ratings and critical success. But for me, it's boiler plate police procedural with too much political correctness. 
Manifest is a concept show about which I was very excited. Of course, the last time I got excited about a concept show, it turned out to be the worst piece of tripe since Joe Namath ad the Waverly Wonders. 
Manifest is by no means that bad. Through the pilot episode, I was thinking, "ehh", but the final scene made me say, "okay, I'll watch more." But about halfway through the second episode, I said, I might as well be watching 
or 
. It could probably be a fine feature film, but as a TV series, it is slowly developing and BORing.
New medical drama New Amsterdam has been thus far, fulfillingly entertaining and engaging with a stellar story line brought to life by interesting, sympathetic characters. I'll stay with it, as long as it stays with those two creative commodities.
So far the real bright spot for me in this new TV season, particularly among new shows is The Neighborhood, starring Cedric The Entertainer. It has been intelligently funny, taking a real, but still comedic look at race relations. Just as he did as Eddie Walker in Barbershop, Cedric, as Calvin Butler relays realities of race in America without being ridiculously, revoltingly, repulsively racialist about it. Mondays are fun days again. That's the critique by one university educated/industry experienced broadcasting consumer. All in all, by and large, television continues to be, as it has been through the seven decades of my lifetime, not only a vast wasteland but a waste of electricity.
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