It’s been a fairly strong summer for NBC thus far, with The Night Shift being renewed, Undateable in the renewal conversation, Taxi Brooklyn surprising, American Ninja Warrior remaining sturdy, and America’s Got Talent doing what America’s Got Talent does. Should the network find another keeper in its next rush of programming, which includes comedies Welcome to Sweden and Working the Engels and reality series Food Fighters, NBC will have quite a bit of momentum heading into the 2014 fall season and could possibly make strides towards securing its second consecutive seasonal victory.

Created by Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah (90210), The Night Shift follows the lives of the staff who work the night shift in the ER at San Antonio Medical Center. Having averaged over six million viewers since its May 27th series premiere, The Night Shift stars the likes of Eoin Macken (Centurion), Jill Flint (Garden State), Ken Leung (Lost), Daniella Alonso (Revolution), and Freddy Rodriguez (Six Feet Under).

The Night Shift airs Tuesdays at 10:00 on NBC.

Have you been watching The Night Shift? Do you think NBC should keep it a summer show or would you like to see it as a midseason replacement? Will the expanded episode order help the show creatively or could it cause the series to stretch itself too thin?

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Among the acquired content NBC is bringing onto its schedule is Taxi Brooklyn, a police procedural starring Chyler Leigh as a driven NYPD detective and Jacky Ido as a streetwise taxi driver; Welcome to Sweden, a half-hour comedy starring Greg Poehler as a man who moves with his wife to her home country of Sweden so that she can accept a job offer; and Working the Engels, a family comedy about a tight knit clan that must band together when their patriarch dies. Also new to NBC this summer is Food Fighters, a reality series hosted by Adam Richman that finds amateur cooks putting their signature dishes to the test against five professional chefs. A dinner party of judges decides whose dishes are the best and the more professional cooks an amateur cook knocks out, the more money they win.

You can get a look at NBC’s full summer lineup below.

What do you think about NBC’s summer schedule? Do you think summer 2013 entry Siberia will return to the network at some point? Which new scripted series are you most looking forward to?

Thursday, May 22nd
9:00 Last Comic Standing

Monday, May 26th
9:00 American Ninja Warrior

Tuesday, May 27th
8:00 America’s Got Talent
10:00 The Night Shift

Thursday, May 29th
9:00 Undateable (Back-to-back episodes weekly)

Friday, May 30th
10:00 Crossbones

Wednesday, June 25th
10:00 Taxi Brooklyn

Thursday, July 10th
9:00 Welcome to Sweden
9:30 Working the Engels

Tuesday, July 22nd
8:00 Food Fighters

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