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Complete coverage of television’s biggest event: the new season’s Upfront presentations for advertisers! We’ll have complete night-by-night analysis of the fall schedules for each network, starting the week of May 9 with a look at each network’s biggest needs, then we’ll cast a critical eye on the new schedules as they are unveiled all through the week of May 16.And back in the world of movies, the event of the summer: our First Annual Summer Movie Draft! Mitch Metcalf and Mitch Salem will each pick a slate of Hollywood’s would-be blockbusters, and we’ll track them throughout the season to see who can claim the summer’s prognostication crown.
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Mitch Salem
MITCH SALEM has worked on the business side of the entertainment industry for 20 years, as a senior business affairs executive and attorney for such companies as NBC, ABC, USA, Syfy, Bravo, and BermanBraun Productions, and before that, at the NY law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. During all that, he has more or less constantly been going to the movies and watching TV, and writing about both since the 1980s. His film reviews also currently appear on screened.com and the-burg.com. In addition, he is co-writer of an episode of the television series "Felicity."
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Complete coverage of television’s biggest event: the new season’s Upfront presentations for advertisers! We’ll have complete night-by-night analysis of the fall schedules for each network, starting the week of May 9 with a look at each network’s biggest needs, then we’ll cast a critical eye on the new schedules as they are unveiled all through the week of May 16.
