We’ve reached the broadcast networks’ Upfront Week… which used to be a lot more central to our television lives than it is now. Ratings everywhere are down, and there’s no reason to think they’ve hit bottom, which has caused seismic changes in the ways networks make scheduling decisions. Among other things, with revenues from on-air […]
CW will continue to be DC Comics (and Greg Berlanti) TV. For a network that only ordered three new shows (two of them for fall), CW has made quite a few changes in its new schedule, with DC Comics properties anchoring 4 nights of the week (and veteran Vampire Diaries the 5th) for stability, but […]
Read All Our Fall Pilot Reports here. SLEEPY HOLLOW: Monday 9PM on FOX – If Nothing Else Is On… For what’s supposed to be an original series, SLEEPY HOLLOW feels awfully familiar. Part of it, of course, is that writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are doing a spin on the Washington Irving classic […]
Read All Our Fall Pilot Reports here. THE GOLDBERGS: Tuesday 9PM on ABC – Change the Channel THE GOLDBERGS is startlingly bad. ABC’s most highly-touted new sitcom of the fall is inspired by series creator Adam F. Goldberg’s memories of growing up in the 1980s, and fragments of his own home videotapes at the […]
Just a day after NBC announced the end of its Thursday Must-See-TV block of comedies, FOX is breaking up its Animation Domination Sundays with a pair of live-action sitcoms. There are plenty of changes to the FOX line-up on the way, and here’s a quick breakdown: MONDAY: Matching the new Batman prequel GOTHAM with […]
SELFIE: Tuesday 8PM on ABC starting September 30 – If Nothing Else Is On… PLAYERS: George Bernard Shaw. (And Lerner & Loewe, whose My Fair Lady made Pygmalion into a fixture of pop culture.) Series creator Emily Kapnek, of Suburgatory. Stars John Cho and Karen Gillan. Pilot director Julie Anne Robinson. Warner Bros. Television. […]
Read All Our Fall Pilot Reports here and Midseason Pilot Reports here. BETRAYAL: Sunday 10PM on ABC – If Nothing Else Is On… BETRAYAL is certainly on brand for ABC. Its pilot, just like the one for Revenge two seasons ago, starts by flash-forwarding to a shooting, and the action that follows takes us […]
CRISTELA: Friday 8:30PM on ABC THE FACTS: The Hollywood American Dream: Cristela Alonzo is a Latina comic who wrote (with Kevin Hench) a family comedy pilot script loosely inspired by her own life, about a young woman living with her sister and brother-in-law as she tries to become a lawyer. ABC passed on the […]