WAYWARD PINES: Midseason TBD on FOX THE FACTS: M. Night Shyamalan is the marquee producer of this neo-Twin Peaks-ian limited series. (He also directed the pilot.) It concerns Secret Service agent Ethan Burke, who travels to the small, strange town of Wayward Pines in search of two missing agents. The people he encounters there […]
(NOTE: as of Thursday afternoon, CW had only released a 30-second teaser for its new JANE THE VIRGIN, and nothing at all for midseason shows iZOMBIE and THE MESSENGERS. We’ll post reviews of the rest of the network’s trailers as soon as they’re available.) THE FLASH: Tuesday 8PM on CW THE FACTS: Viewers of […]
The Upfronts are over, which means the real Upfronts are about to begin–that is, the networks’ advance sale of advertising time (usually about 80% of the season’s total) for the Fall 2013 TV season. Although last week’s Upfront presentations now serve a marketing and publicity purpose as well, their original–and still most important–goal is […]
GALAVANT: Winter-ish Sunday 8PM on ABC THE FACTS: A fairy tale musical comedy from Dan Fogelman, the creator of the late, lamented (by some of us) The Neighbors, with an original score by multiple Oscar-winner Alan Menken and Glenn Slater. It tells the tale of Prince Galavant, whose true love left him for the […]
STALKER: Wednesday 10PM on CBS THE FACTS: From the grisly mind of The Following‘s Kevin Williamson, a procedural about an LAPD squad that specializes in tracking down dangerous stalkers. Maggie Q runs the unit, and Dylan McDermott is the cocky new arrival from New York who immediately gets on her wrong side; both of […]
Once again, CW demonstrated that it operates under different economics than the other broadcast networks. Much of its revenue comes from episodes streamed online via Netflix and Hulu, which makes sometimes puny on-air ratings acceptable. Also, virtually everything it airs is produced by one of its in-house studios, Warner Bros Television or CBS Television […]
KILLER WOMEN is another ABC TBD for midseason, this one starring Tricia Helfer (from Battlestar Galactica) as a Texas Ranger. Did you know women can be Texas Rangers these days? Hot women, too! No kidding. Killer Women is by far the most generic of ABC’s drama orders for next season, and it seems to […]
The mini-est of broadcast networks blew up its schedule in a big way, with changes for CW on every one of the 5 nights per week it programs. Let’s see what it’s done: MONDAY 8PM: HART OF DIXIE 9PM: BEAUTY & THE BEAST Two of the network’s bubble shows are paired on a night […]