Posts Tagged ‘upfronts’
 

 

THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: CBS Featurette – “Intelligence”

  In the CBS featurette for its new midseason action-adventure INTELLIGENCE (it’ll take over the Monday 10PM timeslot from Hostages), the show is variously compared to Mission: impossible, Frankenstein, The Six Milli...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: CBS Picks Up “Reckless”

  The latest CBS drama pick-up for 2013-14 comes a bit out of left field:  RECKLESS, a legal soap about an illicit romance between a defense attorney (Cam Gigandet) and a prosecutor (Anna Wood) against the background of a...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: NBC Picks Up An Old “Friend”

> NBC has jumped the gun on this year’s Upfront season, and ordered 13 episodes of the Matthew Perry single-camera comedy Go On for its 2012/13 primetime schedule.  In addition to starring Perry, the show is written ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

NIELSENWAR 2014-15: News From FOX, NBC, TNT, TBS

  Nothing so far today matches yesterday afternoon’s high-profile pick-ups by NBC and FOX, but there’s nevertheless some news as we approach next week’s Upfronts: FOX Amid speculation that the network wil...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

UPDATED – NIELSENWAR UPFRONTS: FOX Fall–and Midseason–2016 Schedule (with NBC/FOX grid)

  UPDATED with reactions to FOX trailers, which are available here:   The FOX fall schedule is a puzzlement. FOX seems to have done little to help itself with its fall 2016 line-up, leaving two of its weakest nights unimp...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S NIELSENWAR – Week 8

  We’re now mid-way through November sweeps, and it’s time to ask once again:  What do we know now about this TV season that we didn’t know before? THERE WERE NO NEW BREAKOUT HITS THIS FALL.  Despite al...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: CW Promo – “The Tomorrow People”

  CW has released a mix of promos and short clips from its new series, which don’t do much more than provide the premises and a brief taste of the pilots.  Strong caution should be used in making any judgments from ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: NBC Trailer – “The Michael J. Fox Show”

  As part of today’s Upfronts presentation, NBC has released full trailers of its new series.  Now, it’s absolutely unclear to judge a TV series from its trailer–even more than it’s unfair to judge...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: ABC Trailer – “Super Fun Night”

  ABC is all-in with Rebel Wilson next fall.  The network has given SUPER FUN NIGHT, which she wrote as well as stars in, its showcase Wednesday 9:30PM slot, behind Modern Family.  Wilson plays one of a trio of pals who&...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: FOX Trailer – “Almost Human”

  In FOX’s new line-up, ALMOST HUMAN will take over the Monday 8PM slot from Bones post-baseball, then serve as lead-in to first Sleepy Hollow and then The Following.  It hails from Bad Robot, JJ Abrams’s mecc...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: ABC Midseason Trailer – “Resurrection”

  RESURRECTION is one of ABC’s TBD series, and it seems that it may be intended to have a limited run (perhaps bridging the gaps of a serialized show, in order to avoid reruns and preemptions), although it’s no...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

UPDATED: THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: The New ABC Schedule – Grid & Instant Analysis

  ABC needs to dig its way out of 4th place next season, and no one can say they’re not putting in the effort.  Every night of the week in the fall will have be changed except Mondays, and the network is introducing...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: One More CBS Pick-Up

  The booze had been drunk, the party rooms cleaned up, everyone had gone home from last week’s network Upfront presentations–but CBS wasn’t quite done.  After what must have been marathon negotiations w...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S SCHEDULE: FOX

  The broadcast networks will officially announce their schedules next week at the Upfronts in New York, but before that happens, Mitch Metcalf and I, along with veteran network executive Ted Frank, have put together our o...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: CBS Featurette – “Mom”

  No name has more cachet at CBS than Chuck Lorre’s.  He’s given the network The Big Bang Theory, 2 1/2 Men and Mike & Molly, and hopes are high that his MOM, taking over the Monday 9:30PM timeslot this fa...
by Mitch Salem