Posts Tagged ‘upfronts’
 

 

THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: NBC Trailer – “Welcome To the Family”

  NBC’s trailers for its fall series continue.  Next up:  the sitcom WELCOME TO THE FAMILY, featuring Mike O’Malley and Mary McCormick as a couple whose teen daughter falls in love with (and gets pregnant by)...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: ABC Trailer – “Lucky 7”

  ABC wraps up its all-new Tuesday night with LUCKY 7, a wish-fulfillment (and probably a “be careful what you wish for”) drama about a group of 7 blue-collar workers at a Queens gas station who hit the lottery...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: ABC Trailer – “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”

  AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. is The Big One, not just for ABC but for any network this fall.  A spin-off of one of the most successful movies ever made (and part of a gigantically successful ongoing franchise), co-written and...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: Grids of All 5 Network Schedules

  We’ll have head-to-head nightly ratings predictions next week, but for now, here are the fall schedules for each of the 5 broadcast networks:   CBS       ABC     FOX   Fall NBC. Midse...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED’S SCHEDULE: NBC

  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: ABC Midseason Trailer – “Mixology”

  Another TBD for ABC’s midseason:  the high-concept comedy MIXOLOGY.  The entire season takes place in a single night, at a bar where 10 single people are looking for love (or a close substitute), which–if t...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: FOX Trailer – “Dads”

  The first day of network Upfront presentations features a doubleheader, with NBC followed by FOX.  That means another stack of trailers (unlike NBC, FOX also released the materials for its midseason shows), so let’...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

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