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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
 
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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
 
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THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: FOX Trailer – “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”

  One of FOX’s big moves for the fall is revamping its Tuesday 8-9PM comedies, shifting sharply in tone from last falls soft duo of Raising Hope and Ben & Kate to a more guy-oriented tone.  Seth MacFarlane’...
by Mitch Salem
 
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2018-19 TV Season

NIELSENWAR: FOX Fall Schedule & Analysis (Includes 5-Network Grid)

  Welcome to Upfronts week, when the broadcast networks (or what’s left of them) announce their Fall schedules and attempt to generate billions of dollars worth of excitement from advertisers.  It’s harder than ever t...
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THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: “Late Night” To Be With Seth Meyers

  Perhaps the worst-kept secret in recent network history is one no longer, as NBC officially announced today that it will be fellow former Saturday Night Live Weekend Update host Seth Meyers who will take over from Jimmy ...
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2017-18 TV Season

UPDATED WITH ANALYSIS: NIELSENWAR: The FOX Fall 2017 Schedule

See our commentary on the NBC fall schedule here. FOX had a terrible 2016-17 season (blurred a bit by airing the Super Bowl and a historic World Series).  The closest thing it had to a new hit was Lethal Weapon, and it watch...
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THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: CW Promo – “The 100”

  We have a short clip from CW’s midseason series THE 100, about a group of teens returning to a post-apocalyptic Earth. Our heroine, it seems, is Octavia, the rebellious standout in the (as usual for CW, very pretty...
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THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: ABC Midseason Trailer – “Killer Women”

  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 W...
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THE SKED: “Guys” With More Episodes and the Sad State of Network Back Orders

  Today’s announcement by NBC that GUYS WITH KIDS has received a 4-episode back order (making for a season total of 17 episodes) seems to require some note. In last night’s ratings, Guys had a 1.3 rating in 18-...
by Mitch Salem
 
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2017-18 TV Season

NIELSENWAR: REVISED 5-Network Grid with New NBC Line-Up

  In a very unusual move, NBC has already made major changes in the fall schedule that it announced just 2 weeks ago.  In fact, it’s changed the centerpiece of that schedule, reversing the move of its breakout hit ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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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
 
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THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: ABC Midseason Trailer – “Mind Games”

  Kyle Killen’s Lone Star and Awake were two of the most ambitious network series of recent years–and two of the most resounding flops.  He has to be hoping that his third time (and third network) is the charm...
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2018-19 TV Season

NIELSENWAR: ABC Fall Schedule & Analysis (Includes 5-Network Grid)

  Welcome to Upfronts week, when the broadcast networks (or what’s left of them) announce their Fall schedules and attempt to generate billions of dollars worth of excitement from advertisers.  It’s harder than ever t...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: CBS Featurette – “We Are Men”

  The CBS featurette for its new Monday 8:30PM comedy WE ARE MEN is at great pains to suggest that the cast–Chris Smith, Tony Shalhoub, Jerry O’Connell and Kal Penn, as divorcees who live in the same residentia...
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THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: CW Pick-Ups

  The biggest surprise from CW wasn’t any one of its pilot orders–it was the decision to renew THE CARRIE DIARIES, a show that showed little ratings promise in its first season.  Apparently the explanation is ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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