Broadcast TV Will Try Not to Suck This Summer

Ambitious scripted slate

Once contented to hang up the “gone fishing” sign and stockpile their summer schedules with lowest common denominator reality fare, the broadcast TV networks are taking a decidedly different approach this year. As if they’ve finally come to acknowledge that the laissez-faire approach essentially allowed cable to hijack the warm-weather GRPs, the Big Four this summer are programming an unprecedented number of scripted series.

Along with a goulash of burnoffs and hangovers from the just-concluded 2012-13 season, broadcasters are hoping to keep viewers tuned in during the sweaty months with a barrage of big-budget dramas.

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