5 Time Slot Brawls to Watch This Fall
With radically altered prime-time lineups at ABC and Fox, football on Thursday at CBS, and an NBC slate without its Thursday comedy block, the season is shaping up to be [...]
Turner Upfront Slate Tries for Younger Viewers, Even Male/Female Split
Without Steve Koonin at the helm for the first time in years, Turner is giving the floor to head of programming Michael Wright this morning.
ABC Dips a Toe Into the Programmatic Pool
While it executed all the expected dance moves, screening cut-downs of its fall series before letting late-night prankster Jimmy Kimmel off the leash for his annual Friar’s Club roast of [...]
Telemundo Boosts World Cup Rights, New President in Upfront Presentation
NBCUniversal's Telemundo is taking a victory lap for its World Cup acquisition back in 2011 during the upfront this season. Sitting in the driver's seat during that lap is newly [...]
Univision Gives Simon Cowell Show La Banda the Go-Ahead
Univision has green-lit a new series from American Idol/X Factor/America's Got Talent producer Simon Cowell entitled La Banda, out to find "the best band in the world," as Cowell told [...]
Upfront Upheaval: ABC Creates an All-Shonda Rhimes Thursday Block
It’s Shonda Rhimes’ world; everyone else just lives in it.