Pilots coming in for a landing at ABC, Peacock

Nikki Finke gets very upset and cross with us if we don’t reward her hard-fought TV upfronts reporting with a link.

It’s funny. Years ago, we remember the indefatiguable Jenny Hontz running around the Variety office in New York, foaming at the jowls, trying to nail down pilots that the networks had picked up, then fulminating about the lag time of publishing.

Today, the upfronts are a bit like egg salad sandwiches in the summertimes: They just don’t keep well.

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