Resurgent NBC Sets Sights on Two Remaining Weak Spots: Thursdays and Comedies
When NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt started at the network in 2011, things looked bleak. NBC has now clawed its way back to first place in the 18-49 demographic, thanks [...]
Networks Will Write Discounted C7 Deals, but Not Everyone’s Biting
Even with Kevin Reilly out at the News Corp broadcaster and ratings declines from an aging American Idol, Fox has managed to score a serious deal: GroupM, arguably the biggest [...]
The More Things Change: What’s Old Is New Again at the CW
There are few surprises on the CW's upfront schedule, besides virgins. It's a good time for the network's comic-book-heavy prime-time lineup: Arrow will be joined by spinoff The Flash in [...]
CBS Puts Football on Thursday, Joel McHale May Go to Late Late
UPDATE: CBS's Les Moonves, talking to Bloomberg denies... everything, really, saying that there are a lot of people throwing hats in the ring for Craig Ferguson's old gig.
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 [...]
Upfront Upheaval: ABC Creates an All-Shonda Rhimes Thursday Block
It’s Shonda Rhimes’ world; everyone else just lives in it.