Articles tagged "upfront week"

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Grave days at the network upfronts

by Glenn Garvin [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[19.May.08] :. The upfronts - the annual ritual when broadcast television networks present their fall lineups to advertisers - have a weeklong festival of Barnumesque bluster lubricated by liquor and advertising...

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First-place Fox adding just two new shows to its fall schedule

by Glenn Garvin [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[16.May.08] :. Not needing much new programming after beating the other networks senseless in the Nielsen ratings this season, and not having much to choose from anyway after a writers’ strike laid waste to...

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Which network shows will live and which won’t next season

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[15.May.08] :. I have a pretty solid list here of which network shows got canceled and renewed as the nets announced their fall schedules this week, but first, let me tell you a story. There once was a show named...

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For fall, ‘CSI’ also stands for ‘comedy strategy implemented’ on CBS

by Glenn Garvin [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[15.May.08] :. CBS, for the past decade a network built around “CSI” and its gory crime-drama clones, Wednesday unveiled a fall schedule intended to make its viewers laugh as well as gag. The network...

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Networks hyping fall programs less

by Jonathan Storm [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[13.May.08] :. In spring, an advertiser’s fancy used to turn to gala, big-star entertainment and lots of cocktails and huge shrimp. But times are tough. Monday, the boys and girls from Madison Avenue...

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No more serial for ratings-hungry TV executives

by Glenn Garvin [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[21.May.07] :. Want to see a television executive cringe in fear? Just mention the S-word. No, not the one that gets the FCC or the Parents Television Council all hot and bothered. I’m talking about...

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Fox bets on sitcom vets for fall TV ratings

by Mike Duffy [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[18.May.07] :. Fox is still looking for a cure to its split-personality TV season blues. The king of spring is annually appalling in the fall. But waiting around till midseason for the mammoth infusion of...

 

The CW adds six shows for fall

by Zap2it.com [(MCT)]

[18.May.07] :. In its second year, the CW is still trying to find itself, which explains why on Thursday morning it revealed a fall schedule with only two days of its freshman lineup untouched. Nevertheless, the...

 

CBS opts for stability

by Zap2it.com [(MCT)]

[16.May.07] :. After the myriad NBC additions and the ABC tumult, there’s something soothing about the schedule CBS unveiled on Wednesday morning. While CBS will be introducing three new dramas, one new...

 

Superpowers in, serials out for NBC, ABC lineups

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[16.May.07] :. Although just two networks, NBC and ABC, have announced their fall lineups so far this week, we can already say a couple of clear things about the coming season. Superpowers are in. Serials are out....

 

The case of the disappearing TV viewer

by Aaron Barnhart [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[15.May.07] :. It’s upfronts week again—time for the major TV networks to unveil their fall schedules and begin their annual mating rites with major advertisers. It will be a heady time for the...

 

This is TV’s prime time to sell

by Phil Rosenthal [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[14.May.07] :. For a few days this week, as they do each May, the broadcast television networks will produce the kind of lavish all-star spectaculars that fell out of favor about the time the novelty of TV in color...