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New TV Slates Prove Dramas Are So Last Season
22 May 2012 6:14 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
New York -- Broadcast television networks are determined to make you laugh.
The resurgence of situation comedies is the clearest trend to emerge from TV's helter-skelter week of fall schedule announcements that just concluded. ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC will have 30 half-hour comedies on the air at the beginning of next season – 32 by November – compared to 17 at the opening of a new season five years ago.
Tuesday alone is a comic festival. The top networks will air eight sitcoms that night alone, with ABC promising two more in January.
"The audience is really open to comedy right now," said Robert Greenblatt, NBC entertainment chief. The network made comedy its development priority, and is opening Tuesday and Friday to sitcoms next fall. NBC is also keeping four comedies on Thursday night, despite abysmal ratings.
The explanation is as much financial as cultural, and there's a clear starting point.
Much as "The Cosby Show »
- AP
New TV Slates Prove Dramas Are So Last Season
22 May 2012 6:12 AM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
New York -- Broadcast television networks are determined to make you laugh.
The resurgence of situation comedies is the clearest trend to emerge from TV's helter-skelter week of fall schedule announcements that just concluded. ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC will have 30 half-hour comedies on the air at the beginning of next season – 32 by November – compared to 17 at the opening of a new season five years ago.
Tuesday alone is a comic festival. The top networks will air eight sitcoms that night alone, with ABC promising two more in January.
"The audience is really open to comedy right now," said Robert Greenblatt, NBC entertainment chief. The network made comedy its development priority, and is opening Tuesday and Friday to sitcoms next fall. NBC is also keeping four comedies on Thursday night, despite abysmal ratings.
The explanation is as much financial as cultural, and there's a clear starting point.
Much as "The Cosby Show »
- AP
Dan Sterling & Brent Forrester Named Executive Producers On NBC’s ‘The Office’
21 May 2012 11:30 AM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Dan Sterling and Brent Forrester have been tapped as executive producers on NBC’s flagship comedy series The Office next season. The two are expected to fill the void left by the departure of executive producer/showrunner Paul Lieberstein, who is segueing to The Office spinoff starring Rainn Wilson, which the two created together. Sterling and Forrester have been drafted by The Office developer/executive producer Greg Daniels, with whom they previously worked on his animated Fox comedy King Of The Hill. Nobody has been designated showrunner on the upcoming ninth season of The Office. Daniels has been very involved, spearheading a major creative overhaul on the show, which includes changes for existing characters and the introduction of new ones. All Office cast members sans Mindy Kaling, who got her own series on Fox, will be back. Forrester has been a consulting producer on The Office since the third season. »
- NELLIE ANDREEVA
Molly Fosco: Don't I Know You From Somewhere?
21 May 2012 11:09 AM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
The recently announced TV network fall line up seems to have some common themes this year. Did anyone order some revived sitcom actors? Fox, ABC, CBS, and NBC sure did, and these new shows will all have some very familiar faces.
Fox's new series The Mindy Project stars Mindy Kaling in a quirky sitcom about a young woman who has professional success as a gynecologist but just can't quite figure out that love life of hers. Mindy's character on the show is not totally unlike her ditzy, celebrity-obsessed character Kelly Kapoor on The Office, which looks like it will add to the show's likability. Kelly was irritating, sure, but nonetheless comically entertaining. I think Kelly's incredible naïveté has at lest been removed from Mindy's new character, which is definitely necessary if this series is going to work. You just can't have the star of a show plotting to dupe her »
- Molly Fosco
How Did TVGuide.com Fare in Guessing Which Pilots Would Get Picked Up?
19 May 2012 9:20 AM, PDT | TVGuide - Breaking News | See recent TVGuide - Breaking News news »
Nobody's perfect — but TVGuide.com came pretty darn close.
In our 3rd annual Promising Pilots feature, we guessed that Kevin Bacon and Connie Britton would make their way to our television screens in the upcoming 2012-2013 television season, and we were right.
13 Promising Pilots: New shows from Kevin Bacon, Connie Britton, Ryan Murphy and Mindy Kaling
Among our best guesses for possible new series included...
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- TV Guide News
10 Most Promising New Fall Shows
18 May 2012 10:19 AM, PDT | TheInsider.com | See recent The Insider news »
Every May, the major networks come to New York City with footage from the shows they've ordered for fall and a U-haul filled with booze as they try and tempt advertisers to buy airtime on their channel. This not only allows ad sales folk to rub elbows with the stars but also serves as the first time anyone gets to see snippets from all the new fall pilots!
Related - Is Your Favorite Show Returning Next Fall?
And I did the legwork this year, hitting up every network presentation to find out which warrant a spot on your DVR and which should be avoided like the plague.
What follows are the 10 Most Promising Network Pilots (while TNT, USA and MTV each have shows that deserve spots on this list, we're keeping things to the big 5). And while previous years have revealed prevailing thematic trends, the only consistent thing this week was that most of the networks saved the »
Upfronts 2012: The Year Of Underdogs, Comebacks & Second Chances
18 May 2012 9:43 AM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
In my decade covering American television I can’t think of a year when more projects that started as also-rans, or came back from the dead, or barely made it to pilot, or overcame major recastings, went on to land series orders. And some of them are among next season’s most buzzed-about new shows. It feels like almost all pilots that had recastings — once an ominous sigh for a project’s future — went to series, and those that went through hardship on average fared much better than their non-problematic counterparts. Related: Upfront 2012: What Pilots Are Still Alive When a pilot script is passed on by the network that developed it, in 99.99% of the cases that means the end of the road, with the script headed to the writer’s drawer as its final destination. But in the case of Mindy Kaling’s medical comedy The Mindy Project, a »
- NELLIE ANDREEVA
Fox Announces Fall Schedule – Get A Look At The New Shows While You Can
18 May 2012 9:09 AM, PDT | AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news »
It’s that time of year, and the networks are revealing their schedules for fall. Fox is always an interesting network when it comes to the upfront season, because they usually don’t have a lot of changes, but they often have fascinating (if doomed) series on the horizon.
The full schedule is below, as are breakdowns of the specific shows, along with trailers, and I want to make sure to point out that they are likely to expire very soon, so you want to catch them while you can.
The really big news for fall is that Glee is moving. The not so big news is that mid-week primetime is still going to be taken over by reality shows. Good news, though not quite news at this point, is that fans of Bones and Fringe are going to get more of their favorite shows, despite the fact that both »
- Marc Eastman
From Arrow To 666 Park Avenue: Fall TV’s Most Promising Eye Candy
17 May 2012 12:40 PM, PDT | TheFabLife - Movies | See recent TheFabLife - Movies news »
We’re going to leave it up to the pundits to predict which of the many new shows presented at this week’s network upfronts will rise to the top come fall TV season. All we know is, we may have re-watched the clip of Stephen Amell doing pull-ups in the CW’s Arrow about 10 times this morning. (Sorry, lost count.) Point is, there are a whole lot of new faces for us to ogle — and about as many returning ones we’ve been longing for — on the schedules that were announced this week.
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What the hell is going on at 666 Park Avenue (ABC’s new drama)? We can only tell that Vanessa Williams is still devilishly hot, and Dave Annable and Rachael Taylor have the kind of sex appeal that might entice us to sell our souls too. We are squealing with delight at the return of Felicity boys »
- Sabrina Rojas Weiss
The Daily Beast: "Bring on the New Shows!" (Upfronts 2012)
17 May 2012 7:57 AM, PDT | Televisionary | See recent Televisionary news »
Over at The Daily Beast, we're keeping you up-to-date with all of the news, renewals, cancellations, and series orders coming out of this week's broadcast network upfronts. You can read our Network Scorecard, which keeps track of all of the renewals and cancelations as well as reactions to the scheduling changes and check out video promos for all of the networks' new shows. And you can read detailed descriptions--as well as insider information--about all of the new series heading to your television in the fall and spring. Jace Lacob and Maria Elena Fernandez take a look at what’s coming up and what’s coming back on TV this fall as television's network upfronts week comes to a close. The CW moved Supernatural to Wednesdays, ordered five new shows, renewed Hart of Dixie, and canceled Secret Circle and Ringer. CBS moved Two and a Half Men to Thursdays and The Mentalist to Sundays, »
- Jace Lacob
Fall TV 2012: The Full Schedule
16 May 2012 6:09 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
As the networks trot out high-profile new series -- Dennis Quaid's TV debut! Connie Britton sings! Ryan Murphy's gay comedy! Mindy Kaling's a doctor! A young Carrie Bradshaw! -- several returning entries are moving from their place on the schedule to clear the way for the freshman class of the 2012-13 TV season. Photos: Broadcast TV's Returning Shows for 2012-13 Season With the five broadcast networks already having unveiled their fall schedules, The Hollywood Reporter breaks down each night of the week for a handy viewing guide to keep up with the time-slot battles (Glee and Two and
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- Lesley Goldberg
Examining NBC’s Fall 2012 Schedule
16 May 2012 5:44 PM, PDT | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
I’m fascinated by the current state of NBC. Last among the four major networks. Kept from the very bottom by dynasty deals like the NFL and the Olympics. A shell of its former self still propping up Jay Leno for chuckles every night. But I don’t look at the wilted Peacock with schadenfreude, like many do. Instead, it’s with sadness and nostalgia. What happened?
As an ’80s kid, I grew up watching NBC’s Saturday morning block, “Saved by the Bell,” “Alf,” Cosby, and Will Smith before he was Will Smith. The national news in our house was delivered by Tom Brokaw. I watched Michael Jordan dominate the NBA on NBC. There’s an easy joke in here about “Diff’rent Strokes” and “Baywatch.” In high school and college, we’d gather around episodes of “Friends,” “Scrubs,” “The West Wing,” and other “must see TV.” Conan O »
- Jeff Leins
TV's top time-period battles this fall
16 May 2012 5:27 PM, PDT | EW - Inside TV | See recent EW.com - Inside TV news »
With the fall TV schedule now complete (below), we get to step back and take a look at the hellish battleground that broadcast hath wrought. There’s some very tough-to-predict match-ups this fall:*
Tim Allen vs. Whitney Cummings (Fridays, 8-9): “No, my show’s lamer!” ABC and NBC have their low-expectations comedies airing on Fridays this fall, and they might run head-to-head depending on when NBC launches (ABC’s comedies premiere in November). NBC has Whitney and Community and ABC has Last Man Standing and new comedy Malibu Country. (Community fans, if your ass beat by Reba McEntire and Lily Tomlin, »
- Lynette Rice and James Hibberd
The Four New TV Shows We Can't Wait To See
16 May 2012 3:30 PM, PDT | MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news »
With the big reveal of CBS' 2012-2013 primetime schedule, all of the major networks have revealed which of their current shows will be back in the fall and which ones are being sent to the television graveyard as well as which pilots will be premiering this fall.
We have to say, we're pretty pleased with how things panned out. After a tense, touch-and-go couple of days "Parks and Recreation" and "Happy Endings" got their expected pick-ups, and favorites "Modern Family" and "30 Rock," albeit for a truncated final season, will also be back when the leaves start to turn.
(We're not exactly in love with the idea of two cycles of "The Voice" – part of that show's appeal was that it was neither overextended nor played out and a non-stop, yearlong run puts that in danger – but we'll deal.)
We've also got Louis C.K.'s brilliant "Louie" returning to FX in June, »
- John Mitchell
Angelina Jolie Writes an Intro For Billy Bob's Book
16 May 2012 7:59 AM, PDT | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »
Angelina Jolie writes the introduction to Billy Bob Thornton's book - The Insider Kate Middleton doesn't have a stylist! - People Vanessa Paradis is still close with Karl Lagerfeld - Lainey Gossip You won't believe how much Robert Downey, Jr. will make from The Avengers - HuffPost Ent Adriana Lima needs a bigger home for her growing family - TooFab Josh Hutcherson gets surgery to fix a broken nose - Us Weekly Mindy Kaling is on a quest for love - The Daily Beast What happened when Sacha Baron Cohen arrived at Cannes - Hollywood Reporter Mischa Barton dances with pandas - BuzzFeed 25 movies to keep an eye out for at Cannes - Rotten Tomatoes Who should Sofia Vergara date now? - Wonderwall Ellen and Portia on the benefits of being vegan - Lifeline Live Two and a Half Men moves to Thursdays - Zap2It See Jennifer Aniston »
- Allie Merriam
Mindy Kaling Kept an Upfronts Diary for Vulture
16 May 2012 7:00 AM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Vulture asked Mindy Kaling, whose show The Mindy Project made Fox's fall lineup, to keep a diary of her Upfronts experience. Herewith, all the kooky things that went through her mind, starting from before she got the good news, and ending with her in bed, indulging in some light showrunner fantasies. Saturday, May 6 7:30 a.m. Waking up in my childhood bedroom in Boston. I left L.A. to hang out with family while I wait to hear about the show. 9:15 a.m. Going through my bedroom and find some great relics from junior high, like a Denis Leary No Cure for Cancer tape, but nothing to play it on. Tuesday, May 8 11:12 a.m. Rainn Wilson texts me: "I have news about your pilot!" I text back immediately, “What?!” But it was just a mean joke to get my attention. I hate that guy. 4:15 p.m. Saw »
- Mindy Kaling
Fox upfronts: network banks on ageing Idol and plays it safe with new scripts
15 May 2012 1:19 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
With House checking out and Glee in a talespin, last year's New Girl is the one everyone is looking up to (plus: Kevin Bacon!)
Fox was the second of the big four networks to present its roster of new shows to advertisers this week. Here's our guide to the potential hits and misses.
What Fox needs
Fox is in pretty good shape even if that's largely down to the unholy combination of The X Factor and American Idol. That said, Idol's ratings are in decline and, after a so-so performance in its first Us season, X Factor is being completely overhauled with new judges (Britney! Demi Lovato!) and presenters (so long Steve Jones, America barely knew ya).
Of the scripted shows, House is ending, Bones and the excellent but low-rated, Fringe surely can't be far behind, and Glee was a complete mess last year. Given Ryan Murphy's involvement »
- Sarah Hughes
Single-Camera Comedy Mayhem: ABC, NBC & Fox To Clash In Tuesday 9-10 Hour In Fall
15 May 2012 8:51 AM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Damon Wayans Jr is heading to the Tuesday 9 Pm slot after all. The actor starred in the pilot for Fox’s New Girl but had to pull out because his series in first position, ABC’s Happy Endings, was surprisingly renewed for a second season last May. Now he will face New Girl as ABC is slotting Happy Endings in the Thursday 9 Pm slot this fall. ABC opening a 9-10 Pm comedy block on Tuesday is surprising given the fact that the network last May said it would expand its new Last Man Standing-anchored Tuesday 8-9 Pm comedy block to 10 Pm in January with the younger-skewing Cougar Town and Don’t Trust The B—- in the 9 Pm hour. But the network abandoned the idea, with ABC topper Paul Lee citing the strength of New Girl for the decision. Now the network is pitting Happy Endings and Don’t Trust »
- NELLIE ANDREEVA
ABC’s Fall 2012 Schedule: Revenge Moves to Sundays, Happy Endings and Apt. 23 Move to Tuesday
15 May 2012 8:28 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Upfronts Day 3: Commence! Over the last two days, we’ve seen the new fall 2012 schedules for NBC and Fox, as well as trailers for some of the new series that those networks will be offering. Today it’s ABC’s turn, and their new schedule has a couple of change-ups for returning series. The fan-favorite drama Revenge has taken over Desperate Housewives’ Sunday night spot (if you weren’t aware, Dh had its series finale this past weekend), and the comedies Happy Endings and Don’t Trust the B— in Apartment 23 will be moving to Tuesday nights. Tuesday is fast becoming the new comedy night, as NBC has set their two most high profile new comedies—The New Normal and Go On—for Tuesday, and that night is currently host to Fox’s all-comedy block that includes New Girl and Mindy Kaling’s The Mindy Project. In other words, »
- Adam Chitwood
2012-13 New Series Leads: Strong Year For Black Actors, Foreigners & Famous Offsping
15 May 2012 5:55 AM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Last season there wasn’t a broadcast drama series with a black lead until Shonda Rhimes’ Scandal launched in the spring with Kerry Washington as the star. That series is coming back next season, joined by several new ones toplined by black actors. It’s a rarity on broadcast television, which has seen only a handful of dramas with black actors as the leads in the past decade. The list of newcomers includes ABC’s Last Resort starring Andre Braugher; Infamous, whose lead is played by Meagan Good; and the CW’s Cult starring Jessica Lucas. Additionally, Fox in keeping in midseason contention its legal drama pilot Guilty toplined by Cuba Gooding Jr. Surprisingly, among comedies, which have been far more welcoming to black actors than dramas with such long-running sitcoms as Cosby and My Wife And Kids, there is only one that features a black actor in a lead »
- NELLIE ANDREEVA
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