9/5/2023 0 Comments General strike![]() With television viewers, and media conglomerates, increasingly turning their attention to streaming services, the future for broadcast TV may lie in schedules consisting primarily of live sports, reality games like “The Bachelor,” game shows or news programming.Īn ABC executive pushed against that notion, saying scripted series will always be in the mix, and noting that one of the network’s big moves this spring was to pick up the drama “9-1-1” after it had been canceled by Fox. ![]() There are some in the television industry who see ABC’s fall schedule as a sign of things to come for broadcast networks. If the strike lasts through summer, the idea of new shows for television’s traditional midseason would be in jeopardy, one executive said. The future of some current programs - “American Auto,” “Grand Crew” and “Young Rock” on NBC, for example - are up in the air, too. Fox has two new game shows, hosted by Jamie Foxx and David Spade, on the docket.Īcross the networks, executives put off deciding whether to reject pilots of several proposed new shows or order a full season of episodes, calls that are usually made by May. “It’s not lost on me that with the strike underway, all eyes are on unscripted,” said Allison Wallach, president of unscripted programming on Fox. If the strike lasts into the summer, look for CBS, for example, to offer expanded versions of shows like “Survivor,” “The Amazing Race” and “Big Brother,” prime-time versions of game shows like “The Price is Right” or “Let’s Make a Deal,” and reruns of scripted shows from previous years. ![]() NBC has an entire season of episodes of “Found,” a new missing persons drama starring Shanola Hampton, already filmed in advance and ready to debut Thursdays in the fall, and recorded some new episodes of “Quantum Leap.”īut very few new or returning broadcast shows have done the same. Reruns of the popular comedy “Abbott Elementary” was the only exception. ABC, where an executive privately said it would be “miraculous” if the strike was settled in time to allow business as usual, released a fall schedule that relies almost exclusively on unscripted programming. He’s been doing it since 2002, with a few years off due to the pandemic and his son’s illness.įox, however, didn’t bother announcing a schedule. That meant no Jimmy Kimmel, whose annual routine skewering his own industry is always anticipated. This year the stars stayed home, unwilling to cross picket lines of striking writers outside Manhattan venues. CBS rewarded advertisers with the Who in a private Carnegie Hall concert. So convinced they had a hit, ABC showed advertisers the entire pilot episode of “Modern Family” one year (the same strategy didn’t work as well when NBC tried it with “Joey”). Johnny Carson announced the end of his late-night run at an NBC upfront. The week of schedule presentations, known as “upfronts” because networks are looking for millions of dollars in advertising commitments, have long been star-studded, news-making events. This past week offered more evidence of how that is diminishing, draped in confusion about the future wrought by the Hollywood writers strike. NEW YORK (AP) - For decades, the week in May when television executives revealed what new shows were coming and which old ones were going spoke to the power and influence that ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox had over popular culture.
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