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It’s that time of year again. Yep, it’s the ‘upfronts’ season, which is when all the US networks reveal to advertisers the new shows that are going to be hitting the TV screens some time from about July this year through to now-ish next year. (BTW, this isn’t the same as the international screenings, which is when the buyers from UK TV networks turn up to see what they’d like to acquire, so we won’t know what will be heading our way for quite some time.)

What do you mean the upfronts aren’t normally until May? Well, you’re quite right, as the likes of Fox, NBC, ABC, CBS and The CW will indeed by showing off all their future wares starting the week of 15th May, as per usual.

However, in the age of Peak TV, there are literally now so many channels producing content that there’s actually one or more upfront presentations by a cable or internet network virtually every day from now until then, with the likes of BET next week, Hulu, YouTube and Vice the week after, and so on. Most of these aren’t producing the kinds of shows that TMINE covers, so don’t be expecting to be inundated by daily treats, I’m afraid, but it’s a still a pretty large spread.

Yesterday, it was Crackle’s turn, but since they don’t actually have any clips to show off, I could comfortably cover it in today’s news. But it was also young adult channel Freeform’s turn, and there’s clips and shows aplenty for you to regard. So after the jump, brace yourself for the excitement of:

• Killer mermaid drama Siren (no, really)
• Superhero drama Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger 
• Platonic best friends comedy Alone Together
• Global women’s magazine drama The Bold Type

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