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Freeform’s upfronts 2019-20 – a rundown and clips from the new shows: Motherland: Fort Salem, Everything’s Gonna Be Okay and Party of Five
All through ‘upfronts’ week, TMINE will be revealing the new shows that are going to be hitting US TV screens from September 2019
It’s that time of year again – the ‘upfronts’. What’s that, I hear you ask?
What are the upfronts, TMINE?
It’s when all the US networks reveal to advertisers the new shows that are going to be hitting the TV screens some time from September 2019 through to nowish 2020. However, this isn’t the same as the international screenings, where buyers from TV networks around the world 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.
This weekend, US TV networks killed off a whole bunch of existing shows (prompting howls of protest from their fans) and are about to commission a whole bunch of new shows (prompting howls of ‘you cancelled x for this rubbish?’ from said-same fans).
4. Freeform’s upfronts
As Freeform is the network formerly known as ABC Family, naturally enough it has it Upfronts on the same day as ABC’s. However, the lesser networks never normally announce many new shows, as they don’t really have much of a schedule to mention. Last year, for example, all Freeform had to announce at its upfronts was:
- Besties, which is now called Unrelated and still hasn’t aired yet
- Pretty Little Liars spin-off The Perfectionists: The Perfectionists, which only started airing two months ago.
However, this year, three is the magic number, with ABC, Fox and NBC all announcing three new shows for the Fall. And now Freeform’s doing the same:
- Motherland: Fort Salem
- Everything’s Gonna Be Okay
- Party of Five
How many of these will we end up seeing and when? Who knows? But welcome to the big leagues, guys.
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