It’s that time of year again – the ‘upfronts’. What’s that, I hear you ask?
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.
Anyway, in case you missed this morning’s news of the weekend’s slaughter, US TV networks have 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).
As per last year, it’s NBC out of the gates first. Last year, it gave us Manifest (renewed), New Amsterdam (renewed) and I Feel Bad (cancelled), although a few more arrived later in the year. This year, we’ve got more, but NBC’s roster is pretty full, so most of them are mid-season shows and don’t have trailers yet. So after the jump are:
And for the mid-season
The latter list all sound better than the former, so I’ve no idea what NBC’s thinking here.
Continue reading “NBC’s upfronts 2019-20 – a rundown and clips from the new shows: Bluff City Law, Perfect Harmony and Sunnyside”
For the past week, TMINE has been running a competition to win one of two boxsets of Deutschland ’86 on DVD.
All you had to do to enter was ‘Like’ the TMINE Facebook page and leave a comment on either the competition entry post or the matching Facebook post.
Entry closed last night and the following people were all cool and retro enough to want to have Deutschland on DVD:
Good odds, hey? Given nearly 600 people knew about the competition just through Facebook and at least another 250 through Twitter, that suggests to me either Deutschland ’86 isn’t that popular or the fact it’s available for free on All 4 means people aren’t fussed about owning it on DVD (yet). Bad luck them!
Now, using the mighty power of the Internet Random Number Generator, I’ve picked two of these three wise people at random from the entries to receive the DVDs. And they are…
Continue reading “And the winners of the Deutschland ’86 competition are…”
That feeling doesn’t seem to have gone away, judging by the worldwide universal refrain of baby boomers calling millennials snowflakes. It’s certainly big in Australia.
However, Russell isn’t like Curry. He meditates, does yoga and can’t name a team he supports other than Australia. He can’t catch a ball and while Curry is a proper sports writer, Russell is an ad copywriter who came up with a campaign involving a robot car.
Needless to say, Curry is not impressed and doesn’t think Russell is suitable for his daughter. That makes for uncomfortable living.
© 2022 The Medium is Not Enough
