It’s that time of year again – the ‘upfronts’. 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 2018 through to nowish 2019. 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 is about to commission a whole bunch of new shows (prompting howls of ‘you cancelled x for this rubbish?’ from said-same fans).
Although the USA Network is normally the first out of gates, this year it’s NBC is delivering us plot summaries and trailers of all the new shows that it thinks are fit to consume. That’s a mere three shows this year – Manifest, New Amsterdam and I Feel Bad. Gosh, feels like CBS back in the day.
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