Category Archives: Fall TV Preview

Five Dramas Coming from The CW

By Roger Catlin | Published: May 17, 2012
The CW announced five new dramas for its 2012-2013 schedule Thursday and unlike all the other broadcast networks that preceded them in the week of upfront presentations, no comedies. But The CW has never been big on comedies. The additional shows require a little shuffling with that they’re returning, with “90210” moving to Mondays and [...]
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Just Four New Fall Shows from CBS

By Roger Catlin | Published: May 16, 2012
Touting another successful primetime season, CBS announced just four new series for its fall season, only one of them a comedy, at a time when other networks have been loading up their schedules with sitcoms. It’s keeping 19 of its shows, but moving some around – “2 Broke Girls” to Mondays at 9 p.m., “Two [...]
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PBS Fall Schedule Includes ‘Midwives’

By Roger Catlin | Published: May 15, 2012
Amid the excesses of the network upfronts in New York this week (musical numbers! Britney Spears live! A monkey!), PBS would like you to know that they’ll have some fall programming as well. In addition to the previously announced new Ken Burns documentary, “The Dust Bowl,” there will be a second season for “Upstairs Downstairs” [...]
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ABC Adding 10 Shows

By Roger Catlin | Published: May 15, 2012
The new ABC schedule for the 2012-2013 TV season adds six new dramas and four comedies, moves around a few of its returning shows – “Revenge” to Sundays,  and “Last Man Standing” to Fridays, reinstating a family-friendly TGIF night. Of the new dramas, “666 Park Avenue,” regarding a mysterious New York building, stars Terry O’Quinn [...]
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Sixteen New Shows from NBC

By Roger Catlin | Published: May 14, 2012
In an attempt to kickstart something at its long struggling network, NBC announced a whopping 16 new shows for its 2012-2013 season – six comedies, five dramas and four new reality shows. It also said its one hit of the current season, “The Voice” will be returning again in the fall, though most reality competition [...]
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Three New Comedies, Two Dramas from Fox

By Roger Catlin | Published: May 14, 2012
It’s the crush of network upfronts this week in New York, with the broadcast networks announcing what their fall slates will look like to potential advertisers. It’s when new shows are announced (and more quietly it becomes clear which shows won’t be returning). While rumor and unofficial word has been flying for weeks, Fox was [...]
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5 Shows to Avoid

By Roger Catlin | Published: September 26, 2011
Let’s just say there were way more candidates for a list of bad new TV shows than for good ones. I whittled it down to these: “I Hate My Teenage Daughter” (Fox, 9:30 p.m.). Shows with hate in the title seem to elicit hate. “H8R” (The CW, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.) See above. “Charlie’s Angels” (ABC, [...]
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Fall TV Preview: Five Trends of the Season

By Roger Catlin | Published: September 26, 2011
As we summarize the new shows the networks have cooked up for audiences this fall, we find their endeavors falling into distinct categories. Quirky Women. Females aren’t just starring in new shows, they’re also writing them. Not just Whitney Cummings (a trend unto her self), but the women behind “New Girl” and “Up All Night,” [...]
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The New Fall Season: Sundays

By Roger Catlin | Published: September 25, 2011
This is the last in a series about what the new fall TV season is bringing to broadcast networks. Strangely, there aren’t as many new shows for what was once the showcase. Perhaps they’re ceding the night to cable, where “Breaking Bad” continues, “Boardwalk Empire” starts and “Homeland,” “The Walking Dead” and “Dexter” are soon [...]
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The New Fall Season: Fridays

By Roger Catlin | Published: September 23, 2011
We’ve been looking at the new network fall TV season night by night. One more time, Friday gets the short shrift. NEW SHOWS “A Gifted Man” (CBS, 8 p.m., tonight). There’s always a place for ghost stories (and whisperers) on Fridays, and here is this year’s model. Peter Wilson, right, plays a successful though cold-hearted [...]
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