The 2018 Fall Season: Tuesdays
The New Fall Season Cops and hospitals, hospitals and cops have been the staple of broadcast TV way too long. It continues with the new shows on Tuesdays this season…
The 2018 Fall Season: Mondays
The New Fall Season It’s one of the latest-starting new fall TV seasons in memory, and the broadcast networks are being both cautious and predictable in presenting fare that seems…
The CW Closes Upfronts, Adds a Day
The CW ended a week of upfronts with something the other networks couldn’t offer — an extra night of shows. Since it began 12 years ago as a merger of…
CBS Upfronts: Looks Familiar
CBS unveiled eight new shows for advertisers at its upfronts Wednesday, though at least two of them seemed like retreads. New versions of “Murphy Brown” and “Magnum P.I.” will both…
ABC Upfronts: Four New Fall Shows
ABC began its upfront presentation Tuesday crowing about having the No. 1 show for the first time in a dozen years and then suggested a drinking game every time they…
Fox Upfronts: Make Way for Football
At Fox, football is the new “American Idol.” Instead of scheduling around its onetime singing contest behemoth as it once did, now it’s all about using its acquisition of Thursday…
NBC Upfronts: Three New Fall Shows
NBC began the annual week of network upfronts, when broadcasters announce new shows and unveil fall schedules in hopes of locking down advertisers, in a manner that many networks will…
The New Fall TV Season 2017: Sundays
The New Fall Season Let’s end the dispiriting night-by-night look at broadcast TV’s new fall season with their Sunday fare — the stuff they put up against cable's best. It…
The New Fall Season 2017: Fridays
The New Fall Season We're nearing the end of a week of looking at the new fall season on broadcast TV night by night with an evening that just has…
The New Fall Season 2017: Thursdays
The New Fall Season We’ve been looking at the new TV season day by day all week and the weirdness and creative bankruptcy of the new fall TV season is…