TV Upfronts Overview: It’s All About the Hamiltons!
It was just last week that the 2016 TV upfronts drew to a close and the music– and the spoofs– of “Hamilton” are still ringing in our ears. The smash hit Broadway show was omnipresent during the week of May 16 with cast members performing at a number of network presentations, including some unexpected ones, like ESPN. Amid all the talk of catering to millennials, who have surpassed baby boomers as the nation’s...
Livin’ La Vida Loca with Ricky Martin at PaleyFest
The excitement was palpable and there was not an empty seat in the house as Ricky Martin took the stage at the Paley Center in Beverly Hills on the second night of PaleyFest, a celebration of the best in television. Martin was there–his first time at the festival– as the executive producer and one of the three judges of Univision’s upcoming musical competition show “La Banda,” which premieres Sunday, September 13 at...
Upfronts, Center and Sideways, All Over the Map for TV Hopefuls
Attending upfronts is a bit like partaking in an all-you-can-eat buffet: something you do once a year–in which some of the offerings are pretty tasty, some inedible, several of which that are incredibly delicious and leave you hungering for more, others that can best be classified as comfort food, plus some new offerings sprinkled here and there throughout the line. It all amounts to the net effect of leaving you sated, if...
Presentations, Programming, Parties and Perks–That’s TV Upfronts
It is the rare person who isn’t stricken with a hangover after attending the annual series of presentations and parties that comprise the main week of television upfronts. If the hangover isn’t from adult beverages, then it is due to all the hype the networks dispense about their upcoming programming, around which they sell billions of dollars of upfront advertising. We look here on the presentations and...
Latino TV Networks Muy Caliente at Upfronts
Last week’s television upfronts in New York featured an overwhelmingly Latin flavor and marked a coming out for a new entry in the Spanish-language TV universe, MundoFox. Univision and Telemundo have long joined other networks, including NBC, Fox, ABC, ESPN, Turner, CBS and the CW in making presentations of new programming in order to sell upfront advertising. But this year, Discovery U.S. Hispanic, Fox Hispanic Media, V-ME and...
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