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...
Gwen Stefani, Pharrell and Adam Levine Will Rock the People Magazine Awards
With awards season poised to take a break for the holidays after the recent nomination announcements from the Critics’ Choice, Golden Globes and SAG, along comes—what is to the best of our current knowledge– the very last award show of 2014. And it’s a first – the inaugural edition of “The People Magazine Awards,” slated to air on NBC Thursday night from the Beverly Hilton. The two-hour telecast, which will air live on the East...
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...
Gillian Anderson is Back and Better than Ever in NBC’s ‘Crisis’
Take a busload of overprivileged high school kids – including the son of the president of the United States – their powerful and entitled parents, a heroic rookie Secret Service agent, an FBI agent with a dark secret and a shadowy terrorist organization, and you have the makings of NBC’s “Crisis,” premiering Sunday night at 10 p.m. If it sounds a little bit like the premise of CBS’s “Hostages,” well, this one has a much better chance...
Score! NBC has Three of the Top 10 Fall Shows with the Best Chance for Success
It won’t be long before fall TV shows hit the airwaves, and perhaps not much longer before some of them don’t make the cut. But there are strong indications from a new study about what shows are likely to hit it out of the park. Three of the top ten are on NBC, according to a study by NewMediaMetrics, which measures consumers’ emotional attachment to show concepts. For the past seven years, the study has logged an 80% accuracy rate....
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