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While it’s a well-known fact that the TV industry exec who is tired of Upfront Week is tired of life itself, it is just possible, in this age of rush and hurry that through the ranks of this industry there are one or two who found themselves unable to attend this year’s clambake. For them, we present Upfront Week…

As we close the book on another brutal pilot season, here is Deadline's annual honor roll of those who excelled at the upfronts and had a real reason to celebrate in New York, as opposed to the rest of us who were there for the free drinks and Jimmy Kimmel. Also included is a list of pods and independent production…

After a big push into content ownership among the broadcast networks in the early 2000s, they loosened the grip, resulting in several megahits from non-affiliated studios, including the biggest comedies on television, CBS' The Big Bang Theory and Modern Family. The tide slowly started to turn the past couple of…

Here we go again – all the optimism and promise of a new fall TV season with the full knowledge of those critical crashes and ratings burns still to come for the Big 4 and The CW. The fact is that even with all the chatter of CBS going younger and Fox going more genre, there’s a lot of the same old same old and a lot…

What pilot season? The CW is introducing a fall season that doesn’t feature a show developed at the network over the last nine months. The lone new series on the CW schedule is hourlong comedy Crazy Ex-Girfriend, a last-minute pickup of a project originally developed and piloted as a racy half-hour comedy for…

Since Fox’s House ended its run three years ago, ABC veteran Grey’s Anatomy has had the broadcast-TV medical drama field all to itself, with no serious challengers. That may change next season when four new medical dramas, NBC’s Chicago Med and Heartbreaker, CBS’ Code Black and, to some extent, Fox’s Rosewood join the…