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UPDATED with CW schedule: It's going to feel a lot like 2005 on the Big 4 this fall, and Saturday nights are alright for programming for the CW. The former is a flashback from the George W. Bush era, when NCIS, CSI and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit all held dominant spots in the primetime lineups. And CBS and NBC…

For the first time since start of the Big Four era in broadcast TV, two of the four networks, NBC and Fox, will have no live-action comedies on the fall schedule amid a challenging period for the genre and efforts to redraw the decades-old broadcast comedy model for the streaming age. Meanwhile, the networks are…

Whatever the future hold for Jason Kilar, the current WarnerMedia CEO wasn't about to let what is surely his last Upfronts pass him by. Kicking off the pre-recorded virtual hootenanny with Leslie Odam Jr. Issa Rae, sports, CNN and even a talk show team-up of Bill Maher, Elmo and Samantha Bee, Kilar appeared on-camera…

Outfest is launching The OutFronts, a five-day virtual festival that is designed to connect fans with the best in queer episodic television, setting a lineup that includes talent from shows like VH1’s RuPaul’s Drag Race, HBO Max’s It’s a Sin, OWN’s David Makes Man, Freeform’s Everything's Gonna Be Okay and Showtime’s T…

NCIS is a series you could set your clock by. For its entire 18-season run to date, the venerable crime drama starring Mark Harmon has had one time slot, always airing Tuesdays at 8 p.m. That is changing next season when CBS‘ most watched series will move to Monday for an FBI Tuesday lineup consisting of mothership FBI…

"At this point, let's call ABC what it really is, Disney-," Jimmy Kimmel quipped in a scathing roast of all thing small screen Wednesday during Disney's Virtual Upfront. "Isn't there something to be said for dying with dignity," the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host added. "Somehow when everyone's stuck in their houses with…

“We were seeing a hard impact on the performance this year of the Oscars, given the reality of movies in theaters and the moviegoing audience being able to actually see all those movies,” Disney Advertising Sales and Partnerships boss Rita Ferro said Tuesday during the company’s pre-upfronts online press conference. La…

After the success of The Bachelorette, delayed by the pandemic, as a Tuesday 8 PM anchor last fall, the ABC reality series will be back in the time slot this coming fall with the second of two 2021 cycles. Among the few changes on the ABC schedule from last fall is the move of breakout freshman drama Big Sky to the…

Last Man Standing is ending after three seasons on Fox, nine total, including an original run on ABC. And while the network has opted not to order another season, it is is sending Tim Allen and the rest of the Last Man Standing family off with praise just days before its series finale. "The show took a bold, yet…

NBCUniversal brought out the stars to its Upfront on Monday to demonstate how the company's new content strategy might work in practice. The company — which has decentralized its buying across linear broadcast, cable and streaming — relied on the likes of Will Smith, Kelly Clarkson, Kevin Hart and Renee Zellweger to…

Fox is bucking the trend of franchise lineups. On the heels of NBC unveiling One Chicago Wednesday and Law & Order Thursday on their fall schedule and following the success of ABC’s pairing of Grey’s Anatomy and Station 19 and CBS’ block of FBI and FBI: Most Wanted, Fox has opted to (temporarily) split its 9-1-1…

UPDATED with Paralympic Games commentators info: A majority of Japanese citizens oppose the Olympics to go ahead in Tokyo due to the coronavirus pandemic, but NBC insists the Games will go on, at least for now. "NBC will be bringing all of it to America," declared Mike Tirico today at the 2021 virtual NBCUniversal upfr…