After an “upfront week” that spanned five and a half weeks, from Fox unveiling its fall lineup on May 11 to ABC announcing its fall roster earlier today, June 17, we have a fall 2020 broadcast network schedule.
The grid is as atypical as the way it was unveiled this year amid a coronavirus pandemic. It is a tale of two schedules as it juxtaposes two strikingly different approaches to the fall:
Fox, the CW — a pandemic-proof schedule comprised by acquisitions, other series already in the can (+ sports), that can launch at the start of the broadcast season in September; CBS, NBC, ABC — a regular schedule featuring the networks’ returning series and a couple of new additions, whose launch is up in the air and likely will be later in the fall depending when TV production can resume.
Given the uncertainty surrounding the timing and sustainability of Hollywood’s return to production, it...
The grid is as atypical as the way it was unveiled this year amid a coronavirus pandemic. It is a tale of two schedules as it juxtaposes two strikingly different approaches to the fall:
Fox, the CW — a pandemic-proof schedule comprised by acquisitions, other series already in the can (+ sports), that can launch at the start of the broadcast season in September; CBS, NBC, ABC — a regular schedule featuring the networks’ returning series and a couple of new additions, whose launch is up in the air and likely will be later in the fall depending when TV production can resume.
Given the uncertainty surrounding the timing and sustainability of Hollywood’s return to production, it...
- 6/18/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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