NEW YORK – Something was missing when Fox announced its plans for the fall television season: a schedule.
This is one of many symptoms of how the company has changed since the chains resumed their lavish annual presentations for advertisers, which had been suspended due to the pandemic. NBC and Fox, which announced the week monday, noted that the flagship networks were now biased. of major media companies.
Chains can boast of being stars. Susan Sarandon, George Lopez, Raymond Lee, Camila Cabello and Trace Adkins will be presented in new contexts. Kelly Clarkson sang to open the NBC screen and Miley Cyrus played to close it.
Traditional presentations regularly reveal new screens coming, old screens leaving, and when the week and year will be broadcast. Although constant schedules are maintained, they are obsolete for many viewers, who get used to deciding for themselves when they need to watch or broadcast programs.
That’s not a component of Fox’s reasoning for not revealing a timeline. Fox Entertainment CEO Charles Collier said the network is looking for a “new approach” to give equivalent weight to its Tubi streaming service.
Holding back gives Fox the ability to adjust his schedule based on what the competition is doing. It may also have mirrored Fox’s unresolved discussions with the makers of “911” and “The Resident,” but the network announced later Monday that the dramas had been canceled. renewed for next season.
NBC executives insisted that advertisers can simply work with streaming netpaintings, Peacock’s streaming service and cable connectors like Bravo, USA. , and that many Universal videos will also be temporarily available for streaming.
“It’s an extension of our core business or a pivot,” said Jeff Shell, nbcUniversal’s lead executive. “This is our core business. “
Representing conversion times, Bravo used his time at Monday’s presentation to celebrate BravoCon’s upcoming fanfest, unlike the individual shows.
Nbc’s programming center is courtesy of veteran manufacturer Dick Wolf. Its screens “Chicago Med”, “Chicago Fire” and “Chicago P. D. “occupy the network’s Wednesday night show, while “Law”
NBC opens the door to greater diversity with a new offering, “Lopez v. Lopez,” a sitcom about a working-class family circle starring Lopez and his real-life daughter, Mayan Lopez.
Lee stars in “Quantum Leap,” which NBC described as a “reinvention” of the network’s sci-fi drama from 1989 to 1993 starring Scott Bakula. Lee, whose credits include Fox’s “Prodigal Son” and Tom Cruise’s upcoming sequel “Top Gun. “Maverick, joins the small number of Asian Americans as leaders of the series.
This is the only offer that will seem familiar to you. The network also brings back John Larroquette to star in a sequel to “Night Court,” Wolf has re-released the original “Law. “
“I’m pretty sure I’ll be here in two years to announce the reboot of ‘This is Us,'” comedian Seth Meyers joked about the NBC drama, which will have its final series next week.
The pandemic was in the midst of worries. Meyers told the audience watching at Radio City Music Hall, “What a historic room to tell other people you caught COVID. “
Pop star Cabello will enter the songwriting contest “The Voice” next season. Meanwhile, Blake Shelton, another “The Voice” star, has signed up Carson Daly and professional wrestler Nikki Bella to unveil a new American series, “Barmageddon,” in which the competition will play bar games. There was a clear lack of enthusiasm on the part of the audience.
“We don’t know when it will air in the United States,” Bella said.
“Or yes,” Daly added quietly.
Among the plans Fox announced Monday is the expansion of celebrity leader Gordon Ramsay’s empire. exposes a program to millions of new viewers. Fox will also launch the festival exhibit “Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars” next season.
Fox will also move into country with “Monarch,” described as a “multigenerational Texas-long musical drama about the first circle of American country music relatives. “Sarandon and musician Adkins are the headliners.
Actor Jamie Foxx will be the cameraman for the missing persons drama “Alert. “The network will also release a series of “Accused” crime anthologies that begins with someone on trial and the public learns through flashbacks of what they have been accused of.
When will the new be transmitted? Stay tuned.
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David Bauder media reported from New York and Lynn Elber television from Los Angeles.