Upfronts: TV networks, where are you?

It's getting really scary.

The TV networks have all been promising/threatening they will pick up fewer new shows this season because of the strike, yada, yada, yada. We weren't sure whether to believe them. Sometimes they can exaggerate/hype.

But here we are, the Friday afternoon before Upfronts, and there have been NO new shows picked up. Normally, we wouldn't be able to keep up with the fury of elated agents and publicists bragging about SO AND SO getting a nice new cushy gig. Instead we are sitting here thinking about what to wear in the New York cold and rain.

Is the world ending and we haven't been told?

-- Maria Elena Fernandez

Comments

[debiro1]

One has to wonder what is going on in Hollywood. There is NOTHING to watch anymore. No one discusses what was on TV the night before. Reality TV, although once an object of curiousity, is now just boring nonsense which makes Americans look utterly foolish. Yet on the technical side, all kinds of cool TV gadgets are coming to market. Unfortunately, there's no longer any reason to buy them! It's time for Hollywood to clean house (as in sons, daughters, nieces, and nephews) and hire some non-relatives who know creativity when they see it AND who have business-sense, or television might soon be going the way of the dinosaur.