new show, but his appearance in some gussied-up promos for a new movie. tumbled from the heights of "Seinfeld." He had to talk about it, too, reminiscing about days when people watched what NBC offered, "or lived in fear of the consequences.
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Sometimes I feel like the whole industry just picked up and joined the circus," he said. fall-schedule announcements. Viewership is down this spring, time-shifting is up and the whole notion of watching television is changing before our eyes.
NBC, CBS and Fox cut the time of their usually elaborate sales presentations This year, networks couldn't shuffle their customers out to open bars fast Networks sought out plenty of fanciful, suspend-your-disbelief ideas for series, particularly after seeing how NBC's "Heroes" proved the surprise hit of one touch, a time-traveling reporter, a modern-day vampire, a bounty hunter for the devil, a 400-year-old immortal man, a family of cavemen and a bionic woman. There are cruel twists, too; the immortal man becomes mortal if he falls another touch, a complicating factor when his late childhood sweetheart is That latter show, ABC's "Pushing Daisies," is the most intriguing. in mind, leaving unfilled a hole created by the departures of "Gilmore Girls" and "7th Heaven.
" That's why "Kid Nation," CBS' unscripted series about a group supervision, is a potential hit. that require a serious viewer commitment, and keep interruptions for intervals with reruns. That was fatal to CBS' "Jericho," which was canceled.
The other two, ABC's "Lost" and NBC's "Heroes," will run their new episodes uninterrupted next season, following the model of Fox's "24." So will The CW's "One Tree Hill." CBS will try the same thing with "Swing Town," one of its most Next fall ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and The CW will introduce fewer comedies (6) than unscripted series (7).
New dramas outnumber new comedies by 17-6. NBC, the home of "Friends," "Frasier," "Cheers" and "The Cosby Show," won't have any new sitcoms in the fall. The network has a hard enough time trying to find an "They're gun-shy, frankly," said Stacey Lynn Schulman, media analyst for HI: Human Insight.
"They've tried and tried and tried, and nothing works." Fox's "Back to You" will be followed most closely. It has proven sitcom Oh, and don't expect much from "Cavemen.
" The few clips ABC presented made digital video recorders by fall, some of the most creative thinking at newsmagazine that incorporates sponsorship instead of commercials. Fox has tried inserting entertaining "shorts" within commercial pods, which is where NBC will place the small skits created by Seinfeld. Several networks have tried Later this month, Nielsen Media Research for the first time releases Saturdays a few years ago, and it was feared they were going in the same direction on Fridays.
Judging by the schedules, they seem to at least be making an effort on Fridays. That's where Fox is putting its "American Idol" spin-off that tries to find a good new band. CBS' vampire series will be tried on Friday, too.
Lights," in the hope of finding an audience. late-night network comedy show; one survived. This year ABC and NBC have shows purported to be the next-generation "Sex and the City," one by the woman who wrote the book behind the HBO hit, the other by the man who turned it into a series.
The ABC series stars Lucy Liu; NBC's has Brooke Shields.
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