Red Hot Chili Peppers are back on the road for the last leg of their Unlimited Love Tour.
14.05.2024 - 01:35 / variety.com
Selome Hailu Upfronts week has kicked off in New York and so too has the annual spring tradition of networks making the final calls on which shows will and will not survive for another season. But broacast and cable channels are not alone in this process anymore. As Variety noted in early May, streamers like Netflix and Amazon have pivoted to ad-supported tiers, prodding them to make their first-ever upfront presentations to woo advertisers.
In the shakeout after last year’s actors and writers strikes, all of the major networks have pulled back on the volume of original content. As such, the number of “bubble shows” awaiting their fate has shrunk compared to previous years. Several of the renewals below point to the prevailing trend of the 2020s: Each of the major networks is largely relying on franchises that have already proven themselves.
For example, Dick Wolf continues to anchor major portions of both NBC and CBS’ lineups, with “Law & Order” having two series renewed for seasons in the 20-somethings and “FBI” entering its ninth season. Unscripted fare was a lifeboat for the networks through the strikes and continues to hold strong, e.g. “The Bachelor” continues to birth new spinoffs on ABC and Gordon Ramsay lords over four different cooking shows on Fox.
But even with franchise hits, there comes a time to trim the fat. CBS caught fans by surprise with the recent cancellations of “NCIS: Hawai’i” and “CSI: Vegas,” and ABC cut its Niecy Nash-led “Rookie” spinoff in November. A few key series remain in limbo, such as “Bachelor in Paradise” on ABC and “So You Think You Can Dance” on Fox.
Red Hot Chili Peppers are back on the road for the last leg of their Unlimited Love Tour.
Netflix has renewed The Vince Staples Show for a second season.
Joe Otterson TV Reporter “The Vince Staples Show” has been renewed for Season 2 at Netflix, Variety has learned. “The ‘Vince Staples Show’ is back!” Staples said in a statement. “The people have spoken and the most riveting, captivating, and polarizing show on Netflix is returning for season 2.
Deborah Vance is coming back for more.
Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Fourteen seasons in, Gordon Ramsay‘s Fox cooking competition “MasterChef” has found a way to reinvent itself once more: pitting generation against generation in a battle that will prove whether baby boomers, Gen X, millennials or Gen Z cooks have culinary supremacy. Debuting Wednesday at 8 p.m., “MasterChef” Season 14 will begin with the audition rounds for the contestants that qualify as millennials (a group that usually encompasses those born between 1980-1994), followed by episodes devoted to whittling down the boomers (1946-1964), Gen X (1965-1979) and Gen Z (1995-2009) competitors.
EXCLUSIVE: Film Independent has named the six filmmakers selected for its third annual Episodic Directing Intensive: John Gutierrez, Lorena Lourenço, Alfonso Morgan-Terrero, Huriyyah Muhammad, Kelsey Taylor and So Young Shelly Yo.
India de Beaufort, who has played district attorney Olivia Moore on Night Court for the first two seasons is not returning for Season 3, Deadline has confirmed.
Now that the upfronts are over, it’s time to hand out much-deserved accolades to those who made this year’s presentations truly unforgettable.
Prime Video’s German series Maxton Hall – The World Between Us has been handed a swift recommission after becoming the streamer’s most-watched international show of all time in its first week.
David Gilmour has announced additional shows in Los Angeles and New York for his ‘Luck And Strange‘ shows.The soloist and former Pink Floyd guitarist took to his official social media accounts to announce a third show at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl on October 31, and a fourth show at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on November 9.The new dates follow the previously announced dates in Los Angeles on October 29 and 30 and in New York on November 4, 5, and 6. Gilmour’s US dates will take place after his six-night residency at London’s Royal Albert Hall and his six-night residency at Rome’s historic chariot-racing stadium Circus Maximus (Circo Massimo).
Fresh from being roasted on Netflix, Tom Brady turned up to the Fox Upfronts.
(G)I-DLE have announced the cities and dates for their upcoming 2024 ‘i-DOL’ world tour, featuring concerts in Asia, the US and Australia.Today (May 13), (G)I-DLE revealed details for their newly announced 2024 ‘i-DOL’ world tour, which will feature 19 concerts across Asia, the US and Australia from August to November this year.The K-pop girl group will kick off their tour with a two-date concert in Seoul, South Korea on August 3 and 4. In the same month, the quintet will also hold performances in Hong Kong, China and Tokyo, Japan.In September 2024, (G)I-DLE will bring their 2024 ‘i-DOL’ world tour to the US.
The traditional pilot process may be dying out but that’s not stopping the glitz and glamor of the TV Upfronts in New York.
Looking at the crop of new scripted series selected by the broadcast networks for 2024-25, one cannot help but reminisce about the 20th anniversary of what may have been broadcast television’s greatest season ever.
Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer When NBCUniversal kicks off TV’s traditional week of upfront presentations on Monday, picket-free sidewalks outside Radio City Music Hall will be a sight for sore eyes following last year’s noisy protests in the first weeks of what proved to be the nation’s “hot labor summer.” Hosting a programming presentation at a megawatt New York City venue like Radio City or Javits Center is stressful enough. Executives are eager to return to business as usual in wooing Madison Avenue.
William Earl UPDATED: The network upfronts are once again front-and-center for the television industry as major players gather in New York May 13-16 for the springtime ritual of courting advertisers and media buyers and presenting programming plans for the upcoming TV season. The industry is looking forward to a return to form after the disruption of last year’s writers and actors strikes.
Joe Otterson TV Reporter “The Conners” has been renewed for Season 7 at ABC, which will also be the show’s last. In addition, ABC has canceled “Not Dead Yet” after two seasons. The final season of “The Conners” will reportedly be shorter than past seasons, with sources saying it will run for just six episodes.
Katy Perry may be leaving American Idol but the show goes on.
It’s official: The Conners will be getting a proper goodbye. The Roseanne follow-up has been renewed for seventh and final season. As Deadline reported exclusively last week, the order is believed to be for six episodes, with the main cast, including John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, Sara Gilbert and Lecy Goranson, expected to return. The renewal took longer to finalize because dates for the cast, particularly Goodman, had to be worked out, I hear.
Steve Martin and Martin Short news this year would be all the special guests they’ve lined up for Season four of Hulu’s “Only Murders In The Building.”(For the record, Molly Shannon, Eva Longoria, Eugene Levy, Kumail Nanjiani, and Zach Galifianakis are joining the ensemble).However, that’s not all the funnymen have planned for this year.Martin and Short just announced they’ve added ten shows to their ongoing ‘Dukes Of Funnytown Tour.’The newly added gigs will take place from September through October and includes a night at Brookville, NY’s Tilles Center Concert Hall on Saturday, Oct.