It's Upfronts Week, which means that the five major broadcast TV networks will be holding press conferences to announce their Fall 2007 schedules. NBC and ABC went first, with CBS, The CW and FOX scheduled to present tomorrow and Wednesday. For the latest upfronts news, here's a list of resources to keep an eye on. If you see something you like, make it sure to share it with the rest of the Netscape community by submitting it to our
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***Our friends at
TV Squad have
a whole section devoted to the upfronts, with bloggers like Joel Keller and Bob Sassone posting detailed analysis of each network's strategy.
***Virginia Heffernan,
NY Times TV critic and author of the excellent web video blog
Screens, is live blogging the upfronts
here. Her (ironic?)
excitement about NBC's new straight-to-online soap
Coastal Dreams is infectious.
***The
LA Times' television critics are
blogging the upfronts, too. Wondering how the
Grey's Anatomy spinoff made it onto ABC's fall schedule, despite the fact that virtually all fans and critics thought it was awful? Scroll down to the second-to-last paragraph of
this entry.
***TVWeek's James Hibbard's
live blog gives
Defamer one last chance to kick Aaron Sorkin while he's down. Also: George Lopez
loses his timeslot to the Geico cavemen.
***New York Magazine's
Daily Intel blog says Lindsay Lohan (who is not, as far as we know, involved in any network's fall line-up) swooped in on upfront swag.
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