It is January, which marks the start of the broadcast pilot season when networks begin to pick up their crop of pilots for next season.
Not this year. In January 2021, most broadcast networks are still getting ready to film some of their 2020 pilots and the country going through a deadly Covid-19 surge, with California as the epicenter.The coronavirus pandemic blew up the 2020 pilot season by grounding almost all pilots just as they were heading into production.
The shakeup led to nets embracing straight-to-series orders in a bigger way, relying on extra backup scripts to make their decisions.
Fox, which already had started a transition to year-round development, over the summer adjusted its approach to development and will be commissioning
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