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.
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