Upfronts 2024: Pilot Buzz & Other Development Updates In Another Atypical Broadcast Cycle
deadline.comIf you read the headline and are asking yourselves, pilots? what pilots? — you are not wrong. It’s been largely a 2024 pilot season without pilots.
A grand total of maybe one of them is expected to factor into any fall decisions as the broadcast networks prepare to unveil their schedules, starting with CBS tomorrow, May 2.
Needless to say, the broadcast pilot season is no longer the industry obsession it once was this time of year, with back-to-back disruptions from the pandemic and the dual Hollywood strikes providing the proverbial final nail in the coffin of the decades-old pilot cycle.
But for tradition’s sake, here are some insights into the networks’ current development plans. There is no more stacked lineup for next season than CBS’ with three new drama series, Young Gibbs prequel NCIS: Origins; Matlock, starring Kathy Bates; and Watson, headlined by Morris Chestnut; and two new comedies, Poppa’s House, with Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr.; and Young Sheldon‘s Georgie & Maddie spinoff.
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