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Hulu has the content and viewers are flocking, 20 million subscribers to be exact (up 20 percent from last year). The streaming video service has a library exceeding 75,000 TV episodes, more than double its competitors. With titles like This is Us, Modern Family, Empire and The Good Wife, it’s no wonder our weekends are […]

FX Mr. Inbetween is a new six-episode half-hour drama about Scott Ryan. Ryan is a criminal for hire juggling everyday life. This series is based on a short film by Ryan, an Australian actor. HGTV Flip or Flop’s Christina El Moussa will star in a new show Christina on the Coast in early 2019. Christina […]

A&E The success of the network is driven by several provocative reality stories including Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath and Live: PD. Building on these programs, the network will debut Many Sides of Jane. It follows the journey of a 28-year-old woman with multiple personality disorder, as she struggles to understand the causes and […]

The FOX fall lineup will include three days of sports while introducing two new comedies and picking up another from ABC. Fox is looking to shed what it views as dead weight in its entertainment divisions by focusing on the far more profit- able news and sports sides of its business. This happens as Disney […]

For the fourth time in five years, NBC claimed the number one spot in the Adults 18-49 demographic. The network aired both the Super Bowl, the most-watched program of 2018, and the 2018 Winter Olympics in the same year. NBC also benefited from  popular and buzzworthy  shows  like This Is Us (the top-rated drama on […]

It was thought NBC’s airing of the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics would dethrone CBS in total viewers, but CBS execs would not be denied their tenth consecutive win! In the final weeks of last season, CBS pulled out the win in total viewers. Big Bang Theory finished the year as the most watched […]

At the 2018 upfront, ABC’s focus was on Freeform, ABC News and ABC prime programming. They want to reach “everyone from teenagers to baby boomers and everybody in between.” As in the past several years, ABC appears to be keeping changes to a minimum, trying to find what’s working and building on that. To that […]

Welcome to the 23rd edition of Harmelin Media’s annual TV preview. This past 2017-18 season, the networks renewed 18 of their new shows which is the same number as the previous two years. This coming season, the networks will premiere 18 new shows in the fall (ten dramas, eight comedies). Additionally, there are more than 19 […]