2024 Upfronts

The CW is looking to keep acquiring sports rights and is eyeing an expansion on Sundays as well as potential team-ups with other rights holders, President Dennis Miller said in an interview with Deadline. In an upfronts briefing alongside Brad Schwartz, President of Entertainment, Miller said the…

The CW's fall schedule includes a number of new unscripted series such as a game show night on Mondays with Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble as well as the return of Whose Line Is It Anyway? But there was no room for one of the network's longest-running hits, Penn & Teller: Fool Us. Much like in…

Canadian procedural Wild Cards has been one of The CW's stronger performers over the last twelve months. It was somewhat surprising, then, that the show which stars Grey's Anatomy's Giacomo Gianniotti, Riverdale's Vanessa Morgan and Jason Priestley, hasn't been quickly snapped up for a second…

All American and Walker are two of The CW's biggest shows. So, it was somewhat of a surprise that neither show has been handed a renewal and a spot on the network's fall schedule, which was unveiled this morning. Related Stories …

The CW’s transformation under new owners Nexstar is almost complete, with only two pre-merger series, the final season of Superman & Lois and veteran improv comedy Whose Line It Is Anyway?, on the network’s fall schedule. What’s more, there is an unprecedented scheduling turnover, with only three shows…

Netflix is officially moving forward with Kathryn Bigelow’s next film as the streamer confirmed the news at its Upfront presentation in New York. As of right now no title was made available and plot details are being kept under wraps, though sources have told Deadline it would be set at the White House as…

Netflix’s 18-month-old advertising tier has nearly doubled in size since the start of 2024, reaching 40 million monthly active users around the world. The streaming giant revealed the number at its first in-person upfronts presentation in New York. Last year, in a presentation conducted in a…

Netflix has joined America’s Team. The streamer said during its upfront today that it is teaming with Skydance Sports, NFL Films and Stardust Frames Productions on the upcoming documentary series about the Dallas Cowboys. Billed as a “defining” docuseries, the untitled project tells the story…

Dawson's Creek creator Kevin Williamson's return to North Carolina is heading to Netflix. Williamson's family drama series The Waterfront has been ordered to series by the streamer. It comes a few months after Deadline revealed that the Scream writer was working on the series as part of a new overall…

CNN’s Mark Thompson told advertisers additional details about the network’s strategy, with plans to expand franchises to digital platforms and to build new branded verticals around topics beyond politics. “We don’t believe news is just politics,” Thompson said at the Warner Bros. Discovery upfront…

John Cena has been tapped as this year’s host of Shark Week, Discovery Channel’s annual summer celebration of All Things Shark. The week-long event kicks off on Sunday, July 7. The announcement was made Wednesday during Warner Bros. Discovery’s upfront in New York City. The week will include Part 2…

Mindy Kaling got right to the point at the top of the Warner Bros Discovery presentation Wednesday by joking how her show The Sex Lives of College Girls is "filled with smoking hot guys who run around campus topless.”  "It's a Max show, not a BBC show," she said.  Sexy! Here’s what else…