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TV upfronts in review: Fewer orders, more remakes

May 15, 2015 7:48 PM ETThe Walt Disney Company (DIS) StockDIS, CMCSA, FOXA, PARABy: Jason Aycock, SA News Editor
  • Looking back with a week of TV upfronts in the books, the Big Five networks pulled back on orders from 54 to 45 this year and dialed up more superheroes and shows from existing intellectual property.
  • With the pullback, only 16 new comedies are coming out between them. ABC (NYSE:DIS) and CBS renewed the most shows -- 17 each -- while NBC (NASDAQ:CMCSA) dumped a disastrous slate of new shows from the past year and returns only 8 overall (and that's if American Odyssey and A.D. The Bible Continues make it, which isn't certain).
  • NBC's also the only network who won't have a comic-book program on, while the other networks share eight. Fox (NASDAQ:FOXA), for its part, is skewing more male in the coming year with more genre dramas and a couple of male-skewing family shows with Rob Lowe and John Stamos.
  • Also indicative of a conservative streak: The number of adaptations/remakes. As Sony's Zack Van Amburg noted for The Hollywood Reporter, "With Coach, Minority Report, Rush Hour, Limitless, Heroes, X-Files ... How do you not look at all of that and go, 'Yep, we brought out brands that used to be brands, we dusted them off and here they are. That’s going to save everything!' "

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