Jon Farrar of the Guardian is optimistic about this year’s “upfronts” – he compares it to the “double whammy” of 5 years ago when ABC dropped “Lost” and “Desperate Housewives” on an unsuspecting TV landscape. He goes on to suggest that ABC’s new show – Flash Forward is leading the way:
I’m sitting at LAX waiting for my plane to take me back from the sunny unreality of Los Angeles to the slightly gloomier reality of seeing how my ratings were hit by dancing men with wheelbarrows.
Having watched over 40 hours of television this week at six studios, I’m reflecting on one show, Flash Forward, the new sci-fi thriller from Disney. It’s a great show with a fantastic premise – if everyone in the world suddenly collapsed on the floor, passed out, and caught a startling glimpse of their future six months from now, what would they see and how would it affect them? If that happened right now in the UK, if we were all transported to our futures in early December, I’m pretty confident most of us would be doing the same thing … sitting at home, our jaws hitting the floor, as we watch the early episodes of the fantastic new slate of US programming. This was a good LA Screenings, perhaps the best since the double whammy of Lost and Desperate Housewives five years ago. So what will we be watching? Three big trends emerged this year.
Source: Guardian
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