Upfronts 2024: Procedurals, Sitcoms & Missing Persons On 20th Anniversary Of Greatest TV Season

Mystery Jets, Arlo Parks and more in celebration of their 20th anniversary.To celebrate their milestone, the independent music group – comprised of a record label, publisher and management company – have teamed up with War Child and Music Venue Trust to announce a string of gigs in London.The live shows will feature the likes of Mystery Jets, Arlo Parks, Marika Hackman, Johnny Flynn, The Joy, KOKOKO! and The Moonlandingz. The gigs will take place later this year and will occur in iconic venues around the city.General ticket sales will commence on Friday (May 31).

upfronts on a mission to get advertisers excited about a handful of new series coming in the fall. This year, TV’s big players took a T-shirt cannon approach. Every one of the major presentations during the May 13-15 sprint in midtown Manhattan — NBCUniversal, Fox, Disney, Amazon, Warner Bros.

James Blunt has announced a 20th anniversary reissue of ‘Back To Bedlam’, as well as details of a UK and European tour. Find out more details and buy tickets below.Announced today (May 22), the British ‘00s icon is set to re-release his iconic 2004 album ‘Back To Bedlam’ in celebration of the upcoming 20th anniversary.Set to arrive on October 11 – exactly two decades since it first dropped – the reissue will see the same tracklist, including hits ‘You’re Beautiful’ and ‘Goodbye My Lover’, as well as a number of previously unreleased songs.These include tracks titled ‘Standing All Alone’, ‘Close Your Eyes’, ‘Butterfly’, ‘Dancing Days’ and B-side track ‘Sugar-Coated’, all of which were recorded during the ‘Bedlam’ era, as well as demo versions of the tracks seen on the original album.It also arrives just a year after Blunt dropped his latest studio album, ‘Who We Used To Be’.“I’ve released seven studio albums, but ‘Back To Bedlam’ was the one people actually bought. So on its 20th anniversary, the record label and I thought we should repackage it with some early demos, and milk it for all it’s worth,” Blunt said of the re-release.

Jet have announced their first UK and Ireland tour in 15 years in celebration of the 20th anniversary of their seminal 2003 debut album ‘Get Born’.The UK and Ireland tour marks the band’s return to the countries since 2009. It will kick off on October 3 at The Academy in Dublin.

Fantasia Barrino returned to the American Idol stage and delivered powerful and inspiring words to the Season 22 finalists on the 20th anniversary of her win.

Now that the upfronts are over, it’s time to hand out much-deserved accolades to those who made this year’s presentations truly unforgettable.

There are still two trophies to win this season with two games remaining, but Manchester City fans have had a glimpse of next season with the release of the 2024/25 Puma home kit on Thursday morning.

There were SO many stars in attendance at the 2024 Disney Upfront presentation held on Tuesday (May 12) at Javits Center in New York City.

Strictly Come Dancing is going to be on our televisions more frequently this year. This is due to the BBC chiefs announcing grand plans to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the glitzy reality TV show.

BBC MasterChef enthusiasts were left gobsmacked as the voice behind the iconic cooking show was unveiled during a special episode celebrating its 20th anniversary.The semi-final episode was a star-studded affair, featuring a line up of past judges, winners, and Michelin-starred chefs, where the final eight contestants whipped up a three-course meal inspired by previous champions for an impressive 70 guests.The excitement levels peaked when judge John Torode swapped his usual attire for chef whites to lead the kitchen as the executive head chef for the night. However, the real surprise came when India Fisher, the voice that has guided viewers through countless culinary journeys, stepped in front of the camera.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” host Jimmy Kimmel once again shared the Disney upfronts stage on Tuesday, providing his zingers in person for advertisers and media buyers at the programming presentation for the first time in five years. That’s because last year Kimmel didn’t attend due to the Hollywood WGA strikes. And in 2022, he was in New York — but had to be beamed in to do his routine after testing positive for COVID.

It’s day two of the Upfronts and Amazon is making its primetime debut.

Selome Hailu Upfronts week has kicked off in New York and so too has the annual spring tradition of networks making the final calls on which shows will and will not survive for another season. But broacast and cable channels are not alone in this process anymore. As Variety noted in early May, streamers like Netflix and Amazon have pivoted to ad-supported tiers, prodding them to make their first-ever upfront presentations to woo advertisers.

Lego Masters host Will Arnett kicked off the 2024 Fox Upfront by introducing most of the celebrity players for the new season, including Jon Hamm, Olivia Culpo, Tom Brady and of course Rob Lowe, who he introduced as coming straight from St. Elmo’s Fire.

Fresh from being roasted on Netflix, Tom Brady turned up to the Fox Upfronts.

The traditional pilot process may be dying out but that’s not stopping the glitz and glamor of the TV Upfronts in New York.

Reboots, as the past few years have shown, are beloved by the TV business. This week’s makeover centers on the upfronts, a decades-old industry ritual revitalized by a new push into streaming ads.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer When NBCUniversal kicks off TV’s traditional week of upfront presentations on Monday, picket-free sidewalks outside Radio City Music Hall will be a sight for sore eyes following last year’s noisy protests in the first weeks of what proved to be the nation’s “hot labor summer.” Hosting a programming presentation at a megawatt New York City venue like Radio City or Javits Center is stressful enough. Executives are eager to return to business as usual in wooing Madison Avenue.

William Earl UPDATED: The network upfronts are once again front-and-center for the television industry as major players gather in New York May 13-16 for the springtime ritual of courting advertisers and media buyers and presenting programming plans for the upcoming TV season. The industry is looking forward to a return to form after the disruption of last year’s writers and actors strikes.

Fox has announced renewal and cancellation decision for two more shows.