Before the age of Twitter, I remember eagerly anticipating the upfronts. I anxiously awaited news of which TV shows were going to come back next season and which were going to be saying goodbye. Every so often I would catch news of a show's fate earlier than the upfronts but I remember most of the news being broken on the blogs during the day of each network's upfronts.
How times have changed.
Now, knowledge is instantaneous. Networks have been throwing out renewal and cancellation news for days, as well as news of the new shows they're ordering. Tonight ABC was making announcements on their shows as late as 10 or 11 pm here, with the world learning about it seconds later. (Not exaggerating, I saw the renewal news for Don't Trust the B-- in Apartment 23 within seconds, as I refreshed Twitter right after James Van Der Beek tweeted about it.) I love being able to satisfy my curiosity and anxiety but it almost seems like the upfronts are becoming a formality in terms of renewals and cancellations and all the news will be out before then. Are there going to be any shows with fates unknown by the time of the upfronts? The scheduling aspect of the upfronts is always interesting so I guess there is still plenty to watch for, but it's just so fascinating to me how technology has changed things.
I had been planning to write goodbye posts for all the shows I like that are headed off to the TV graveyard but now the news has come so quickly that I haven't gotten around to writing any of them! I'm still hoping to do it so let's see how many I get through!
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