Musical “Hadestown” was the top winner at the 2019 Tony Awards last night, with eight Tonys, including Best Musical. The other musicals did not go home empty-handed: Santino Fontana won as best actor in a musical for “Tootsie,” and the show’s book writer, Robert Horn, won in his category. “Ain’t Too Proud” picked up an award for […]
From Campaign US: As you read this, a small horde of TV executives, dizzy from screening pilot episodes, are gathered in a conference room somewhere in Midtown Manhattan staring at a large scheduling board and a handful of erasable markers. Their job is to figure out where, or if, these new series belong on the […]
The upfront season means its decision time. And a perennial question broadcast networks face is what to do with a primetime series that is just not delivering—enough. The primary deciding factor used to be Nielsen ratings, but today many other considerations come to play in determining the fate of a show, including streaming viewership, social […]
