ABC WILL feature 10 new shows in its next season schedule. The declining rating of the existing programs led to the overhauling of the lineup. The new season will be without the hit supernatural thriller “Lost.”
The majority of the ABC’s new programs are drama, ranging from gritty police shoe “Detroit 1-8-7” to “My Generation” which centers on group of fictitious high school students from Austin, Texas, who reunite a decade after graduation.
In 2010-11, ABC, a division of Walt Disney Co will premiere six new dramas.
Meanwhile, ESPN announced that it would roll out its 3D network in June 11. The launch will feature the first of 25 World Cup matches ESPN 3D aims to broadcast.
This is the second consecutive year when ABC will make major changes to its schedules, last year it introduced 11 new programs for the US market. This is the time, every year broadcasters announce their new schedule and negotiate with the advertisers over billions of dollars in commercial time.
Last year’s announcements did not catch the imagination of the viewers and several program failed to hit the TRP charts. “Flash Forward” and “Eastwick” will not return this season. Resultantly ABC even after the success of the “Modern Family” and “Dancing with the Stars” is struggling with NBC for last place among the major networks in the rating charts.
To hold the viewers of “Lost” which is in its last episodes, ABS will launch a new supernatural show called,”No Ordinary Family.”This is all about a family that survives a plane crash, and , upon returning home, finds they possess special powers.
ABC will also roll out two more crime drama, “Detroit 1-8-7” and “Body of Proof.”
Two-angle legal drama, "The Whole Truth," will also appear in ABC’s autumn line up. A medical drama, “off the Map” will also come in mid season.
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