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Stephen McPherson,
president, ABC Entertainment, today outlined ABC’s plans for next season and
unveiled the network’s 2007-08 fall schedule before a crowd of ABC affiliates
and representatives of the advertising and media communities at Lincoln
Center’s Avery Fisher Hall. Scheduled to debut
next season are four new comedy series: “Carpoolers,” “Cavemen,” “Miss/Guided”
and “Sam I Am”; along with seven new drama series: “Big Shots,” “Cashmere
Mafia,” “Dirty Sexy Money,” “Eli Stone,” “Private Practice,” “Pushing Daisies”
and “Women’s Murder Club.” Alternative series “Oprah’s Big Give™” is also
slated to debut.
In addition to the new series, ABC previously
announced season renewals for “Brothers &
Sisters,” “MEN IN TREES,” “Ugly Betty,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Lost,” “Desperate
Housewives,” “Boston Legal,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” “Dancing with the Stars,” “Extreme
Makeover: Home Edition,” “The Bachelor,” “Supernanny,” “America’s Funniest Home Videos” and “Wife Swap"
“October Road” and
“Notes from the Underbelly” will return for second seasons as well.
“We’re heading into
the new season with a strong lineup of returning shows that we’ve developed and
nurtured over the past few years,” said McPherson. “That solid foundation will
help us launch an exciting development slate as we continue our forward
momentum this fall. We’re dedicated to working hard week after week to deliver
the best stories and most memorable characters on TV.”
During the 2006-07 TV Season, ABC’s first
season in decades without “Monday Night Football,” the network solidified its dominance
with women and in all upscale measures. And with the addition of “Ugly Betty,”
“Brothers & Sisters,” “October Road” and “MEN IN TREES,” ABC has added a
new generation of broad-appealing, young, accessible dramas to its roster. ABC
is the #1 network with Women 18-34 and Women 18-49, and is currently in second place
for the season among Adults 18-49, leading both NFL-fueled CBS (with ”Super
Bowl 2007”) and NBC (with ”Sunday Night Football”).
Excluding sports from the mix this season (to
account for the loss of “Monday Night Football,” the 2006 “Super Bowl” and the
Bowl Championship series) ABC is the No. 2 network to Fox among Adults 18-49.
The network airs 7 of the Top 20 TV series in the key young adult sales
demographic. ABC retained 99% of its Total Viewers, 100% of its Adult 18-34
audience and 95% of its Adult 18-49 audience year to year in the “non-sports”
averages. Additionally, ABC marked its second straight season as the No. 1
television network among advertiser-prized upscale, high-income Adults 18-49 (with/$100K+
annual income). And ABC is the only network whose May Sweep performance is up
from a year ago.
As previously
announced, “Saturday Night College Football” will return for a second season on
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 (8:00 p.m., ET).
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