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Thursday, May 15, 2008 --- 54 days ago http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/top-5/2008/05/14/ABC-Faces-TV-Obstacles?rs
| With a dearth of new shows to announce—just two new ones airing this fall—the focus at the ABC Upfront Tuesday afternoon at Avery Fisher Hall was on the numbers. Oh, and slinging mud at the competition, at ABC's own shows, and at the American viewing public. After an introduction from Anne Sweeney, president of the Disney-ABC Television Group, Jimmy Kimmel, host of the network's late-night talk show, took the stage. He started by admonishing the sitting audience to "Please, sit," in a mocking reference to Jimmy Fallon's identical joke at the press conference yesterday where NBC anointed him the next host of their late-night show . Kimmel then took several self-conscious digs at this year's Upfront’s general lack of stars, booze, and food—in light of diminishing ratings and weak slates of new shows, the networks have cut back on their annual presentations this year. "ABC might be the worst date ever," Kimmel told the assembled advertising executives. "We expect you to put out, and we're not even going to buy you a drink." But he soon moved from self-deprecation to attack mode, saying that things at ABC were better than at NBC, where the network had relabeled it's presentation the "Infronts" this year because they were "just in front of the CW"—a reference to NBC's fourth-place standing among the major broadcast networks. On Thursday, he added to raucous laughter, the Fox network would be hosting the "reach arounds." As ... |
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