Fall TV Trends: Stories, Comedy And Women (Review)

With "Prime Suspect", "Alcatraz," "Pan Am" and "Charlie's Angels" barrel, THR examines the themes of TV season ahead.

Although it is too early to know what new shows will be hits or flops - although we can assure you many others fall into the latter category - we can shed light on the major themes running through the development of this year.

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Sale of pre-sales: between Charlie's Angels (ABC), the Pan Am (ABC), the main suspect (NBC), the Company (NBC), Club Playboy (NBC), are you there Vodka, It's Me Chelsea (NBC) and Bones "backdoor pilot? Finder (FOX), the networks are based on evidence that viewers are already familiar with, when their feet in preparation for their expensive marketing campaigns, designed to cut through an increasingly crowded landscape. Although the drama fairy tale Once upon a time (ABC) has a new name, its characters, including Snow White, are also on the market.

Girls Rule: With few exceptions (see Awake Fox, CBS person "of interest, Fox Finder), women tend to dominate the next generation of network shows. Most of these rookie offers not only women attend hearings inclination, but also women who inhabit their roles. There are plays together, including Playboy, Pan Am, Smash NBC and ABC Good Normal Christian and comedies directed by women, including the daughter of the new Fox, NBC all night and Whitney Are You There Vodka?. But other dramas, the first suspect, and the scandal of the CBA, revolve around female stars.

Laughing all the way to the bank: After several seasons where the comedy network has been declared terminally ill - if she is not dead - the kind under the direction of the hit ABC, Modern Family has come roaring back. This return is evident in pick-ups this year with NBC leading with 5 / 2 additions hour, including Bent Amanda Peet and free agents Hank Azaria. CBS already has two nights of comedy with NBC announced Sunday it was ready to do the same thing, spend the whole night and officials on Wednesday. ABC is expected that the same, with Tim Allen Last Man Standing ready to launch a comedy block on Tuesday.

Living Fairytale: The new leaders by Paul Lee (ABC) and Bob Greenblatt (NBC), both parties appeal nets with fairy tales, by ordering a set of Once Upon a Time, and Grimm, respectively. The first focuses on the woman to pull the city, where magic and mystery stories could be true, and the second around the world, where the Brothers Grimm fairy tale characters exist.

Back in time: You can thank the AMC Emmy-winning Mad Men of decision networks pepper their plans with the 1960 period pieces next season. NBC will bring viewers to the time the airline Pan Am soap, NBC their bailiff in the same decade with the Playboy Club. Meanwhile, Fox Alcatraz adopt a time travel theme that his team investigate the mysterious reappearance of the prison population in 1960 and a network of Terra Nova are transported to the same pre-historic earth.

Synergy, synergy, synergy, Disney brass no doubt delighted with the opportunity to cross-promote the characters (Snow White) in his new drama Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison, Once Upon A Time. For NBC, the producer of vodka and recurring stars Chelsea Handler, whose memory the show is based, is already part of the family NBCUniversal become Comcast. As Ryan Seacrest, one of the stars of comglom, the manager will be able to use his E! demonstrates that (another) to the pump platform in both its NBC and its stars.

A 70 Event: Although the comedy of that longtime Fox 70's show, was cut to half a decade, its stars are making a comeback on the small screen. Laura Prepon (Donna) will star in the comedy Handler, are you there, Vodka? on NBC, while Wilder Valderrama (Fez) is aboard Awake Kyle Killen (formerly EMR) on the same network. Meanwhile, Ashton Kutcher (Michael) to lead the side from star Charlie Sheen in CBS restarted Two and a Half Men.