Upfronts Summaries

Stuart Elliot highlights best and worst scenes from the week, Eric Deggans names winners and losers, Spotted checks out scheduling match-ups, Jaime Weinman compares ABC & CBS, Scott Collins notes the rise in female comedy leads (if not female empowerment), James Poniewozik covers what we learned, Michael Schneider glosses the top fall trends, Deadline pinpoints the upfronts' overachievers, Rick Porter learned things, THR identifies winners and losers, Bloomberg notes the high volume of new shows, which it attributes to the "Netflix Effect" (which Bill Gorman thinks is nonsense), Stuart Elliot notes that the paranormal is a popular fall topic, Claire Atkinson sees a drama revival as good for studios, John Consoli says now the haggling commences and covers what media buyers think of the new shows, Joe Flint says networks are still obsessed with youth, and for cable, reality TV shows are key, Nellie Andreeva has final thoughts, Jonathan Gray reports on the new shows.