Canadian broadcaster CTV has opened up its checkbook at the L.A. Screenings and bought sci-fi drama “Flash Forward” from Disney.
Pickup isn’t all that surprising considering CTV has done lots of business with Disney in the past. The network is both the 18-49 demo ratings and total-viewer champ and its lineup includes nine of Canada’s top [...]

A new Flash Forward preview, continued from here. See it in high-quality on YouTube. Thanks again to Brian!

Another new Flash Forward promo, grabbed by Brian. You can view Part 2 here. Watch the high-quality version on YouTube.

The first footage from Lost’s new TV challenger for most whacked premise, Flash Forward, explains where the origins of its title, and drops a big fat geek cameo: Seth MacFarlane. Check out ABC’s latest clip.
David Goyer’s television show is an adaptation of Robert Sawyer’s novel. In the book the population undergoes a collective two-minute black [...]

ABC is going back to its a-b-c’s. The struggling network will introduce an unprecedented 10 new comedies and dramas during the 2009-10 season, including Flash Forward, a time-bending thriller based on the novel by Mississauga, Ont. science-fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer.
Flash Forward joins new sitcoms headlined by Friends‘ Courteney Cox, Frasier’s Kelsey Grammer and Everybody [...]

ABC is looking to aggressively get back into the sitcom game.
The Alphabet web has announced a fall schedule that includes four new comedies back to back on Wednesday – a big change from last year, when the network entered the fall with just one comedy.
Net also sees an opportunity on Thursdays at 8 p.m. for [...]

Oh golly gee. Lucky me. My friends, this is the most wonderful time of the year – it’s new season announcements time. Upfronts. Schedules unveiled. Clips and cast lists offered. Thing is, see, at this time of the year, every new show could be a classic.
They are like gifties, still wrapped and you don’t really [...]

Between ABC unveiling 11 new shows and NBC announcing its schedule, Tuesday was a pretty crazy day at the TV upfronts. A quick roundup of some of the other news of the day:
In the preview clip of “Flash Forward” ABC showed to reporters Tuesday morning, a familiar face popped up in a scene set in [...]

Thanks to the power of the Internet, I got to do something today that I always wanted to do — I got to sit in on the ABC Upfronts presentation. While not as star-studded as these events were in the past, they did offer up several lengthy clips of their new TV shows are I [...]

Say this for the Great Recession: it is prompting some creative new pitches at the upfronts. In a typical year, a network like ABC, which is not at the top of the ratings, would argue that it was still a good buy for advertisers because it had a god demographic. So ABC argued this year, [...]