One day in to upfront week and buyers are happy with what they’ve seen. Fox debuted trailers for promising dramas like “Sleepy Hollow,” “Rake,” “Almost Human” and “Gang Related,” while NBC aims to bring family comedy back to Thursday night with “The Michael J. Fox Show,” “Welcome to the Family” and “Sean Saves the World.”

Patrick Lafferty, most recently chief operating officer at McCann North America, was named CEO of BBH North America. The post has been vacant sine last September, when Greg Andersen, the former CEO, left amid a round of staff cuts. According to Adage, “the choice of Mr. Lafferty signals a major change in tack when it comes to the CEO spot, as BBH is bringing on someone steeped in account management experience rather than planning experience (which was the expertise of Mr. Lafferty's predecessor Mr. Andersen). BBH also focused on reeling in a candidate with both client-side and agency experience.”

Dish executive R. Stanton Dodge will posit broadcasters' challenge of its Hopper DVR service -- which allows subs to skip ads and view content on other devices -- as an attack on consumers in his May 14 state-of-video testimony before the Senate Communications Subcommittee. "The networks are accusing millions of subscribers of being copyright infringers just because they want to skip commercials more easily or watch TV on iPads in their bedroom," according to a copy of his prepared testimony. Dodge borrows from the new a la carte bill introduced by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), which would require the …

It’s official: “Saturday Night Live” head writer, Seth Meyers will replace Jimmy Fallon as host of “Late Night,” once Fallon departs to host “The Tonight Show” in Feb. 2014. SNL producer Lorne Michaels will also produce “Late Night” and “The Tonight Show.” Meyers will be the fourth host of “Late Night,” following David Letterman, Conan O’Brien and Fallon.

One out of four of the 37 highest paid ad executives in the ad industry work for Havas, according to a compilation of earnings data published by Business Insider. Havas took nine of the 37 positions, which is noteworthy because Havas is one of the smallest of Madison Avenue's major agency holding companies. WPP Chairman-CEO Martin Sorrell was the highest paid executive overall, earning $27 million in 2012, followed by Publicis Chairman-CEO Maurice Levy, who earned $24.4 million.

The major broadcast networks likely will reap moderate single-digit price increases in the prime-time upfront marketplace, according to Wall Street analysts assessing the supply and demand of the TV advertising marketplace. Increased competition from digital options, as well as strong cable programming performances by networks such as AMC, are likely to take some steam out of the broadcast networks.

Fox has greenlit a shortened revival of one of its biggest legacy hits, "24." The 12 expisodes will begin May 2014.Kiefer Sutherland will reprise his Jack Bauer role. The series will unfold chronologically, as with the initial run from 2001 to 2010.  Fox says there may be a regular "24" beyond the revival, depending on response.  

With NBC reportedly turning to a Brit – Deborah Turness – to be the first female head of a U.S. network news division, here’s a view of the development from across the pond.  Josh Halliday points out that the ITV News exec would “become the third British news executive to depart for the US in less than a year, following ex-BBC director general Mark Thompson's appointment as chief executive of New York Times Company and Jon Williams, the former BBC world news editor who left to join ABC News.”  Turness’ appointment was first tipped by Joe Flint in the …

Nine months after launching on Apple devices, Boxfish’s real-time program guide app has landed on Android – and the company has begun talks with cable companies and consumer electronics companies about using the technology in the future.  Boxfish currently “monitors conversations on close to 1,000 U.S. channels in real-time and automatically analyzes key topics to make TV searchable,” writes Janko Roettgers.    

In a move to get consumers listening to local FM radio over their smartphones, station owner Emmis Communications has been working on an industry-wide deal that will provide Sprint with $45 million worth of advertising on participating stations over three years in exchange for the embedding of an FM chip in 30 million phones.  CEO Jeff Smulyan told analysts the phones could be coming to market within 60 days, writes  Leslie Stimson.