The fall schedules that were rolled out with limited fanfare this upfront showed the pain from the winter's writers strike will linger into next season--when the networks can least afford it.
The strike fell during the networks' development season, when ideas are usually incubated. ABC and Fox executives admit that really hurt -- and forced cutbacks.
As a result,
television executives, who are usually shy about bold new ideas, "are hedging their bets even a little more," says veteran television critic David Bianculli. But the problem is that "the viewers
are going to be going away for the summer, and the networks can't just presume that they are coming back," he warns.
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