When do networks announce fall lineup

The Rookie. Supermarket Sweep. America's Funniest Home Videos. Celebrity Wheel of Fortune. Oakley, Yukon Vet. Shark Tank. The Hot Zone. A Million Little Things. General Hospital. Bachelor in Paradise. Home Economics. The Conners. The Goldbergs. Good Morning America. The View. Celebrity Family Feud. Cruel Summer. Good Trouble. Motherland: Fort Salem. The Secret Life of the American Teenager.

Everything's Gonna Be Okay. Famous in Love. The Fosters. Make It Or Break It. Switched at Birth. Family Guy. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. What We Do in the Shadows. Bob's Burgers. Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller. Locked Up Abroad. Spend the summer promoting them. Introduce new series after Labor Day, when kids are back in school and car companies are ready to spend money advertising their new models. Although the upfront presentations, as they're called, aren't happening this week as is customary, the networks appear to be employing a strategy based on proceeding as if the TV season is going to happen as scheduled, while sorting out the details later.

CBS announced its lineup last week, with only a few new shows -- including dramas based on "The Equalizer" and "The Silence of the Lambs" -- joining 23 returning series. Fox did the same on Monday, while picking up a pair of already-produced shows that previously played on smaller platforms as what amounts to a hedge against the inability to produce new ones: "L. NBC, for its part, held a teleconference with advertisers on Monday, going over broad plans in terms of working to adapt to the threat of Covid, setting aside specific talk about its programming -- or contingency plans, if established shows like the hit drama "This is Us" aren't available.

Fox was already known for its stable of animated comedies and unscripted shows, which can be safely made under pandemic guidelines. NBC, which lost hundreds of hours of programming this summer when the Olympics were postponed, is in a tougher position. The CW announced in May that it was postponing its new season until January and that it would be using acquired shows in fall. As production resumes, it has an advantage in that a number of its shows are made in Canada, where the virus has been contained more effectively.

Production on a few broadcast shows is underway in New York, Los Angeles and Vancouver, Canada, with more scheduled to start up in the next few weeks. But as every new show goes into production under this situation, they learn better protocols. Executives at multiple networks say they are already planning for various contingencies and banking backup programming in case the virus surges again — or in the nightmare scenario that the NFL, which airs on NBC, CBS and FOX and is a huge source of ad revenue — has to shut down.

Whatever happens this fall, the pandemic has exposed lingering flaws in the old model and may accelerate long-term changes in the business. As media companies restructure to focus on streaming and legacy networks are absorbed into ever-growing conglomerates, the traditional TV calendar — with fall as its focal point — will grow only more obsolete.

Meredith Blake is an entertainment reporter for the Los Angeles Times based out of New York City, where she primarily covers television. A native of Bethlehem, Pa. Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd are comedy masters. Adult Swim Fest thrives by blurring the line between virtual and reality. All Sections. About Us. B2B Publishing. Business Visionaries. Hot Property. Times Events.