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Will There be a Fall Television Season?
«Major networks might source content from streaming &/| foreign sources»? That could hurt their profits, but I’ll be an optimist and hope this might be the best quality season of US broadcast TV in decades. :D
Renew/Cancel information for ABC programs
To be fair, this upcoming season of Agents of SHIELD was announced to be its final season mid-2019. (Same with The 100 on The CW.) Much less of a sting for the fans, and an opportunity to conclude a series properly.
FX Renews "What We Do in the Shadows" for a Third Season
Ooh, great! I'm still not tired of Matt Berry (even with his many projects, including Year of the Rabbit). I really enjoy everyone in this show, tbh. Fun surprise of the guest star playing "Jim", too.
DC: Aww, why not Doom Patrol? I heard good things about that from JMS. Maybe too edgy? (US networks do often seem to cater to "tune out" viewers.)
But even my optimism doesn't extend to networks pulling over streaming hits like Stranger Things, Hamilton/Mandalorian, Star Trek: Discovery or The Handmaid's Tale. (It would be funny if networks aired the new seasons of their canceled shows "saved" by Netflix, though.) Also, networks do sometimes pull stuff from overseas. They've just tweaked and re-filmed them (The Mysteries of Laura and Red Band Society are two I know of off-hand).
Oh, the double-airing of Cosmos PW was already planned back in March. I thought it was odd at the time.
Counter to all this "pull from streaming", the Peacock streaming service's "originals" list on Wikipedia indicated that some shows had been pulled from its parent company's existing cable channels (The "SyFy" [sic] Channel, USA, Bravo, & E!). It made me think, how sad for those cable channels to lose promising programming. (I suppose they can fill the empty timeslots with wrestling reruns or something.) :P