Upfronts 2024: Procedurals, Sitcoms & Missing Persons On 20th Anniversary Of Greatest TV Season https://t.co/KiCqNg0gE5
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) May 12, 2024
It’s been 20 years since the “Greatest TV Season” according to Variety
“The 2004-05 season introduced several genre-defying series — all but one based on original ideas — whose impact on TV storytelling is still being felt”
The shows that debuted in 2004 were:
–Lost (“a sci-fi drama on a deserted island that set the tone for modern genre fare”, its $12M pilot that cost the job of the man who authorized it, Lloyd Braun)
–Desperate Housewives (“a comedy-drama about murderous suburban moms”)
–Grey’s Anatomy (the only one still airing, “a medical drama where romantic entanglements among doctors overshadow cases”),
–House M.D.(“a medical drama with an antihero protagonist”)
–The Office (“an office mocumentary breaking the fourth wall”)
–Veronica Mars (“a teen noir mystery drama”)
Noting that “broadcast networks will also likely never take chances on so many unconventional ideas”, they highlight how lately most networks have been soliciting the development of mostly procedurals and multi-camera comedies (“cheaper to produce, easier to get into for casual viewers and have better repeatability”)
Other shows that began in 2004:
Entourage
Battlestar Galactica
Deadwood
Stargate: Atlantis
The L Word
CSI: NY
Summerland
Joey
Boston Legal
Wonderfalls
