ABC Upfronts Bring Monster Enemies and Monster Laughs
TV Watch By Tom Gliatto, PEOPLE’S TV CRITIC 05/15/2013 at 10:10 AM EDT ABC’s upfront Tuesday afternoon was an upbeat affair – not all upfronts are – with shoutouts to breakout hit Scandal and its star, Kerry Washington; to late-night host Jimmy Kimmel; and to now destined-to-retire Barbara Walters.Kimmel, as is traditional, did a few minutes’ worth of jokes at the expense of the other networks (he referred to CBS as “smug @#%&!!!!s”) and his own: He suggested that Splash, the diving-celeb reality show, should be replaced by one with an empty pool. To be called Splat.The clips introducing new shows were, on balance, pretty promising Read More