While working to win over ad buyers during the 2024 upfronts, broadcasters and streamers alike are releasing first looks at their upcoming content.
UPFRonTS 2024: COMPLETE COVERAGE
“House of the Dragon” Season 2 (HBO, June 16)
Set 200 years before the events of “Game of Thrones” and based on George R.R. Martin’s “Fire & Blood,” “House of the Dragon” tells the story of House Targaryen.
“Doctor Odyssey” (ABC, Fall 2024)
From Ryan Murphy, “Doctor Odyssey” stars Joshua Jackson as Max, the new on-board doctor for a luxury cruise ship, and his medical team as they navigate unique medical crises and each other miles from shore. Don Johnson and Phillipa Soo also star.
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“High Potential” (ABC, Fall 2024)
based on the popular French series “Haut Potentiel Intellectuel,” “High Potential” is a crime procedural from Drew Goddard that follows Morgan (Kaitlin Olson), a single mom whose unconventional knack for solving crimes leads to an unusual partnership with a by-the-book seasoned detective.
“Murder in a Small Town” (Fox, Fall 2024)
based on L.R. Wright’s “Karl Aberg” book series, “Murder in a Small Town” follows Karl (Rossif Sutherland), who moves to a quiet coastal town after working as a big-city police officer, but must return to his detective background when murders begin to wash up on his shore.
“Rescue: HI-Surf” (Fox, Fall 2024)
“Rescue: HI-Surf” follows the personal and professional lives of the lifeguards of the North Shore of O’ahu, the most famous and dangerous stretch of coastline in the world. Robbie Magasiva, Arielle Kebbel, Adam Demos, Kekoa Kekumano, Alex Aiono, Zoe Cipres and Sea Shimooka star. The series hails from John Wells (“Shameless,” “The West Wing,” “ER”) and Matt Kester (“Animal Kingdom,” “Outsiders”).
“Universal Basic Guys” (Fox, Fall 2024)
“Universal Basic Guys” follows two brothers, Mark and Hank Hoagies, who lose their jobs to automation and are given $3,000 a month in a new basic income program. Now, they’re using their free time and free money to find purpose in a world where they’re no longer needed.
“Doc” (Fox, 2025)
“Doc” stars Molly Parker (“House Of Cards”) as the Dr. Amy Larsen, chief of internal and family medicine at Westside Hospital in Minneapolis. After a brain injury erases the last eight years of her life, Amy must navigate life with no memory of her patients, colleagues, divorce, partner and the tragedy that caused her to push everyone away.
“Federer: Twelve Final Days” (Amazon Prime Video, June 20)
Originally, a home video never intended for public viewing, “Federer: Twelve Final Days” chronicles the. last 12 days of Roger Federer’s professional tennis career and featured interviews with friends and rivals Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray. Asif Kapadia and Joe Sabia direct.
“The 1% Club” (Amazon Prime Video and Fox, May 23)
Hosted by Patton Oswalt, each episode of “The 1% Club” sees 100 contestants from across the country compete to win up to $100,000 by answering increasingly difficult logic-based questions, ending with a question that only 1% of Americans got right. The premiere episode will stream on Amazon Prime Video beginning on May 23; after that, the series runs Mondays on Fox beginning June 3 with episodes streaming on Prime the next day.
Check out other trailers revealed during upfronts below.
“Cross” (Amazon Prime Video, 2024)
“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Season 2 (Amazon Prime Video, August 2024)
