Quote: A Tough Fall Season

"It’s extremely difficult for us to launch these shows and turn them into successful series as is...It’s definitely one of those situations where we have a lot of things working against us.”

-Statement by Andy Kubitz, ABC Entertainment’s executive vice president of program planning and scheduling, in an Indiewire story with regard to scheduling new fall shows around the presidential debate schedule. The article noted that other complications, such as non-network premieres (Amazon, Netflix, etc.), NFL schedules, blockbuster films, and other things. Of course, people do own DVRs, so the window for seeing new shows is much wider than it was years ago.