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10 New Shows We Can't Wait to Watch Next Season

The major networks just wrapped up a week of presenting their new shows to advertisers. Here are the 10 most promising shows from this year's upfronts.

Each spring, the major broadcast networks present their new TV shows to advertisers in hopes that they will plop down huge wads of cash for 30-second spots. Known as the upfronts, it's always an optimistic time, when tiny glimpses, log lines, and casting notices can lead to buzz over what's going to be the next must-watch show—even though history tells us most of these new series won't last to the end of their first season. This past week ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, and the CW all made their upfronts presentations for the 2016-17 season, and the mix is... Well, it's something. Shonda Rhimes has a Shakespeare adaptation for ABC, Lego Movie masterminds Phil Lord and Chris Miller have another outlandish high-concept comedy, and nearly every network will have a new show about time travel. In short, there's a lot of TV on the way. Below are the shows we can't wait to see in full when they debut next season.

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