Insights into ABC's Strike-Proof Fall 2023 TV Schedule.

Ari Goldman, the senior vp content strategy and scheduling at ABC Entertainment, discusses how the ongoing writers strike impacted ABC's fall schedule. ABC took a realistic approach and prepared for the possibility of a strike for months. The fall schedule features all unscripted fare and repeats of Abbott Elementary. ABC's overall slate is almost 50-50 with scripted and unscripted, with a pair of the former still on the bubble and five pilots still to be determined. ABC is prepared to pivot if the strike ends July 1 somehow, but it's unlikely that there could be original scripted programming on ABC in the fall.