NBCU’s cable brands kicked off an upbeat upfront presentation Monday with an order of 23 new series across Bravo, Oxygen and Esquire.

For Bravo, that means a new Housewives spinoff for NeNe Leakes called NeNe and Kim: The Road to Riches, which follows Leakes and Kim Zolciak on road trip across the country.

The cable net also will expand its Below Deck and Married to Medicine franchises with Below Deck Mediterranean and Married to Medicine Houston.

The upfront presentation also featured 10 new series for the network, including unscripted projects Après Ski, Fit Club and My Fab 40th.

Oxygen Media and Esquire Network will partner on companion docuseries Living With Funny and Comedians of LA. The co-production includes Oxygen’s Living With Funny, where comedians let viewers in on their personal lives, and Esquire’s Comedians of LA, a show featuring the same comics but with a focus on their onstage lives.

Oxygen, stressing a commitment to its audience of millennial woman, also announced eight new series on Monday, as well as exclusive cable distribution rights to Crazy Talk, a daily syndicated show premiering this fall starring Bad Girls Club’s Tanisha Thomas and WNBC’s Ben Aaron. Other new series include Pretty. Strong., featuring the women of the Legends Football League, The Hustle, Players Get Played and Boss Nails.

“Oxygen is unveiling our most ambitious slate, embracing the new brand filter with bold and optimistic programming for young multicultural women,” said Frances Berwick, president of lifestyle networks at NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment.

Esquire Network’s Comedians of LA is one of five new series, also including Somm, a wine sommelier series based on the documentary of the same name; Going Deep with David Rees, who examines the historical and cultural reasons for everyday actions; The Agent, a “real-life Jerry Maguire;” and a food tour called United States of Burgers.

“Esquire’s momentum continues to build, and, as one of the fastest growing cable networks, there is no other destination to reach this multi-dimensional, affluent and educated male audience across platforms within truly rich storytelling experiences,” said Laura Molen, EVP of the lifestyle advertising sales group at NBCUniversal.

[Image courtesy of Bravo]

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