Upfronts 2015: Scripps Loads Up New Series

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The Scripps Networks Interactive lifestyle channels took their upfront road show to New York, saying their upscale viewers would be served up dozens of new series and advertisers would be pitched the chance to run roadblock ads across the six channels.

HGTV is adding 10 new series, including from “Property Brothers” Jonathan and Drew Scott (Brother vs. Brother) and Mark Ballas and Derek Hough from Dancing With the Stars (Mark & Derek’s Excellent Flip).

Between them, Food Network and Cooking Channel are adding 40 new series and returning 30 others, the networks said.

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Kent Gibbons
Kent Gibbons

Kent has been a journalist, writer and editor at Multichannel News since 1994 and with Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He is a good point of contact for anything editorial at the publications and for Nexttv.com. Before joining Multichannel News he had been a newspaper reporter with publications including The Washington Times, The Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal and North County News.