After one other 12 months the place streaming dominated the business dialog, particularly as each Netflix and Disney+ lastly created their very own ad-supported tiers, it’s hardly shocking that these platforms are properly represented on this 12 months’s TV Scorching Listing. However right here’s extra of an sudden twist: Linear networks proved there’s nonetheless loads of struggle in them but. In spite of everything, it is a 12 months the place one of many greatest hits was not simply on community TV however primary cable (Paramount Community’s Yellowstone, from TV Creator of the Yr Taylor Sheridan) and the breakout sequence everybody was speaking final spring was on broadcast, not streaming (ABC’s Abbott Elementary, created by and starring Quinta Brunson, our Sport Changer of the Yr). And because the vacation season approaches, all eyes will as soon as once more be on the unique vacation motion pictures (40 new ones this 12 months!) overseen by Hallmark Media president and CEO Wonya Lucas, our TV Government of the Yr. From Stranger Issues to Home of the Dragon to Trevor Noah, this 12 months’s TV Scorching Listing honors 2022’s most talked about reveals, networks and other people. —Jason Lynch
