It’s a less less than a week after the end of Upfronts and summer is nearly upon us. Summer programming now involves more original content, but we’re really looking ahead to the new fall-winter season. New shows won’t be debuting for severan months, but there’s some anticipation brewing for the new TV offerings coming down the pipeline.
After viewing all of the trailers released during Upfronts, we’ve put together a list of the shows we’re most interested in seeing on our screens in the fall and winter.
BLACK LIGHTNING (TV Addict staff who are interested: Brianna, Araceli, Luciana). The series stars Cress Williams as Jefferson Pierce, a former superhero who gave up his costume for the sake of his family. Years later, Jefferson realizes that his city needs his alter ego — Black Lightning. “From the first look, it felt like we’re seeing a superhero story from a different phase in the main vigilante’s life when he’s dealing with putting the suit back on and seeing that vigilantism runs in the family. It’s not an origin story in the usual superhero TV sense. I’m excited for this one,” Brianna said. “It fits into The CW’s superhero mold they’ve created for themselves, but at the same time it’s very different than anything they’ve done before with an older lead, crime fighting family and all African-American main cast,” Araceli explained.
BLACK LIGHTNING will air midseason on The CW.
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WILL & GRACE (TV Addict staff who are interested: Luciana, Rebecca, Shana and Clarissa). TV’s funniest quad is back! WILL & GRACE isn’t a new show, but it will finally be back on our screens after too many years off the air and we’re all excited about it. “I used to watch reruns of this show every day after school. My inner teenage self is overjoyed to see these characters again,” Luciana said happily.
WILL & GRACE will air Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. this fall on NBC.
Did somebody say encore?! #WillAndGrace is back this fall on @NBC. pic.twitter.com/uKOxtYGJCP
— Will & Grace (@WillAndGrace) May 15, 2017
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DYNASTY (TV Addict staff who are interested: Melissa and Clarissa). This series will probably be our guilty pleasure, but will it take its place on the list of fun primetime soaps? We certainly hope so! In the show we’re (re-)introduced to the Carrington family when the children of Blake Carrington return home to discover that their father is marrying a beautiful — and far younger — woman. Cue the backstabbing, because there’s a lot of money and a company’s future at stake. “The CW is taking us back to the Carrington DYNASTY, and it looks like the lifestyles of the rich-and-self-absorbed have gotten more diverse,” Melissa said. “Mostly I will watch to see Alexis enter her first scene and see if she can wear a picture hat as well as Joan Collins. Not many people can pull that off. Since Collins has been reported to have based Alexis on Donald Trump, whose PR machine dubbed him the king-of-deals back in the ’80s, it will be interesting to see if this year’s model does the same.”
DYNASTY will air Wednesdays at 9:00 p.m. this fall on The CW.
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THE CROSSING (TV Addict staff who are interested: Luciana and Rebecca). ABC has been trying to recreate the mystery of LOST since that show went off the air, but can THE CROSSING do that? Some of us are hoping to find out. The show revolves around 47 people who wash up on a beach and claim they’re from a future where a war has broken out and they’re looking for asylum. The show “has elements of mystery, syfy, romance, intrigue, and of course, drama. I’m already dying to know the how and why behind the unexplained arrival of 47 travelers, washed up on the beach of this small town,” Rebecca said. “This feels very reminiscent of THE 4400, which was show I absolutely loved when I was younger,” Luciana explained. “Mystery, conspiracy theories, people traveling back in time to escape a horrible future… I am so in.”
THE CROSSING will air midseason on ABC.
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THE GIFTED (TV Addict staff who are interested: Araceli, Shana and Clarissa). “Put ‘Marvel’ and ‘mutant’ in the same sentence, and you already own me. (Bonus: Amy Acker.)”, Shana gushed. ” And as Araceli point out, “unlike LEGION on FX, The GIFTED may be more like what audiences expect from an X-Men series.” The show revolves around the Strucker family, whose lives drastically change when parents Reed and Caitlin learn that their children have mutant powers, forcing the family on the run in order to protect teens Lauren and Andy.
THE GIFTED will air Mondays at 9:00 p.m. this fall on Fox.
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THE MAYOR (TV Addict staff who are interested: Brianna and Rebecca). “This is exactly what television needs. A fresh face, fresh story, and a message told with laughter. We’ve all felt the frustration of an unfeeling bureaucracy at some point in our lives, and this show already feels like heart and humor come together to form a message of hope and change, through the eyes of an unlikely young rapper-turned Mayor!” Rebecca said. In the series, Courtney Rose runs for Mayor as a publicity stunt to get people to pay attention to his music and actually ends up winning the election. Now he’s grossly unprepared to take on the job, but with some help from his mother, his friends, and his former rival’s key employee, maybe change is just what the city needs.
THE MAYOR will air Tuesdays at 9:30 p.m. this fall on ABC.
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A.P. Bio (TV Addict staff who are interested: Rebecca and Clarissa). “Glenn Howerton is, in my humble opinion, one of the funniest men to ever grace television, so to see him in a role sure to play into his strengths of disgruntled, angry, vengeful, and frustrated [is going to be amazing],” Rebecca said. “I’m definitely tuning in to watch this passed-over-professor now turned high school teacher navigate the realities of teaching biology to kids”. NBC hasn’t released a trailer yet for this series, which stars IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA’s Howerton, but Rebecca is right — he’s been utterly hilarious on SUNNY and if given the right material he’ll be a knockout on A.P. BIO.
A.P. BIO will air midseason on NBC.
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RISE (TV Addict staff who are interested: Araceli and Clarissa). RISE “could be next season’s breakout hit and repeating the success of THIS IS US for NBC,” Araceli said. “The network was once home to family dramas like PARENTHOOD and FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS from Jason Katims and this new one from him is in the same vein. With similarities to two hits — FNL and GLEE — RISE already has a head start above the competition.” NBC hasn’t released a trailer for RISE either, but Josh Radnor stars as a teacher who takes over the school’s struggling drama program and helps to energize a whole city.
RISE will air midseason on NBC.
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Honorable Mentions
GOOD GIRLS (TV Addict staff who are interested: Brianna). “There may not have been a trailer for this but I’m looking forward to seeing anything that will put Mae Whitman and Retta back on my TV screen,” Brianna said. GOOD GIRLS revolves around three suburban wives who get tired of playing by the rules and always finishing last. After they rob a grocery store to get some much-needed money, the women find themselves in a world of trouble. GOOD GIRLS will air midseason on NBC.
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY (TV Addict staff who are interested: Shana). “I think I would lose 100% of my nerd credit if I wasn’t looking forward to this,” Shana said. Not much is known about the STAR TREK reboot, but CBS promises all new adventures for an all new crew. The series will air on CBS All Access in the fall.
At the edge of the universe, Discovery begins. https://t.co/xIWmNDREAb #StarTrekDiscovery pic.twitter.com/xlpH3Oe238
— Star Trek: Discovery (@startrekcbs) May 17, 2017
TEN DAYS IN THE VALLEY (TV Addict staff who are interested: Melissa). “I know that TEN DAYS IN THE VALLEY seems like a lot of different plots are crammed into the concept of a single mother/television producer whose daughter is kidnapped by the same bad guys who may have been featured on her controversial police show. Of course, that screams out for a new buddy cop-type and a ranting almost-ex-husband who has traded her in on a newer model. So why will I try TEN DAYS IN THE VALLEY? Kyra Sedgwick,” Melissa said. TEN DAYS IN THE VALLEY will air Sundays at 10:00 p.m. this fall on ABC.
