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Predict the first new network show of the fall to be cancelled UPDATE: ratings check in

Posted on 9/12/18 at 11:03 pm
Posted by WestCoastAg
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Posted on 9/12/18 at 11:03 pm
ABC
A Million Little Things - Sept. 26, Kind of like “This Is Us” if it were set in Boston, focused on four male friends (played by Ron Livingston, David Giuntoli, Romany Malco and James Roday) rather than a family and had a greater appetite for punch lines.

Single Parents - Sept. 26, In another obviously titled series, Saturday Night Live’s Taran Killam stars as a (ahem) single dad looking for a new peer group at his daughter’s school.

The Conners - Oct. 16, The Show Formerly Known as “Roseanne” makes its debut, without Roseanne Barr and, most likely, a chunk of its audience.

The Kids Are Alright - Oct. 16, The Goldbergs,” if the childhood of the show’s creator had been California Irish-Catholic 1970s rather than Pennsylvania secular-Jewish 1980s. Unlike “The Goldbergs” or “The Wonder Years,” where Patton Oswalt and Daniel Stern, respectively, were the adult voices of the main character, “The Kids Are Alright” creator Tim Doyle does his own narration.

The Rookie - Oct. 16, After a series of supporting roles in comedies both light and dark (“Modern Family,” “Con Man,” “Santa Clarita Diet,” “A Series of Unfortunate Events”), Nathan Fillion gets back to what he did so well in “Castle”: playing the unlikely hero of a major-network crime procedural. (It was created by the “Castle” writer and producer Alexi Hawley.) Mr. Filion plays a 40-year-old whose midlife crisis leads him to become the oldest rookie officer in the Los Angeles Police Department. He’s initially met with hostility and scorn, but we can guess how that will turn out.

CBS
Magnum PI and Murphy Brown - Sept. 24, Two more reboots join “Hawaii Five-0,” “MacGyver” and “S.W.A.T.” in CBS’s attempt to recreate its prime-time schedule circa 1985.

FBI - Sept. 25, What’s there to say about a new Dick Wolf series? This one stands out for not being on NBC and not being called “Law & Order: FBI.” Missy Peregrym, Zeeko Zaki, Ebonee Noel and Jeremy Sisto play agents in the New York office of the F.B.I. The pilot has “L&O” trademarks like the tap dance between scare mongering and sentimentality, a simplified-from-the-headlines story and lots of staccato cop-speak. (“Is that a cellphone?” “Looks like it. It’s melted to his leg.”)

God Friended Me - Sept. 30, From Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt’s shared resume as writer-producers — “Gotham,” “Hawaii Five-0,” “CSI: NY” — you wouldn’t expect them to create a feel-good fantasy-mystery about an atheist podcaster who starts getting friend requests from God. (Does God check in from heaven? So many questions.) But here it is, starring Brandon Micheal Hall of “The Mayor” and blessed with Joe Morton as the unbeliever’s pastor father.

Happy Together - Oct, 1, : Damon Wayans Jr. stars in this sitcom about a comfortable married couple whose lives are upended when a musician moves in.

The Neighborhood - Oct. 1, Max Greenfield of “New Girl” and Beth Behrs of “2 Broke Girls” play a white couple moving into an African-American neighborhood in Los Angeles, to the consternation and amusement of their new neighbors. Cedric the Entertainer and Tichina Arnold play the couple next door.

Tell Me A Story - Oct. 31, Based on a Spanish series, this is another show that feeds traditional fairy tales into the modern content machine — the first season is billed as the “Three Little Pigs,” “Little Red Riding Hood” and “Hansel and Gretel” combined in a “dark and twisted psychological thriller.” The premise recalls NBC’s “Grimm” and ABC’s “Once Upon a Time,” but in the hands of the writer-producer Kevin Williamson (“The Following,” “Vampire Diaries”) it’s likely to be a bit bloodier.

NBC
Manifest - Sept. 24, The latest something-weird-happened-while-we-were-in-the-air premise (“Lost,” “Fringe,” “The Strain”): A routine flight lands and the passengers and crew discover that five years have passed. Robert Zemeckis, whose last TV credit came in 1993, is an executive producer.

New Amsterdam - Sept. 25, The success of “The Good Doctor” meant that other inspirational hospital dramas wouldn’t be far behind. This one, with Ryan Eggold as the new top doc at a New York hospital based on Bellevue, stuffs ebola, carbon monoxide poisoning, cancer (twice), placenta previa, childhood neglect and the perils of interracial dating into its first episode.

I Feel Bad - Oct. 4, Aseem Bhatra (“Scrubs,” “The Cleveland Show”) created this series about (apparently) the guilt of the seemingly perfect modern wife and mom, starring Sarayu Blue (the mean officemate in “No Tomorrow”). One of the many executive producers is Amy Poehler.

Fox
REL - Sept. 9, Based on the life of Lil Rel Howery (“Get Out,” “Insecure,” “The Carmichael Show”), REL is a multi-camera comedy starring Howery as a loving husband and father living on the West Side of Chicago, who finds out his wife is having an affair. And not just any affair. An affair with Rel’s own barber.

The Cool Kids - Sept. 28, From executive producer Charlie Day (“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”) and starring Tony Award nominee David Alan Grier (“The Carmichael Show,” “In Living Color”), Emmy Award nominee Martin Mull (“Veep”, “Roseanne”), Emmy Award winner Leslie Jordan (“Will and Grace,” “American Horror Story”) and Emmy Award winner Vicki Lawrence (“Mama’s Family,” “The Carol Burnett Show”), THE COOL KIDS is a multi-camera comedy about a rag-tag group of friends living in a retirement community who are willing to break every rule in order to have fun – because, at their age, what do they really have to lose.

Last Man Standing - Sept. 28, Multi-cam comedy LAST MAN STANDING, starring Tim Allen, comes to FOX. A fan-favorite for six seasons, LAST MAN STANDING stars Allen as MIKE BAXTER, a married father of three girls, who tries to maintain his manliness in a world increasingly dominated by women. Produced by 20th Century Fox Television, the series also stars Nancy Travis, Jonathan Adams, Amanda Fuller, Christoph Sanders and Jordan Masterson.
This post was edited on 10/18/18 at 4:25 pm
Posted by WestCoastAg
Member since Oct 2012
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Posted on 9/12/18 at 11:03 pm to
my vote is REL or happy together
Posted by Lawyered
The Sip
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Posted on 9/12/18 at 11:09 pm to
The cool kids-Friday night death slot.

Doubt it gains any traction
Posted by Paul B Ammer
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Posted on 9/12/18 at 11:10 pm to
The Mayor
Posted by saintsfan22
baton rouge
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Posted on 9/12/18 at 11:32 pm to
The Cool Kids seems off for Fox and Friday night. New Amsterdam is my dark horse.
Posted by WestCoastAg
Member since Oct 2012
145165 posts
Posted on 9/12/18 at 11:34 pm to
yea i can see cool kids. happy together just screams not making it past thanksgiving to me though
Posted by lsuwontonwrap
Member since Aug 2012
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Posted on 9/12/18 at 11:41 pm to
They've been advertising the shite out of those NBC shows, so they aren't going anywhere for a long time. The Rookie sounds like Castle 2.0, so I'm sure it'll get a full season.

Single Parents and God Friended Me sound goofy, so those will be my vote. With Rel not far behind.
Posted by saintsfan22
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Posted on 9/12/18 at 11:46 pm to
Because Rel is on after Sunday football I think it gets bumped around enough that it doesn't get cancelled too early.
Posted by IllegalPete
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Posted on 9/13/18 at 1:58 am to
If you did those blurbs yourself kudos, that was a nice write up.

From that entire list there are only 2 shows that sound worthy of watching. The Nathan Fillion show and the lost plane/time jump show.

Which one will be cancelled first?

The Conners. Nobody wants to watch a PC version of Roseanne about her weirdo kids and gender questioning and teen slut grand kids, that has no Roseanne to talk shite to all of them.
Posted by Sasquatch Smash
Member since Nov 2007
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Posted on 9/13/18 at 7:33 am to
Both "Rel" and "The Neighborhood" look dumb to me.

Curious to see how "The Conners" does after Roseanne got the boot.
Posted by PJinAtl
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Posted on 9/13/18 at 7:34 am to
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Which one will be cancelled first? The Conners. Nobody wants to watch a PC version of Roseanne about her weirdo kids and gender questioning and teen slut grand kids, that has no Roseanne to talk shite to all of them.
I think normally that would be true, but I am wondering if that and the Murphy Brown reboot will hang around because the networks will like the left leaning content.
Posted by SlimCharles140
Member since Dec 2011
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Posted on 9/13/18 at 7:35 am to
NBC and Fox are only premiering 3 shows? Seems like a lot fewer than in the past.
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 9/13/18 at 7:49 am to
I'm going to go with the God Friended Me show
Posted by rich4pres
Knoxville
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Posted on 9/13/18 at 8:25 am to
The Conners
Posted by Hoodoo Man
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Posted on 9/13/18 at 8:48 am to
Rel looks terrible.

Wasn't there already a show called New Amsterdam?
About a vampire or something?
Posted by MasonTiger
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Member since Jan 2005
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Posted on 9/13/18 at 9:06 am to
The “elephant in the room” for that list is The Conners. It’ll hang on early due to curiosity and the network’s stubborn attempt to prove they did the right thing canning Roseanne, but no way it lasts more than a season or two, if that.
Posted by Freauxzen
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Posted on 9/13/18 at 9:10 am to
The Cool Kids or the Neighborhood.
Posted by ProjectP2294
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Member since May 2007
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Posted on 9/13/18 at 9:21 am to
I'm going to give the Neighborhood a shot, though I really doubt it lasts that long. But I like the leads.

God Friended Me should be cancelled based on the title alone.

The new networks comedies seem especially vanilla this year. Hopefully I'll be surprised by something, but I don't see anything with the promise of a Superstore, The Good Place, or Brooklyn 99, which are my favorite of the network sitcoms.

ETA: I am pretty interested in I Feel Bad. Based on the commercials I've seen and what I've read, it has the most potential to appeal to me.
This post was edited on 9/13/18 at 9:23 am
Posted by WestCoastAg
Member since Oct 2012
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Posted on 9/13/18 at 9:40 am to
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God Friended Me should be cancelled based on the title alone.

the fact that dont trust the b got a second season with that name is still amazing
Posted by Scruffy
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Member since Jul 2011
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Posted on 9/13/18 at 9:53 am to
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The Conners - Oct. 16, The Show Formerly Known as “Roseanne” makes its debut, without Roseanne Barr and, most likely, a chunk of its audience.
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God Friended Me - Sept. 30, From Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt’s shared resume as writer-producers — “Gotham,” “Hawaii Five-0,” “CSI: NY” — you wouldn’t expect them to create a feel-good fantasy-mystery about an atheist podcaster who starts getting friend requests from God. (Does God check in from heaven? So many questions.) But here it is, starring Brandon Micheal Hall of “The Mayor” and blessed with Joe Morton as the unbeliever’s pastor father.

One of these two.
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