New Shows Coming to Network Television Include NCIS Spinoff
By Movieguide® Contributor
With the phasing out of pilot episodes, networks are now ordering series before the public gets a taste. Here are the new shows expected to join TV this fall.
CBS is expected to add to its already strong lineup with three new dramas. NCIS will see another spinoff with NCIS: ORIGINS exploring Gibbs’ beginning in the agency. MATLOCK is receiving a reboot as Madison Matlock returns to a prestigious law firm. To round it off, the network will dip into the medical field through WATSON, which will pick up one year after the death of Sherlock Holmes.
The network will also add two comedies: a YOUNG SHELDON spinoff featuring Georgie and Maddie and POPPA’s HOUSE, starring Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr. The network also appears to be continuing to search for new shows to add to its lineup.
“My goal is to open one to two more rooms by spring into summer at some point, it depends on if we have the right projects and we feel good about them,” CBS Entertainment President Amy Reisenbach told Deadline earlier this year.
“I’m not committed to that now, but hopefully we will be able to get another room or two up and running and targeted for more long-term as well as continuously doing more normal development,” she added.
Other shows from CBS currently in early development include medical drama THE PACT and FIRE COUNTRY spinoff, SHERIFF COUNTRY.
Fox has two shows ready to leave the pipeline: GOING DUTCH, a single-camera comedy from Denis Leary, Jack Leary and Joel Church-Cooper and STATE PATROL, a drama from BURN NOTICE creator Matt Nix. These shows are expected to join two new shows already confirmed for this fall; John Wells-produced RESCUE HI-SURF and medical drama DOC, starring Molly Parker.
The network also appears ready to pull the trigger on another comedy series, 10% HAPPIER, starring Ken Jeong. Other series in development by Fox include a BAYWATCH reboot and an animated FLINTSTONES reboot, BEDROCK.
NBC has a smaller lineup of newcomers, with only three new shows ordered to series: medical drama BRILLIANT MINDS, starring Zachary Quinto, comedy ST. DENIS MEDICAL, starring Wendi McLendon-Covey, and THE HUNTING PARTY, a high-concept crime procedural.
Bucking the industry trend, the network also ordered three pilot episodes which could be picked up for a full series depending on their engagement. The first pilot was for SUITS L.A., a spinoff from the legal drama made popular by Netflix last year. Next is GROSSE POINT, a drama currently in casting. Finally, the comedy HAPPY’S PLACE, starring Reba McEntire, is the only multi-camera show sitcom currently looking to be picked up by the network.
Finally, ABC has two shows slated for the fall, procedural drama HIGH POTENTIAL, starring Kaitlin Olson, and medical drama DR. ODYSSEY, starring Joshua Jackson and Don Johnson. These shows will fill in for THE GOOD DOCTOR and STATION 19, both of which are ending this spring.
ABC also ordered two multi-camera comedy pilots: FORGIVE & FORGET, starring Ty Burrell, and SHIFTING GEARS, starring Tim Allen and co-led by Kat Dennings.
Despite the addition of numerous new shows, cable continues to struggle in the fight with streaming as more U.S. households continue to cut cords. However, if some of these shows can land a large audience, they may serve as a stronghold against further drops in cable subscribers.
Movieguide® previously reported:
A new report is looking into what “killed” Peak TV, from an excess of content to last year’s WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
According to Variety, there has been a “dramatic dropoff” in the production of scripted TV shows: “Peak TV, after a decade-long run, is dead.”
The report pointed to the strikes, Warner Bros. Discovery’s commitment to pulling any projects that weren’t immediately lucrative and the fact that networks and streamers were producing way too much content—the average viewer couldn’t keep up.
Variety revealed that production on TV shows was already declining before last year’s strikes began, with “shoot days in Los Angeles…down year-over-year in the last three quarters of 2022.”
They also found that “the number of original series on cable had already plummeted 40% from its all-time high a decade ago.”
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