FALL TV SKED PROMISES MANY VIEWS TO THRILL
Take a quick peek at every new series bound for small screen
The fall TV schedule has everything: firefighters, cops, lawyers. And that’s just CBS.
There’s an anthology series about defendants during their trial, an animated series starring Jon Hamm and a reboot of “Quantum Leap.” There’s something for Mom, something for Dad and something for the college kid stealing Mom and Dad’s cable login.
All week, network TV executives pitched their fall schedules to advertisers, hoping to bring in the money to fund the next “Grey’s Anatomy” or “Law and Order.”
The Daily News attended all the “upfronts” — the events touting new shows — so that you didn’t have to.
Here are all the new scripted shows announced for the 2022-23 broadcast season.
ABC “Alaska”
Logline: A recently disgraced reporter leaves her high-profile New York life behind to join a daily metro newspaper in Anchorage on a journey to find both personal and professional redemption.
Cast: Hilary Swank, Jeff Perry, Matt Malloy, Meredith Holzman, Grace Dove, Pablo Castelblanco, Ami Park and Craig Frank
“Avalon”
Logline: Based on a short story by Michael Connelly, the series centers on L.A. Sheriff’s Department Detective Nicole “Nic” Searcy, who heads a small office on the island that’s home to 4,000 permanent residents and caters to a million tourists every year. Detective Searcy is pulled into a mystery that will challenge everything she knows about herself and the island.
Cast: Not announced
“The Rookie: Feds”
Logline: Simone Clark is the oldest rookie in the FBI Academy. Serves as a spinoff from “The Rookie,” starring Nathan Fillion.
Cast: Niecy Nash-Betts, Frankie Faison and Felix Solis
CBS “East New York”
Logline: Regina Haywood is the newly promoted police captain of East New York, an impoverished, working-class neighborhood at the eastern edge of Brooklyn. She leads a diverse group of officers and detectives, some of whom are reluctant to deploy her creative methods of serving and protecting during the midst of social upheaval and the seeds of gentrification.
Cast: Amanda Warren, Jimmy Smits, Kevin Rankin, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Ruben Santiago Hudson, Richard Kind, Lavel Schley and Olivia Luccardi
“Fire Country”
Logline: Seeking redemption and a shortened prison sentence, young convict Bode Donovan joins a firefighting program that returns him to his small Northern California hometown, where he and other inmates work alongside elite firefighters to extinguish massive blazes across the region.
Cast: Max Thieriot, Billy Burke, Kevin Alejandro, Diane Farr, Jordan Calloway, Stephanie Arcila and Jules Latimer
“So Help Me Todd”
Logline: Despite their opposing personalities, a talented but directionless P.I. who is the black sheep of his family begrudgingly agrees to work as the in-house investigator for his overbearing mother, a successful attorney reeling from the recent dissolution of her marriage.
Cast: Marcia Gay Harden, Skylar Astin, Madeline Wise, Tristen J. Winger, Inga Schlingmann and Rosa Arredondo
FOX “Accused”
Logline: Based on a BAFTA-winning British show created by Jimmy McGovern, the anthology drama opens in a courtroom with a defendant being accused of a crime, then backtracks to reveal how these people got caught up in the extraordinary situations in which they find themselves. Each season will focus on a different crime.
Cast: Michael Chiklis, Rhea Perlman, Abigail Breslin and Whitney Cummings
“Alert”
Logline: When police officer Nikki Parker’s son goes missing, she joins the LAPD’s Missing Person’s Unit to help other people find their loved ones, even as she searches for her own. Six years later, her world is turned upside-down when her ex-husband, Devon Zoellner, shows up with a proof-of-life photo
of their missing boy. Or is it? Cast: Not announced
“Grimsburg”
Logline: Marvin Flute (Hamm) may be the greatest detective ever to catch a cannibal clown or correctly identify a mid-century modern armoire. But there’s one mystery he still can’t crack — his family. Now that he’s back in Grimsburg, a town where everyone has a secret or three, Flute will follow every lead he’s got to redeem himself with the ex-wife he never stopped loving, even if it means hanging out with the son he never got to know.
Voice cast: Jon Hamm
“Krapopolis”
Logline: The animated comedy, set in mythical ancient Greece, centers on a flawed family of humans, gods, and monsters that tries to run one of the world’s first cities without killing each other.
Voice cast: Hannah Waddingham, Richard Ayoade, Matt Berry, Pam Murphy and Duncan Trussell
“Monarch” (holdover from last season) Logline: The Romans are headed by the insanely talented, but tough as nails Queen of Country Music Dottie Cantrell Roman and her beloved husband Albie Roman. Dottie and Albie have created a country music dynasty. But the foundation of their success is a lie. And when their reign as country royalty is put in jeopardy, heir to the crown Nicolette “Nicky” Roman will stop at nothing to protect her family’s legacy, while ensuring her own quest for stardom.
Cast: Susan Sarandon, Trace Adkins, Anna Friel and Beth Ditto
NBC “Lopez vs. Lopez”
Logline: A working-class family comedy about dysfunction, reconnection and all the pain and joy in between.
Cast: George Lopez, Mayan Lopez, Selenis Leyva, Brice Gonzalez, Matt Shively, Laci Mosley and Kiran Deol
“Quantum Leap”
Logline: It’s been 30 years since Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished. Now a new team has been assembled to restart the project in the hopes of understanding the mysteries behind the machine and the man who created it.
Cast: Raymond Lee, Ernie Hudson, Caitlin Bassett, Nanrisa Lee and Mason Alexander Park
THE CW “Family Law”
Logline: Abigail Bianchi is a high-paid personal-injury lawyer who’s good at blaming others — particularly when it comes to her own problems. After Abby’s husband kicks her out of the family home because of her drinking, she goes on a bender, shows up drunk in court and pukes on a client.
Cast: Jewel Staite, Victor Garber, Zach Smadu and Genelle Williams
“Professionals”
Logline: Vincent Corbo is a top-tier security operative who is paid to protect the interests of rich and powerful clients by any means necessary — legal or not. After a next-gen medical-data satellite explodes on launch, Corbo is hired by the rocket’s designer, billionaire futurist Peter Swann who suspects sabotage.
Cast: Tom Welling, Brendan Fraser, Elena Anaya, Jazzara Jaslyn and Ken Duken
“Walker: Independence”
Logline: A “Walker” origin story set in the late 1800s that follows Abby Walker, an affluent Bostonian whose husband is murdered before her eyes while on their journey out West. On her quest for revenge, Abby crosses paths with Hoyt Rawlins, a lovable rogue in search of purpose. Abby and Hoyt’s journey takes them to Independence, Texas, where they encounter diverse, eclectic residents running from their own troubled pasts and chasing their dreams.
Cast: Matt Barr, Katherine McNamara, Justin Johnson, Greg Hovanessian, Philemon Chambers, Lawrence Kao and Katie Findlay
“The Winchesters”
Logline: Before Sam and Dean and “Supernatural,” there was John and Mary. Told from the perspective of narrator Dean Winchester, “The Winchesters” is the epic, untold love story of how John met Mary and how they put it all on the line to not only save their love, but the entire world.
Cast: Jensen Ackles, Nida Khurshid, Jojo Fleites, Meg Donnelly, Drake Rodger and Demetria McKinney