For pretty much all of the television networks, January isn’t just the start of the new year. More importantly it’s the time to bring more new shows to the viewers.
Most executives are excited about the new shows, but how they feel and what their mindset is really depends on how well their fall TV season went.
All too often the new shows that looked promising didn’t fair too well and this can make the new shows coming on in January all the more important for the executive’s job security and, more importantly, their network’s ratings.
So what shows on NBC aren’t returning?
A couple of the shows such as Will and Grace and The Good Place are ending on their own. New shows Bluff City Law and Sunnyside have been cancelled.
Blindspot had been cancelled, but the network agreed to a final fifth season with only 13 episodes to basically wrap things up.
At the end of the fourth season, Jane/Remi/Alice saw the cabin that held her teammates blow up due to a drone strike ordered by their own government and viewers can’t be left hanging not knowing what became of the gang.
Viewers also need to see the evil Madeline get what she has coming to her.
Maybe Rich Dot Com and Patterson will finally hook up and everyone can stop yelling at their TV’s to ‘Get a room!’
So, with only two of its new shows cancelled, it appears NBC has had a pretty good fall season.
In January of 2020, some of their regular shows will have their season premiere and they are:
January 6, 2020:
America’s
Got Talent: The Champions
Manifest
January 7, 2020:
Ellen’s Game of Games (2-hour season premiere)
As of this date, NBC only has two shows making their series premieres and both of them are scripted TV shows.
January 7, 2020:
Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist
Fast facts:
Genre: Musical/Comedy/Drama
Created by: Austin Winsberg
Cast: Jane Levy as Zoey (Shameless, Suburgatory, Twin Peaks, Castle Rock); Skylar Astin as Max (Pitch Perfect 1 & 2, Ground Floor, Graves, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend); Peter Gallagher as Mitch (Sex, Lies & Videotape, The Player, Malice, The O.C., Togetherness, Covert Affairs, Law & Order: SVU, Grace & Frankie, The Gifted); Alex Newell as Mo (The Glee Project, Glee, Empire); Lauren Graham as Joan (The Pacifier, Bad Santa, Because I Said So, Caroline in the City, Gilmore Girls, Parenthood, NewsRadio); Mary Steenburgen as Maggie (Time After Time, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Philadelphia, Nixon, Elf, Four Christmases, Book Club, Back to the Future, Ink, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Justified); John Clarence Stewart as Simon (Luke Cage); Andrew Leeds (Bones, Cristela).
Premise: Zoey develops psychic abilities after an MRI malfunction that enables her to learn the inner thoughts of people through pop songs.
The Boob Toober review: Let’s face it, scripted musical TV shows haven’t exactly done well.
Anyone remember Cop Rock?
However, this show looks to be fun and with everything going on in the world, this may be a good way to release the stress; to be able to relax a little and maybe even sing along to the songs.
It also has a cast with several members having experience in musical theatre like Steenburgen, Gallagher, Stewart and Newell.
January 10, 2020:
Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for
the Bone Collector
Fast Facts:
Genre: Crime/Thriller
Created by: Jeffrey Deaver author of The Bone Collector (the first in a 13 book series featuring Lincoln Rhyme)
Cast: Russell Hornsby as Lincoln Rhyme (Get Rich or Die Tryin’, Big Fat Liar, Creed II, Gideon’s Crossing, Lincoln Heights, Grimm); Arielle Kebbel as Amelia (Soul Plane, American Pie Presents: Band Camp, Think Like a Man, Gilmore Girls, 90210, The Vampire Diaries, Ballers, Midnight, Texas); Michael Imperioli as Rick Sellitto (Sopranos, The Watchmen, Good Fellas, Dead Presidents, Law & Order, Detroit 1-8-7, Mad Dogs, Hawaii 5-0, Jungle Fever, Lean on Me); Ramses Jimenez as Eric Ortiz (Fear the Walking Dead, The Dark Night); Brooke Lyons as Kate (2 Broke Girls, The Affair, iZombie, The American Mall); Tate Ellington as Felix (Red, Straight Outta Compton, Quantico, The Brave, Shameless).
Premise: Lincoln Rhyme, an NYPD officer who became a paraplegic after being injured on the job, along with rookie NYPD officer Amelia Sachs works to solve cases.
The Boob Toober review: Yes, another cop/crime television show. Although this one is a little different.
Think an ultra-modern Ironside with more of a bite; more attitude, but in a good way.
They rebooted Ironside in 2013 and even brought in Blair Underwood to play the role of Ironside, but that didn’t seem to make a difference.
There were a lot of problems with the new version, but replacing an iconic actor Raymond Burr wasn’t a good idea.
Burr also made it totally believable that he was confined to a wheelchair and Underwood didn’t manage to do that.
Reboots today work for the most part because the studios try to bring back the original characters.
Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector is based on a collection of popular books and there was a movie as well in 1999 which starred Denzel Washington as Lincoln Rhyme and Angelina Jolie as Amelia Donaghy.
In both the book collection and the series Amelia’s last name is Sachs. In the movie it was Donaghy.
Also in the book his caregiver is a man and in the series it’s a woman.
In the book Rhyme is a quadriplegic and in the series he’s a paraplegic.
Although it is unknown whether these changes will have any effect on the series, it may have an effect with the book’s fans.
Viewers also shouldn’t have a problem with someone new playing the lead role as Washington never reprised the character and the movie wasn’t even thought to be Washington’s best work.
As is the case with most TV shows, it’s the characters and their storylines that make the show, but with cop/crime shows it’s also about how riveting the cases are which is what made shows like Law & Order and Criminal Minds so good.
On shows like Hill Street Blues, Adam-12, and NYPD Blue people were more drawn into the characters because that's how they were written; to be more character-driven than storyline-driven.
It will also be interesting to see how watered-down the cases will be since it is on network television as opposed to the graphic cases that were in the book series.
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