The broadcast networks are starting to order all their new shows for the 2018-19 TV season.
New Amsterdam (NBC)
Who’s in it? Ryan Eggold, Freema Agyeman, Janet Montgomery, Jocko Sims, Anupam Kher, Tyler Labine
Who’s making it? David Schulner, Kate Dennis, Peter Horton, Dr. Eric
What’s it about? Dr. Max Goodwin, Bellvue Hospital’s newest medical director, is going to tear shit up (the logline does not say this, but almost!) and fight for what’s right for this overly bureaucratic, underfunded public hospital.
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The Rookie (ABC)
Who’s in it? Nathan Fillion, Melissa O’Neil, Eric Winter, Afton Williamson, Richard T. Jones, Alyssa Diaz, Mercedes Mason, Titus Makin
Who’s making it? Alexi Hawley, Mark Gordon, Nicholas Pepper, Michelle Chapman, Jon Steinberg, Nathan Fillion, Liz Friedlander
What’s it about? John Nolan (Fillion) leaves his small town to move to Los Angeles and join the LAPD — as a fortysomething year-old man. Based on a true story.
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Take Two (ABC)
Who’s in it? Rachel Bilson, Eddie Cibrian, Aliyah O’Brien, Alice Lee
Who’s making it? Andrew Marlowe, Terri Edda Miller, Rola Bauer, Tim Halkin
What’s it about? Rachel Bilson plays Ella, an actor from a successful cop show who’s ended up in rehab, and wants a comeback. She decides her best path to acting success is to shadow a private investigator (Cibrian), and they end up making a great team. This gender-flipped Castle-like show is created by Andrew Marlowe — who created Castle.
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Untitled Goldbergs spinoff (ABC)
Who’s in it? Tim Meadows, Bryan Callen, AJ Michalka
Who’s making it? Marc Firek, Adam F. Goldberg, Doug Robinson
What’s it about? The Goldbergs universe will expand into the 1990s, with ABC spinning off Meadows’ character, Principal Glascott, and moving him forward in time. If this concept sounds familiar, that’s because ABC developed it as a pilot last year, but then didn’t pick it up as a series. (The pilot aired as an episode on this season of The Goldbergs.) Here’s the new take on it.
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FBI (CBS)
Who’s in it? Missy Peregrym, Jeremy Sisto, Zeeko Zaki, Connie Nielsen, Ebonee Noel
Who’s making it? Craig Turk, Dick Wolf, Peter Jankowski, Arthur W. Forney, Niels Arden Oplev
What’s it about? A Dick Wolf drama about the New York office of the FBI. In order to get into the Wolf business, CBS ordered this show straight to series last fall.
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Murphy Brown (CBS)
Who’s in it? Candice Bergen, Faith Ford, Joe Regalbuto, Grant Shaud, Jake McDorman, Nik Dodani
Who’s making it? Diane English, Candice Bergen, Pam Fryman
What’s it about? Here she comes again: This bygone sitcom, which ran from 1988 to 1998, will have a thing or two to say about news and politics.
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Note: During the week of May 14, the broadcast networks — CBS, ABC, NBC, The CW, and Fox — will unveil their new shows and schedules to advertisers at presentations in New York City called the “upfronts.” Leading up to that week, the networks renew some shows and cancel others. There are also shows that aren’t on the normal network cycle (generally because they air in the summer) that have already been renewed. And cable channels and streaming services are not included on this list, because they renew and cancel shows throughout the year. This post will be updated continuously as new shows are picked up.