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silverscreenselect wrote:Powerless (NBC): Vanessa Hudgens as a non-superpowered insurance adjuster who specializes in getting settlements for people suffering damage caused by brawling superheroes (it's based on the DC characters so expect plenty of Superman and Batman name dropping).

silverscreenselect wrote:The official lineups come next week, but here's some more announcements:

Conviction (ABC): Hayley Atwell, formerly Agent Carter, stars as the attorney daughter of an ex-President who goes to work with the Conviction Integrity Unit, a group dedicated to overturning wrongful convictions. Expect these cases to intersect with a storyline about her mother running for the Senate (any similarity to an actual former first family in undoubtedly completely coincidental).

Notorious (ABC): Piper Perabo and Daniel Sunjata star as a cable news producer and criminal defense attorney who get involved in the same high profile cases.

Downward Dog (ABC): Allison Tolman stars as a down-on-her-luck millenial. The show is filmed from the perspective of her dog. The title may be an apt description of the show.

A show formerly titled The Second Fattest Housewife in Westport (ABC)[/ur1]: The title says it all. A cheap version of Mike and Molly.

Still Star Crossed (ABC): A sequel (I kid you not) to Romeo and Juliet, picking up on the lives of the surviving characters. From Shonda Rimes.

Chicago Justice (NBC): From Dick Wolf, another Chicago procedural focusing on the State's Attorney's office with Philip Winchester and Carl Weathers. Expect lots of multi-episode crossovers among the various series.

This Is Us (NBC): Mandy Moore and Milo Ventimiglia in a dramedy about "characters whose life stories intertwine in curious ways." Or at least they intertwine in the three or four episodes before the series gets cancelled.

Powerless (NBC): Vanessa Hudgens as a non-superpowered insurance adjuster who specializes in getting settlements for people suffering damage caused by brawling superheroes (it's based on the DC characters so expect plenty of Superman and Batman name dropping).

Trial & Error (NBC): Described as a comedy featuring a hot shot New York lawyer (Nicholas D'Agosto), who goes to a small Southern town to defend a poetry professor (John Lithgow) accused of murdering his wife.

silverscreenselect wrote:A show formerly titled The Second Fattest Housewife in Westport (ABC): The title says it all. A cheap version of Mike and Molly.

Estonut wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:A show formerly titled The Second Fattest Housewife in Westport (ABC): The title says it all. A cheap version of Mike and Molly.

I don't believe it's possible to get any cheaper than Mike & Molly.

Powerless, if done with wit and humor, could be interesting. --Bob

ghostjmf wrote:Bob78164 says:

Powerless, if done with wit and humor, could be interesting. --Bob

The concept of "Powerless" just sounds awful to me. Could they do it with wit & etc? Dunno if I have the intestines to try a few out.

And while I've been watching all the "Chicago-Something" franchisees so far, the one "Justice" kind of case they had on either "P.D." or "Fire" took the attitude "we are in the Midwest so we can't handle sophisticated legal plotting; we must be Bluntly Midwestern. Its Our Way.". Since this is the same Chicago in which "Good Wife" was set (& since I'm from the Midwest & did not live in American Gothic), I kind of went "who-waa?".
We'll see.

You'll love "Chicago Law" coming next season.

ghostjmf wrote:BJ says:

You'll love "Chicago Law" coming next season.

Who is doing "Chicago Law", since the Wolf franchise on NBC is calling their take "Chicago Justice"?

And if we're talking the same show here, my fear, as stated previously, is that the Chicago franchisees have abandoned a characteristic Wolfian/"Law&Order" intricacy (although SVU, the remaining NYC-set show, hasn't been very intricately plotted for years now) for what they perceive to be less-sophisticated plots appropriate for what they perceive to be a less-sophisticated setting. With "Med" being the one exception, since medical problems can get complicated everywhere, even according to the "Chicago-stuff" plot bible (& real life).

In PD the resolution of most things is to have the head cop take the baddies to his private holding cell & beat them around a little. And Fire seems to be running out of plots beyond the various mix-&-match matchups. One thing that made 3rd Watch, a show I really loved, work was that while it purported to be about all constituents (Police, EMTs, Firefighters) of a particular shift of public employees in NYC, the "Fire" aspect was pretty much left to putting out fires because, well, that's what firefighters do.

I myself am not holding out much hope for "Transit!" if that ever becomes a series set in any large American city. Though with the recent woes (runaway train, anyone?) here in Boston & reported in DC, it actually could be pretty interesting for a few episodes.

Estonut wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:A show formerly titled The Second Fattest Housewife in Westport (ABC): The title says it all. A cheap version of Mike and Molly.

I don't believe it's possible to get any cheaper than Mike & Molly.

tlynn78 wrote:

Estonut wrote:I don't believe it's possible to get any cheaper than Mike & Molly.

Um, have you seen Two Broke Girls?