TV executives are preparing for the summer and fall TV seasons and signing new TV shows. Here’s a list of upcoming shows to watch for.
ABC
From the same creator of Friends comes a comedy about sisters. Scoundrels, from Shana Goldberg-Meehan, is about two sisters in different kinds of romantic relationships. Jennifer Finnigan plays the sister in a long-term but unmarried relationship and Joanna Garcia plays the other sister, who gets pregnant and marries the baby-daddy.
CBS
An untitled Criminal Minds spinoff is set to be introduced during an episode of Criminal Minds this spring. Starring Michael Kelly and Forest Whitaker, the series centers around a group of profilers working outside the FBI bureaucracy.
A new comedy is set to premiere on CBS called True Love. Written by Scrubs’ Matt Tarses, the story is about four friends in New York, looking for love. Minka Kelly is set to play one of the friends, Kate, a “sweet but strong-willed romantic”.
NBC
Jerry Bruckheimer is set to bring a new show to NBC called Chase. Starring Rose Rollings, it revolves around a “high-priority fugitive-apprehension team in South Texas”. Rollings will be playing the group’s weapons and tactical specialist.
FOX
Bret Harrison will be starring in a new comedy produced by Adam Goldberg. Directed by Seth Gordon, it stars twenty-something computer geniuses, cracking computer security systems.
ABC
A new comedy called Awkward Situations For Men is set to premiere on ABC. Starring Danny Wallace and Laura Prepon, Wallace moves to the US and gets in trouble with the Americans because of his British habits.
Shonda Rhimes brings another medical drama to ABC. Off The Map stars Enrique Marciano, as one of three doctors who leaves the States to work in an isolated tropical clinic. Marciano will play a plastic surgeon.
Another comedy, written by Mad TV’s Stephanie Weir, called Wright vs Wrong, was signed by ABC. No news yet on the cast.
CW
Two reality shows are set to debut on the CW: Fly Girls and High Society. Fly Girls follows the lives of five Virgin American flight attendants. High Society follows the lives of New York socialite Tinsley Mortimer and her friends. Both shows are set to premiere this March on the CW.
Syfy
Syfy has signed a new supernatural drama series called Haven. It stars Emily Rose as an FBI agent who arrives in Haven, Maine, to solve the murder of a local ex-con and discovers a refuge for people with supernatural powers.
Are you excited to watch these shows?
