Which of These New Fall TV Shows Will Fail First?
We're going to go out on a limb and predict that not every new television series this season will be a success. While recent years have brought new ratings hits in the form of This Is Us, The Good Doctor, and Young Sheldon, there have also been plenty of failures. At some point in the coming months, one show will be the first to go.
Which newcomer will be the first cancellation victim of the 2018-19 season? In the gallery above, we discuss the outlook for each of the 18 first-year shows headed to the five broadcast networks this fall. Note that this year (unlike in past years) we don't have quotes from critics' first impressions of the new fall pilots, since several networks have issued new guidelines to reviewers prohibiting such early reviews over the summer. (But over the past week several reviewers have started posting their evaluations of all the new fall shows, so we have summarized those where applicable.)
Debuts September 25 on NBC.
The Cast: Ryan Eggold, Janet Montgomery, Tyler Labine, Freema Agyeman, Jocko Sims, Anupam Kher
The Premise: Doctors treat patients at New York's (and the country's) oldest public hospital, a setting inspired by the real-world Bellevue (and physician Eric Manheimer's memoir Twelve Patients).
The Outlook: How many medical procedurals are too many? Several networks will each have two airing this fall: Chicago Med is NBC's other one, ABC's pair is The Good Doctor and Grey's Anatomy, and Fox has The Resident and, in part, 9-1-1. Will anything separate this newcomer from that competition? There seems to be little that's distinctive about New Amsterdam—aside, perhaps, from a terrible title—so NBC will have to hope that viewers have an endless appetite for the genre.
That said, Amsterdam would appear to have two things in its favor. One is its star, Ryan Eggold, who plays the hospital's new medical director and is coming off a long run on NBC hit The Blacklist (though Eggold-starring spinoff The Blacklist: Redemption lasted just eight episodes). The second is its timeslot: the post-This Is Us hour, where fellow medical drama Chicago Med performed well last season.
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