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 October 1 on CBS.
The Cast: Damon Wayans, Jr., Amber Stevens West, Felix Mallard, Chris Parnell, Stephnie Weir, Victor Williams
The Premise: A settled, suburban, TV-watching, quite ordinary 30-something married couple find their routine upended when a young musician—who is on the verge of major fame in the pop world—moves in with them. Can they keep up and reconnect with their younger, cooler selves?
The Outlook: It doesn't hurt that real-world pop star (and One Direction member) Harry Styles is a producer on the sitcom, and the premise is very loosely based on actual events involving Styles and fellow Happy Together producer Ben Winston, who once shared a house. It also doesn't hurt that Wayans is coming off of a series that lasted seven seasons (New Girl). But there's only so much mileage that the comedy can derive from its odd couple (threeple?) premise. And Happy will be sandwiched between two other newcomers, so it can't expect much of a ratings bump from its timeslot. (And there's this: How many One Direction fans actually watch CBS?)
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