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 16 on ABC.
The Cast: Michael Cudlitz, Mary McCormack, Sam Straley, Caleb Foote
The Premise: An ensemble comedy that follows a large Irish-Catholic family with a mom, dad, and eight sons living together under one roof in the 1970s.
The Outlook: Kids was originally going to have a new season of TV's highest-rated show, Roseanne, as its lead-in, a gift that any new show would welcome. But with that sitcom scrapped and replaced by The Conners, that relatively huge lead-in audience could be gone.
But it might not matter. Kids appears to have one of the best pilots of any new show this season, and if there's any network that knows how to develop a period family comedy, it's ABC, which has found success in recent years with The Goldbergs (set in the 1980s) and Fresh off the Boat (the '90s).
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