Which of These New Fall TV Shows Will Fail First?
If there is anything we can guarantee about the fall TV season, it's that at least one of the highly promoted network newcomers will fail to catch on with audiences and meet a premature end. Heck, it happens every year.
But which freshman series will be this year's This Is Us, and which will be its Conviction? Below, we have picked out some of the pros and cons facing each of the new broadcast series debuting between September and November
Pros: Star Mark Feuerstein proved he could carry a series with Royal Pains, and here he is playing a character based on himself in a sitcom he co-created with his wife. The show will have The Big Bang Theory as its lead-in for a month. Its premise (grown married man lives in extremely close proximity to his parents and sibling in New York) is similar to that of one of TV's most successful sitcoms, Everybody Loves Raymond.
Cons: The show will quickly lose The Big Bang Theory as its lead-in after a month. Co-stars Linda Lavin and Elliott Gould aren't necessarily household names in the current century (though they may be for CBS's usual demographic). And critics really didn't seem to like the pilot, which they found crass, shrill, and lacking in laughs.
CBS, Mondays at 8:30p starting 10/2
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