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: The last CW soap from creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, Gossip Girl, was a hit that ran for six seasons. This version of Dynasty has been "modernized"—i.e., made more diverse, and relocated to Atlanta.
Cons: The target audience for this series wasn't even alive when the original Dynasty (arguably the most successful of the '80s primetime soaps) aired, so the new series won't exactly be able to rely on name recognition to build an audience. The network's last reboot of a soap fizzled out after one season. Critics were unimpressed by the pilot—and, confusingly, also divided over whether it was too campy or not campy enough. (Either way, they were unsatisfied.)
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