In advance of NBC’s upfront on Monday, the network on Sunday released trailers for four of the new shows that will premiere this fall.
Overall, NBC picked up seven dramas and four comedies, as well as two variety shows, Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris, and Little Big Shots from Ellen DeGeneres and Steve Harvey. NBC also is turning its sitcom, Undateable, into a live comedy, something that hasn’t been seen in primetime for decades.
Meanwhile, NBC renewed seven other shows: The Blacklist, Chicago Fire, Chicago PD (and that franchise is adding Chicago Med this fall), Grimm, Law & Order: SVU, The Mysteries of Laura and The Night Shift.
Cancelled are A to Z, About a Boy, Allegiance, Bad Judge, Constantine, Marry Me, One Big Happy, State of Affairs and limited series The Slap. Parenthood and Parks and Recreation both ended their runs last season.
Dramas
Blindspot
Blindspot comes from Warner Bros. TV and Berlanti Productions and stars Jaimie Alexander as a woman found naked in Times Square with no memory but a body covered in intricate, brand-new tattoos. Her discovery sets off a complex mystery that the FBI is trying to unravel before it’s too late.
Martin Gero wrote the pilot and will executive produce along with Greg Berlanti. The show is scheduled to air at Mondays at 10 pm ET/PT after The Voice.
Heartbreaker
Inspired by a true story, Australian Melissa George (Gray’s Anatomy, The Slap) stars as a ground-breaking heart surgeon who specializes in heart transplants, a field almost completely dominated by men.
The show, which will air Tuesdays at 9 p.m. after the week’s second hour of The Voice, is produced by Universal Television and also stars Dave Annable, D. L. Hughley and Jamie Kennedy.
The Player
The Player comes from Sony Pictures Television, Davis Entertainment and Kung Fu Monkey and stars Philip Winchester and Wesley Snipes. The drama, which will follow The Blacklist on Thursday nights, comes from the producers of that show. The Player is a thriller based in Las Vegas about a former military operative turned security expert (Winchester) who is drawn into a high-stakes game when an organization of wealthy individuals gamble on his ability to stop some of the biggest crimes imaginable.
Heroes reboot Heroes Reborn, now starring Chuck‘s Zachary Levi, will air on Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT, leading into The Blacklist, creating a night that NBC hopes will woo viewers away from ABC’s powerful TGIT line-up. The Blacklist, starring James Spader (who’s doing a big turn right now as the voice of Ultron in Marvel’s huge movie, The Avengers: Age of Ultron), was down significantly in its second season without The Voice to prop it up.
Comedies
People Are Talking
People Are Talking stars Mark-Paul Gosselar, Tone Bell and Bresha Webb, and comes from the creators of How I Met Your Mother. It will lead out of Undateable on Friday nights at 8:30 p.m. PT/ET. NBC is offering very little in the way of comedy this fall, with only this one hour on little-watched Fridays.
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