Well, the television upfronts have finally concluded with NBC, FOX, CBS, ABC and The CW showcasing their new lineups last week in New York City. With some shockers (Whitney renewed!) and many schedule changes (Revenge moves to Sundays! Supernatural moves to Wednesdays! Smash saved for midseason!) I have now compiled together a list of 10 new TV shows that I am looking forward to. I like that broadcast networks are playing more with the cable format of releasing shows year-round, though this means that I will be doing a lot more waiting for anticipated shows to premiere.
1. Arrow (Wednesdays at 8pm on The CW)
Home to the long-running Smallville TV series, The CW is back with another action-packed superhero origin story with DC Comics character Green Arrow. Stephen Amell has proven himself to be a talented rising star after stints on The Vampire Diaries, Private Practice and Hung. And with the always lovable Katie Cassidy in the leading lady role in this series, you can count me in for this on Wednesday nights.
2. Beauty and the Beast (Thursdays at 9pm, The CW)
Kristin Kreuk of Smallville fame returns to television in the classic Disney fairytale with a procedural twist. When the series was in its early development stages, I thought that its premise was laughable. However, after reading the script which is very well written, I am not excited for this show to premiere. Lana Lang, crime solving and a modern day fairytale? Sign me up.
3. 666 Park Avenue (Sundays at 10pm, ABC)
My Sunday nights will be spent entirely with ABC Network starting this fall thanks to Revenge being moved to Sundays at 9pm and 666 Park Avenue airing after it. Starring Vanessa Williams, Terry O'Quinn, Robert Buckley and Dave Annable, this top-notch cast and American Horror Story-like premise has me intrigued.
4. The New Normal (Tuesdays at 9:30pm, NBC)
You know I love Broadway, and The Book of Mormon's leading man Andrew Rannells starring in a Ryan Murphy comedy is all I need to know to jump on this boat.
5. The Following (Mondays at 9pm, FOX)
Kevin Williamson created a television series starring Kevin Bacon hunting down a serial killer. Got all of that? Good. I've come to love all the twisted, dark and riveting storytelling Kevin Williamson is oh so good at, and with a show about a serial killer one can only expect more jaw-dropping twists and turns we normally see on The Vampire Diaries. This was one of the most buzzed about pilots this season, and having Kevin Bacon in the leading role certainly helps.
6. Do No Harm (Post-Football Sundays at 10pm, NBC)
Steven Pasquale stars as a Dr. Jenkyll/Mr. Hyde type doctor in this new NBC medical drama. I like the whole dark alter-ego premise and it is a refreshing new idea mixed with the overdone medical procedural format. Therefore, I am willing to give this series a try. Here's to hoping that it won't be a failure like NBC's Awake was this year.
7. Revolution (Mondays at 10pm, NBC)
Yes, I am rather bitter about NBC withholding the second season of musical drama SMASH until midseason, but at least I'll have this J.J. Abrams and Eric Kripke international thriller to hold me over until 2013. Set in a dystopian world, the series is about our planet with all sources of energy stripped away from it. This show is either going to be really good or a Terra Nova-like disaster, and hopefully it will be the former and not the latter.
8. Nashville (Wednesdays at 10pm, ABC)
Connie Britton can no wrong and she proves it once again in this music-themed ABC drama series. Hayden Pannettiere also stars as a Taylor Swift-like character. I'm not country music's biggest fan but I am all for soapy drama and original music on TV. Add Eric Close and Jonathan Jackson to the supporting cast and you definitely have me on board ABC.
9. The Carrie Diaries (Midseason on Mondays at 9pm, The CW)
Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage team up again after creating hit teen dramas The O.C. and Gossip Girl, this time taking viewers back to the 80's with a familiar face, Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City. A prequel of some sorts, the series is based on the novel by Candace Bushnell and will follow a young Carrie as she discovers her love of New York City for the first time. It looks like a fun and fresh new teen drama that can fill my post-Gossip Girl void after that series comes to an end in December.
10. Last Resort (Thursdays at 8pm, ABC)
The premise looks intense and intriguing, but like Revolution this show can go awfully wrong in the episodes following the pilot, so here's to hoping ABC will do it right by keeping it a 13-episode a season type show rather than dragging it out and making it 22.
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