ABC’s 2014/2015 NEW SHOWS

The 14 first-year series ordered for ABC’s 2014-15 season are detailed below.

DRAMA

Agent Carter – Tuesdays at 9p (January)

Marvel’s second ABC series has Hayley Atwell reprising her Agent Peggy Carter from the Captain America films as well as a short film that appeared on the Iron Man 3 Blu-ray. It is actually the latter that serves as a stepping-off point for this series, which will find Carter navigating life as a single woman in 1946 while attempting to make the most of her job working for the covert Strategic Scientific Reserve. Agent Carter will air in Agents of SHIELD‘s time slot beginning in January while that show takes a break.

American Crime – Sundays at 9p (midseason)

Created by veteran TV/film writer John Ridley this gritty drama examines the impact of a tragic crime on the residents of racially divided California farm town Modesto, including the victims’ families, potential suspects, and investigators. The ensemble cast features Felicity Huffman (Desperate Housewives), Timothy Hutton (Leverage), Benito Martinez (The Shield), W. Earl Brown (Deadwood), and Penelope Ann Miller. American Crime is expected to take Resurrection‘s Sunday time slot when that show concludes its 15- or 16-episode second season in February.

Trailer: http://youtu.be/Uu2P7ABRLRw

Members Only – tbd midseason

This soap, about the wealthy members of an elite Connecticut country club and the family that runs it, was developed by Susannah Grant with an unlikely collaborator: three-time Oscar-nominated director David O. Russell. Sadly (though perhaps understandably), Russell has since dropped out of the project, which would have been his first for television. Breaking Bad‘s Betsy Brandt, Boris Kodjoe, Callie Hernandez, and Chris Conroy are the cast members announced so far.

Forever – Tuesdays at 10p 

This 13-episode crime procedural focuses on Dr. Henry Morgan (Ioan Gruffudd), an accomplished New York medical examiner. Oh, and did we mention that he’s immortal? Yes, the man who knows so much about death can’t even bother to die, himself. Typical. Alana De La Garza  co-stars as his detective partner, while Judd Hirsch plays his friend, who is the one person who knows the doctor’s secret.

Trailer: http://youtu.be/3LXp8W4wqyU

How to Get Away With Murder – Thursdays at 10p

The new legal thriller stars Viola Davis as a litigator who also works as a law professor at a highly competitive East Coast school. There, she teaches a first-year criminal law class where the students will do anything to get ahead—including doing whatever it takes to help their professor’s high-profile client escape murder charges. Those skills come in especially handy when a few of those students find themselves entangled in their own murder case.

Trailer: http://youtu.be/_AgfEfATfpE

Secrets & Lies – Thursdays at 10p (spring) 

Ryan Phillippe stars as a soon-to-be-divorced family man who, while out for his morning jog in the woods, stumbles across the dead body of his neighbor’s young son. Naturally, he becomes the prime suspect, and he works to track down the real killer to prove his innocence while he and his family are harassed by the community. The series will air on Thursday nights at 10p once How to Get Away With Murder concludes its first season in March.

Trailer: http://youtu.be/R469TYIWJYk

The Whispers – tbd midseason 

This midseason sci-fi drama comes from producer Steven Spielberg and Under the Dome writer Soo Hugh. In The Whispers, humanity is in a race against the clock to save the planet from alien domination after an unseen otherworldly force begins taking over human children and causing them (unwittingly) to turn against their parents.

Trailer: http://youtu.be/6X9vTnb83U4

COMEDY

Black-ish – Wednesdays at 9:30p 

Black-ish finds a successful African-American husband and father wondering if his superficially ideal suburban lifestyle is pulling him too far away from his cultural roots.

Trailer: http://youtu.be/IufXnZ3gSPc

 

 

Cristela – Fridays at 8:30p  

The sitcom was created by and stars comedian Cristela Alonzo (in her first-ever acting gig) as a sixth-year law student who finds her ambitions for a professional career being held in check by her working-class Mexican-American family.

Trailer: http://youtu.be/tI87XTpmpPE

Fresh Off the Boat – tbd midseason  

We are in the 90s and Eddie (Hudson Yang), a 11 year old boy who loves hip-hop, has just moved with his parents (Randall Park, Constance Wu) from Chinatown to Washington on the outskirts of Orlando. The series focuses on the culture shock that the transfer results for this family of immigrants and how this chase the American dream. The series is inspired by the book “Fresh off the Boat” chef Eddie Huang.

Trailer: http://youtu.be/b6iKSTOx1fU

Manhattan Love Story – Tuesdays at 8:30p  

When you’re on a date, have you ever wondered what the other person is thinking? This romantic comedy will reveal all the differences between men and women, through the self-contradictory thoughts and actions of a couple who have just started dating.

Trailer: http://youtu.be/aqrA3G4p9Fc

Selfie – Tuesdays at 8p  

The series will follow the life of Eliza Dooley, a woman obsessed with becoming famous through the use of social media platforms, until she realizes that she needs to actually find people that she can be friends with physically instead of “friend” them online. This prompts Eliza to hire Henry Higenbottam (a modern day version of Henry Higgins), a marketing self-image guru who is left with the task of rebranding Eliza’s image in the hopes to show her that there is more to life out there than just playing Candy Crush Saga with aniPhone and connecting with a Facebook page.

Trailer: http://youtu.be/dQqozmwlE00

MUSICAL 

Galavant – Sundays at 8p and 8:30p (winter) 

Once upon a time there was a hero named Galavant (Joshua Sasse), who had lost the love of his life, Madalena (Mallory Jansen). The girl was a prisoner of the evil King Richard (Timothy Omundson). Today, not without obstacles in his way, our hero is finally ready to get his revenge and regain its happy ending.

Trailer: http://youtu.be/HebCU8X34JE