THE CW’S 2014/2015 NEW SHOWS

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

DRAMA

The Flash – Tuesdays at 8p 

The CW’s most-anticipated newcomer this year—filling the Tuesday 8p timeslot graciously vacated by ABC’s Agents of SHIELD next season (when that show moves back an hour)—is a spin-off from Arrow and will be one of three DC Comics-based shows on the network next season. (Maybe a name change to The DCW is in order?) After appearing on a few episodes of Arrow last season, Grant Gustin (Glee,90210) stars in The Flash as forensic scientist turned costumed crimefighter Barry Allen, who is the fastest man alive thanks to a freak accident. The cast also includes Jesse L. Martin (Law & Order), Tom Cavanagh (Ed), and John Wesley Shipp, who starred in the title role in CBS’sshort-lived 1990 version of The Flash. Arrow producers Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg (though not Marc Guggenheim) will produce this new show as well, along with Arrow writer Geoff Johns. Expect Arrow‘s Stephen Amell to appear in the first episode.

UPFRONT 2014/2015 – THE CW

The suddenly stable CW has ordered just four new shows for next season: three dramas (including Arrow spinoff The Flash, and Rob Thomas’s iZombie) and one comedy. That’s a low number even by CW standards.

UPFRONT 2014/2015 – NBC

NBC has ordered 5 new dramas (including the DC Comics adaptation Constantine), 7 new comedies (including one from Tina Fey), and 4 “event” series (including a reboot ofHeroes). Only 6 of those newcomers will launch this fall, with the remaining 10 held until midseason. Descriptions for all new shows can be found below.

NBC’s 2014/2015 NEW SHOWS

The 16 first-year series ordered for NBC’s 2014-15 season are detailed below.

DRAMA

Allegiance – Thursdays at 10p (midseason) 

Actually, Allegiance, from writer-director George Nolfi (The Adjustment Bureau), splits the difference between The Americans and Homeland (though, technically, it is an adaptation of the Israeli series The Gordin Cell), as it centers on a CIA agent who discovers that his parents are actually covert Russian spies who are planning a terrorist attack in the United States. Gavin Stenhouse (Person of Interest), Hope Davis (In Treatment), and Scott Cohen (Necessary Roughness) star. The show will launch early next year after Parenthood‘s 13-episode season is over.

CBS’s 2014/2015 NEW SHOWS

 

The 8 first-year series ordered for CBS’s 2014-15 season are detailed below.

DRAMA

Battle Creek – tbd midseason

Detective Russ Agnew (Dean Winters), a good person but tough and gruff, he sees his world rocked by Special Agent Milton Chamberlain (Josh Duhamel), a remarkably pleasant and charismatic person. Milton has decided to open an FBI office in Battle Creek, and chose as her partner Russ; the former can enjoy all the resources of the FBI, while the second directs a police department with almost no funds. In addition, the two have a different vision of life and work; This will arise from different types of interesting situations, but the two have in common, however, the goal of cleaning up the streets of Battle Creek by criminals. Could they work together?

UPFRONT 2014/2015 – CBS

With the luxury of being able to renew the bulk of its primetime schedule, CBS is once again ordering the fewest new scripted series (8) of any major network, though CBS has made far more scheduling changes than it typically does.

The addition of 8 weeks of Thursday Night Football in the early fall has forced CBS to tinker with its scheduling on several nights. Mondays will now feature two (rather than four) comedies, though a four-comedy block will return to Thursdays on October 30th after the eight weeks of football. Rather than take hit The Big Bang Theory off the air for two months, the show will start the season on Mondays (temporarily displacing 2 Broke Girls) before moving back to Thursdays.

FOX 2014/2015 NEW SHOWS

The 12 first-year series ordered for Fox’s 2014-15 season are detailed below.

DRAMA 

Empire – tbd midseason  

Love, war, family, sacrifice, money and music, this could be a  summarize of this series that revolves around the figure of Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard), king of hip hop and CEO of Empire Entertainment. When he discovers he has an illness that will lead to paralysis, it is important that you let your empire in the hands of someone trustworthy, so war is raging between the three children, wife, ex-wife and current girlfriend. They are all ready to put hands over the empire. The show is topped off with a soundtrack composed for the occasion by the king of hip-hop producer Timbaland.

Trailer: http://youtu.be/R03EBywi7Rs

Gotham – Mondays at 8p  

This series will be a prequel to Batman’s story, centering on the origin story of future Gotham City Commissioner James Gordon (Southland‘s Ben McKenzie) in his days as a rookie detective, before he meets the Caped Crusader. Just because there is no Batman doesn’t mean that there won’t be any recognizable characters, however.

Trailer: http://youtu.be/0CdKI82SxoI

UPFRONT 2014/2015 – FOX

 

 

 

 

Fox will launch at least a dozen new titles in 2014-15, with 6 dramas (including Batman prequel Gotham), 4 comedies, a reality show, and a miniseries.

The rapidly fading American Idol will have a significantly decreased presence on the schedule next season, airing around 37 hours in total instead of 56-60. That will likely translate to a reduction to one night a week instead of two, at least after the audition rounds.

The final season of Glee will likely be shorter than the 24 episodes previously announced. The series will also be held back until midseason.

Animation Domination is over … partially. Live action will be heading to Sunday nights this fall, with Brooklyn Nine-Nine and newcomer Mulaney mixed in with Bob’s Burgers, The Simpsons, and Family Guy.

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

UPFRONT 2014/2015 – ABC

 

ABC officially announced 12 new shows for 2014-15, including five comedies, a musical, and six dramas—most notably, a second Marvel series, Agent Carter. Two additional shows (miniseries Astronaut Wives Club and similarly titled but unrelated drama The Club [now called Members Only]) were previously ordered by the network and are presumed to still be in ABC’s plans for next season, though they have so far been omitted from today’s announcements.

Thursdays will be Shonda Rhimes night, with all three hours given over to the producer’s shows. Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal will each shift an hour earlier to make way for her newest drama, How to Get Away With Murder.

The network president Paul Lee said that this new schedule reflects a good mix of stability and boldness, since every day of the week is held up by pillars that will help launch the best new series. In fact, ABC airs many as 7 series that fall within the top 20 of the band 18-49 (more than any other network).