CRISTELA: Friday 8:30PM on ABC THE FACTS: The Hollywood American Dream: Cristela Alonzo is a Latina comic who wrote (with Kevin Hench) a family comedy pilot script loosely inspired by her own life, about a young woman living with her sister and brother-in-law as she tries to become a lawyer. ABC passed on the […]
SECRETS AND LIES: Midseason TBD on ABC THE FACTS: Another ABC murder soap, this one starring Ryan Phillippe as a man who finds the body of a neighbor’s child in the woods, KaDee Strickland as his wife, and Juliette Lewis as the homicide detective who thinks he’s the killer. It’s based on an Australian […]
MANHATTAN LOVE STORY: Tuesday 8:30PM on ABC THE FACTS: Boy (Jake McDorman) meets girl (Analeigh Tipton), but here’s the gimmick: we hear all of the couple’s hidden thoughts throughout. The series creator is Jeff Lowell, whose sitcom writing/producing career goes back to Cybill and Spin City. WHAT IT’S SAYING: He’s cute, she’s cute, and […]
AMERICAN CRIME: Sunday 9PM Midseason on ABC THE FACTS: John Ridley, this year’s Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar winner for 12 Years A Slave, has written a serialized crime drama very specifically about race, in which a Latino teen is arrested for the murder of the son of Timothy Hutton and Felicity Huffman. WHAT IT’S […]
SELFIE: Tuesday 8PM on ABC THE FACTS: Suburgatory creator Emily Kapnek may have lost one sitcom this week, but she gained a new one, this spin on My Fair Lady. Eliza Dooley (Karen Gillan) is an entirely self-obsessed, social media-magnet narcissist (think a slightly less sociopathic Dahlia from Suburgatory), but when she herself gets […]
FOREVER: Tuesday 10PM on ABC THE FACTS: Dr. Henry Morgan (Ioan Gruffudd) is a brilliant New York medical examiner who can solve any murder. Partly that’s because he has a lot of experience with death, since he himself has (temporarily) died many times–when he falls out a window, is poisoned or hit by a […]
BLACK-ISH: Wednesday 9:30PM on ABC THE FACTS: Anthony Anderson plays the head of an African-American family that lives a prosperous life in a mostly white neighborhood, and he tries to hold onto some part of his culture even though his assimilated kids, wife and father mostly couldn’t care less. The series creator is […]
HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER: Thursday 10PM on ABC THE FACTS: The new wing to the Shonda Rhimes Thursday that’s about to be a cornerstone of the ABC line-up. In case that name wasn’t enough, try this one: Viola Davis, starring as a brilliant, enigmatic criminal defense attorney who teaches a law […]