Thursday Threesome: Three Fall Television Debuts I'm Excited About (That Aren't Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)

With Continuum done until spring, and Bunheads cancelled unceremoniously, there's a few gaps in my fall television schedule to fill. Obviously, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is at the top of my list, but I've honestly been less than impressed by the fall slate. This doesn't mean there aren't a few shows coming up that I'm fairly excited about, though:

One of my favorite books is About a Boy, by one of my favorite authors, Nick Hornby. It was made into a pretty solid movie starring Hugh Grant some time ago, and there is apparently an American version happening this television year. Picked up as a replacement for whatever ends up failing early on, it will star David Walton (best known as one of Jess's love interests on New Girl or as part of the short-lived Perfect Couples and Bent) and comes from the producing team behind the always-great Parenthood and the highly-regarded Friday Night Lights. I have extremely high hopes for this across the board.


I mean, listen. I know Andy Samberg is the opposite of highbrow. I know post-Saturday Night Live projects can be very questionable. But the cast on this is great, and the premise tickles my fancy, so a weird humorous cop show can quite possibly do it for me. Brooklyn Nine-Nine's one flaw is that it might be too much "Wacky Andy Samberg" early on, but even New Girl recovered fast. I'm thinking good things for this one.


There's a lot that seems wrong about this show on the surface. Robin Williams hasn't been cool for a long time. It's been ten years since Sarah Michelle Gellar did anything significant worth watching, and that assumes you liked the last few seasons of Buffy. Kelly Clarkson is prominent in the trailer.

I look at it this way: this is a stellar cast, including vets from Mad Men and The Newsroom, and, while Sarah Michelle Gellar probably needs something, you know Robin Williams doesn't, and I assume he wouldn't take a project that was an epic train wreck. Maybe we'll see, but for now, I'm willing to give anything a shot that gives me a few chuckles in a two minute preview.

What else are people looking ahead toward.