As the networks are presenting their Fall TV schedules, CBS has announced 5 new series for the 2018-19 season. Check them out below:
Fam (Multi-Camera Comedy)
EP/Writer: Corinne Kingsbury, Bob Kushell
EPs: Aaron Kaplan, Dana Honor; Wendi Trilling
EP/Director: Scott Ellis (pilot only)
Studio: CBS Television Studios/Kapital Entertainment
Logline: A woman’s dreams of an upstanding life with her new fiancé and his upstanding family are dashed when her younger train wreck half-sister comes to live with her to escape their train wreck of a father.
Cast: Nina Dobrev, Tone Bell, Odessa Adlon, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Sheryl Lee Ralph
No family is perfect, especially this #FAM! @ninadobrev, @toneBell and @odessaadlon star in the new #CBS comedy #FAM. pic.twitter.com/pdp87KyfdT
— Fam (@FamCBS) May 14, 2018
God Friended Me (Drama)
EPs/Writers: Steven Lilien & Bryan Wynbrandt
EPs: Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter (Berlanti Productions)
EP/Director: Marcos Siega
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Logline: Questions of faith, existence and science are explored in this humorous, uplifting series about an outspoken atheist whose life is turned upside down when he is “friended” by God on social media. Unwittingly, he becomes an agent of change in the lives and destinies of others around him.
Cast: Brandon Micheal Hall, Violett Beane, Suraj Sharma, Javicia Leslie, Joe Morton
You never know who’s going to send you a friend request. #GodFriendedMe, the new drama series starring @hall_m_brandon and @violettbeane coming to #CBS. pic.twitter.com/CZapV5C1dJ
— God Friended Me (@GodFriendedMe) May 14, 2018
Magnum P.I. (Drama)
EPs/Writers: Peter Lenkov, Eric Guggenheim
EPs: John Davis and John Fox (Davis Entertainment); Danielle Woodrow
EP/Director: Justin Lin (Perfect Storm Entertainment)
Studio: CBS Television Studios/Universal Television
Logline: An update of the classic television series set in Hawaii, Magnum P.I. follows Thomas Magnum, a decorated ex-Navy SEAL who, upon returning home from Afghanistan, repurposes his military skills to become a private investigator.
Cast: Jay Hernandez, Perdita Weeks, Zachary Knighton, Stephen Hill
Thomas Magnum is back on the case! @jay_hernandez stars in #MagnumPI, coming to #CBS. pic.twitter.com/R1aURqMawD
— Magnum P.I. (@MagnumPICBS) May 14, 2018
The Code (Drama)
EP/Showrunner: Craig Sweeny
Writers: Teleplay by Craig Sweeny, story by Craig Sweeny and Craig Turk
EPs: Carl Beverly, Sarah Timberman
EP/Director: Marc Webb
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Logline: The military’s brightest minds take on our country’s toughest challenges—inside the courtroom and out—where each attorney is trained as a prosecutor, a defense lawyer, an investigator—and a Marine.
Cast: Anna Wood, Ato Essandoh, Phillipa Soo, Raffi Barsoumian
The Red Line (Drama)
Co-EPs/Writers: Caitlin Parrish, Erica Weiss
EPs: Ava DuVernay, Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter
Director: Victoria Mahoney
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Logline: After a white cop in Chicago mistakenly shoots and kills a black doctor, we follow three vastly different families that all have connections with the case as the story is told from each perspective.
Cast: Noah Wyle, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Aliyah Royale, Noel Fisher, Michael Patrick Thornton, Vinny Chhibber, Howard Charles, Elizabeth Laidlaw
Three Chicago families’ lives converge in the wake of a mistaken shooting. From acclaimed producers @ava and @GBerlanti comes the powerful story about finding hope in tragedy, #TheRedLine coming to #CBS. pic.twitter.com/TypyIbSEUy
— The Red Line (@TheRedLineCBS) May 14, 2018
These orders are in addition to the previously announced series order for the following:
– Welcome To The Neighborhood, featuring Cedric The Entertainer
– A yet-to-be-titled multi-camera project from Damon Wayans, Jr.
– A revival of Murphy Brown
– The drama FBI, which comes from Law & Order mastermind Dick Wolf
