By Damian Holbrook
Cheers to NBC for trying comedy. Again. They have a terrible track record with launching comedies, but with promising projects like Great News from Tracey Wigfield and Tina Fey, the true-crime mockumentary Trial & Error and The Good Place, starring Kristen Bell as a horrible woman who winds up in heaven due to a clerical error, the Peacock hopes to finally make us laugh with them, not at them.
Cheers to a Pitch perfect trailer. Fox’s baseball tale about the Major League’s first female player (Kylie Bunbury) hits a triple play of female empowerment, family drama and male-skewing world of pro sports that, if done correctly, could fill the stands with fans of all demos for the net.
Jeers to CBS for playing it safe. Why go with Drew, the well-tested and welcomely diverse spin on Nancy Drew with Sarah Shahi as the classic gumshoe when you can pack your slate with canned laugh tracks, white male-led shows with occasional pops of color in supporting roles and remakes of Training Day and MacGyver that nobody asked for?
Jeers to The CW for making us wait for Riverdale. The edgy adaptation of the Archie Comics world has a hot cast, a cool concept (sex and murder amongst the iconically clean-cut teens?!) and, unfortunately, a mid-season slot. Apparently, Jughead got a job in the scheduling department.
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