Prodigal Son, Deputy, Two More Dramas Earn Series Orders at Fox
Fox is restocking its drama slate for next season. The network has handed series orders to four new dramas, TVLine has learned: Prodigal Son, Deputy, neXt and an untitled drama from Annie Weisman and Jason Katims.
Prodigal Son stars Walking Dead alum Tom Payne as criminal psychologist Malcolm Bright, who solves crimes for the NYPD by knowing how killers think — because his father is one. Michael Sheen (The Good Fight) plays Malcolm’s dad Dr. Martin Whitly, an infamous serial killer known as “The Surgeon.” Bellamy Young (Scandal), Lou Diamond Phillips (Longmire) and Halston Sage (The Orville) lead the supporting cast. Chris Fedak and Sam Sklaver (Deception) are the creators, with the ubiquitous Greg Berlanti onboard as an executive producer.
Deputy — billed as “a modern cop drama that blends the spirit of a classic Western with a modern-day attitude and gritty authenticity” — stars True Detective‘s Stephen Dorff as fifth-generation lawman Bill Hollister, who becomes the sheriff of Los Angeles County. The supporting cast includes Yara Martinez (Jane the Virgin), Brian Van Holt (Cougar Town), Siena Goines (Grey’s Anatomy) and Bex Taylor-Klaus (Arrow). Castle scribe Will Beall penned the pilot.
neXt stars Mad Men vet John Slattery as a tech pioneer who learns that one of his artificial-intelligence creations might lead to global disaster and “teams up with a cybercrime agent to fight a villain unlike anything we’ve ever seen — one whose greatest weapon against us is ourselves,” per the official synopsis. Fernanda Andrade (Sons of Anarchy), Michael Mosley (Ozark) and Eve Harlow (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) co-star. Manny Coto (24, Dexter) is the creator.
The untitled drama from Annie Weisman (The Path) and Jason Katims (Friday Night Lights, Parenthood) centers on three women who discover they’re sisters when one of them learns the truth about her renowned fertility-doc father. Brittany Snow (the Pitch Perfect movies), Megalyn Echikunwoke (The Following) and Emily Osment (Young & Hungry) star as the sisters, with Weisman serving as creator. Katims will serve as an EP.
Fox has also picked up a pair of comedies: Outmatched, starring Jason Biggs and Maggie Lawson as the parents of three kid geniuses; and Alaska-set animated series The Great North, featuring the voices of Nick Offerman, Jenny Slate and Megan Mullally. For more on what might be headed to primetime next season, check out TVLine’s Pilot Season guide.
Which of Fox’s four new dramas sounds must-watch to you? Share your first impressions on the new slate in a comment below.
I hope Katims show does well. I love those 3 actresses.
The Good Fight rejoice at the possibility of Michael Sheehan leaving that series for “Good”. (I like him, but that character was a big mistake for that show.
I don’t think the character was a mistake for the show. I think the decision to make him such a prominent character was the mistake. It would have been better/tolerable if they’d utilized him as an occasional nuisance.
I liked the character a lot more in this last episode.. but maybe mostly cause Rose Leslie finally had a storyline.
i hope this means Michael Sheen will not be back on season 4 of The f=good fight
That Katims show sounds like the Australian show sisters which had a very similar plot… Hope it does well
That’s because it is a US remake of the show. The Aussie version only ran for one season I think so I can see why they’d rather remake than import.
I believe I read somewhere that it was. A U.S. adaptation of it.
I’m definitely gonna check out Prodigal Son , it sounds the most interesting out of these for me .
I may give neXt and Deputy a shot but nothing else interests me
Deputy could have been interesting if it wasn’t just another LA cop show. There are parts of this country where the Sheriff is about the only “government” recognized by the folks.
Prodigal son… Pro: Berlanti. Con: Sheen. Pro: Sheen won’t be on Good Fight next season?
I’m confused, the title of neXt makes it sound like the X-Men created Ultron.
So a rip-off of the Australian show Sisters, and a fiddled version of the British show Outnumbered.
Sounds about right.
What about FOX-TV’s commitment to sports and other live programming? We all know their schedule is going to be really tight (in fact, tighter than The CW’s) with Thursday Night Football and WWE Smackdown, and it’s going to be difficult for any show, new or returning, to succeed and try to get itself renewed for the 2020-21 season. I guess these six pickups mean “Star” and “The Cool Kids” are dead.
Both Deputy and the Untitled Katims drama show potential.