Broadcast TV’s fall season is not even a month old, and CBS has already picked up two of their dramas for a full season. They are NCIS: Hawaii and FBI: International.
Is the news a surprise? Not at all. They are franchise shows, so it was a given before they even aired. Unless they take a major turn for the worst, they will also be getting a second season as well.
Personally, I wish CBS’s Ghosts, NBC’s Ordinary Joe, Fox’s The Big Leap, ABC’s The Wonder Years, and The CW’s 4400 got the news first. Now, I just want them to get it.
After 18 months of uncertainty, depression, and craziness, we need something that makes us happy when we watch it every week. We get that with CBS’s Ghosts that airs every Thursday at 9p.
Rose McIver played a Zombie in iZombie, and now she is alive again, living with ghosts in iGhosts. No, I mean, Ghosts.
Anyways, Samantha (McIver) and her husband, Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar), inherit a 300-year-old mansion from a long-lost relative. It is just a little bigger than their NYC 5th floor walk-up. Who am I kidding? It is a sh!tload bigger. It turns out that is a good thing because they won’t be living in it alone. That is because there are several Ghosts who also call it home, including a great-great-great-aunt. I think I got the number of greats right.
Back to the story, Samantha and Jay drive up their new home to see what it looks like and decide if they want to convert it into a bed and breakfast. While he would prefer to stay in the city, she wants to call her family home, home. Who wouldn’t want to claim this mansion as their own, especially because it is free?
Well, there are few people who don’t want them to move in, and that is the current inhabitants because they like their eternal home just the way it is without any mortals walking through them. It hurts when they do that.
Therefore, they come up with a plan to scare the couple out of there. Since they are new to haunting, it doesn’t go too well. Trevor (Asher Grodman), who can move things, knocks a vase over by the steps. Samantha doesn’t see it, trips over it, and falls down the stairs. She doesn’t die, but she comes so close to it that she gets to see the dead.
Who are these dead people she sees? First, there is her great-great-great-aunt, Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky), who is from the 1800s. She is set in her ways and doesn’t want anything to change in her beloved home. Issac (Brandon Scott Jones) is from colonial America, and he thinks he is the leader of the group. He also thinks he is more famous than his arch-nemesis Alexander Hamilton. He wasn’t. Pete is a scout leader from the ’80s who met his fate with an arrow through the neck. He is good at leading this troop of undead. Thorfinn (Richie Moriarty) has been there the longest because he is a Viking and still lives as he did back in his day. The next oldest ghost is Sasappis (Román Zaragoza), who is Native American. Alberta (Danielle Pinnock) is a Jazz singer from the Roaring ’20s, and she believes she was murdered. Unlike Flower (Sheila Carrasco), whose death was too much to bear because she was killed by one in the ’60s. Finally, there is Trevor (Grodman), who is a self-involved stockbroker from the ’90s.
Together they are a family, and now they have two new members, one who is a living and can see them and the other one cannot. While Samantha’s ability is a dream come true for them. It is a nightmare for her.
Will they all be to find a way to live together? We will just have tune in every week to find out.
And you are going to want to tune in because this is a joyful show. You feel happy watching the series because there is an innocence to it. It is not depressing, not angry, it is just sweet.
They are an unlikely family and it works. Mostly because you can tell that all of the actors genuinely like each other. It is obvious they enjoy going to work, and we will enjoy watching them work.
We need more shows like Ghosts, so watch it. I need a break from all the seriousness, and this gives me just that. So check it out because if I have to watch another intense comedy, I will scream. And not because I saw a ghost. I need to put my head on my pillow with a smile on my face, and Ghosts does just that. Who doesn’t want that?
So watch two episodes of Ghosts tonight and tell me about it in the morning!
We are still over two months away from the start of the new season on network television. How do I know that? CBS announced when their old shows will be back and when their new ones will premiere.
Go get your calendars out because you are not going to miss your favorite programs’ premiere dates.
MONDAY, SEPT. 20
8:00-8:30 PM THE NEIGHBORHOOD (4th Season Premiere)
8:30-9:00 PM BOB ♥ ABISHOLA (3rd Season Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM NCIS (NTP) (19th Season Premiere)
10:00-11:00 PM NCIS: HAWAII (SERIES DEBUT)
TUESDAY, SEPT. 21
(Three-episode crossover event)
8:00-9:00 PM FBI (NTP) (4th Season Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM FBI: MOST WANTED (3rd Season Premiere at a special time)
10:00-11:00 PM FBI: INTERNATIONAL (SERIES DEBUT at a special time)
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 22
8:00-10:00 PM SURVIVOR (2-Hour 41st Season Premiere)
TUESDAY, SEPT. 28
8:00-9:00 PM FBI
9:00-10:00 PM FBI: INTERNATIONAL (Regular Time Period)
10:00-11:00 PM FBI: MOST WANTED (Regular Time Period)
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 29
8:00-9:00 PM SURVIVOR (Regular Time Period)
9:00-11:00 PM BIG BROTHER (Live Season Finale)
FRIDAY, OCT. 1
8:00-9:00 PM S.W.A.T. (NTP) (5th Season Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM `13MAGNUM P.I. (4th Season Premiere)
10:00-11:00 PM BLUE BLOODS (12th Season Premiere)
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 6
8:00-9:00 PM SURVIVOR
9:00-10:00 PM TOUGH AS NAILS (NTP) (3rd Season Premiere)
10:00-11:00 PM CSI: VEGAS (SERIES DEBUT)
THURSDAY, OCT. 7
8:00-8:30 PM YOUNG SHELDON (5th Season Premiere)
8:30-9:00 PM UNITED STATES OF AL (2nd Season Premiere)
9:00-9:30 PM GHOSTS (SERIES DEBUT)
9:30-10:00 PM B POSITIVE (2nd Season Premiere)
10:00-11:00 PM BULL (NTP) (6th Season Premiere)
SUNDAY, OCT. 10
8:00-9:00 PM THE EQUALIZER (2nd Season Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM NCIS: LOS ANGELES (13th Season Premiere)
10:00-11:00 PM SEAL TEAM (NTP) (5th Season Premiere)
Mark Harmon is not getting any younger, and you can’t blame him for wanting to spend some time with his wife Pam Dawber instead of filming NCIS. After all, he has been doing the show nonstop since 2003.
Therefore, he signed on to do an 18th season. However, TV Line is reporting that he will only be doing a handful of episodes. When I say handful, a source told them, “It’s going to be in the low single digits.”
His lack of presence on the show is going to be felt big time. So how are they going to handle it? CBS has cast Gary Cole to join the procedural.
I love Cole, two words Office and Space, but this is not the right series for him. Like when Ted Danson and James Van Der Beek joined the CSI franchise. Between his casting and Vanessa Lachey leading NCIS: Hawaii, it is like CBS is ready to move away from NCIS and focus on the FBIs and the new CSI.
CBS is broken, and they are going to try to fix it next season by making a lot of changes to their lineup.
Mondays will start off with The Neighborhood and Bob Hearts Abishola. Then at 9p, they movie NCIS to a new night and time. What? That is a very risky move because it is their #1 rated show, and it might not do well on a new night at a new time.
What could get them to move the show? Or should I say who? Dick Wolf. He has three FBI shows, and they will all air on Tuesday. If CBS was smart, they would have done an all NCIS night. Instead, NCIS and NCIS: Hawaii will air on Monday and NCIS: LA on Sunday.
Wednesday states with Survivor goes to Tough as Nails and ends with the CSI: Vegas. Didn’t Survivor and CSI air on the same night years ago?
Wasn’t that night Thursday? It was and Thursdays this time around include three Chuck Lorre shows. Then at 9p, Rose McIver goes from being a Zombie to being surrounded by Ghosts. The night ends with a lot of Bull. Like it is Bull that show is still on the air. Did CBS not think it through when they put two rumored sex offenders back to back? But that’s what is happening this Fall by scheduling Thomas Middleditch and Michael Weatherly’s shows, one right after the other one.
Anyways, SWAT leads off Fridays, followed by Magnum P.I. and Blue Bloods. Sundays start with The Equalizer and end with NCIS: LA and SEAL Team, which will movie to Paramount+
