Due to a real-life medical crisis, medical dramas like New Amsterdam, The Resident, Chicago Med, and Grey’s Anatomy are delayed indefinitely. However, NBC knows we need one, so they transplanted one from Canada. Tonight at 10p, get to know Transplant.
Dr. Bashir “Bash” Hamed (Hamza Haq) is from Syria, and he moved to Canada to make a better life for him and his 11-year-old sister (Sirena Gulamgaus). He interviewed for a job at York Memorial. Since he needs money, he is working as a restaurant.
One night, Dr. Jed Bishop (John Hannah), the man that interviewed him York, comes into that restaurant. Just as Bash is going to confront him, a truck crashes into the dinner. Bash is OK, but everyone is severely injured including Bishop. Bash drills a hole into the doctor’s head to save his sight. That is just one of the people that he examined after the accident.
When they get to the hospital, everyone thinks that an unconscious Bishop worked on everyone, and they think that Bash is behind the accident. However, when Dr. Magalie “Mags” LeBlanc (Laurence Leboeuf) examines him, she realizes that Bash worked on all of the patients. Not before he is on the run because the cops are after him.
After Bishop wakes up, everything falls into place, and the truth is revealed. Bishop also decides to hire Bash as one of his doctors. Something that is easier said than done because Syria does not want to release his school records. Putting everyone, including the hospital, at risk.
Yet, Bash is a good doctor who is good at saving lives. Although, he has to tone his expertise because he has to learn how they do things in Canada.
As he learns the Canadian way, we learn what he and his sister went through in Syria.
Besides all of that, it is still a medical drama. It not only gives us our fix, but it also gives us an hour of enjoyable television.
As much as I enjoy our medical dramas, I think Canadian ones are sometimes better. This is one of the ones that is better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6It2wUgc58
Today is August 28th or 8/28. 8-2-8 is the same number of the flight that the characters took on Manifest. Since it is the Sci-Fi drama’s holiday, NBC is celebrating by letting Executive Producer Jeff Rake reveals spoilers about season three and more Easter eggs.
What can we expect in 2021? We will see a long lost character return. Who do you think it is? A new passenger will make their debut in the season premiere. That episode takes place three months after the shocking season finale. What happens if someone uses the callings for bad and not good?
Rake also tells us if the Major is Michaela from the future. The EP also talks about the past. As in, he tells us things we might have missed during season two. I know I missed a few of his reveals. Did you catch them all?
There is so much information that video for fans of the series, I can’t believe it was less than three minutes. My mind exploded like the plane at the end of the pilot episode. Boom!
NBC is the first network to announce when some of our favorite scripted shows will be back. However, we will have to wait until October 22nd for the first one to premiere. That honor goes to Superstore, where we will say goodbye to America Ferrera. Then in November, we will get This Is Us, One Chicago, Law & Order: SVU, and The Blacklist.
We will have to wait until 2021 for Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Good Girls, Making It, Manifest, New Amsterdam, and Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist. Plus, new series Kenan, Law & Order: Organized Crime, Mr. Mayor, That’s My Jam, Small Fortune, True Story, Who Do You Think You Are? and Young Rock.
OCTOBER
“Connecting …” (Thursday, 10/1, 8:30-9 p.m.)
“Ellen’s Game of Games” (Tuesday, 10/6, 8-10 p.m., then shifting to 9-10 p.m. on 10/13)
“The Voice” (Monday, 10/19, 8-10 p.m., Tuesday, 10/20, 8-10 p.m. then switches to 8-9 p.m. on 10/27)
“Superstore” (Thursday, 10/22, 8-8:30 p.m.)
NOVEMBER
“This Is Us” (Tuesday, 11/10, 9-11 p.m.; returns to 9-10 p.m. on 11/17)
“Chicago Med” (Wednesday, 11/11, 8-9 p.m.)
“Chicago Fire” (Wednesday, 11/11, 9-10 p.m.)
“Chicago P.D.” (Wednesday, 11/11, 10-11 p.m.)
“Law & Order: SVU” (Thursday, 11/12, 9-10 p.m.)
“The Blacklist” (Friday, 11/13, 8-9 p.m.)
Last month, NBC was supposed to announce its fall schedule. However, the coronavirus put a wrench in their plans. Now that production is starting up, the network is finally ready to show us what we are going to watch and when to in a few months.
Like all of the other broadcast networks, they are playing it safe. They are only changing up one night and it is Thursday. Gone is a two-hour block of comedies. Instead, it is going to be two hours of Law & Order: SVU. The mothership and its spinoff with Chris Meloni called Law & Order: Organized Crime.
The only other change is The Voice is bringing back Gwen Stefani instead of Nick Jonas. How nauseating it is to have the No Doubt singer and her boyfriend Blake Shelton on the show again. Couldn’t they find anyone else?
As you can see the schedule is pretty safe:
MONDAY
8-10 P.M. — The Voice
10-11 P.M. — Manifest*
TUESDAY
8-9 P.M. — The Voice
9-10 P.M. — This Is Us*
10-11 P.M. — New Amsterdam*
WEDNESDAY
8-9 P.M. — Chicago Med*
9-10 P.M. — Chicago Fire*
10-11 P.M. — Chicago P.D.*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnd96tYhxZ8
Believe it or not, the networks are still fine-tuning their 2020-2021 lineups. They have been able to delay their decisions because the coronavirus pandemic threw everything up in the air. However, NBC and ABC decided to let several shows know if they will be on the lineup when there is one.
Over at ABC, For Life did not get the chair. However, The Baker and The Beauty’s goose was cooked. At least the couple had their happy ending before the network decided the sweet show didn’t deserve a second season.
NBC is OK with letting the passengers of Flight 828 not knowing their fates for another season. That is because the show, about a plane that lands five years later with all the passengers looking the same as they did the day they took off, has more stories to tell. Sadly for Indebted, Sunnyside, Bluff City Law, their stories are all done.
What do you think about the network’s choices? I was really hoping we would have gotten more from Sunnyside and The Baker and the Beauty. Hey ABC, some words of advice, stop picking up share ows about Latinx families in Miami, that are really enjoyable, if you just going to make them one and done. I don’t want to get attched again.
