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Now That’s What I Call Network TV
A promising slate of new dramas counters prestige fatigue with tried-and-true procedural appeal.
It’s not a sudden shift in ambition or scope; this year’s new network-TV dramas still largely comprise comforting hourlong mysteries and medical emergencies that get solved by improbably attractive people. Network: ABC Premise: Kaitlin Olson is a single mom making ends meet by working nights as an overnight cleaner for the LAPD, and she also happens to have a Sherlock Holmes–level brain for patterns, details, and puzzles. What it will remind you of in a good way: The million other network procedurals with the rough premise of “very smart not-cop helps out the cops, using unconventional methods.” E.g., Bones, The Mentalist, NUMB3RS, Elementary, Castle, White Collar, Elsbeth, Monk; does anyone else remember that one where the non-cop was a magician?
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