CBS offers first look at drama foursome

UPFRONTS: The CBS network has unveiled trailers for four of its new drama offerings for next season, namely fall series All Rise and Evil and midseason’s Tommy and FBI: Most Wanted.

All Rise is a courtroom drama that follows the lives of judges, prosecutors and public defenders, as they work to get justice for the people of LA. It launches this fall on Mondays at 21.00 on CBS and on CBS All Access.

Simone Missick (Luke Cage) stars in this Warner Bros TV production. Greg Spottiswood, Len Goldstein and Emmy winner Michael M Robin are executive producers. Robin directed the pilot from a script by Spottiswood.

Evil is described by CBS as “a psychological mystery that examines the origins of evil along the dividing line between science and religion.” It will air from this fall on Thursday at 22.00.

Michelle King, Robert King and Liz Glotzer are executive producers for CBS Television Studios. Robert King directed the pilot. Katja Herbers, Mike Colter and Aasif Mandvi star.

Midseason cop drama Tommy stars multiple Emmy winner Edie Falco (The Sopranos, Nurse Jackie) as a former NYPD officer who becomes the first female chief of police for Los Angeles. 

Paul Attanasio (Bull, House MD), Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey and Kate Dennis (pilot only) are executive producers for CBS Television Studios. Kate Dennis directed the pilot from a script by Attanasio.

Emmy winner Dick Wolf and the team behind FBI and the Law & Order franchise are now producing FBI: Most Wanted, described by CBS as “a high-stakes drama that focuses on the Fugitive Task Force, which relentlessly tracks and captures the notorious criminals on the Bureau’s Most Wanted list.”

Wolf, René Balcer, Arthur W Forney and Peter Jankowski are executive producers for Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television in association with CBS Television Studios. Fred Berner directed the pilot from a script by Balcer.