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NBC adds five dramas, three comedies

Manifest has the Monday 22.00 slot this fall on NBC

UPFRONTS: US broadcaster NBC has unveiled five new dramas and three comedies for next season, with dramas Manifest and New Amsterdam among the stand-out series headlining the fall schedule.

Produced by Warner Bros Television and Compari Entertainment, Manifest is a mystery thriller that follows the passengers and crew on a flight who, upon landing, discover that the world has moved on five years with them all presumed dead.

It is written and exec produced by Jeff Rake (The Mysteries of Laura), with Back To The Future director Robert Zemeckis and David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada) also exec producing. Manifest has been given the post-Voice slot at 22.00 on Monday nights.

Filling the Tuesday 22.00 slot, leading out of hit This Is Us, medical drama New Amsterdam is inspired by Bellevue, the oldest public hospital in America. The show is from Universal Television, Pico Creek Productions and Mount Moriah.

It stars The Blacklist’s Ryan Eggold as the institution’s newest medical director, who sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide the best service. David Schulner (Emerald City) writes and exec produces alongside Peter Horton (Grey’s Anatomy) and Kate Dennis (The Handmaid’s Tale).

Other new shows joining NBC’s immediate schedule include comedy I Feel Bad, from writer/creator Aseem Batra and executive producer Amy Poehler, in the Thursday 21.30 slot.

Produced by Universal Television, Paper Kite Productions, CannyLads Productions and 3 Arts Entertainment, the show follows the travails of a woman trying to be the perfect mother, boss, friend, wife and daughter.

New series joining the NBC line-up midseason are spy thriller The Enemy Within, supernatural drama The InBetween and The Village, a familial series set in a Brooklyn apartment. Comedy Abby’s is also set to join midseason, along with recent pick-up from Fox, Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

Returning series to complement the new shows include scripted series: A.P. Bio, The Blacklist, Will & Grace Blindspot, Good Girls, Law & Order: SVU, The Good Place, Superstore, This Is Us and Midnight, Texas.

NBC said it has yet to make a decision on thriller Timeless and comedy Champions.

In addition, veteran producer Dick Wolf is taking over Wednesday evenings, with his procedurals Chicago Med, Chicago Fire and Chicago PD filling the 20.00 to 23.00 slots.

On the unscripted side, formats The Voice, The Wall, America’s Got Talent and World of Dance return, along with Ellen’s Game of Games and Dateline NBC. Also arriving in the future are competition series America’s Got Talent: The Champions and The Titan Games.

Robert Greenblatt, chairman of NBC entertainment said the network’s “strength and stability” coming into the new season meant he was feeling “bullish” about the new shows joining the established series in the schedule, which he said were proof that NBC was “putting our talent and our money where our mouth is.”

NBC fall 2018/19 schedule (new shows in caps)

MONDAY
20.00-22.00 The Voice
22.00-23.00 MANIFEST

TUESDAY
20.00-21.00 The Voice
21.00-22.00 This Is Us
22.00-23.00 New Amsterdam

WEDNESDAY
20.00-21.00 Chicago Med
21.00-22.00 Chicago Fire
22.00-23.00 Chicago PD

THURSDAY
20.00-20.30 Superstore
20.30-21.00 The Good Place
21.00-21.30 Will & Grace
21.30-22.00 I FEEL BAD
22.00-23.00 Law & Order: SVU

FRIDAY
20.00-21.00 Blindspot
21.00-22.00 Midnight, Texas
22.00-23.00 Dateline NBC

SATURDAY
20.00-22.00 Dateline Saturday Night Mystery
22.00-23.00 Saturday Night Live

SUNDAY
19.00-20.20 Football Night in America
20.20-23.00 NBC Sunday Night Football

Midseason: The Enemy Within, The InBetween, The Village, Abby’s, Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

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