10 New TV Shows Of Fall 2017 Guaranteed To Succeed
For better or worse, these shows won't be going anywhere anytime soon.
It's right about that time of the year when the networks proudly announce what shows they've ordered for the upcoming season. And while it's easy to get excited about the new crop of television shows, it's important not to put the cart before the horse, because there are tons of interesting plot ideas, but only so many spots on each of the major cable networks.
More often than not, fun and innovative shows meet their demise before they even have an opportunity to cultivate a loyal audience. That's why there's a significant group of viewers who only give a show a chance if it gets past the first season -- they've been hurt too many times before, and they're not going to risk getting emotionally invested in a show that will most likely get cancelled in its first season.
That said, just as there are plenty of shows that are unfairly axed early on, there are others that are virtually guaranteed a long and fruitful life. A subset of these are actually high quality, or happen to have a close relationship to a show that is already successful.
Whatever the reason, these are the television shows that are most likely to be renewed fairly quickly.
10. Good Girls
An NBC single camera crime comedy about a trio of suburban women who decide to hold up a supermarket? Sure, let's do it. One that also happens to star Retta (Parks and Recreation) and Mae Whitman (Parenthood)? Must watch television. There are a lot of reasons that this show should succeed, but they're all sort of loosely related to feminism. It isn't often that you get to see comedies that focus on women, or crime shows that focus on women, or tv shows in general that are created by women, and Good Girls happens to be all three.
Retta and Mae Whitman have both been proven to have serious comedic abilities, so there's no reason why this shouldn't be pretty hilarious. As it stands, it looks like Good Girls should help provide a good counterbalance to some of the more melodramatic elements of NBC's lineup, including perennial tearjerker This is Us. Another good sign for this show is that it got picked up by NBC, a network with a history of allowing comedies the time they need to find their audience, as seen with shows like Parks and Recreation and Trial & Error.