2019-2020年哪些美剧要上演？哪些被撤？

上周一，电视台年度先期介绍已经开始，延续了各大台用最新剧集争夺广告费让麦迪逊大街挑到眼花的传统。各大电视台均为2019-2020年的播出季排定了阵容，不管是新节目还是续订的老剧集，都有一些熟悉的模式。

首先，《超级少女》和《闪电侠》等电视剧仍然高歌猛进，新剧《蝙蝠女侠》也会加入。看起来电视上总有律政剧的空间。两周前，美国广播公司（ABC）的《护法为民》和福克斯（Fox）的《无罪证明》以及其他几部法律剧被砍掉，但也有新剧上马，包括哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）的《全体起立》，讲述法官、检察官和公设辩护人的忙乱生活，以及美国国家广播公司（NBC）的《布拉夫法律》，内容关于孟菲斯一位律师与精英律所头头（也是她父亲）经历关系起伏之后如何闯出自己的一片天地。

我们还注意到即将到来的电视季出现了其他一些模式：

哪里都有伯兰蒂

极成功的执行制片人格里格·伯兰蒂喜欢比喻说，赢得吃馅饼比赛的奖品结果是更多馅饼。好吧，现在他可以买下好莱坞和温哥华所有的馅饼了，两地都将播放他的作品。伯兰蒂以指导长期热门剧CW电视台的《绿箭侠》和NBC的《盲点》，还有CBS的限制剧集《红线》闻名，本季他跟合作制片人莎拉·谢赫特一共有18部剧播出。这也超过了两人在2018-19年电视季的14部剧集记录。18部剧中包括新剧，如CW电视台的漫画改编版《蝙蝠女侠》和《凯蒂·基恩》，还有汤姆·佩恩、迈克·辛和贝拉米·扬主演的福克斯新剧《浪子回头》，内容关于一个连环杀手的孩子。

翻拍和衍生剧仍然盛行

不要被CBS取消重拍《墨菲布朗》，还有福克斯问题频出的改编剧《致命武器》骗了。各大电视台都发现重新利用熟悉的话题和人物仍然有市场。ABC将续订《康纳一家》，只是不再有跟罗西妮·巴尔相关的内容，也将重拍长期播出的喜剧《戈德堡一家》及续集《校园时代》。而CBS也在研究拍新版《百战天龙》和《夏威夷神探》。

ABC也订了《融和不容易》，也是其家庭喜剧有时偏正喜剧的《喜新不厌旧》前传，主要关于特雷西·埃利斯·罗斯饰演的女主人瑞宝·约翰逊。（另一部衍生剧《成长不容易》很快将在姊妹电视台Freeform播出第三季。）CW电视台将播出一部更尖锐，更类似《美眉校探》的重拍版《神坛南茜》，把主角年纪变大了些，成了为调查谋杀疑案推迟上学的大学新生。《绯闻女孩》的编剧乔什·施瓦兹和丝黛芬妮·萨维奇担纲执行制片人，所以剧中应该有不少诙谐的戏谑，以前曾饰演南茜的帕梅拉·苏·马丁也将客串。

福克斯还订购了由罗伯·劳主演的《紧急呼救》衍生剧，叫《紧急呼救：孤星》（如果从片名看不出线索，提示一下，故事背景在奥斯汀）。ABC大肆宣传的《纽约重案组》续集怎样了？之前主角西波维茨儿子的故事正在“修改”。

够了……

NBC续订了催泪剧《我们这一天》三季，意味着至少要等到2022年春天才能了解皮尔逊家族成员和伙伴们的各种背景（或许还能知道狗狗Audio的身世）。

虽然NBC证明了家庭剧可以火，但并不是每家电视台都感兴趣。CBS关于洛杉矶地区一个大家庭的系列剧《生活点滴》经历了不算太惨的四季之后，今年宣告结束（值得注意的是，该剧在《我们这一天》前一年开播）。CBS还订购了喜剧《超简单爱情故事》系列，通过采访和各种小插曲讲述一对不太般配的情侣故事。

热点话题：移民

移民对电视剧来并不算新素材；CW电视台的《处女情缘》和Netflix的《活在当下》只是最近两部涉及移民问题的剧。但是，唐纳德·特朗普总统关于边界墙的讲话，国际上围绕英国脱欧的辩论，以及委内瑞拉移民危机，都是很受关注的争议性话题，电视剧创作者自然·放过。今年新剧有CBS推出的喜剧《鲍勃心动》，主创包括《生活大爆炸》编剧查克·罗瑞，内容是一位中年男子爱上了尼日利亚移民护士，还有NBC的《晨边社区》，主演卡尔·潘担任议员时曾经帮助移民留在美国。

音乐剧新动作

今年春天，CW电视台的《疯狂前女友》播出四年后结束，而NBC的《名声大噪》仍以不太自然的致敬闻名。所以，电视台已经意识到音乐剧也可能有忠实观众，而且《摇滚警察》播出以来观众的口味可能已经很丰富。NBC方面订购了新剧《佐伊的读心歌单》，主角是《城堡岩》里的简·拉维，饰演旧金山一位电脑程序员，能通过歌曲听到别人的心里话。CW电视台的《凯蒂·基恩》由《美少女的谎言》里的露西·海尔和艾什莉·默瑞出演，艾什莉·默瑞在《河谷镇》中扮演的乔西·麦考伊离开生活的小镇，前往纽约努力当歌手。

另一边，Netflix正为《情歌辑》首播做准备。这部福克斯制作的电视剧曾经试播失败，由《名声大噪》乔舒亚·萨夫兰打造，主演包括珍娜·迪万、坎贝尔·斯科特、杰米尔·法兰西和卡莉·埃尔南德斯等，一边漫步洛杉矶一边唱情歌。

屏幕上的女性

无论是屏幕上还是在屏幕下，好莱坞对平等和多样性的追求越来越明显，尤其是涉及强力和复杂的女性角色时。在CBS长期播出，芭芭拉·霍尔编剧，蒂娅·里欧妮主演的《国务卿女士》将播出第六季。珊达·莱梅斯的医疗剧《实习医生格蕾》仍然没有停播的迹象，目前已续订到第17季。这一季还有CBS的新剧《汤米》加入，由《情理法的春天》制作人保罗·阿塔那斯奥打造，主角伊迪·法尔科是洛杉矶警察局第一位女警察局长，此外还有寇碧·史莫德斯的ABC新剧。这部新剧尚未命名，由杰森·里奇曼制作，根据斯坦普顿的小说改编，《老爸老妈的浪漫史》主角在剧中扮演一位退伍老兵和私家侦探，故事背景颇为复杂。

家庭喜剧前景如何？

最近ABC的《摩登家庭》倒数第二季结束，收视率创下历史新低。随着上周电视台纷纷取消续订，CBS的《终归是家人》和《皆大欢喜》，还有ABC颇受推崇的《分久再合》、《无言有爱》和《十全八美》都宣告终结。不过一些长期播出的剧集，例如CBS的《老爸有招》、福克斯的《最后一人》，还有ABC的《喜新不厌旧》和《初来乍到》比较安全（可能会让《初来乍到》的演员之一吴恬敏懊恼）。不过随着一些新剧出现，例如ABC的《多元一家人》和《康纳一家》，CBS的《蹭饭货》还有福克斯的《天生不配》，也可能改变当前格局。

单身爸爸脱颖而出

或许好莱坞也知道要对“家庭”有更广泛的定义？ABC推出的《单身家长》就挺成功，用塔兰·基拉姆饰演的单身父亲当切入点，已获续订第二季。此外也有其他新剧，比如CBS的《神兽》（关于一位鳏夫带两个女儿的单镜头喜剧），福克斯的《大北方》（由《开心汉堡店》导演洛伦·布沙尔制作的系列动画片，讲述一位单身父亲在阿拉斯加努力维持家庭的故事），还有NBC的《基南秀》（基南·汤普森饰演带两个女儿的鳏夫，勉强让岳父搬进来帮忙）。跟上世纪80年代播出的《欢乐满屋》相比，进步已经不小了……（财富中文网）

译者：冯丰

审校：夏林

Television’s annual upfront presentations kicked off last Monday, continuing the ritual of networks attempting to dazzle Madison Avenue with its latest offerings for advertising dollars. As networks iron out their lineups for the 2019-2020 TV season, there are some familiar patterns surrounding both new and returning shows.

For one, superhero shows like The CW’s Supergirl and The Flash are still flying high—and that network will see a new addition with Batwoman. It also looks like there’s always room at the bar for more legal drama. While ABC’s For the People and Fox’s Proven Innocent were canceled at two weeks ago—along with several other series—new courtroom orders include the CBS drama All Rise, which follows the chaotic lives of judges, prosecutors, and public defenders, and NBC’s Bluff City Law, which is about a Memphis attorney who strikes out on her own after a tumultuous relationship with the head of her fancy law firm (who is also her father).

We’ve also noticed some other patterns emerging for the upcoming television season:

There’s No Escape From the Berlanti-Verse

Greg Berlanti likes to use the analogy that the prize for winning the pie-eating contest is more pie. Well, he can now buy all the pie in both Hollywood and Vancouver, where his productions tend to film. Along with producing partner, Sarah Schechter, the extremely successful executive producer known for shepherding long-running hits like The CW’s Arrow and NBC’s Blindspot—as well as niche projects like the CBS limited series The Red Line— will have 18 shows on the air this coming season. That beats their previous total of 14 productions from the 2018-‘19 season. These include new series like The CW’s comic adaptations Batwoman and Katy Keene, as well as Prodigal Son, a new Fox show starring Tom Payne, Michael Sheen, and Bellamy Young that’s about the child of a serial killer.

Reboots and Spinoffs Still Prosper

Don’t let the cancellations of CBS’s attempted Murphy Brown reboot or Fox’s problematic Lethal Weapon adaptation have you fooled. Networks still see a market in revisiting familiar topics and characters. ABC is sticking with its Roseanne Barr-free The Conners for another season and has renewed both long-running period comedy The Goldbergs and its sequel, Schooled. And CBS is still on the case with the new versions of MacGyver and Magnum P.I.

ABC has also ordered Mixed-ish, the prequel to its topical family comedy-but-sometimes-dramedy Black-ish that concentrates on Tracee Ellis Ross’ matriarch, Rainbow Johnson. (A spin-off, Grown-ish, will soon be entering its third season on younger sister channel, Freeform.) The CW is offering an edgier, more Veronica Mars-sounding remake of Nancy Drew that ages the teenage gumshoe to a college freshman who postpones school to investigate a murder mystery. Gossip Girl’s Josh Schwartz Stephanie Savage are among the executive producers, so expect witty banter while Pamela Sue Martin, TV’s original Nancy, guest-stars.

And Fox has ordered a spin-off of 9-1-1 starring Rob Lowe, titled 9-1-1 Lone Star (set in Austin, in case the title wasn’t a clue). As for ABC’s much-hyped NYPD Blue sequel? The story of Sipowicz’s son is undergoing “retooling.”

This Is … Enough

NBC has renewed its tear-jerker drama This Is Us for three more seasons, meaning that we will have at least until the spring of 2022 to learn all kinds of backstories about the extended members of the Pearson clan and their partners (maybe we’ll even learn the origin story of Audio the dog).

And while this formula has been a proven hit for NBC, not all networks have been as interested in this idea. Life In Pieces, the CBS series about an extended Los Angeles-area family, ended this year after a not-too-shabby four seasons (it should be noted that it began a year before This is Us started). CBS also passed on a series order for Super Simple Love Story, a comedy about a couple who seem an unlikely match as told through interviews and vignettes.

Immigration As a Talking Point

Immigration stories aren’t exactly new fodder for television plots; The CW’s Jane the Virgin and Netflix’s One Day at a Time being just two recent examples of shows that have covered the issue. But President Donald Trump’s talk of a border wall, and international debates surrounding Brexit, as well as the Venezuelan migrant crisis have kept the divisive topic on everyone’s mind—especially showrunners. New entries this year include Bob Hearts Abishola, the CBS comedy from The Big Bang Theory’s Chuck Lorre and others about a middle-aged man who falls in love with his Nigerian immigrant nurse, and NBC’s Sunnyside, which stars Kal Penn as a former councilman who helps immigrants stay in the country.

Something to Sing About

The CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend ended its four-year run this spring while NBC’s Smash is still celebrated for as campy reverence. So it’s no wonder that networks have realized that musical dramas can have a devoted audience and that our palettes may have matured since Cop Rock. NBC has ordered the new series Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, which stars Castle Rock’s Jane Levy as a San Francisco-based computer programmer who hears others’ internal monologues through song. The CW’s Katy Keene stars Pretty Little Liars’ Lucy Hale and Ashleigh Murray—whose Riverdale character, Josie McCoy, leaves her small town to try to make it as a singer in New York City.

Elsewhere, Netflix is gearing up to premiere Mixtape. The once-failed Fox pilot created by Smash alum Josh Safran has actors like Jenna Dewan, Campbell Scott, Jahmil French, and Callie Hernandez lip-synching love songs as they traipse through Los Angeles.

Female Empowerment on Screen

Hollywood’s push for equality and diversity is increasingly showing, both on and off screen, particular when it comes to strong—and complicated—female characters. Barbara Hall’s long-running Téa Leoni drama on CBS, Madam Secretary, is back for a sixth season. There’s also no end in sight for Shonda Rhimes’ medical drama, Grey’s Anatomy, which has been renewed through season 17. This season, they’ll be joined by new shows like CBS’s Tommy, a police drama from Homicide: Life on the Street creator Paul Attanasio that stars Edie Falco as the LAPD’s first female police chief, and Cobie Smulders’ new ABC drama. Created by Jason Richman, the as-yet-to-be-named series is based on the Stumpton graphic novels and has the How I Met Your Mother star playing an army veteran and private investigator with a complicated backstory.

What’s the Future of Family Comedy?

ABC’s Modern Family recently ended its penultimate season with record-low ratings for its finale. Last week’s TV cancellation blood bath also saw the end to CBS’s Fam and Happy Together and ABC’s critically adored Splitting Up Together, Speechless, and The Kids Are Alright. But long-running series like CBS’s Man with a Plan, Fox’s Last Man Standing, and ABC’s Black-ish and Fresh Off the Boat are safe (possibly much to the chagrin of Constance Wu, one of the latter’s stars). And perhaps new offerings like ABC’s United We Fall and The Conners, CBS’s Broke, and Fox’s Outmatched will change that course.

Singling Out Single Dads

But maybe Hollywood knows it needs to have a broader definition of “family”? ABC has found success with Single Parents, the ensemble comedy that used Taran Killam’s single father as an entry point to the story and that has been renewed for a second season. It joins new freshmen series like CBS’s The Unicorn (a single-camera comedy about a widower with two daughters), Fox’s The Great North (an animated series from Bob’s Burgers creator Loren Bouchard about a single dad trying to hold it together in Alaska), and NBC’s The Kenan Show, (Kenan Thompson plays a widower with two daughters who begrudgingly lets his father-in-law move in to help). We’ve come a long way since Full House …