Jensen Ackles is shedding his Supernatural roots this summer time within the 2025 TV schedule with the premiere of Countdown, his new Prime Video TV present. The actor, who beforehand labored on The Winchesters as a Supernatural spinoff and re-teamed with Supernatural creator Erik Kripke on The Boys, joined forces with Derek Haas of Chicago Fireplace fame to play an LAPD detective who’s recruited right into a secret activity drive.
The newest growth? Prime Video has revealed a premiere date, and whereas that is actually thrilling, I am considering again to the action-packed On Name and the forged’s excessive hopes for renewal information… going again a number of months.
When You Can Watch Countdown
Countdown will formally premiere for streamers with a Prime Video subscription on Wednesday, June 25. The primary three episodes will drop on that first day, with the following installments releasing weekly up till the finale on September 1.
On condition that Jensen Ackles introduced that he’d wrapped on Countdown again in March, the wait to see the sequence is not too dangerous. He is joined within the forged by Gray’s Anatomy‘s Eric Dane, The Flash‘s Jessica Camacho, and Demise and Different Particulars‘ Violett Beane, amongst others.
The story of Countdown kicks off when a Division of Homeland Safety officer is murdered in broad daylight, which leads to LAPD Detective Mark Meachum (Ackles) becoming a member of undercover brokers from all different branches of regulation enforcement on a activity drive to analyze.
The plot will solely thicken from there, and it is a secure wager that there shall be loads of motion courtesy of showrunner and government producer Derek Haas. He crammed those self same roles on NBC’s extraordinarily profitable Chicago Fireplace for years, and Fireplace delivers a few of the strongest stunts on community televisison.
What About On Name?
In mild of the Countdown information, I could not assist however flash again to On Name, the half-hour police drama starring Fairly Little Liars‘ Troian Bellisario, The Good Physician‘s Brandon Larracuente, Full Home icon Lori Loughlin, and ER legend Eriq LaSalle as cops in Lengthy Seashore, California. It wasn’t shot fairly like different crime dramas, as the primary season additionally integrated bodycam and dash-cam footage. The present hails from Wolf Leisure, a.okay.a. the manufacturing firm behind One Chicago, the Legislation & Order world, and CBS’ FBI world.
Fan reactions had been blended when On Name premiered again in January, regardless of a fan-favorite Chicago Fireplace alum making cameo early on. As someone who repeatedly tunes in to community. TV’s nine-show Dick Wolf world, I loved what the creators’ described as their “popcorn leisure” method to the story.
I used to be lucky sufficient to talk with the On Name workforce again in December forward of the premiere on Prime Video, and needed to ask Lori Loughlin and Eriq La Salle in the event that they’d be interested by coming again for a possible Season 2. Loughlin instantly responded with “Oh lord, we hope!” Eriq La Salle, who was additionally an government producer and director for On Name, chimed in:
Completely. It is an amazing present. It is totally different. I believe it is what’s wanted, as a result of issues begin feeling the identical, and it is a very, very totally different present. Additionally, it is a half hour drama that feels in a great way like an hour, as a result of it packs a lot into it. It is a half hour drama! Once more, we begin speaking about what’s new and contemporary – you do not see that on the market on this stage. We’re undoubtedly pushing for a second season. I believe now we have a very robust present, and personally, I believe they’d be loopy to not give us a second season.
Contemplating that Eriq La Salle has performing, directing, and producing credit on a plethora of hour-long crime dramas (together with Chicago P.D., Legislation & Order, Legislation & Order: Organized Crime, FBI, and FBI‘s upcoming CIA spinoff), who higher to attest to On Name feeling contemporary with its half-hour run time? Loughlin went on to share her hopes for the sequence’ future, together with a praise for what her costar achieved whereas directing:
Hopefully the viewers will prefer it, however I believe they’ll. The present actually sucks you in. It’s simply energetic. It is quick paced. It is bought nice characters, very character-driven. It is so attention-grabbing what you [to Eriq] did with the drone and physique digital camera and iPhone digital camera. It simply actually sucks you in. You’re feeling such as you’re within the squad automotive with these cops.
I spoke with these stars again in December, earlier than the premiere in January when Prime Video subscribers en masse had been ready to take a look at the eight episodes for themselves. In all these months for the reason that early 2025 premiere, Amazon has not introduced a renewal or cancellation for On Name. I am unable to say if forged members have given up by this level, however I for one would identical to to know.
At this level, all followers can do is anticipate information and/or rewatch the primary season if they need a repair of the On Name motion. Jensen Ackles’ Countdown does appear to be a enjoyable sequence that could possibly be a success with followers of any Wolf Leisure viewer, and I will be checking it out when it premieres in June.