It’s that magical time when TV networks finalize lingering renewals and sequence cancellations for the yr whereas additionally revealing upcoming TV schedules for the autumn. Which suggests it’s additionally the time for studio execs to step out and promote any and all debuting new sequence, even because the variety of scripted arrivals is lowering. However ABC remains to be celebrating the large success of Kaitlin Olson’s smash hit Excessive Potential, and is utilizing that present as a comparability base for a promising new crime dramedy pilot.
Disney Tv Group President Craig Erwich shared every kind of recent data in regards to the near-future the place ABC’s primetime plans are involved on the community’s upfronts presentation (by way of Deadline), and had some early excessive reward for an impending pilot at present titled RJ Decker, based mostly on the ‘80s novel Double Whammy. Voicing the hope for a fast turnaround that might lead to a midseason debut, Erwich stated:
I believe it’s a pilot that matches very properly with the components that we now have at ABC that’s working, which is a extremely distinctive approach into procedural by a singular character that’s acquired a novel perspective and a novel tackle the world, and I’d say, importantly, a extremely good humorousness.
A fast rundown on what R.J. Decker is about, which dovetails properly with the TV head honcho’s ideas above: an ex-con and disgraced photographer enters the sun-soaked noir lifetime of a South Florida non-public investigator. Not a nasty logline for a procedural by any stretch.
How Disney’s TV Prez In contrast The New Pilot To Excessive Potential
Sadly, Craig Erwich did not get utterly unpredictable by revealing Excessive Potential‘s Kaitlin Olson will ALSO be the star of RJ Decker, since that will be unimaginable, if additionally wonderful. However he did share the next comparability, with a pair of different hits additionally namechecked. Having beforehand voiced his optimism for Olson’s Emmy possibilities, Erwitch stated:
You have a look at Rookie, Will Trent, Excessive Potential, these are exhibits about characters that see the world differently, and so they’re actually humorous. That’s grow to be our franchise, and I believe RJ Decker, if it comes out in addition to I hope it should, it should match very well into that.
Whereas neither Will Trent nor The Rookie is as purposefully humorous as Excessive Potential throughout, the remark in regards to the distinctive major characters is fairly on level. Will the ultimately forged star of RJ Decker be as immediately charismatic as Nathan Filion, Ramon Rodriguez or Kaitlin Olson? That’ll be a tricky one for the casting squad.
As talked about, the in-development pilot relies on a novel, and 1987’s Double Whammy was penned by writer Carl Hiaasen, who is just not solely typically an important author with a slew of novels underneath his metaphorical beltf, however wrote the supply materials for one more considered one of 2024’s greatest new TV exhibits, Apple TV+’s Dangerous Monkey.
Created by Scrubs and Ted Lasso‘s Invoice Lawrence, Dangerous Monkey stars Vince Vaughn as former South Florida P.I. Andrew Yancy, whose restaurant inspector job provides solution to an investigation over a severed arm that takes Yancy all throughout the Sunshine State and the encircling islands. Sounds comparable sufficient, no?
Hopefully Dangerous Monkey, which was revealed in 2013, is an effective indicator of what followers can count on to see if RJ Decker will get ordered to sequence.