All people loves a crossover, proper? At the least the actually good examples, if not probably the most bizarrely conceived ones. (I’m taking a look at you, Dancing with the Sharks.) More often than not, apparent causes exist for the characters to bounce round, normally tied to the exhibits present in the identical franchise. However typically such logistics aren’t mandatory, and it simply naturally makes plentiful sense to convey two in any other case disparate exhibits collectively, resembling Jennifer Love Hewitt’s 9-1-1 and Kaitlin Olson’s Excessive Potential.
The latter dramedy is heading into its second season after taking up the viewership charts throughout its preliminary run. Olson is pulling triple-dipple duties, having additionally filmed for It’s All the time Sunny in Philadelphia Season 17 and Hacks Season 4, and it appears like Hewitt can be past the moon to convey her 9-1-1 dispatcher into the world of Olson’s neurodivergent semi-genius Morgan afterward in the course of the 2025 TV schedule (or after, however no person needs to attend that lengthy).
Speaking with AwardsBuzz, Hewitt appeared downright delighted to convey up her HIgh Potential fandom in the identical breath that she voiced her crossover needs. Right here’s how she put it:
I’m obsessive about the present Excessive Potential. . . . They’re in L.A., and he or she’s at all times referencing Dispatch. And I’m like, ‘She has acquired to return to the Dispatch Heart, or I’ve to go to hers.’ Or I really feel like we might do each, like considered one of their episodes might finish together with her coming to my Dispatch Heart, after which I might enter her subsequent episode. However I simply have to work with that present. I simply wanna be on that present. I feel it could possibly be so enjoyable.
No lie, Jennifer Love Hewitt seems nearly extra excited in regards to the considered being concerned in Excessive Potential‘s second season as I’ve ever been enthusiastic about something in my life. Her childlike enthusiasm is infectious, too.
I will be sincere in declaring I hadn’t ever actually thought in regards to the concept of characters from different ABC exhibits getting into the world of Excessive Potential, and hadn’t actually put a lot thought into seeing Morgan pop up in a unique collection. (Perhaps it is as a result of the All the time Sunny and Abbott Elementary crossover eps had been aces sufficient to cowl these bases.)
However Hewitt has clearly put a little bit of thought into the thought, even when she may not have anybody to share these ideas with on the skilled facet of issues. In her phrases:
Wouldn’t that be cool? Similar household. Similar Disney. Similar ABC. Similar all that stuff. However I feel it could be actually enjoyable, as a result of her character is so enjoyable, and I really feel like she and Maddie can be actually enjoyable to observe collectively.
Realistically, at the least in an idealized model of society, Jennifer Love Hewitt would not even have to repeat her need for a Excessive Potential crossover, and ABC execs can be falling throughout themselves to ensure audiences go to see Maddie and Morgan taking down one type of legal slime or one other. Clearly there are extra components at stake than simply fan-based needs, however hopefully all it takes is getting the phrase out, and nature will run its due course.
After the traumas that went down in 9-1-1‘s season finale, Maddie might in all probability use a pick-me-up in Season 9 within the type of a superb single mother with a pointy tongue. No telling what sort of hijinks they may get into solely relegated to Dispatch, however I am positive they’d discover methods to entertain.
Contemplating 9-1-1‘s ninth season is at present filming, everybody at ABC ought to have their ears perked up and searching for crossover recommendations the nearer we get to the Ryan Murphy drama’s October 16 premiere date.