NBC debuted its new Sunday evening lineup within the 2025 TV schedule, beginning with the Americas docuseries earlier than stepping into the 2 latest scripted exhibits. Fits LA and Grosse Pointe Backyard Society are bold additions to primetime this 12 months, however they do not precisely match each other. Stephen Amell’s Fits LA authorized drama premiered with an enormous twist and obtained some robust reactions from followers, whereas Grosse Pointe Backyard Society shortly jumped into the darkish comedy of its central homicide thriller. Because it struck me as an odd duo, I requested GPGS govt producer Casey Kyber for her ideas on the pairing.
I spoke with Casey Kyber on the press line at SCAD TVfest in Atlanta earlier in February, when there have been nonetheless a few weeks left to go earlier than Grosse Pointe Backyard Society debuted on NBC and streaming with a Peacock subscription. With how a lot NBC was already hyping Fits LA – full with authentic Fits theme track “Dollar Boogie” taking part in over the commercials – throughout primetime, Kyber shared her ideas on GPGS and the authorized drama touchdown the scripted slots on Sunday nights:
We simply love having our residence be on NBC. We felt like such a precedence for them. We’re very excited to see all the trailers begin to come out, the billboards, and being a part of a brand new evening of tv that NBC appeared actually enthusiastic about. Knock on wooden! What’s nice about broadcast tv, and for us being extra of a conventional broadcast cleaning soap, I believe going again to that Sunday time interval the place numerous nice exhibits have aired previously, simply feels particular. And we’re fortunate that they will additionally air on Peacock, so we get the perfect of each worlds.
As any individual who watches NBC’s blocks of comparable exhibits, like One Chicago Wednesdays with Chicago Hearth, Chicago P.D., and Chicago Med in addition to crime drama Thursdays with Legislation & Order, Legislation & Order: SVU, and Discovered as Legislation & Order: Organized Crime‘s alternative, the Fits spinoff and GPGS do not mesh fairly as nicely, however that is not a nasty factor. Some selection on a Sunday evening could be enjoyable, and it is not like The Americas suits with both of them both!
And I am already a fan of Grosse Pointe Backyard Society with its jackpot of a forged, and the homicide thriller was the brand new Sunday evening present that I used to be most inquisitive about. In spite of everything, anyone who had seen Fits was more likely to wish to give the Los Angeles-set spinoff a shot, and a docuseries narrated by Tom Hanks would possible be worthwhile. However a homicide thriller that is much like a conventional broadcast cleaning soap with parts of Good Women, Get Away with Homicide, and Determined Housewives?
I for one liked the premiere, and I will be to see what the scores replicate when the totals can be found for each GPGS and Fits LA. The homicide thriller definitely exhibits some acquainted faces in completely completely different lights. Aja Naomi King positively is not taking part in Harriet from Classes in Chemistry because the adulterous however nonetheless one way or the other correct Catherine, and Melissa Fumero’s Brooklyn 9-9 character of Amy would certainly by no means act like Birdie did within the premiere… no less than, not earlier than turning into 5-Drink Amy, anyway.
You may try the brand new lineup on NBC Sunday nights, beginning with The Americas at 8 p.m. ET, adopted by Fits LA at 9 p.m. ET and concluding with Grosse Pointe Backyard Society at 10 p.m. ET. If you happen to missed the premieres, you could find all three streaming on Peacock now.