Quite a lot of TV viewers spent the center of the 2024 TV schedule mourning the plethora of exhibits canceled this yr, with some of the debatable choices being CBS’ transfer to finish So Assist Me Todd and its quirky authorized dramedy. Even all these months later, followers are nonetheless lacking Marcia Homosexual Harden and Skylar Astin’s mother-son duo. Whereas we are able to’t anticipate the community to all of a sudden reverse that call, we are able to have fun creator Scott Prendergrast touchdown a brand new small-screen mission.
No punny titles this time round, as Prendergrast’s latest broadcast hopeful goes below the title Pennies, although it should certainly be one other lighthearted hourlong procedural whose narrative is anchored by two relations. Slightly than a mom and son, the stability this time might be shared between two sisters.
Pennies will middle on a forensic pathologist in San Francisco named Penny who would a lot reasonably hang around with and research the useless our bodies that move by way of her workplace than with any of the actual folks in her life. Naturally, Penny received’t be preserving her discoveries to herself, and she or he’s adept at fixing mysteries tied to these studied corpses.
Not that she’ll be doing it alone. Penny might be helped in her efforts by a beloved one within the type of her polar-opposite sister, who’s each outgoing and teeming with confidence in her job as an legal professional working by way of the D.A. workplace. Bizarrely sufficient, the sibling’s identify can also be Penny. I’m gonna want anyone to elucidate that proper there within the pilot, assuming we ever see it.
Maybe unsurprisingly, Prendergrast isn’t linking again up with CBS this time round, and it’s Fox that got here out on high, touchdown Pennies in a aggressive bidding with others. Although the community didn’t put in a full sequence order, the mission was given a script dedication plus penalty, which just about ensures that the creator will receives a commission it doesn’t matter what, with Fox having to pay out if execs select to not transfer ahead with it.
Although it’s unclear at this level when Fox can be aiming to get Pennies slotted in, it’s seemingly that Pennies can be showcased amongst different 2025 TV premieres, contemplating it doesn’t sound like a present that would wish heaps of post-production and results work. (Until we discover out later that each Penny sisters are literally anthropomorphic cash, however that appears non-cent-sical. I’ll see my manner out.)
Laborious in charge Fox for leaping on the likelihood to work with Prendergrast, who beforehand confirmed off his appearing abilities on Silicon Valley. In any case, So Assist Me Todd wasn’t canceled because of poor rankings, and as an alternative of excised alongside NCIS: Hawai’i because of its schedule being overly stuffed post-strikes. So if Pennies has the identical form of influence on audiences, it might find yourself being an enormous hit.
At this level, Fox’s most promising new present within the works is the extremely anticipated, and extremely questioned, Baywatch reboot. The community can also be creating sequence variations of films like Finish of Watch, Hell or Excessive Water and Starsky & Hutch, in addition to animated initiatives for Bloom County and Taskmasters.
For many who nonetheless miss So Assist Me Todd‘s breezy storytelling, the sequence’ two seasons might be streamed in full with a Paramount+ subscription.