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Trailer-park: CBS shows-off its new shows…

New CBS shows

As we’ve mentioned, CBS has a raft of new shows – and they are now letting audiences catch a glimpse of what to expect from ‘MacGyver’, ‘Bull’ and ‘Training Day’…


In addition to some of the announcements that we’ve already covered regarding the line-up of action-shows on CBS in the 2016/2017 season. the American network has now released some additional promotional teasers. Some of them simply outline the basic premise, some give a quite extensive (even spoilery) look at their opening episodes…

There are some familiar names in the line-up, probably the MacGyver reboot being the most iconic name.  Making the character younger than the original incarnation, it stars X-Men‘s Lucas Till (in which he plays Alex Summers in Days of Future Past and Apocalypse) as the resourceful adventurer of the title able to make the most useful gadgets when time and crises permit. It also stars CSI‘s George Eads as ‘Lincoln’..  Its executive producers include the original’s Henry Winkler and also big-screen director James Wan.

Bull… features Michael Weatherly in his first post-NCIS role as an expert and notorious jury profiler who earns his fees with his uncanny knack for reading juries and using his insights to help win cases in the courtroom. It’s inspired by the early professional life of US reality-doctor Dr. Phil.  Freddy Rodriguez and Geneva Carr also star. The trailer makes it seem a little similar to Lie to Me*, which starred Tim Roth and ran on FOX between 2009 to 2011… but Weatherly’s star-power make it likely to get a healthy start in the ratings – especially as it’s placed back-to-back with NCIS on Tuesdays.

Training Day‘s teaser looks particularly impressive. Inspired by – and acting as a thematic sequel of sorts to the 2001 film starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke, the series looks at the way two different officers choose to approach their job description – though this time the race of both parties is reversed. Bill Paxton has an undeniable rough-diamond charisma that has seen him as a James Cameron regular and allowed him to play heroes and villains in equal measure. Training Day gives the veteran a chance to play a grizzled compromised cop, Frank Rourke, who has no real desire to change – feeling his not-exactly-legal methods of keeping some of the worst elements at bay is simply a pragmatic necessity and for which he doesn’t receive enough credit. Justin Cornwell is the rookie cop, Kyle Craig, assigned to be his partner in an elite crime-fighting squad. So begins a battle of wills as both cops try to drag the other to their point of view – Rourke wanting to educate Craig on the grey-areas and compromises of policing and Craig wanting to prove that cops have to aspire to be better than the people they stop.

The supporting cast includes Julie Benz (late of Angel, Dexter, Defiance) playing a  Hollywood ‘madam’ called Holly McCabe and Drew Van Acker, Katrina Law and Lex Scott Davis. The executive producers include the original film’s director Antoine Fuqua and legendary mover and shaker Jerry Bruckheimer.

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