The CW launches details of its new schedule for the 2016/2017 season.Will you be tuning in to its new take on ‘Frequency’..?
Frequency was a 2000 film that all those old enough to remember it tend to regard fondly. It was a Outer Limits, high-concept sf outing in which John Sullivan (played by Jim Caviezel – nowadays known for his role in Person of Interest) suddenly finds that he can speak to his late father, Dennis Quaid, through his ham radio. His father, Frank, a fire-man, died many years before in a warehouse fire and now it appears that time can be rewritten – but in doing so, a tragic butterfly-effect series of changed events lead to another death instead. Can father and son, twenty years apart and joined only via their ham-radio connection reset things right once more and in doing so will they lose this new relationship they were once denied?
The new series based on the film tweaks the central idea. In this case it’s Peyton Reed’s Raimy Sullivan, an up-and-coming police detective who makes the time-askew radio connection with her late father Frank (Riley Smith). He was murdered twenty years ago, apparently being a dirty cop whose misdemeanors caught up with him and Raimy only has a few memories of him. But the freak connection gives them both the chance to change those events and uncover the truth about his life and death. In doing so, the time-changes that result mean that Raimy loses her mother (played by Devin Kelly from The Chicago Code, Covert Affairs, Resurrection) instead and much start an investigation into a serial killer whose activities were never curtailed. Once again, the two family-members must work in their respective time-eras to find a way through the chronological challenges…
It all looks quite interesting – though the biggest sf factor may be in being convinced that Devin Kelly could ever be Peyton Reed’s mother..!
The series begins at 9:00pm on Wednesdays
The CW are also promoting the fact that Supergirl is moving to their realm in the Autumn. The Flash/Supergirl team-up on the latter’s show proved very popular this season and now all the heroes will all be under one ‘roof’, The CW is already hinting at laying the plans for a mega-crossover between Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow further down the line. Supergirl will find its new home on Mondays at 8:00pm…
