ABC announced midseason premiere dates for new dramas "Red Widow"
and "Zero Hour" today, along with new comedies "How to Live with Your
Parents (for the Rest of Your Life)" and "Family Tools," and new
alternative (reality) series "The Taste" and "Celebrity Diving." Returning series
"Dancing with the Stars" and "Body of Proof" will rejoin the schedule
will all-new seasons in the new year, and "Suburgatory" will move to
Wednesday nights at 8:30 p.m., beginning April 3, 2013.
"Red
Widow," from "Twilight Saga" films writer Melissa Rosenberg and
starring Radha Mitchell, is a riveting new drama about one woman's
journey into the world of organized crime, and how far she will go to
keep her family safe. "Red Widow" will debut with a two-hour premiere on
Sunday, March 3 from 9:00-11:00 p.m., ET, and premiere in its regular
timeslot, Sunday nights at 10:00 p.m., ET, on Sunday, March 10.
New
thriller "Zero Hour" stars Anthony Edwards ("ER") in his return to
series television. Edwards' character, Hank Galliston, has spent his
life debunking myths, only to be drawn into one of the most compelling
mysteries in human history after his wife's shocking disappearance.
"Zero Hour" will premiere on Thursday, February 14 at 8:00 p.m., ET.
New
comedy "How to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life)"
features Sarah Chalke ("Scrubs") as a recently divorced single mom who
moves back in with her eccentric parents, played by the multitalented
and critically acclaimed Elizabeth Perkins and Brad Garrett. The series
premieres on Wednesday, April 3 at 9:30 p.m., ET.
"Family
Tools" debuts on Wednesday, May 1 at 8:30 p.m., ET and stars Kyle
Bornheimer, J.K. Simmons and Leah Remini in a new family comedy that
proves mixing family with business is never easy. "Family Tools" will
take over for "Suburgatory" in this new timeslot following its season
finale.
New innovative cooking competition show
"The Taste" will feature celebrity chefs Anthony Bourdain, Nigella
Lawson, Ludo Lefebvre and Brian Malarkey, will debut with a special
two-hour premiere on Tuesday, January 22 from 8:00-10:00 p.m., ET, and
will premiere in its regular time period, 8:00-9:00 p.m., ET on Tuesday,
January 29.
"Celebrity Diving," based on the
international hit reality series "Celebrity Splash," will premiere on
Tuesday, March 19 at 8:00 p.m., ET and will feature as judges legendary
Olympic diver and four-time gold medalist Greg Louganis, along with
David Boudia, who brought home the gold for diving at the 2012 London
Olympics.
"Dancing with the Stars" will return
for a 16th season on Monday, March 18 at 8:00 p.m., ET. "Dancing with
the Stars the Results Show" will debut the following week on Tuesday,
March 26 at 9:00 p.m., ET.
"Body
of Proof," starring the Emmy-winning Dana Delany, will return to the
schedule on Tuesday, February 5 at 10:00 p.m., ET, and will feature new
cast member Mark Valley as Det. Tommy Sullivan, a former NYPD detective
(and a bit of a lady killer) who has transferred back to Philadelphia
to rekindle his relationship with Megan Hunt (Delany).
Critically
acclaimed Wednesday comedy "Suburgatory" will move to at 8:30 p.m., ET
as of Wednesday, April 3, one week after the season finale of "The
Neighbors." "The Neighbors" returns with original episodes on Wednesday,
January 9, and runs for 12 straight weeks.
ABC's Midseason premiere dates are as follows (all times listed are ET):
Tuesday, January 22
8:00-10:00 p.m. "The Taste" (Two-hour Series Premiere)
Tuesday, January 29
8:00-9:00 p.m. "The Taste" (Regular Time Period Premiere)
One
blind spoonful could change everything... on ABC's "The Taste." The
exhilarating new cooking competition show "The Taste" puts 16 culinary
competitors -- pro chefs to home cooks -- to the fire when four of the
world's most notable masters of the food world judge their creations
based on a blind taste test. In this pressure-packed contest, the taste
in a single spoonful can catapult a contender to the top or send him
packing. "The Taste" features no-holds barred chef Anthony Bourdain,
British food star Nigella Lawson, expert chef/author Ludo Lefebvre and
restaurateur Brian Malarkey. Each of the four culinary superstars and
"Taste" mentors - Bourdain, Lawson, Lefebvre and Malarkey - will coach a
team of four competing pro and amateur cooks chosen from a nationwide
casting call as they vie to create the best tasting dish. In each
episode, the groups will face team and individual challenges with a
variety of culinary themes through several elimination rounds. At the
end of each episode, the mentors will have to judge the competitors'
dishes blind, with no knowledge of whose creation they're sampling, what
they're eating, how it was prepared or whom they could be eliminating.
"The
Taste" is from Kinetic Content and is executive-produced by Chris
Coelen, Matilda Zoltowski, Emma Conway, Anthony Bourdain and Nigella
Lawson. Brian Smith is the director.
Tuesday, February 5
10:00-11:00 p.m. "Body of Proof"
Brilliant
and driven neurosurgeon Dr. Megan Hunt (Dana Delany) has found a new
life as a Medical Examiner after a car accident left her with a
condition called paresthesia and unable to operate. Although she's no
longer in the business of fixing what's wrong with living patients,
she's still instinctively drawn to finding out what killed her dead
patients and uncovering who was responsible and why. As she pursues the
answers, the bodies of the dead provide the clues. The body is, in
effect, the proof. As she, alongside her incredible team, investigate
what happened to her patients, she finds their lives and the lessons
they hold are in a way a bequest to her, to learn from them what she can
and to apply to her own personal journey of redemption and forgiveness.
In return, Megan is determined to get them justice.
"Body
of Proof" stars Dana Delany as Dr. Megan Hunt, Jeri Ryan as Dr. Kate
Murphey, Mark Valley as Detective Tommy Sullivan, Geoffrey Arend as Dr.
Ethan Gross, Windell D. Middlebrooks as Dr. Curtis Brumfield, Elyes
Gabel as Detective Adam Schaeffer, and Mary Mouser as Lacey Fleming.
Thursday, February 14
8:00-9:00 p.m. "Zero Hour"
As
the publisher of a paranormal enthusiast magazine, Modern Skeptic, Hank
Galliston has spent his career following clues, debunking myths and
solving conspiracies. A confessed paranormal junkie, his motto is "logic
is the compass." But when his beautiful wife, Laila (Jacinda Barrett),
is abducted from her antique clock shop, Hank gets pulled into one of
the most compelling mysteries in human history, stretching around the
world and back centuries.
Contained in one of
his wife's clocks is a treasure map, and what it leads to could be
cataclysmic. Now it's up to Hank to decipher the symbols and unlock the
secrets of the map, while ensuring the answers don't fall into the wrong
hands - a man they call White Vincent (Michael Nyqvist). With his two
young associates, Rachel (Addison Timlin) and Arron (Scott Michael
Foster), in tow, along with Becca Riley, a sexy FBI agent (Carmen
Ejogo), Hank will lead them on a breathless race against the clock to
find his wife and save humanity.
"Zero Hour"
stars Anthony Edwards ("Big Sur," "Flipped," "ER") as Hank, Carmen Ejogo
("Sparkle," "Chaos," "Away We Go") as Beck, Scott Michael Foster
("Californication," "The River") as Aaron, Addison Timlin
("Californication") as Rachel, Jacinda Barrett ("Matching Jack," "Middle
Men," "New York, I Love You") as Laila and Michael Nyqvist ("Mission:
Impossible - Ghost Patrol") as White Vincent.
Sunday, March 3
9:00-11:00 p.m. "Red Widow" (Two-hour Series Premiere)
Sunday, March 10
10:00-11:00 p.m. "Red Widow" (Regular Time Period Premiere)
Marta
Walraven seems to have an idyllic life. A stay-at-home mom in tony
Marin County, just north of San Francisco, she is devoted to her three
children and her husband. Behind this perfect facade, however, is a more
complicated story: Evan, Marta's husband, supports the family by
exporting marijuana. Marta is familiar with the world of organized
crime: her father, Andrei Petrov, and his loyal bodyguard, Luther, are
Bratva - Russian gangsters - in San Francisco. It's a world from which
she and her sister Kat always wanted to escape, though they never quite
did.
But when Evan is brutally murdered in
their driveway, everything changes. Marta's first concern is to protect
her children - and yet when FBI Agent James Ramos promises Marta justice
in exchange for her cooperation, she cannot go against the Bratva code.
She refuses his help.
"Red Widow" stars Radha Mitchell ("High
Art," "Pitch Black," "Man on Fire") as Marta Walraven, Sterling Beaumon
("Clue,""Lost") as Gabriel Walraven, Clifton Collins Jr. ("Traffic,"
"Thief") as FBI Agent James Ramos, Luke Goss ("Blade II," "Hellboy II:
The Golden Army") as Luther, Suleka Mathew ("Hawthorne") as Dina Tomlin,
Erin Moriarty ("One Life to Live") as Natalie Walraven, Jaime Ray
Newman ("Drop Dead Diva") as Kat Petrova, Jakob Salvati ("Crescendo,"
"Little Boy") as Boris Walraven, Lee Tergesen ("Army Wives") as Mike
Tomlin, Wil Traval ("Rescue Special Ops") as Irwin Petrov, with Rade
Serbedzija ("24") as Andrei Petrov and Goran Visnjic ("ER") as Nicholae
Schiller.
Monday, March 18
8:00-10:00 p.m. "Dancing with the Stars"
Tuesday, March 26
9:00-10:00 p.m. "Dancing with the Stars the Results Show"
Season
16 of "Dancing with the Stars" will feature a star-studded cast filled
with celebrities across a variety of genres, who will be paired with
some of the world's most decorated professional ballroom dancers to
compete each week in a live ballroom competition. The couple with the
lowest combined judges' scores and public votes for their performance is
sent home live every week, on "Dancing with the Stars the Results
Show."
Hosted by Emmy(r) Award winner Tom
Bergeron ("America's Funniest Home Videos") and Brooke Burke-Charvet
("Dancing with the Stars" Season Seven Champion), the celebrities
perform choreographed dance routines which will be judged by renowned
Ballroom judge Len Goodman and dancer/choreographers Bruno Tonioli and
Carrie Ann Inaba. The series is produced by BBC Worldwide Productions.
Conrad Green serves as executive producer.
Tuesday, March 19
8:00-9:00 p.m. "Celebrity Diving"
"Celebrity
Diving," based on the hit international format "Celebrity Splash,"
features celebrities competing in an exciting, family-friendly and often
thrilling diving competition in front of a packed audience. Stars will
perform dives from dizzying heights that will increase in difficulty
each week, including backflips, somersaults and other gymnastic feats,
to impress the judges, viewers at home and, most importantly, to win!
Leading up to the competition, a professional diving instructor will
give each celebrity weeks of training. Dives are not for the faint of
heart, as they can be from as high as from 10-meter boards, with
ever-increasing complexity, leading up to the much-anticipated finale.
"Celebrity
Diving" is from award-winning production company Eyeworks USA (formerly
3 Ball Productions). The series is executive-produced by JD Roth, Todd
A. Nelson and Brant Pinvidic. Judges include legendary diver and
four-time Olympic gold medalist Greg Louganis, and David Boudia, who
brought home the gold for diving at the 2012 London Olympic Games.
Wednesday, April 3
8:30-9:00 p.m. "Suburgatory" (New Time Period Premiere)
Tessa
and George (Jeremy Sisto) have been on their own ever since Tessa's mom
pulled a "Kramer vs. Kramer" before Tessa (Jane Levy) was even potty
trained. So far George has done a pretty good job of raising Tessa
without a maternal figure in their lives, but suddenly he's feeling a
little out of his league. So it's goodbye New York City and hello
suburbs. At first Tessa is horrified by the big-haired, fake-boobed
mothers and their sugar-free, Red Bull-chugging kids. But little by
little, she and her dad begin finding a way to survive on the clean
streets of the 'burbs. Sure, the neighbors might smother you with love
while their kids stare daggers at your back, but underneath all that
plastic and caffeine, they're really not half bad. And they do make a
tasty pot roast.
"Suburgatory" stars Jeremy
Sisto ("Law & Order") as George Altman, Jane Levy ("Shameless") as
Tessa Altman, Carly Chaikin ("The Last Song") as Dalia Royce, Rex Lee
("Entourage") as Mr. Wolfe, Allie Grant ("Weeds") as Lisa Shay, Alan
Tudyk ("V") as Noah Werner, Cheryl Hines ("Curb Your Enthusiasm") as
Dallas Royce, Ana Gasteyer ("Saturday Night Live") as Sheila Shay and
Chris Parnell ("30 Rock") as Fred Shay.
9:30-10:00 p.m. "How to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life)"
Polly
(Sarah Chalke) is a single mom who has recently divorced. The
transition hasn't been easy for her, especially in this economy. So,
like a lot of young people living in this new reality, she and her
daughter, Natalie (Rachel Eggleston), have moved back home with her
eccentric parents, Elaine (two-time Golden Globe(r) and Emmy(r) nominee
Elizabeth Perkins) and Max (three-time Emmy(r) winner Brad Garrett). But
Polly and her parents look at life through different generational
lenses. Polly (in contrast to how she was raised) aspires to be
organized and together, while Max and Elaine live a more free-flowing,
improvisational life-style. Polly wants to take it slow with new
relationships, while her parents encourage her to be more sexually
adventurous.
Polly and her parents' views on
parenting itself also conflict: Polly wants to be an involved modern
parent, but Max and Elaine are laid back, hands-off parents from the
1970s. Polly believes children need to be sheltered and have structure
and guidance, while Max and Elaine feel that children need the freedom
to fall and pick themselves back up. After all, Polly turned out okay,
so what's the big deal?
They say it takes a
village to raise a child, but in Polly's case, this village is on fire,
and although her ex-husband Julian's (Jon Dore) intentions are good, he
doesn't exactly help extinguish the flames. But through figuring out how
to live with her dysfunctional family, Polly realizes she might even be
able to learn a few helpful things about herself.
"How
to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life)" stars Sarah
Chalke as Polly, Elizabeth Perkins as Elaine, Jon Dore as Julian, Rachel
Eggleston as Natalie, Stephanie Hunt as Jenn and Brad Garrett as Max.
"How
to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life)" is
executive-produced by Brian Grazer, Francie Calfo and Claudia Lonow. The
series is produced by Imagine Television in association with Twentieth
Century Fox Television.
Wednesday, May 1
8:30-9:00 p.m. "Family Tools"
Mixing
family with business is never easy, and Jack Shea (Kyle Bornheimer) is
about to learn that lesson the hard way. When Jack's father, Tony (J.K.
Simmons), has a heart attack and is forced to hand over the keys to his
beloved handyman business, Jack is eager to finally step up and make his
father proud. Unfortunately Jack's past career efforts have been less
than stellar, so everyone seems to be waiting for him to fail. His new
job isn't made any easier by Tony's rebellious, troublemaking assistant,
Darren (Edi Gathegi), and Darren's flirtatious sister, Liz (Danielle
Nicolet), who works at the local hardware store. But with the support of
his Aunt Terry (Leah Remini) and his oddball yet endearing cousin Mason
(Johnny Pemberton), Jack Shea may just find his true calling right at
home.
"Family Tools" stars Kyle Bornheimer
("Bachelorette," "Romantically Challenged," "Perfect Couples") as Jack
Shea, J.K. Simmons ("Ultimate Spiderman," "Generator Rex," "The Closer")
as Tony Shea, Edi Gathegi ("X Men: First Class") as Darren Poynton,
Johnny Pemberton ("21 Jump Street," "Aim High") as Mason Baumgardner,
Danielle Nicolet ("X Men TV Series") as Lisa "Stitch" Poynton and Leah
Remini ("In the Motherhood," "King of Queens") as Terry Baumgardner.
