SHILO: 8:00 The Voice; 10:00 For God and Country
CRAIG: 8:00 The Voice; 10:00 Reverie
SHILO: For most of NBC’s development season, there have been two drama frontrunners: Rise, about a high school drama department reinvigorated by a new teacher, and For God and Country. Both have already gotten series orders and where all three of last season’s first orders (Chicago Med, Blindspot, and Heartbeat) got spots on the fall schedule, with Heartbeat only getting pushed to midseason because of its lead’s pregnancy, I think For God and Country will probably be on in the fall. With NBC said to only be ordering four dramas at the most, two dramas in the fall seems likely and while Rise makes sense working alongside This Is Us, For God and Country is more of a Monday Voice drama. The series, which focuses on the inner workings of the Defense Intelligence Agency and a squad of Special Ops undercover specialists, seems like something in the Blacklist/Blindspot mold as well as something that would appeal to The Voice‘s more conservative audience, which might be the perfect storm NBC needs to find another hit behind its crown jewel. Though I kind of think that they should hold For God and Country and use the Winter Olympics as a launch pad, given how easy it would be to sell a patriotic military drama during that type of coverage, I expect it to be on in the fall nonetheless.
CRAIG: I’m following your lead here with reservations. I really like Sarah Shahi, and I agree with you about the successful shows that come out of The Voice, but I’m not 100% sure Reverie is it. However, among this development class, and considering it’s a Universal TV production, I guess the odds are in its favor, especially since I don’t see the military drama For God and Country spinning out of The Voice.
