The First Round Of Trailers For Next Year's TV Shows Has Dropped

12 May 2015 | 2:30 pm | Staff Writer

Following the weekend's reveals of 2016's TV line-up, networks have begun lifting the veil in earnest

Yesterday, we brought you a comprehensive rundown of all the renewals, cancellations, and commissions for the 2015-16 TV season in the US, and now we're here to start contextualising all those new show names a little more with the spread of freshly released trailers making its way across the web this week.

So far, from the United States' big five networks - ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox and NBC - only Fox and NBC have unveiled trailers for their forthcoming shows, and of those two only Fox had the presence of mind to make them globally available (uncool, NBC) - but, thankfully, Fox has unveiled a bunch of viewables to tide us over until the other networks get their shit together.

From the TV house built by the family Simpson, we get: a fresh take on Steven Spielberg's Minority Report, which is set a decade after the 2002 Tom Cruise film, putting the focus on a decommissioned Precog (short for Precognitive, a type of future-seeing crime soothsayer, played by Stark Sands) and the detective (Meagan Good) to whom he becomes connected; The Grinder, a post-Parks & Rec jaunt for Rob Lowe as a famous TV lawyer who moves home to join his family's real-life law firm, despite having absolutely no qualifications; a resurgent John Stamos in Grandfathered, about a wealthy and successful bachelor who discovers he once had a kid, and that kid also had a kid — surprise!; and Rosewood, a new medical drama that centres on Dr Beaumont Rosewood Jr (Morris Chestnut), a brilliant private pathologist who spends his spare time doing for-hire autopsies for the Miami PD.

Meanwhile, midseason replacements Lucifer, Bordertown and The Frankenstein Code also come out to play with their first trailers — keep an eye out for those shows sooner rather than later.

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As mentioned, NBC has so far released trailers for their new series Blindspot, Heartbreaker, People Are Talking and The Player on their YouTube page, which happens to be rather rudely limited to Stateside viewers only, but if you cannot wait and simply must see them now, you'll have to dig for less official channels. Not that we're endorsing that, or even recommending it. We're just saying — it's an option.

On the plus side, they never geoblocked the Heroes Reborn teaser, and it counts as being a pick-up for this coming season, so we'll just drop that here for good measure. We'll provide an update with the other stations' trailers when they rear their heads — it's only a matter of time.