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CBS released full trailers today for the network’s new series that were announced last week. Trailers were shown to press covering CBS’ upfront presentations but were not made available for general release until today.
CBS’ Elementary
Produced by CBS Television Studios. From executive producers Rob Doherty, Sarah Timberman, Carl Beverly and Michael Cuesta. Directed by Michael Cuesta (pilot):
CBS’ Made In Jersey
Produced by Sony Pictures Television in association with CBS Television Studios. From executive producers Jamie Tarses, Kevin Falls, Julia Franz and Mark Waters. Written by creator/co-executive producer Dana Calvo (pilot). Directed by Mark Waters (pilot):
CBS’ Partners
Produced by Warner Bros Television. From executive producers David Kohan and Max Mutchnick. Directed by James Burrows (pilot):
CBS’ Vegas
Produced by CBS Television Studios. From executive producers Nicholas Pileggi, Greg Walker, Cathy Konrad, Arthur Sarkissian and James Mangold. Directed by James Mangold (pilot):
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I hate that “Made In Jersey” Pilot with all the hatred of a thousand burning suns, if suns got mad. Because, really, the difficulties of a model from a middle class town trying to make it as an attorney is possibly the least interesting story you could try and tell.
Partners looks dreadful.
The only one I was able to watch all the way through was Vegas.
Yeesh.
Made In Jersey is going to be a huge hit. Has real heart.
Holy mother of God, Partners looks embarrassingly bad. Which means it wouldn’t surprise me at all if it works on CBS.
Jersey was also cringeworthy but feels like a slam dunk hit for them.
That doesn’t have anything to do with Holmes. Just call it “Quirky English Detective”. At least Sherlock and the Downey movies kept some semblance of the character, even if they stray to a fair extent.
Looks like “House” meets “The Mentalist” to me, but with way more style over substance.
Don’t really see the need for this, considering how good BBC’s Sherlock is already.
Yes, Sherlock is so good it takes eighteen months to produce three episodes. What tremendous three-episode masterpieces American TV producers could make in that amount of time. And with the BBC saying Sherlock won’t return till mid-2013 at the earliest, that means CBS will have aired 22-24 episodes of Elementary before the BBC airs episode 7 of Sherlock. If PBS airs Sherlock in May 2014, because of how rigid they are with their Masterpiece scheduling, that means CBS will have aired 40-48 Elementary episodes before PBS shows episode 7 of Sherlock. This is the point where everyone now says “I’ll take quality over quantity.” And good for you. While you are waiting for quality you are going to have some time to kill. Some of which time can be spent watching Elementary.
CBS doesn’t care what the BBC is doing. CBS is making a show for the CBS audience. Just look at how successful CBS has been – they make shows like they’re stamping them out on an assembly line, and IT WORKS!
Elementary will be a solid hit for CBS. It’s perfectly on-brand for them; it’s got a decent lead-in (Person of Interest); and the timeslot has so little competition it’s practically comical.
Zzzzzzzzzz. You obviously know Steven Moffat is busy driving a round a blue police box most of the year.
You are assuming that “Elementary” makes it past six episodes.
Remember “Coupling?” or “Skins?”
And frankly, I find Lucy Liu very brittle.
Such a short post to have so many things wrong with it:
(1). Elementary is not a remake of Sherlock, which you are assuming it to be by referencing Coupling and Skins. CBS actually approached the Sherlock producers about doing a remake and were turned down flat, so Elementary has to avoid copying any distinctive features from the Sherlock series or they will be sued. Sherlock and Elementary are independent adaptations of a public domain character that had already been adapted countless times before and whose creator died many decades ago.
(2). Even if Elementary WERE a remake of Sherlock, what does citing the examples of a couple of remakes that failed prove? Ever hear of The Office? All In The Family? Sanford And Son? Three’s Company? All US remakes of British shows that were big hits in America. US remakes of British shows don’t fail any more often than original American shows fail. Most American network series don’t make it to a season two. That is just the nature of the American TV system.
(3). Elementary is going to be successful on CBS — i.e., is going to be one of the minority of US network shows to make it to season two — for reasons already mentioned by “scifi_fan” above: Elementary is a detective procedural tailor-made for the CBS audience, and it has virtually no competition to speak of in the Thursday 10 PM time slot. ABC will air Scandal in that time slot, and NBC will be airing a Brain Williams news show. Anybody who doesn’t think Elementary will easily trounce such poor competition doesn’t understand the American TV landscape.
Even if MoreTears three points are all true, it still has Lucy Liu in it…Series fail!
Brilliant post!
I just don’t get why anyone champions 6-8 episode long TV seasons. It’s absurd.
Sorry. I was hopeful with the teaser, but the actual preview drags. If the latter reflects the pacing of the episode, I don’t think this is going to last one season, so your argument is irrelevant. The branding is wasted.
I expect Elementary will be a success, as it is a clone of Monk, which did so well – helpless and annoying, but lovable, clever and eccentric detective with nurse. The one problem I have with it, as a former teacher, is that the lead characters here have almost nothing to do with the original characters and so mislead people as to what the original stories are about. Sherlock Holmes was fiercely independent and proud,a brilliant man who loved being right and in control, very neat and particular in his grooming and clothes, and addicted to the adrenaline high of solving a mystery, using drugs to provide that high when he wasn’t working. Miller’s character, as suggested by the trailer at any rate, is so far from being in control that he is under the thumb of a rich father and submits to the unchosen monitoring of a nurse/nanny, says he sometimes hates being right, is slovenly in dress – with his scruffy version of the BBC Sherlock iconic scarf – to the point of standing around with his shirt off and his underwear (dirty and perhaps smelly if we judge by his other clothes) hanging out of his pants, and is addicted to drugs, using work at least partly as a way to avoid taking them. The original Watson was military in bearing, a respected doctor, an excellent shot, very brave and straightforward in character, and attached to Holmes out of fully reciprocated respect and friendship. This Watson has no military background, has failed as a doctor, squeals childishly and hides her face when presented with a murder victim, and is attached to Holmes because she is hired to do so, allowing him to demean her with misrepresentations of her function because she is a certain kind of employee (a big step down from Monk’s nurse/assistants). Obviously these characters are presented as Holmes and Watson only in order to feed off the success and popularity of the BBC Sherlock and the recent movies. Had CBS used different names, I would have had no quarrel with the show. As it is, CBS should be ashamed of itself.
Made in Jersey was the only one I liked. I had hopes for Partners but it just looks awful. What a waste of Michael Urie.
“Made in Jersey” looks like a bad mash-up of “Working Girl” and every Jersey-centric cable show. We do NOT need yet another legal procedural.
And the saddest part of this is that star Janet Montgomery (who plays the main character Martina Garretti) is from the England! Does CBS not know any capable and talented actors that could have played this role? Apparently not.
What does Montgomery’s nationality have to do with anything? She IS a capable and talented actress and that’s why she was cast.
For the millionth time…not everyone from New jersey sounds like a stereotypical Staten Island accent…can we please cut it out already!!!
Wut, youze gotta problem? We all tawk like dis.
where is the like button on deadline?
Congratz to Prod. Chris Leanza on Elementary.
OMG, these looks terrible. Another bad season of TV coming.
The only one I’m interested in is Vegas. Michael Chiklis plays bad so well. And Dennis Quaid is a very good, underrated actor.
The first two…I’m in. They’re great.
partners looks really bad
vegas looks ok
elementary i can’t sorry
made in jersey looks meh
I’ll give Elementary a look. Attractive and talented cast and I love a mystery. With all these versions, though, what’s next? Sherlock toilet paper? Leave it to Hollywood to seize the drug addiction angle, with rehab no less. The least interesting thing about his character. At least the excellent BBC version wisely pretty much left that alone.
Elementary will be a solid hit.
I think Partners looks funny. Must be a lot of Max and David haters out there.
Partners is 10 years behind the times. It’s no longer fresh it’s stale and artificial. This is their third attempt at getting it on the air they are crazed egomaniacs who think their personal lives are so interesting and so compelling that they just have to make a show out of their own experiences. Will & Grace was fun but too over the top they should have spun Jack & Karen off into their own slapstick spinoff but they were too afraid to do that. I don’t hate them I simply refuse to watch their crappy shows.
Since your criticism is entirely directed at the show creators and their idea and not on the actual show itself, you are by definition a ‘hater’.
“Haters” is a word best used by seventh graders when they’re unable to make compelling counterarguments using facts. Although it IS shorter than “ninny ninny poo poo.”
I love Michael Urie but yeah, Partners doesn’t look too great.
That trailer for Elementary is pretty painful – those 4 minutes were hell to sit through. Someone said its a case of style over substance – I’d argue its a case of no style (the substance will remain to be seen…) Let’s face it – it’s basically CSI with an (uncharismatic) Brit at the helm – which is exactly what probably CBS wanted anyway. The role of Holmes demands an actor with that “it” factor – he needs to charismatic and enigmatic all at once. This is pretty benign (which means it’ll likely do quite well with the typical CBS demo!) The Partners’ trailer was also disappointing. Extremely one note and ruined by an overbearing laugh track…”Whitney” anyone?
Yep, Elementary looks very well crafted for the CBS audience. Exactly what I expected. They didn’t get to be the top broadcast network for nothing.
The one that surprises me is Vegas. I’m used to not having any CBS shows that interest me. This one may be the exception. They should have stuck with Ralph Lamb as the name, though. Vegas – bah! They couldn’t have chosen a duller name.
“Elementary” will be a poor man’s “Sherlock”.
I’m sorry, Sick Boy, but you are no match for the Cumberbatch.
The negative comments on Partners make me smile…just pure Envy..this show will be a huge hit..see you at sweeps ratings week
You know what’s funny? I’m in international TV sales/acquisition and currently abroad. I can watch none of these trailers as they are only available to watch in the US. Seriously… it’s a trailer! Why would you not make that available to the whole world?
Probably because CBS’ marketing dept doesn’t want to step on the toes of their colleagues at the companies that will eventually have rights to various international territories. Maybe they want to do different trailers for their own markets?
Marketing efforts are almost always localized because marketing is so culturally dependent. That’s the only sensible reason I can think of why trailers would be region-restricted.
Or it could be something to do with the lawyers. In which case, don’t ask me to justify the logic.
Elementary: Sherlock Holmes as shoved through the CBS procedural meat-grinder. Decent enough for the heartland, but I’ll stick with the way-more-stylish BBC version. I know the Holmes heirs are killing themselves that anybody can make a version of Holmes. Finally an American vehicle for Jonny Lee Miller that’ll be around for awhile.
Made in Jersey: Liked Baby Big Shot wayyyyy better as a title. Looks like Fairly Legal, right down to the lead chick. Won’t last long.
Partners looks horrible. KoMut + James Burrows = instant network pickup. Looks like a retooling of THIS show if the Jon Cryer character was gay: http://youtu.be/Z4S_YbnpUGE
CBS will be sorry they cancelled Rob.
Vegas: The only out-and-out winner in the bunch. Nothing but heavyweights in the cast, each of whom could carry their own show/movie. As they say…Only CBS.
Partners. A Bette Midler punchline. Two schmeckel punchlines. A “need the girls?” punchline. Was the script written in ’93? Oh wait. A Clay Aiken punchline. Make that ’04. Of course this show will do well. Lowest common denominator. It’s well made crap. Or would crapola get a bigger sweetened laugh.
You’re good writers, boys. Raise your game.
I’m from Jersey, born and raised. Women are not like this there.
Silly.
I hate CBS. I think every program on their schedule is terrible. The last show I watched on CBS was “Love Monkey” waaaaay back in 2006. I might give Vegas a try though. It looks like they may have something there. The rest of these shows look terrible, which probably means they’ll be big hits and Vegas will be one of the first shows to be canceled.