Back in 2004, Greg Berlanti created a little show called Jack & Bobby, about a boy who would become president 45 years in the future.  That show only lasted one lackluster year, but obviously the idea of the framing sequence of someone of importance in the future around a current day story of their upbringing stayed with Berlanti, who revisited it for Golden Boy, the tale of a young detective who one day will become the police commissioner.

The show wasn’t particularly good, but it wasn’t bad either.  It just was, which fit in particularly well on CBS.  Not well enough, though, as the show was given its 13 episodes and then was dumped.  One hopes that, one of these days, Chi McBride will find himself on a successful show worthy of his talents.