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Post Mortem – Mr. Mayor

After two mini-seasons on NBC. Mr. Mayor was cancelled this past May.  Created by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, following their Netflix hit Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, the show starred Ted Danson as the newly elected mayor of Los Angeles, trying to impress his teenage daughter while dealing with a staff of characters.

Following his starring turn on The Good Place, Danson put on a good performance here, and the show overall was enjoyable.  However, I don’t know if network television is the place for shows as absurd as this one.  I can understand why Fey and Carlock would want to work with NBC, their longtime home from their SNL and 30 Rock days, but they may be better served sticking to streaming services, where shows like this can be a hit without needing the mass appeal that their inherent absurdity drives away.

I’m sure the cast will move on to other projects.  Bobby Moynihan showed some pretty good chops outside of the confines of SNL.  Vella Lovell is also someone I look forward to seeing more of in the future.

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CBS Upfronts

With very few holes to fill in their lineup, CBS presents easily the least changed lineup for the fall.  With the network again airing football on Thursday nights for the first 2 months of the season, there will be much juggling going on, starting on Monday, where The Big Bang Theory returns until football ends.  It will be followed by 9JKL, a new show starring Mark Feuerstein, Linda Lavin, and Elliott Gould.  New comedy Me, Myself & I, with Bobby Moynihan about the defining moments in one man’s life over three distinct periods, is sandwiched between the returning Kevin Can Wait and Scorpion.  Once football ends, Kevin moves up to lead off the night and Superior Donuts moves in.

Tuesday stays exactly the same.  Wednesday night sees Criminal Minds move back an hour for its 13th season, with its old time slot given to Seal Team, starring David Boreanaz in a military drama that follows the professional and personal lives of the most elite unit of Navy SEALs.  Thursday, starting in November, starts with The Big Bang Theory, followed by the spin-off Young Sheldon, about, well, a young Sheldon Cooper.  The night finishes with S.W.A.T., a new drama based on the old series and film remake starring former Criminal Minds star Shemar Moore.

Friday stays exactly the same.  Sunday adds Wisdom of the Crowd, starring Jeremy Piven as a visionary tech innovator who creates a cutting-edge crowdsourcing app to solve his daughter’s murder, and revolutionizes crime solving in the process, which will in no way be the similar to last year’s APB, which bombed on FOX.

On tap for midseason, along side returning favorite Elementary, are Instinct, which stars Alan Cumming as a former CIA operative who is lured back to his old life when the NYPD needs his help to stop a serial killer, and By The Book, a comedy about a modern day man at a crossroads in his life who decides to live strictly in accordance with the Bible.

Gone and never to be seen again are The Great Indoors, 2 Broke Girls, The Odd Couple, Pure Genius, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, Doubt, Training Day, and Ransom.