CBS has released some information, images, and a video preview for their upcoming dramatic series Limitless. The hour series will air on Tuesday nights at 10pm this fall, following NCIS: New Orleans. Bradley Cooper is an executive producer and will recur.
Here’s the information:
LIMITLESS, based on the feature film, is a fast-paced drama about Brian Finch (Jake McDorman), who discovers the brain-boosting power of the mysterious drug NZT and is coerced by the FBI into using his extraordinary cognitive abilities to solve complex cases for them. Working closely with Brian in the major case squad in New York City is Special Agent Rebecca Harris (Jennifer Carpenter), a formidable investigator with a dark past, and Special Agent Boyle (Hill Harper), a former military officer and Rebecca’s confidante. They report to Special Agent in Charge Nasreen “Naz” Pouran (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), a canny manipulator of the reins of power. Unbeknownst to the FBI, Brian also has a clandestine relationship with Senator Edward Mora (Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper, recurring), a presidential hopeful and regular user of NZT who has plans of his own for his new protégé. Fueled now with a steady supply of NZT that enables him to use 100% of his brain capacity, Brian is more effective than all of the FBI agents combined, making him a criminal’s worst nightmare and the greatest asset the Bureau has ever possessed. Craig Sweeny, Marc Webb, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Heather Kadin, Bradley Cooper, Todd Phillips, Ryan Kavanaugh, Tucker Tooley and Tom Forman are executive producers for CBS Television Studios in association with K/O Paper Products and Relativity Television. The pilot was directed by Marc Webb (“The Amazing Spider-Man” 1 and 2 Feature Films).
What do you think? Do you plan to check out this new series? Do you think it will be a hit in the ratings? Cancelled after one season?
Their idea doesn’t grab much. However, having Craig Sweeny as one of the executive producers might help. Craig Sweeny was an executive producer for Elementary and he also was one of the writers. I appreciated the episodes that were written by him. I only hope he hasn’t abandoned Elementary to join Limitless. He’ll be missed, but Elementary is a great enough show with outstanding lead actors to survive without him.
Limitless will probably have good ratings at the beginning because of Bradly Cooper, but the theme doesn’t seem to be that compelling.
Looks like Limitless is going to flop and short lived and being replace by Person of Interest.
Let’s see….Someone has great powers of deduction that allows them to capture bad guys….What a new concept. Apparently they’ve thrown in the towel when it comes to being creative. Here’s another DOA
Yea…so ture
Skeptical, but might give it a chance. Hope I don’t like it too much, or CBS will pull the plug on it.
I liked last year of NCI
New Orlean and the
family likes that show
And will still for NCI
New Oeleans.
Steve… next time reread what you wrote! Lol
As for this show… I’ll pass.