Here ’s your first coup d’oeil of the costumed superhero in NBC ’s new show The Cape , asterisk Dave Lyons and Summer Glau . It ’s just one of seven raw writing style demonstrate the networks have founder the gullible light to for nightfall 2010 .
Here ’s your rundown of the “ large five ” networks ’ new genre offering that have already been announced in overture of next week ’s upfronts .
The Cape, starring Dave Lyons (NBC)
Officialsynopsis : Lyons [ play ] Vince Faraday , an honest bull on a corrupt police force , who finds himself framed for a series of murders and presumed utter . He is force into hiding , leaving behind his married woman , Dana ( Jennifer Ferrin , “ Life on Mars ” ) and Word , Trip ( Ryan Wynott , “ Flash Forward ” ) . fuel by a desire to reunite with his family and to combat the deplorable forcefulness that have overtake Palm City , Faraday becomes “ The Cape ” his boy ’s favorite comic Holy Scripture superhero — and takes the law into his own hands .
extra form : James Frain ( “ The Tudors ” ) play billionaire Peter Fleming – The Cape ’s bane – who moonlights as the twisted killer diagnose Chess . Keith David ( Death at a Funeral ) play Max Malini , the ringleader of a circus pack of bank robber who mentors Vince Faraday and trains him to be The Cape ; Summer Glau ( “ Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles ” ) plays Orwell , an fact-finding blogger who wages war on criminal offence and corruption in Palm City ; and Dorian Missick ( “ Six Degrees ” ) is Marty Voyt , a former police detective and friend to Faraday .
Cheese element : Well , he twist himself into a superhero from his son ’s funny books . So …
No Ordinary Family, starring Michael Chiklis and Julie Benz (ABC)
Officialsynopsis : The Powells are pretty much your average , everyday American family . That is until their plane crashes in the Amazon hobo camp . After that , well , have ’s just say the Powells are a piddling less average . Jim is a discomfited police sketch artist married to Stephanie , a brilliant and successful scientist . Although they still love each other , their marriage has lose some of its spark . All of that change , though , when Stephanie select Jim and their two teenage small fry along on a research trip to the Amazon . The Powell ’s plane crash into a boggy river ; they manage to get by , but , their archetype , alas , is n’t so prosperous . As the Powells appreciatively return to their sure-enough lives , they are dismayed to discover that they have suddenly developed some rather extraordinary ability . Jim is exceedingly strong with amazing reflexes . Stephanie can suddenly move at lightning speed . Daphne can hear everyone ’s thoughts include those of her 16 - year - honest-to-goodness - boyfriend , ick ! Then there ’s JJ , who miraculously goes from clueless to brainiac , ostensibly overnight . The Powells are invigorate by their novel great power , but they quickly find that the toughest challenges may be the most ordinary unity . sure as shooting , they can stop malefactor , but all the super powers in the creation ca n’t fix excited problem . The Powells well get their enactment together , soon , though , because that pilot they left for dead at the bottom of a river … he just woke up . From Brother & Sisters ’ Greg Berlanti and Jon Feldman comes a wild raw dramedy about a totally relatable family who just occur to be a petty act awe-inspiring .
Additional plaster bandage : Kay Panabaker ( CSI ) and Jimmy Bennett ( Star Trek ) play the Powell child . And Tate Donovan ( Damages ) play an unspecified character .
Cheese factor : There are superpowered minor . On the other script , Chiklis and Benz .
Terra Nova starring as yet unknown (Fox)
prescribed synopsis ( viaEW ): Terra Nova , which begins in 2149 A.D. The scene : a large mathematical group of settler are preparing to leave the revelatory world they last in to time travel back millions of days via a massive , high - tech contrivance . Their goal is to see Tree , enjoy a blue sky , eat literal food – basically , to start over in this so - bid Eden . But what they discover is unlike anything they were look .
Additional cast : Not live yet . But apparently a 13 - episode order is a sure thing , and producer Steven Spielberg is expected to videotape an intro to the show , to be played at Fox ’s spill 2010 upfronts this coming workweek .
Cheese agent : The showrunner is Brannon ( Enterprise ) Braga . But the concept fathom amazing .
Undercovers, starring Boris Kodjoe and Gugu Mbatha-Raw (NBC)
Officialsynopsis : Outwardly , Steven Bloom ( Kodjoe ) and his married woman , Samantha ( Mbatha - Raw ) , are a typical matrimonial couple who own a small catering company in Los Angeles and are helped by Samantha ’s easy frazzled younger sis , Lizzy ( Jessica Parker Kennedy ) . on the QT , the duet were two of the CIA ’s best spies until they fell in beloved on the job five year ago and retired . When fellow spy and admirer Nash ( Carter MacIntyre ) live absent while on the trail of a Russian arms monger , the Blooms are reinstated by Bos Carlton Shaw ( Gerald McRaney ) to settle and deliver Nash . The duet is thrust back into the world of espionage as they follow tether that traverse the globe — and Steven and Samantha realize that this supercharged , undercover lifestyle offer the inflammation and love affair that their spousal relationship has been missing .
Also asterisk : Ben Schwartz ( Parks And Recreation )
Cheese factor : It ’s from executive manufacturer J.J. Abrams , who also directed the pilot . So it should be pretty fun and awesome , without break down too dorky .
The Event, starring Jason Ritter (NBC)
Officialsynopsis : The upshot is an emotional mellow - octane confederacy thriller that follows Sean Walker ( Ritter , The Class ) , an Everyman who look into the orphic disappearance of his bride-to-be , Leila ( Sarah Roemer , Disturbia ) , and inadvertently start to expose the swelled cover song - up in U.S. story . Sean ’s quest will transport ripples through the life of an eclectic striation of stranger , including : newly elected U.S. President Martinez ( Blair Underwood , Dirty Sexy Money ) ; Sophia ( Emmy Award nominee Laura Innes , ER ) , who is the loss leader of a mystic group of detainees ; and Sean ’s dim father - in - law ( Scott Patterson , Gilmore Girls ) . Their futures are on a collision course in a worldwide conspiracy that could ultimately change the fortune of mankind .
extra mold : Ian Anthony Dale and Emmy winner Zeljko Ivanek .
Cheese factor : It ’s stress to be the new 24 , but with vaguely scientific discipline fable overtones about a mysterious facility in Alaska . ( situated pic viaTim Ryans Reel Hawaii )
Nikita, starring Maggie Q (The CW)
Official precis : None yet . But evidently it ’s about a newly recruited spy getting trained , so she can dog down her predecessor as Nikita . ( This one ’s not officially announced yet , but sources have been tell reporters it’sas good as on The CW ’s fall schedulefor a week or so now . )
Cheese component : If it ’s anything like the movie and the earlier television receiver spinoff , it should be pretty entertaining .
Betwixt, starring actors unknown (The CW)
prescribed outline : This is the other show the CW is reportedly close to announcing for its fall schedule — an adaptation of a unseasoned - adult novel series about kids who go to a rave and find they are really magical creatures known as half-wit .
Cheese factor : They go to a rave and discover they ’re witching .
And do n’t forget — come back this crepuscule are V , Chuck , Smallville , Supernatural , Vampire Diaries and Fringe .
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