NBC announced its new sci-fi dramatic series Timeless has received an additional episode order, bringing its season one total to 16. The full season order comes as no surprise as Timeless has been winning its Monday at 10pm ET/PT timeslot over its first four weeks, averaging 10.7 million viewers per episode. The network’s other new shows – This Is Us and The Good Place – have earned 18 and 13 episode first seasons, respectively.
In addition to announcing the extension of Timeless‘ first season, NBC confirmed the action drama Taken starring Vikings‘ Clive Standen will premiere on Monday, February 27, 2017 at 10pm ET/PT. Taken will air after the singing competition series The Voice.
“Monday nights are critical to our success,” stated NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt, “and we’re going strong into the rest of the season with the return of The Voice in February followed by the premiere of Taken, along with additional episodes of our great new series Timeless. We’re very happy to welcome Gwen Stefani back to The Voice, along with Blake, Adam, and our new coach Alicia Keys. And Taken is a thrilling new series inspired by the hit movie franchise but updated in a very clever way.”
Timeless stars Abigail Spencer, Matt Lanter, Malcolm Barrett, Goran Višnjić, Paterson Joseph, Sakina Jaffrey and Claudia Doumit. Shawn Ryan (The Shield) and Eric Kripke (Revolution, Supernatural) are the co-showrunners, writers and executive producers. John Davis, John Fox, and Marney Hochman also executive produce.
“Timeless is a phenomenal new show that takes the audience emotionally to a completely different place and time each week,” said Jennifer Salke, President of NBC Entertainment. “We’re thrilled to be ordering additional episodes so that we can run the final six hours of the season in a row with no pre-emptions after the new year. Our hats are off to Eric Kripke and Shawn Ryan for producing one of the most ambitious new shows anywhere on television.”
Details on Taken: From executive producer Luc Besson comes a modern-day edge-of-your-seat thriller that follows the origin story of younger, hungrier former Green Beret Bryan Mills (Standen) as he deals with a personal tragedy that shakes his world. As he fights to overcome the trauma of the incident and exact revenge, Mills is pulled into a career as a deadly CIA operative, a job that awakens his very particular, and very dangerous, set of skills. In 30 years, this character is destined to become the Bryan Mills that we’ve come to love from the Taken films.
The cast includes Jennifer Beals, Gaius Charles, Brooklyn Sudano, Monique Gabriela Curnen, Michael Irby, James Landry Hébert, and Jose Pablo Cantillo.
