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NBC has released the first trailer for the reboot/continuation of the beloved sci-fi drama ‘Quantum Leap‘, which premieres this September on the US network (no news yet of who will air it in the UK.)
For those of you unfamiliar with the original series, it starred Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist working on a government experiment into time travel. When the government threaten to cut his funding, Sam takes drastic action, stepping into the Quantum Leap Accelerator, vanishing from the present day, and becoming trapped in the past. However, he isn’t in his own body but has “leapt” into the body of someone else. Aided by a hologram of his friend Admiral Al Calavicci (played by Dean Stockwell) and the project’s supercomputer Ziggy (voiced by Deborah Pratt), he soon discovers the only way to move time periods is to correct something that went wrong in that person’s life, allowing him to “leap” into another random body and time, hoping his next leap will be the leap home.
This new iteration is a continuation from the original, whilst also something of a reboot. The series sees Raymond Lee (‘Kevin Can F**k Himself’) take the role of Dr. Ben Seong, a world-renowned physicist who has picked up the baton of the Quantum Leap project started by Bakula’s Dr. Beckett. It’s been 30 years since Sam stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished. Now a new team has been assembled to restart the project in the hopes of understanding the mysteries behind the machine and the man who created it.
Making up the rest of that new team are Ernie Hudson (‘Ghostbusters’) as Herbert “Magic” Williams, a Vietnam veteran and head of the time travel project at Quantum Leap. Using a bit of politicking and his military know-how to keep the Pentagon at bay, Magic buys the team some time to rescue Ben but expects answers once he’s back – On a side note: “Magic” is also a person Sam “jumped” into in the episode ‘The Leap Home: Part II’ of the original series; Nanrisa Lee (‘Bosch’, ‘The Morning Show’) as Jenn, head of security at Quantum Leap headquarters; Mason Alexander Park (‘Cowboy Bebop’, ‘The Sandman’) as Ian, chief architect of Quantum Leap’s AI program; And newcomer Caitlin Bassett as Addison, project lead at Quantum Leap HQ who operates state-of-the-art technology to communicate with an individual time travelling in the past.
This version of ‘Quantum Leap’ comes from Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt, co-showrunners of NBC series ‘La Brea’, write and exec produce, with ‘Blindspot’ creator Martin Gero also exec producing. Original ‘Quantum Leap’ creator/EP Don Bellisario also exec produces alongside original EP Deborah Pratt (who also provided the voice for Ziggy in the original series.) The series is produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.
We don’t yet know where ‘Quantum Leap‘ will air in the UK. Sky is a possible home, given it is from Sky’s sister company NBCUniversal, although that isn’t always the case… We expected Lilien/Wynbrandt other show, ‘La Brea‘ (also from NBCUniversal), to go to Sky, and then ended up popping up on Paramount+ UK, so where this will end up is anyone’s guess at the moment.
‘Quantum Leap‘ Season 1 premieres Monday, September 19, 2022 at 10:00/9:00c on NBC and streaming next day on Peacock in the USA.
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