Premiering on Wednesday, July 9, is the new CBS drama Extant created by Mickey Fisher and starring Halle Berry, Goran Visnjic, Pierce Gagnon, Hiroyuki Sanada, Camryn Manheim, Grace Gummer and Michael O’Neill. The show’s original music is composed by Marcelo Zarvos (Enough Said, Ry Donovan, The Big C, Remember Me). To learn more about the series, which follows an astronaut who returns home from a year-long mission in space and tries to reconnect with her husband and son in their everyday life, visit the official show website. Extant will air every Wednesday night on CBS.
Premiering on Thursday, July 10, is the new NBC comedy Welcome to Sweden executive produced by Greg & Amy Poehler, Pontus Edgren, Frederik Arefalk & Felix Herngern and starring Greg Poehler, Josephine Bornebusch and Lena Olin. Andreas Grill and Nick Malmestrom are composing the show’s original music. Welcome to Sweden follows a New York accountant who moves to Sweden after falling in love with a Swedish girl. Aubrey Plaza will appear in a reoccuring role. The show will air every Thursday night on NBC. For updates on the comedy, visit the official show website.
Also premiering on Thursday night is the new comedy Working the Engels created by Katie Ford & Jane Cooper Ford and starring Andrea Martin, Azura Skye, Benjamin Arthyr and Kacey Rohl. The show’s original music is composed by Grayson Matthews (The Art of Stealing, A Beginner’s Guide to Endings). The series follows a family that must band together when their father passes away, leaving them a mountain of debt. Working the Engels will air every Thursday night on NBC. For more information about the comedy, visit the official show website.