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In the age of streaming content and prestige TV, it's easy to forget that old school TV networks are still out here pumping out television shows.

I've caught up with a bunch of this season's offerings. The networks have launched new series that adopt familiar formats, cop shows, lawyer shows, doctor shows, but each has something particular

to recommend it. I'm Linda Holmes. And I'm Glenn Weldon. It's just the two of us today on NPR's

Pop Culture Happy Hour, so let's get right to it. Linda Holmes, you came to me with a parcel of

network TV recommendations, but all of them are also made available on streaming platforms,

so they're network TV technically. We will walk you through all of that. Your first pick is

high potential on ABC and also on Hulu. Caitlin Olson of Hacks and Always Sunny plays a single mom

who works cleaning a police station, but her sharp powers of observation and deduction ultimately lead the cops to hire her as a crime-solving consultant on which television shows are based.

It's based on a French series, and the showrunner is Drew Goddard, who's got, I think it's safe to say, a very pop culture happy hour-friendly pedigree.

Yes.

He wrote for Buffy and Angel and Alias and Lost.

He has screenwriting credits for The Martian and Cloverfield.

And he directed and Carr wrote one of my favorite movies, The Cabin in the Woods.

Is that way you pick this show?

Why'd you pick this show?

Well, I originally started watching this show because of Caitlin Olson.

I'm not necessarily big, it's always sunny person, but I loved her on hacks,

and I've seen her in some other things. And I think she's really wonderful and funny. I'm also always

interested in shows where they're taking a concept that has already been done as in this case,

as you mentioned, a French show. And, you know, it's interesting because the pilot for this,

he was very close to the pilot for the French show,

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