Tonight FOX kicks off the new paranormal comedy Ghosted, starring Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation) and Craig Robinson (The Office) as mismatched partners recruited by a top secret government agency to search for a missing agent. Max (Scott) is a brilliant but disgraced astrophysicist who now works at a bookstore. The former Stanford professor lost his credibility after he started making claims that his wife had been abducted by aliens. Meanwhile, Leroy (Robinson) was the best missing persons detective the LAPD ever had, but now he’s a divorced dad working as a mall cop. Heading up the Bureau Underground is Captain Ava Lafrey (Ally Walker, Colony, Longmire), technician Barry Shaw (Adeel Akhtar, Unforgotten, The Night Manager), and agent Annie (Amber Stevens West, The Carmichael Show).

The series has a bit of an X-Files/Mulder & Scully vibe with the believer and the skeptic partnered up to investigate paranormal cases. Adam Scott and Craig Robinson have great chemistry and comedic timing, which makes this show a lot of fun. There is also a bit of an 80’s throwback vibe to the show, especially in the soundtrack and score. The end of tonight’s premiere definitely leaves you wanting to see more, and I look forward to seeing what strange cases and misadventures these two get involved in in future episodes.

In tonight’s premiere, “Pilot”, a key member of a top secret government agency goes missing, so cynical former detective Leroy and genius “true believer” Max are recruited to find him. The two polar opposites must work together to find the agent, while uncovering possible alien activity and chilling “unexplained” paranormal events in their own city of Los Angeles
 

Also premiering tonight, on ABC, is the 10-episode series Ten Days in the Valley. Jane (Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer) is an overworked TV writer/producer who’s in the midst of a bitter divorce/custody dispute. One night, while she’s working late, and partaking in some recreational substances, her daughter goes missing. While she suspects her ex-husband Pete (Kick Gurry, Sense8) is responsible, there are several other people with motives. However, Jane isn’t very forthcoming when it comes to giving the police all the details. The series also stars Erika Christensen (Parenthood) as Jane’s younger half-sister Ali, Josh Randall (Ozark, Ed) as Ali’s husband, Malcolm-Jamal Warner (The Cosby Show) as head writer Matt, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Lost, OZ) as lead Detective John Bird, Felix Solis (Colony) as LAPD Detective Commander Elliot Gomez, and Francois Battiste (The Normal Heart) as undercover narcotics detective Gus Tremblay.

I was pleasantly surprised by tonight’s premiere and found myself really sucked into this world and the characters. Jane is a very different character than the role than Sedgwick played on The Closer. She doesn’t have that same likeable charm—she’s a rough, flawed woman whose priorities are a bit out of whack. While she wants the police to find her daughter, she’s also trying to cover up her own illicit activities, which just hampers the case. Tonight’s premiere does an excellent job at setting up several plausible suspects/reasons for the abduction. Each episode of the 10-episode series play out over the course of a day, and we should get a resolution by the end, so isn’t a huge time commitment for this series. I checked out the first two episodes and definitely plan to watch more.

In tonight’s premiere, “Day 1: Fade In”, Jane’s young daughter goes missing in the midst of Jane’s tempestuous separation from her husband. Meanwhile, the controversial police TV show Jane is producing implodes.

 
Tonight, I’ll also be watching/recording The Toy Box, Wisdom of the Crowd, Bob’s Burgers, The Simpsons, Family Guy, The Last Man on Earth, Fear the Walking Dead, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Episodes.

For additional suggestions on what to check out tonight—such as Bob’s Burgers and NCIS:
Los Angeles—check out the If We Controlled Your Remote… 10/1/17 post at TVisMyPacifier.com.