LIMITLESS Executive Producers on the New CBS Drama: It’s an Origin Story

Though LIMITLESS started off with a Bradley Cooper-led film (and Cooper’s character, Edward Mora will appear on the show, occasionally), the television series will explore the story of a different character: Jake McDorman’s Brian Finch.

And at Comic-Con, the producers of LIMITLESS didn’t shy away from the CBS drama’s potential comparison to the other, more traditional, superhero shows on television right now.

“It’s a very grounded way to do a superhero show,” executive producer Heather Kadin acknowledged in the video below.

“There’s no question you could say it’s similar to superhero shows, or you could say it is a superhero show,” Craig Sweeny added. “There is a genre MacGuffin as part of the show…and we’ll touch on those tropes…I think we’re essentially doing an origin story.”

Check out what else Sweeny, Kadin, and pilot director/executive producer Marc Webb had to say about the new show, including expanding the roles of McDorman’s on-screen parents (played fabulously in the pilot by Ron Rifkin and Blair Brown), and how the show is tackling drug use…

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IRONSIDE: What You Need to Know About the New NBC Series

There are approximately one million new shows debuting this season*, and it’s going to get difficult to keep track of them all.

To help you out, for every new show, I’m going to basically create a hub of info on the day of the premiere — pilot photos, my quick take on the pilot (or what I’ve seen so far), what’s been written about it so far, and when you can watch it.

Next up, IRONSIDE…

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IRONSIDE: Blair Underwood Previews His New Show

Police procedurals are fairly easy to find on any given night of television, but NBC is attempting to do something a bit different with their new show, IRONSIDE: the lead character is bound to a wheelchair (in the present-day; in flashbacks, we see Ironside before his injury).

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Watch the IRONSIDE Pilot Now!

NBC’s IRONSIDE remake (starring Blair Underwood) doesn’t officially hit your television screens until Wednesday, October 2nd, but thanks to Hulu, you can check out the first episode of the series now…

What do you think?

IRONSIDE premieres Wednesday, October 2nd at 10 PM on NBC.

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