This is probably one of the bigger twists of the Upfronts so far but NBC’s genre thriller, Emergence, has been picked up — by ABC.
The series, which stars Allison Tolman, was a favorite at ABC. It was bought by NBC instead of ABC last fall during the previous regime at the Disney-owned network. The new top ABC executive team loved the pilot and when word came that NBC was not picking it up to series, they swooped in.
Emergence is a character-driven genre thriller that centers around a police chief, played by Allison Tolman, who takes in a young child that she finds near the site of a mysterious accident who has no memory of what has happened. The investigation draws her into a conspiracy larger than she ever imagined, and the child’s identity is at the center of it all. The series also stars Alexa Swinton, Owain Yeoman, Ashley Aufderheide, Robert Bailey Jr., Zabryna Guevara, Donald Faison and Clancy Brown.
