NBC’s Quantum Leap Reboot Gets a Full Series Order

There’ve been on-and-off hopes for a while now that the sci-fi cult basic Quantum Leap starring Scott Bakula and the late Dean Stockwell would obtain some sort of continuation. Creator Donald Bellisario made a script for a movie meant to select up the place the sequence left off, and late final yr, information began swirling of NBC trying a reboot of the sequence. After capturing its pilot again in January, NBC has determined to go forward and provides it a full sequence order.

Revealed by Deadline on Friday, the reboot will choose up within the modern-day and proceed the place the unique Leap left off. At the top of its fifth and last season, Bakula’s time touring lead, Dr. Sam Beckett, discovered that his quest to journey via time and proper numerous injustices all through historical past by leaping into different individuals’s our bodies could be an everlasting one, or no less than till everybody noticed that secret ending. In the reboot, a brand new group led by Raymond Lee’s (Kevin Can Fuck Himself) Dr. Ben Seong has been put collectively within the hopes of uncovering the secrets and techniques of Beckett and his Quantum Leap accelerator. Joining Lee within the sequence contains Caitlin Bassett, Mason Alexander Park, Ernie Hudson, and Nanrisa Lee.

Though it looks like the brand new Quantum Leap could be about discovering a solution to convey Beckett again, it doesn’t seem that the character’s return is within the playing cards. Bakula is serving as one of many reboot’s govt producers alongside Bellisario, however he’s additionally starring in Unbroken, one other drama for NBC hoping to obtain its personal pickup and can air in November through the fall midseason ought to that occur. With a full sequence order within the works, the brand new Quantum Leap is anticipated to be air proper after The Voice, and might be one of many many exhibits to air in the beginning of the autumn TV season. All we now have to do now’s watch for our first take a look at this new tackle the beloved sequence.

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