Fox’s New Amsterdam (Tuesday, 9:00 p.m., WNYW 5) sounds like a mashup of Pocahontas and Forever Knight, but with out the animation or the vampires. The story for this new series starts in 1642 when a Dutch soldier (Danish import Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) saves a Native American girl and is given the gift/curse of immortality and not ageing until he finds his true love. Fast forward to today and that soldier is now NYPD homicide detective John Amsterdam, who now has to deal with a new partner (British import Zuleikha Robinson).
Hopefully it will not be just another cop show with a twist, but one with some depth. Still anything is better than another moronic Fox fakeality show and Fox will actually give it a chance. Plus, it seems to have been filmed in the city, so even if it isn’t any good to watch it is good for the local economy!
Also of note this week:
Treasures in the Harbor (Monday, 10:00, WNET 13) Channel thirteen’s President Emeritus Bill Baker takes a tour of all the National Parks in New York Harbor in both New York and New Jersey, some you may not even know about.
The Real Housewives of New York City (Tuesday, 11:00 p.m., Bravo) Talk about false advertising! It appears all the hausfraus in this new fakeality series are all rich white Manhattanites. So how real can it be?
