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Watch the trailers for NBC's new series, including the Wesley Snipes led THE PLAYER!

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It’s Spring cleaning time on US TV networks. As “Bloody Friday” saw several shows getting axed last week (including one of our favourites, Constantine) the networks now start pitching their replacement shows. Major player NBC, who wielded one of the bloodiest axes as it got rid of nine shows (including the aforementioned Constantine as well Katherine Heigl’s State of Affairs), have now debuted the full trailers for their new lineup, and some of them look rather intriguing.

And by “intriguing” I mean “there’s a show about a naked and tattooed Jaimie Alexander from Thor“. Yes, I thought that would get your attention. There’s also a new action drama titled The Player (formally Endgame) that sees Strike Back‘s Phillip Winchester teaming up with Wesley Snipes (WESLEY SNIPES!!). All in all there’s a bit of everything for everybody, so check them all out below.

  • Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris

Five Emmy Awards and a Tony Award make multi-talented Neil Patrick Harris the perfect star for this live one-hour show that is unlike any other currently on American television. Complete with stunts, skits, pranks, audience interaction, musical numbers, giveaways and unlimited surprises, this show proves that anything can happen, and it can happen to you. Based on the wildly popular British hit “Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway,” the modernized variety show format and its fearless, multi-talented star will make for one of the best nights ever on TV.

  • Blindspot

From executive producer Greg Berlanti (“Arrow,” “The Flash,” “The Mysteries of Laura”) comes “Blindspot”: A vast international plot explodes when a beautiful Jane Doe, completely covered in mysterious, intricate tattoos, is discovered naked in Times Square with no memory of who she is or how she got there. But there’s one tattoo that is impossible to miss: the name of FBI agent Kurt Weller, emblazoned across her back. “Jane,” Agent Weller and the rest of the FBI quickly realize that each mark on her body is a crime to solve, leading them closer to the truth about her identity and the mysteries to be revealed. The cast includes Sullivan Stapleton, Jaimie Alexander, Audrey Esparza, Rob Brown, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Ukweli Roach and Ashley Johnson.

  • People Are Talking

If you can think it, they will say it. From producer Will Packer (“Ride Along”) and director Pam Fryman (“How I Met Your Mother”) comes this unabashed new comedy about two diverse couples who are both neighbors and best friends. As they go through life side-by-side, they can’t help but analyze and obsess about everything. From topics like sex and race, to the fact that the trusted new babysitter might just be a porn star, nothing is out of bounds for this wildly outspoken foursome. The cast includes Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Tone Bell and Bresha Webb.

  • Heartbreaker

Based on the real life and achievements of Dr. Kathy Magliato, this unique character-driven medical drama follows Dr. Alex Panttiere (Melissa George, “The Slap”), an outspoken world-renowned heart-transplant surgeon and one of the few women in her field. Stubborn and fearless, Alex always operates on her own terms. She revels in a racy personal life that’s a full-time job in itself, manages the daily demands of skeptical faculty and dutiful interns, and pushes the boundaries of medical science to impressive new heights. The cast includes Melissa George, Dave Annable, Don Hany, Shelley Conn, D.L. Hughley, Jamie Kennedy, Maya Erskine, J. Louis Mills and Joshua Leonard.

  • The Player

From the executive producers of “The Blacklist” and starring Wesley Snipes and Philip Winchester (“Strike Back,” “Fringe”) comes an action-packed Las Vegas thriller about a former military operative turned security expert who is drawn into a high-stakes game where an organization of wealthy individuals gamble on his ability to stop some of the biggest crimes imaginable from playing out. Can he take them down from the inside and get revenge for the death of his wife, or is it true what they say: The house always wins. The cast also includes Charity Wakefield and Damon Gupton.

Of course, there’s no word on whether any of these new shows will be making it to local TV screens, but if they do, which ones will be checking out? There has apparently been lots of great buzz for The Player, and while I think the Prison Break/John Doe mashup of Blindspot may be a little derivative, there’s no denying that the world can never have enough Lady Sif.

Last Updated: May 12, 2015

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  1. You had me at “naked and tattooed Jaime Alexander”. Um, wait, I meant hello. You had me at hello.

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