9-1-1 Season Two (double opener)

Moving from Wednesday's to Monday's and adding a bumper opening over two nights, 9-1-1 is back for 2018-2019.

9-1-1 was one of the biggest breakthrough hits in early 2018 and like most of Ryan Murphy's hits, he sampled it, it worked the first 10 episode season has now grown to a second 16 episode run. Like Empire and Star the show will be spilt in two so we will get one half this side of Christmas and the other sometime in 2019.

With Connie Britton leaving at the end of season one, we score 90's scream queen Jennifer Love Hewitt. Love Hewitt commences as Buck's sister, Buck is the star hunk Oliver Stark from season one, but now faces a new hunk on the block, Ryan Guzman playing single father Eddie Diaz.

Peter Krause and Angela Bassett continue to lead the show whilst being backed up by a strong supporting cast. Scoring a Sunday night monster 10 million (or close enough) live viewers, the show is a shoe in for a third season.

FOX struggles with dramas at present and with Empire entering a fifth season and looking a little tired, a fresh hit like 9-1-1 is just what the doctor ordered.



9-1-1 is good escapism TV, it's easy to watch, easy on the eye and a great cast on board.

Interesting stories and the major earthquake were a good way to open the second season. Sunday was a blockbuster night on US TV with new Lifetime series You being an early frontrunner for one of my favourite new shows, The Deuce rolling on HBO and Shameless only one episode away from it's 100th episode.

9-1-1 continues Mondays on US Fox network, I will be interested to see how episode two goes up against The Good Doctor and new NBC drama Manifest.