Columbo > Elsbeth > High Potential

Note that there is a sub story attached with High Potential. Find the husband/father that left her and her daughter. This is an interesting new tweak in order to keep an audience interested.

This must be the new trendy thing to do - add a sub story - because if you watched the new Matlock show - they incorporated a sub story in that one too. Again - hook the audience so they keep on watching.

I'm still bummed that they cancelled 'So Help Me Todd' - which I thought was a very entertaining and inventive show. Good story plots. Great acting. Integrating humor into this show really made it stand out. The network didn't give So Help Me Todd a chance to develop an audience and they really didn't promote the show to develop an audience.

It will be interesting to see how High Potential and this new Matlock shows do.

Watched the Matlock one last night. I don't understand why they think that's a reboot of Matlock. It is a reboot of the Matlock name and that is about all? She's not related to him, neither is anyone on the show, neither is the law office...where's the Matlock besides it is her last name? Anyway, we liked it--not enthralled by it, but it was good enough.

You skipped Poker Face in your timeline, between Columbo and Elspeth!

They used to introduce the sub story much later, we called it "The Corporation." Whenever they ran out of plot ideas, they inserted some nefarious corporation into the story that our main characters had to fight and defeat. We typically quit watching when the corporation phase began. Now they start right out with a sub story...We'll see how this works.