[TVLine] As the old saying goes, time flies when your favorite show stages a significant, season-ending, narrative-altering time jump.
TVLine has learned that the producers of an established series are toying with the idea of ending the current season with a massive timeline shift.
According to sources, the length of the time jump being considered is in the neighborhood of five years.
If the trigger ultimately gets pulled on the flash-forward twist, it would have enormous implications for a number of the show’s current storylines/characters ahead of next season.
If it’s a clue you want, it’s a (relatively, infuriatingly minor) clue you are going to get: The show looking to play fast and loose with the calendar airs on one of the five broadcast networks (i.e. ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC or The CW).
A decision on whether to proceed with the time warp is expected to be made in the coming days, well in advance of the mid-April publication of TVLine’s 2020 May Sweeps Scorecard.
Based on the very limited intel we have given you, do you have any thoughts/theories as to which series may dash through 60 months faster than a speeding bullet (that’s not another clue, BTW)?
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[Optional] Which show do you WISH would move ahead a few years? Why?
chichi2758 says
I was thinking Superstore since America Ferrera announced that she was leaving.
feztive says
The affair
princessfrog says
Already did a time jump, and is already finished.
gfbcpa says
The Conners.
nopebope says
The flash
xphile101 says
For fun I’m going to say SVU, because it’s basically the only show I watch.
Brunettetalk says
This is Us. They are already jumping around so much on each episode I am getting seasick. Stop it !!
magi1228 says
I’m going to say the Crown. I think they want to pick up at Diana’s death with Harry making such a spectacle of it lately and how he can’t get over it, so much so that he’s at JP Morgan talking about it.
mamacita says
Modern family?
I wish greys anatomy because it really sucks right now.
Lizbait says
Totally agree! I’m almost over Grey’s.
bella says
Young Sheldon
Rae1977 says
Grey’s Anatomy.
hellovodo says
Riverdale?
Skeet Ulrich and Marisol Nichols are leaving the show so a time jump could explain their absence in future episodes
CanaryCry says
Is this Riverdale?
Wouldn’t such a jump be like that comic strip Funky Winkerbean? Or like a certain Archie comic book where things didn’t end well for the ginger protagonist?
sassy126 says
Manifest? To get to the death date?
Cloudy says
This is Us.
Melvin says
TV Show: Supergirl or The Flash.
Both are faster than a speeding bullet.
llabine1 says
I would love it to be Grey’s Anatomy…with Justin Chambers leaving and babies being born it would be interesting to see how this is all solved….
grumpy says
I’m thinking Riverdale this would put the key charters to adulthood + a few of the older (Who play parents) cast have been let go
michelex23 says
This is us?
toronto says
Riverdale.
Those writers are bananas. They also just recycle old plots/methods used by teen dramas in the early 2000s. One Tree Hill did a five year time jump. Gossip girl also had a weird subplot with the golden couple’s parents (maybe) sharing a child that was the half sibling of bf/gf. It’s all soooo bad lol.
Optional: I would say I’d love to see a time jump for Sherlock on BBC. Love that show.
star1977 says
This Is Us.
I noticed this season doesn’t have many flash forwards. Plus they can concentrate on how Randall and Kevin fell out with other.
msjenn says
This Is Us?
Babs806 says
My guess is Manifest, because the characters who were on the returned flight have a “death date” around five years in the future.
Avixen21 says
I think this is the best guess, especially with title “Time Flies” since Manifest is about passengers on a plane. Kudos!!
wendybar says
That was my first thought too.
Monysmom says
Modern Family?
PollyMetropolitan says
This makes sense because it is ending, and it would tie up some storylines and let viewers know how everyone turned out down the road, but the blind says something about next season. There won’t be a next season.
Vinnie says
No- this is ending this season. This blind talks about next season.
Riskia says
Riverdale
ILikeSleep21 says
My guess is This Is Us, but I’d love it to be Chicago PD. I want to know how the whole Adam/Burgess/Roman thing plays out among many other things.
foraccts says
Chicago PD. Script is hackneyed and the situations are soooo unrealistic. Cannot watch for long.
stella_8 says
Picard
badgerette85 says
No idea only guess…. This is Us.
calleighparson says
TV Show: This is Us
I think they’ve overused this trope.
harperleigh says
This is us
boyjack4 says
Greys Anatomy
jojo5282 says
This is us
itstarapagain says
God I hope not. She’d explode!