According to Deadline, NBC has given the Quantum Leap revival a six-episode order. Since its premiere on September 19th, the show has been Peacock’s most-watched NBC season series, which is most likely what pushed producers to order extra episodes. With this new sequence, the first season will consist of a total of 18 episodes. The new series, starring Raymond Lee as scientist Ben Song, is a continuation of the old one. In the first episode, Dr Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) has been missing for 30 years after using the Quantum Leap accelerator. Song has reassembled the team to resume the research in an effort to learn more about the equipment and its inventor.
But like Beckett, he takes an unlawful time travel trip and finds himself in a new body with just shards of his memories intact. Similar to his predecessor, Ben hops from life to life in an attempt to rectify some wrongs. Like Beckett, Ben may never return to his own time if the secret of the time machine is not revealed. Given the continuity between the two shows, the show eventually closed some of the loose ends from the original. Though Bakula recently clarified on Twitter that he is not currently involved with the relaunch, showrunner Martin Gero has stated that a cameo appearance by the actor is possible and that the additional episodes offer numerous such options.
Starring alongside Lee is Caitlin Bassett as Addison Augustine, Ben’s fianceé, Mason Alexander Park as Ian Wright, the chief architect of the Quantum Leap artificial intelligence, and Ernie Hudson as Herbert “Magic” Williams, the head of the Quantum Leap time travel project, a character similar to Dean Stockwell’s Admiral Al Calavicci from the original series. Janis Calavicci, Al’s daughter, is portrayed by Georgina Reilly.
Gero, Dean Georgaris, Don Bellisario, Deborah Pratt, Chris Grismer, Steven Lilien, and Bryan Wynbrandt are the show’s executive producers alongside series creator Donald P. Bellisario. Monday nights at 10:00 p.m. ET/9:00 p.m. Central is when you can catch Quantum Leap on NBC. Peacock also has all of Season 1’s episodes accessible to watch the day after they air.