Quantum Leap (2022) is the sequel to the original series, which aired on NBC from 1989 to 1993. It's been thirty years since Dr. Sam Beckett got into the Quantum Leap accelerator and disappeared. Now a new team has been assembled to restart the project in hopes of understanding the mysteries behind the machine and the man who created it.
In addition to Lee, the series stars Ernie Hudson, Caitlin Bassett, Mason Alexander Park and Nanrisa Lee.
Co-showrunners Martin Gero and Dean Georgaris produced along with Deborah Pratt, Chris Grismer, Alex Berger and Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt, who developed the reboot.
In a February conversation, Gero and Georgaris said the season two finale wasn't written as a series finale, but it wraps up the action in a neat and uplifting way.
“When we got the early renewal for Season 2, we knew we were not going to end it on a cliffhanger,” Georgaris said. “We were going to end it on the first scene from Season 3, and we’re going to end it with the two characters together, but in a way that you never expected. And that sort of says to the audience, ‘look at all the great places we can go.’ So if it feels like a completion for audiences, that’s wonderful. It is a completion of part of the journey, but I think for us, it serves as the launch for the rest of the journey.”
Georgaris also addressed Quantum Leap being on the bubble. “The new reality we’re all getting used to is, it’s not just about one rating anymore. It’s not just about one number. There are multiple platforms,” he said. “So the truth is, I think every showrunner and every show creator is living a bubble existence, for the most part. That just comes with it. And that’s fine.”
In an interview in February, Universal TV President Erin Underhill also acknowledged that “the way that they wrapped that up is it could be a satisfying ending but they also could continue on” while noting that a decision was expected in April.
Expressing optimism while cautioning that a lot would depend on NBC’s development and 2024 drama pilots, she added, “I think everyone has a lot of support for that show and big fan base in terms of that being a major library title for us.”
So far, NBC has renewed five of the six Dick Wolf series and the first dramas Found and The Irrational.
