Fox tries its hand at high concepts procedurals once again with a new sci-fi series that imagines what would happen if a malevolent artificial reality program were unleashed onto the world on neXt.
On neXt Season 1 Episode 1, “File #1,” Paul LeBlanc (John Slattery), a prominent silicon valley pioneer, discovers that an AI he created called neXt could spell certain destruction for mankind so he attempts to shut down the program.
His plan fails when he is kicked out of the company by his own brother and can only ponder what neXt means for the world as a whole.
After a series of tech mishaps start to occur around world, LeBlanc decides that this does indeed portend certain doom and teams up with Special Agent Shea Salazar (Fernanda Andrade) to find some way to take down neXt and hopefully save the world.
They are the only things standing in the way of a global meltdown and they must figure out together how to fight something that has learned every single thing about them.
Check out the photos and trailer below for a preview!
Episode description: Silicon Valley pioneer PAUL LEBLANC built a fortune and legacy on the world-changing innovations he dreamed up. After discovering that one of his own creations — a powerful artificial intelligence called NEXT — might spell doom for humankind, Paul tried to shutter the project, only to be kicked out of the company by his own brother, TED LEBLANC. When a series of unsettling tech mishaps points to a potential worldwide crisis, Paul joins forces with Special Agent SHEA SALAZAR. Meanwhile, Paul juggles his health and family life; Shea also focuses on a high-profile case; and Shea’s husband TY manages their son’s alarmingly close relationship with their “smart home assistant,” Iliza, as he experiences bullying at school in the all-new “FILE #1” series premiere episode of NEXT airing Tuesday, Oct. 6 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
Drew has an ongoing, borderline unhealthy obsession with pop culture, but with television in particular. When he's not aggressively trying to get out of a perpetual state of catching up, he can be found passionately defending the ending of Lost. More of his online work can be found at The Lost Cause and he also co-hosts The Lost Cause Pod.
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