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For two seasons, High Potential has done great for ABC. The Kaitlin Olson-led procedural dramedy was an immediate hit, becoming the leading scripted ABC show for its debut season. The series has also set a network record after emerging as a streaming favorite, a phenomenon that has allowed viewership to grow long after its linear debut. The series typically aired on Tuesdays at 10 pm, but this season brings some changes. High Potential is officially on the move.
It's not unusual for a network to replace successful shows to give other shows on its roster a chance to grow. The Rookie used to occupy the Tuesday slot before it was moved around to accommodate new shows. High Potential, however, was not replaced by a new show; it was replaced by another ABC procedural, R.J. Decker. The Scott Speedman-led PI drama took over the 10 pm slot, and the network is keeping it there while moving High Potential to a midseason premiere. While the move disappoints fans who expected new episodes this month, it's a blessing in disguise because it lets ABC air the entire season uninterrupted by major holidays that fill the final months of the year and early January.
R.J. Decker focuses on the titular character, a former newspaper photographer. After spending time in jail, R.J. starts over as a private investigator in South Florida, where crimes range from the weird to the extremely bizarre. His collaborators include his ex, Catherine, a journalist; his ex's wife, Mel, a police detective; his former cellmate and confidant, Wish; and a shadowy woman. The series also stars Jaina Lee Ortiz as Emilia "Emi" Ochoa, Bevin Bru as Detective Melody "Mel" Abreu, Kevin Rankin as Aloysius "Wish" Aiken, and Adelaide Clemens as Catherine Delacroix. R.J. Decker was inspired by Carl Hiaasen's novel Double Whammy. Rob Dohery serves as showrunner, writer, and executive producer.
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Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe QuizWhich Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In?Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn't write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
QUESTION 1 / 10POWER
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Where does your power come from?In Sheridan's world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
QUESTION 2 / 10LOYALTY
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Who do you put first, no matter what?Loyalty in Sheridan's universe is always absolute — and always costly.
QUESTION 3 / 10CONFLICT
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond?Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it's crossed.
QUESTION 4 / 10SETTING
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Where do you feel most in your element?Sheridan's worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
QUESTION 5 / 10MORALITY
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How do you feel about operating in the grey?Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
QUESTION 6 / 10AMBITION
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto?Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they're defending.
QUESTION 7 / 10LEADERSHIP
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How do you lead?Authority in Sheridan's world is never given — it's established, maintained, and constantly tested.
QUESTION 8 / 10OUTSIDERS
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction?Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
QUESTION 9 / 10COST
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What has your position cost you?Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
QUESTION 10 / 10LEGACY
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When it's over, what do you want people to say?Sheridan's characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
Sheridan Has SpokenYou Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you're complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
YELLOWSTONE
You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world's indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you're willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family's weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what's yours, you don't escalate — you finish it. You're not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone's world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn't make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
LANDMAN
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You're a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they'll do to get it. You're not naive enough to think this world is fair. You're smart enough to be the one deciding who it's fair to.
TULSA KING
You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you're not above reminding people that the two aren't mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they'd be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they're more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don't need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
MAYOR OF KINGSTOWN
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you're the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky's world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You've made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
What To Expect in 'R.J. Decker' Season 2
In the new season, the mystery surrounding Victor Ochoa's (David Zayas) death deepens. The list of people who would want Ochoa dead is long, but R.J. can only be sure about one suspect: himself. Can Emi do the same? The Season 2 premiere, "The Point of Us Breaking," reunites R.J. with an old prison acquaintance and pulls him into a string of daring bank heists. Later, the investigator is pulled into another mystery that sparks one of his strangest cases yet.
R.J. Decker returns on Tuesday, September 15, at 10 pm. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
Paul McGuigan, Christine Moore, Holly Dale, Kenneth Biller, Michael Lehmann, Seith Mann
Writers
Robert Doherty, Jason Tracey, Liz Friedman, Jamie Savarese, Juan Carlos Fernandez, Kenneth Biller
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Cast
David Zayas, Enya Flack, Scott Speedman, Donny Boaz, Jaina Lee Ortiz, Pej Vahdat, Drew Rausch, Hunter Burke, Kevin Bigley, Keith Brooks, Allie McCulloch, Krizia Bajos, Alan Boell, Kevin Rankin, Adelaide Clemens, Bevin Bru, Melodie Rose Romano, Matthew Cornwell, Lincoln A. Castellanos, Don Stallings, Blanca Araceli, Anthony B. Jenkins, William Christopher Watson, Grace Junot, Michael Germant