Tracy Morgan comedy The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins to debut after NFL playoff

Nbc reports that the Tracy Morgan-led comedy The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins premieres Sunday, January 18 at 10/9c, immediately following the network's coverage of the NFL divisional-round playoff game between the Los Angeles Rams and Chicago Bears.

The series sees the Saturday Night Live alum playing a disgraced former football player determined to rehabilitate his image with the help of award-winning filmmaker Arthur Tobin (Daniel Radcliffe). The first episode will also be available to stream the next day on Peacock, and the cast includes Precious Way, Bobby Moynihan and Erika Alexander.

An encore of the premiere will air Monday, February 23 at 8 p.m. ET/PT with the second episode immediately following at 8:30 p.m., and beginning March 2 the series moves into its regular timeslot Mondays at 8:30 p.m. ET. In a December 16 Entertainment Weekly interview, Radcliffe said he was unaware his role as Arthur Tobin was written specifically for him, and Morgan said, "That day I found out Daniel Radcliffe was going to be on my show, I knew we got a hit."

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