‘Quantum Leap’: Caitlin Bassett Teases Addison’s Major Decisions, Plus Will There Be a Season 3?
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Ben’s (Raymond Lee) days leaping around in time and into people could be numbered, if the lead that Tom (Peter Gadiot) found at the end of the last Quantum Leap episode goes anywhere. But is that something the team—namely Addison (Caitlin Bassett), who’s the one mostly interacting with him as his hologram—will clue him in on?
“That’s always been a really fun thing about this, right?” Bassett tells TV Insider ahead of the NBC drama’s midseason return on January 30 (it moves to Tuesdays at 10/9c). “When to tell him things, how to tell him things. It’s positive news, but I do feel at this juncture, until we know more, I don’t want to get his hopes up. And you’ll see different camps in the show coming up, the tell him versus the not. I get the hesitancy to tell him too early, but it gets very exciting.”
Something else Addison might want to hold back on telling her ex-fiancé: She found a ring and thinks Tom’s going to propose. In fact, she thought he was going to in Season 2 Episode 8, “Nomad,” until he told her about something being found on a fragment of a hard drive of the discontinued DARPA project that could be a way to bring Ben home. But if he had proposed in that moment, did Addison know what she would’ve said?
“She does not know. I made a very specific choice in that moment to be genuinely surprised by it, which makes it much more fun to act through [going forward] because you get to watch her make a decision—maybe a couple decisions,” Bassett teases.
The second season is almost over, with the two-hour finale set for February 20 at 9/8c. And after what we’ve seen thus far, we need a third! “I know, I got a mortgage now,” Bassett agrees.
As for what she’s heard about the show’s future, “We really don’t know. We know the live numbers, but we don’t know the Peacock numbers. We don’t know the international numbers, and we honestly don’t know what their decision point’s going to turn on,” she admits. “So please write into NBC and let ’em know you love the show. But yeah, it’s really up to the fans honestly at this point. And we hope to do it for a decade. Because it’s a show that can.”
Quantum Leap, Midseason Premiere, Tuesday, January 30, 10/9c, NBC
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Keep Quantum Leap alive NBC!!!
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I love the show and I was the one for sure to believe I may not like it because I've always been a fan of the old show and thinking This was a remake I was just thinking nothing original is coming out. But I like it that it continues years later after the old show ended and bonus one of the characters was one of Sam's leaps. This show needs to stay going.
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>This show needs to stay going.
No,it's not.
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'Keep Quantum Leap going 'On for longer please....It needs to have many more seasons...It's 'one of the Best shows on Peacock...'
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I’m writing to NBC to keep Quantum Leap going!!
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After watching the episode tonight my feeling is: The Season cannot end with Addison marrying Tom. It MUST not end with Addison marrying Tom. The scene was set for Hannah to leave the show and have a happy life with her new husband. That would have freed up Ben to end up with Addison (the way that i and my co-workers want.) Then this ringer is thrown in and Addison accepts Tom's proposal. That crashed my entire evening. (I will be on pins and needles until the next episode.) If Ben gets back with Addison. I will gladly and avidly watch Season 3. If Ben does not get back with Addison then you can count me OUT (and all my co-workers OUT) for Season 3 and we will boycott any future work by the show runners and the writers. We love the Ben/Addison relationship. We all hope that the writers are just setting up some BOFFO finish where true love (Ben/Addison) is somehow triumphant in the final episode. Maybe Hannah's son will somehow come up with the way for Ben to come back. Maybe Tom will show his true colors as an agent for the Dark Forces battling with Project Quantum leap. [Many theories are being floated among my co-workers].
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Yes keep it alive, also have an episode where Ben find Sam on a leap.
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