via comingsoon.net

The announcements were made by Ben Silverman, Co-Chairman, NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios.

[...] Life” resumes its second season on Friday, October 3 (10-11 p.m. ET) in the drama starring Damian Lewis as a wrongly imprisoned police detective who returns to the force searching for justice. “Crusoe,” the action-adventure, contemporary re-telling of the classic Daniel Defoe novel “Robinson Crusoe,” will debut on in a special two-hour premiere on Friday, October 17 (8-10 p.m. ET). “America’s Toughest Jobs” will air in its regularly scheduled timeslot (8-9 p.m. ET) on Fridays leading up to the premiere of “Crusoe.” [...]

The new landmark series “Crusoe” is an epic and ambitious take on Daniel Defoe’s legendary tale that finds the dashing and resourceful Crusoe (Philip Winchester, “Thunderbirds”) after many years of being a castaway on a desert island with his companion Friday (casting to follow). Written by Stephen Gallagher (”Eleventh Hour”) and directed by Duane Clark (”CSI: NY”), “Crusoe” follows the adventures of the two island dwellers while looking in flashback at Crusoe’s life before he was thrown into an isolated existence filled with danger and adventure. Among those are his tragic childhood with widower father James (Sean Bean, “The Lord of the Rings”), the blossoming relationship with the love of his life, Susannah (Anna Walton “Hell Boy: the Golden Army”) and his entrepreneurial aspirations under the watchful eye of family friend, Jeremiah Blackthorn (Sam Neill, “The Tudors,” ‘Jurassic Park”). Overcoming marauding militias, hungry cannibals, wild cats, starvation and apocalyptic lightning storms on his seemingly idyllic island, Crusoe dreams of the day he will be reunited with his beloved family. The executive producers are Justin Bodle for Power, Michael Prupas for Muse and Genevieve Hofmeyr for Moonlighting.