Overview
Quantum Leap is an American science fiction television series aired on NBC. It is a revival of the original 1989–1993 show created by Donald P. Bellisario, being developed by Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt. Bellisario, Lilien and Wynbrandt executive produce. It takes place in 2022: 27 years after Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and 22 years after the Season 5 finale where the show left off. The series stars Raymond Lee as new lead character Dr. Ben Song, along with Caitlin Bassett, Mason Alexander Park, Nanrisa Lee, and Ernie Hudson. The season premiered on September 19, 2022. In December 2022, the series was renewed for a second season which premiered on October 4, 2023.
Premise
Thirty years have passed since Dr. Sam Beckett vanished into the Quantum Leap accelerator. The Quantum Leap project has been restarted with a new team trying to piece together the mysteries behind Beckett and his machine. For reasons unknown, Dr. Ben Song, the new project's lead physicist, has uploaded new program code to the project systems and used the upgraded accelerator to leap back in time. He becomes lost in the past just as Beckett did, living the lives of other people and changing history in hopes of getting back to the present. Project employee Addison Augustine, who is Ben's fiancée, acts as his liaison with the project, appearing to him as a hologram only he can see and hear, just as the previous project's observer Al Calavicci did for Beckett.
Cast
Main
Raymond Lee as Ben Song, the lead physicist working on Quantum Leap who gets stuck in the past, leaping into the bodies of different people, while also having partial amnesia about his identity as a result of leaping
Caitlin Bassett as Addison Augustine, Ben's fiancée and "observer", who helps Ben with finding out what he has to do in order to leap
Mason Alexander Park as Ian Wright, the chief architect of the Quantum Leap artificial intelligence
Nanrisa Lee as Jenn Chou, the Quantum Leap head of security
Ernie Hudson as Herbert "Magic" Williams, head of the Quantum Leap time travel project, and a Vietnam War veteran who Sam Beckett leaped into in the series' Season 3 1990 episode "The Leap Home (Part 2) – Vietnam"; Hudson replaces Christopher Kirby from the original episode
Eliza Taylor as Hannah Carson (season 2)
Peter Gadiot as Tom Westfall (season 2), a U.S. Army Intelligence officer, formerly of the Special Forces, and Addison's new love interest
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