LA BREA

PREMIERES Tuesday, Sept. 28, 9/8c, NBC

this fall is the intersection of La Brea Avenue and Jurassic Park. That’s the formula for this effects-heavy sci-fi thriller about a massive sinkhole opening up at the site). “They’re transported to this primeval world where they have to band together to figure out how to survive.” The disparate group includes a troubled psychiatrist (Chiké Okonkwo), a doctor and ex–Navy SEAL (’s Jon Seda) with his collegeage daughter (Veronica St. Clair) and a Louisiana cop in L.A. on a mysterious quest (Karina Logue). Taking point: Natalie Zea’s Eve Harris, a “badass superhero trapped in a middle-management body,” jokes the alum. Her character is plunged into this unfamiliar new reality with her son, Josh (Jack Martin), and a helpful array of physical abilities. “She grew up learning survival skills from her dad,” Zea says, “so when Eve begins to transform into a leader, out of necessity, that part of her that was lost so many years ago begins to wake up.”