'The Last Ship' sets sail on TNT

The Last Ship | TNT, Sunday, 9 ET/PT. There was a time when we yearned for shows on the small screen that could match the depth, reach and look of their big-screen brethren. But we now have Good Wife and Fargo and Game of Thrones (to name a few) on 

There's a worldwide pandemic and 80 percent of the population is dead. Governments have imploded. Countries are in chaos. But there's a U.S. Naval ship that's been at sea, hiding in a sense, for four months. And it has a 

"The Last Ship," based on William Brinkley's novel of the same name, stars Grey's Anatomy's veteran Eric Dane as Capt. Tom Chandler, a career Navy man who heads the destroyer USS Nathan James, a ship that is spared in a devastating global pandemic.

TNT executives are hoping for another hit along the lines of “Falling Skies,” a sci-fi show drama that draws more younger viewers than any other original program on the network. Not surprisingly, TNT has scheduled “The Last Ship” right before “Falling