Jennifer Love Hewitt Pitches Ideas for Possible ‘9-1-1’ and ‘High Potential’ Crossover

Jennifer Love Hewitt is on board for a 9-1-1 crossover with High Potential — and she already has story line ideas.

“I am obsessed with the show High Potential,” Hewitt, 46, told Awards Buzz earlier this month. “They’re in L.A., and she’s always referencing dispatch. And I’m like, ‘She has got to come to the dispatch center, or I have to go to hers.’”

With both shows airing on ABC, the sky is the limit.

“Or I feel like we could do both, like, one of their episodes could end with her coming to my dispatch center, and then I could enter her next episode,” Hewitt added. “But I just need to work with that show. I just wanna be on that show. I think it could be so fun.”

She continued: “Wouldn’t that be cool? Same family. Same Disney. Same ABC. Same all that stuff. But I think it would be really fun, because her character is so fun, and I feel like she and Maddie would be really fun to watch together.”

High Potential, which premiered in September 2024, follows a high IQ civilian named Morgan (Kaitlin Olson) who teams up with the LAPD to help solve murders. She gets paired up with Detective Karadec (Daniel Sunjata) and becomes a reliable asset despite his initial hesitation.

ABC quickly renewed High Potential for season 2 following its successful debut. Executive producer and showrunner Todd Harthan has since teased bringing in some new faces.

“Just the casting opportunities — not just for guest star roles — but recurring roles. We’ve never met Morgan’s mother and father either. We haven’t met anybody,” he exclusively told Us Weekly in February. “Kaitlin is a magnet for talent. There’s a lot of people that go, ‘Oh, I get to act alongside her? That looks like a really good time.’ And they are right, It is.”

He noted: “She’s a blast. But I hope you’re right [that there is actor interest in guest-starring on High Potential]. I want to see that list of people that want to come and dance with us.”

According to Harthan, the show is ready to evolve.

“I learned [in season 1] that I have this wonderful cast that you can write anything for. They really are,” Harthan shared with Us. “With that said, what is going to be quite different in season 2 is that we didn’t have our sea legs yet. We haven’t really scratched the surface of some of those other characters in the ensemble. We haven’t gone home with a lot of them. We haven’t dug into their backstories and how they got to where they are in life — like, all their trials, tribulations and relationships.”

Harthan teased that new episodes would offer “rich fertile ground” for High Potential to expand on.

“We’re excited about writing some of the other characters more. But I think the biggest thing I learned about how we build each of these episodes is why do we care? Why do you care about this particular case or how it’s resonating with not just Morgan but every character,” he told Us. “It is making sure that we don’t get lazy with those stories that we choose to tell each week. I try to look at each episode as its own little movie, and this year, we have the luxury of the lessons we learned — good and bad — and planning and plotting the season so that we don’t waste any one of these episodes. However many episodes we end up getting, we will just try to treat each of them as their own little movie.”

9-1-1, meanwhile, returns to ABC in October for its ninth season without leading man Peter Krause following his character’s shocking death.