Rueben's Ramblings

It’s that time of year again when the networks make their annual presentations in New York to the advertisers where they announce their proposed fall line-up and announce the new shows they have picked up.

Here is the breakdown for ABC:

MONDAY

8 PM – Dancing with the Stars
10 PM – The Good Doctor

TUESDAY

8 PM – The Conners
8:30 PM – Bless This Mess (New Time)
9 PM – Mixed-ish *
9:30 PM – Black-ish (New Time)
10 PM – Emergence *

Emergence – This thriller is about a police chief (Allison Tolman from Fargo) who takes in a young child named Piper (Alexa Swinton from Billions) she finds near the site of a mysterious accident who has no memory of what has happened. The investigation draws her into a conspiracy larger than she ever imagined, and the child’s identity is at the center of it all. The cast includes Owain Yeoman (The Mentalist), Donald Faison (Scrubs) and veteran actor Clancy Brown.

Here is a trailer for Emergence:

WEDNESDAY

8 PM – The Goldbergs
8:30 PM – Schooled
9 PM – Modern Family
9:30 PM – Single Parents
10 PM – Stumptown *

Stumptown – The series, based on the graphic novels, follows Dex Parios (Cobie Smulders from How I Met Your Mother and the Avengers franchise), a strong, assertive and sharp-witted army veteran with a complicated love life, gambling debt and a brother to take care of in Portland, Oregon. Her military intelligence skills make her a great PI, but her unapologetic style puts her in the firing line of hardcore criminals and not quite in alliance with the police. The series also stars Michael Ealy, Camryn Manheim (The Practice and The Magicians) and Tantoo Cardinal (Outlander and Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman).

Here is the trailer for Stumptown:

THURSDAY

8 PM – Grey’s Anatomy
9 PM – A Million Little Things
10 PM – How to Get Away with Murder

FRIDAY

8 PM – American Housewife (New Night and Time)
8:30 PM – Fresh Off the Boat (New Time)
9 PM – 20/20

SATURDAY

8 PM – Saturday Night Football

SUNDAY

7 PM – America’s Funniest Home Videos
8 PM – Kids Say the Darndest things
9 PM – Shark Tank
10 PM – The Rookie (New Night)

* Denotes new shows

The following new dramas will air during mid-season:

The Baker and the Beauty – The series centers around Daniel Garcia (Victor Rasuk from Jack Ryan and Colony) who works in the family bakery and does everything that his loving Cuban parents and siblings expect him to do. But on a wild Miami night he meets Noa Hamilton (Nathalie Kelley from Dynasty and The Vampire Diaries), an international superstar and fashion mogul, and his life moves into the spotlight. Will this unlikely couple upend their lives to be together and pull their families into a culture clash? The cast includes Carlos Gomez (The Glades), Dan Bucatinsky (Scandal) and Lisa Vidal (Being Mary Jane and Rosewood).

No trailer is available yet.

For Life – The series is about a prisoner who becomes a lawyer (Nicholas Pinnock from Counterpart), litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit. His quest for freedom is driven by his desperate desire to get back to the family he loves and reclaim the life that was stolen from him. The show will also, through the window of his ferocious struggle and his complicated relationship with a progressive female prison warden, examine the flaws and challenges in our penal and legal systems. The series also stars Indira Varma (Game of Thrones), Joy Bryant (Parenthood), Dorian Missick (Southland and Tell Me a Story) and Mary Stuart Masterson (Blindspot)

No trailer is available yet.

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Station 19 will return later in the season.