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The following is the proposed ABC line-up for the new fall 2015-2016 TV season:

Monday:

8 PM – Dancing with the Stars
10 PM – Castle

Tuesday:

8 PM – The Muppets (NEW)
8:30 PM – Fresh Off the Boat
9 PM – Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
10 PM – Quantico (NEW)

Quantico – This series will focus on a diverse group of recruits who have arrived at the FBI Quantico Base for training. They are the best, the brightest and the most vetted, so it seems impossible that one of them is suspected of masterminding the biggest attack on New York City since 9/11. The cast includes Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra, Dougray Scott (Hemlock Grove), Jake McLaughlin (Believe), Aunjanue Ellis (NCIS: Los Angeles) and Graham Rogers (Revolution) [among others]. The executive producers include Josh Safran, Mark Gordon and Nick Pepper.

Wednesday:

8 PM – The Middle
8:30 PM – The Goldbergs
9 PM – Modern Family
9:30 PM – black-ish
10 PM – Nashville

Thursday:
8 PM – Grey’s Anatomy
9 PM – Scandal
10 PM – How to Get Away with Murder

Friday:

8 PM – Last Man Standing
8:30 PM – Dr. Ken (NEW)
9 PM – Shark Tank
10 PM – 20/20

Saturday:

8 PM – Saturday Night Football

Sunday:

7 PM – America’s Funniest Home Videos
8 PM – Once Upon a Time
9 PM – Oil (NEW)
10 PM – Of Kings and Prophets (NEW)

Oil – Billy and Cody Lefever dream of a new life beyond their working class roots and move to “The Bakken” in North Dakota, booming after the biggest oil discovery in American history. They’re soon pitted against a ruthless tycoon who forces them to bet big and put everything on the line, including their marriage. The cast includes Don Johnson (Nash Bridges), Chace Crawford (Gossip Girl), Rebecca Rittenhouse (Red Band Society), Delroy Lindo (Believe), Amber Valletta (Revenge), Scott Michael Foster (Chasing Life and Greek), India de Beaufort (Jane by Design), Yani Gellman (Pretty Little Liars) and Caitlin Carver (The Fosters). The executive producers include Josh Pate, Rodes Fishburne, Tony Krantz, Drew Comins and Don Johnson.

Of Kings and Prophets – This new series is an epic Biblical saga of faith, ambition and betrayal as told through the eyes of a battle-weary king, a powerful and resentful prophet and a resourceful young shepherd on a collision course with destiny. The cast includes Ray Winstone (The Divergent franchise), Haaz Sleiman (Covert Affairs), Maisie Richardson-Sellers (The Originals) and Simone Kessell (Terra Nova) [among others]. The executive producer include Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, Jason Reed, Reza Aslan and Mahyad Tousi.

The following are returning dramas that will return later in the season:

American Crime
Marvel’s Agent Carter
Secrets and Lies

And the new ABC dramas that will air in 2016 include:

The Catch – This new thriller will center on the strong, successful Alice Martin (Mireille Enos from The Killing), a fraud investigator who’s about to be the victim of fraud herself by her fiancé. Between her cases, she is determined to find him before it ruins her career. The cast includes Alimi Ballard (Dark Angel and Numb3rs), Bethany Joy Lenz (One Tree Hill) and Jacky Ido (Taxi Brooklyn) [among others]. The executive producer include Jennifer Schuur, Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers and Julie Anne Robinson.

The Family – This new series follows the return of a politician’s young son who was presumed dead after disappearing over a decade earlier. As the mysterious young man is welcomed back into his family, suspicions emerge – is he really who he says he is? The cast includes Joan Allen (The Bourne franchise), Allison Pill (The Newsroom), Zach Gilford (Friday Night Lights), Margot Bingham (Boardwalk Empire), Liam James (The Way Way Back), Floriana Lima (The Mob Doctor), Rupert Graves (Sherlock) and Andrew McCarthy. The executive producers include Jenna Bans, Todd Lieberman, David Hoberman and Laurie Zaks.

Wicked City – This drama follows a unique case set in a noteworthy era of L.A. history, starting with a murder case from 1982 centered on the rock ‘n’ roll, cocaine-infused revelry of the Sunset Strip. Alliances are formed between detectives, reporters, drug dealers and club-goers to solve a serial murder case. The cast includes Ed Westwick (Gossip Girl), Erika Christensen (Parenthood), Taissa Farmiga (American Horror Story), Gabriel Luna (Matador), Adam Rothenberg (Ripper Street) and Karolina Wydra (True Blood) [among others]. The executive producers include Steven Baigelman, Todd Lieberman, David Hoberman and Laurie Zaks.

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The following is the proposed FOX line-up for the new fall 2015-2016 TV season:

Monday:

8 PM – Gotham
9 PM – Minority Report (NEW)

Minority Report – Based on the international blockbuster film this new series follows the unlikely partnership between a man haunted by the future and a cop haunted by her past, as they race to stop the worst crimes of the year 2065 before they happen. Set in Washington, D.C., it is 10 years after the demise of Precrime, a law enforcement agency tasked with identifying and eliminating criminals before their crimes were committed. The cast includes Meagan Good (Deception), Stark Sands (Inside Llewyn Davis), Laura Regan (Mad Men) and Wilmer Valderrama (That 70’s Show). The executive producers include Max Borenstein, Kevin Falls, Steven Spielberg, Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey and Mark Mylod.

Tuesday:

8 PM – Grandfathered (NEW)
8:30 PM – The Grinder (NEW)
9 PM – Scream Queens (NEW)

Scream Queens – This new comedy-horror series will focus on the new pledges at Kappa House, the most sought-after sorority that is ruled with an iron fist by Queen “Bitch” Chanel Oberlin (Emma Roberts). But when anti-Kappa Dean Munsch (Jamie Lee Curtis) decrees that sorority pledging must be open to all students, and not just the school’s silver-spooned elite, all hell is about to break loose, as a devil-clad killer begins wreaking havoc, claiming one victim, one episode at a time. The cast will also include Lea Michele (Glee), Abigail Breslin (Zombieland), Oliver Hudson (Nashville), Keke Palmer (Masters of Sex), Diego Boneta (Rock of Ages and Pretty Little Liars), Skyler Samuels (The Nine Lives of Chloe King and The DUFF) and Niecy Nash (The Soul Man) [among others]. The executive producers include Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan.

Wednesday:

8 PM – Rosewood (NEW)
9 PM – Empire

Rosewood – This new series will focus on Dr. Beaumont Rosewood, Jr. (Morris Chestnut from Legends and V), the most brilliant private pathologist in Miami. Using his wildly sophisticated autopsy lab, he performs for-hire autopsies to uncover clues that the Miami PD can’t see. His new partner-in-crime is Detective Villa (Jaina Lee Ortiz from the web series The After), a Miami PD detective with attitude and demons to spare. The cast will also include Maggie Elizabeth Jones (Ben and Kate and We Bought a Zoo). The executive producers include Todd Harthan, Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen and Richard Shepard.

Thursday:

8 PM – Bones
9 PM – Sleepy Hollow

Friday:

8 PM – Masterchef Junior
9 PM – World’s Funniest

Saturday:

7 PM – FOX Sports Saturday

Sunday:

7 PM – NFL on FOX
7:30 PM – The OT /Bob’s Burgers
8 PM – The Simpsons
8:30 PM – Brooklyn Nine-Nine
9 PM – Family Guy
9:30 PM – The Last Man on Earth

The new FOX dramas that will air in 2016 include:

The X-Files – Thirteen years after the original series run, the next mind-bending chapter of the classic series will be a six-episode event, finding David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson re-inhabiting their roles as iconic FBI Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.

The Frankenstein Code – This modern reimagining of the Mary Shelley classic is about a man brought back to life by two scientists playing god. Seventy-five-year-old Jimmy Pritchard (guest star Philip Baker Hall from Modern Family) is a shell of his former self. A drinker, a womanizer and a father who always put work before family, Pritchard was forced to resign as L.A. County Sheriff for corrupt conduct more than a decade ago. Now, some 15 unkind years later, he is killed when he stumbles upon a robbery at the home of FBI Agent Duval Pritchard (Tim DeKay from White Collar), one of his three children. But death is surprisingly short for Jimmy, who is brought back to life by billionaire tech-genius twins Mary Goodwin (Dilshad Vadsaria from Revenge) and her brother, Otto (Adhir Kalyan from Rules of Engagement), founders of the social networking empire, Lookinglass. Resurrected as a younger version of himself, with physical abilities of which he never dreamed, a re-animated Pritchard (Rob Kazinsky from True Blood) is given a second chance at life. The cast also includes Ciara Bravo (Red Band Society). The executive producers include Rand Ravich and Howard Gordon.

Lucifer – Based upon the characters created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg for DC Entertainment’s Vertigo imprint, this new drama tells the story of the original fallen angel. Bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, Lucifer Morningstar (Tom Ellis from Rush) has abandoned his throne and retired to L.A., where he owns Lux, an upscale nightclub. Charming, charismatic and devilishly handsome, Lucifer is enjoying his retirement, indulging in a few of his favorite things – wine, women and song – when a beautiful pop star is brutally murdered outside of Lux. For the first time in roughly 10 billion years, he feels something awaken deep within him as a result of this murder. The cast includes Lauren German (Chicago Fire), Lesley-Ann Brandt (The Librarians), DB Woodside (Buffy and 24), Nicholas Gonzalez (Sleepy Hollow and Jane the Virgin) and Rachael Harris (Suits). The executive producers include Jerry Bruckheimer, Tom Kapinos, Jonathan Littman, Len Wiseman, Ildy Modrovich and Joe Henderson.

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The following is the proposed NBC line-up for the new fall 2015-2016 TV season:

Monday:

8 PM – The Voice
10 PM – Blindspot (NEW)

Blindspot is about what happens when a vast international plot explodes after a beautiful Jane Doe, completely covered in mysterious, intricate tattoos, is discovered naked in Times Square with no memory of who she is or how she got there. But there’s one tattoo that is impossible to miss: the name of FBI agent Kurt Weller, emblazoned across her back. “Jane,” Agent Weller and the rest of the FBI quickly realize that each mark on her body is a crime to solve, leading them closer to the truth about her identity and the mysteries to be revealed. The cast includes Sullivan Stapleton (Strike Back), Jaimie Alexander (Kyle XY and the Thor franchise), Audrey Esparza (Black Box), Rob Brown (Treme), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Without a Trace), Ukweli Roach (The Royals) and Ashley Johnson (Spooked and Ben 10). Executive producers include Martin Gero and Greg Berlanti.

Tuesday:

8 PM – The Voice
9 PM – Heartbreaker (NEW)
10 PM – Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris (through November) (NEW)
10 PM – Chicago Fire (Premieres in November

Heartbreaker is based on the real life and achievements of Dr. Kathy Magliato, this unique character-driven medical drama follows Dr. Alex Panttiere (Melissa George from The Slap), an outspoken world-renowned heart-transplant surgeon and one of the few women in her field. Stubborn and fearless, Alex always operates on her own terms. She revels in a racy personal life that’s a full-time job in itself, manages the daily demands of skeptical faculty and dutiful interns, and pushes the boundaries of medical science to impressive new heights. The cast also includes Dave Annable (Brothers & Sisters), Shelley Conn (Terra Nova) and comedian D.L. Hughley [among others]. The executive producers include Jill Gordon, Amy Brenneman and Brad Silberling.

Wednesday:

8 PM – The Mysteries of Laura
9 PM – Law & Order: SVU
10 PM – Chicago P.D.

Thursday:
8 PM – Heroes Reborn (NEW)
9 PM – The Blacklist
10 PM – The Player (NEW)

Heroes Reborn revisits the world created by Tim King, looking at what happens when supernatural phenomenon begins again with a fresh crop of inspiring heroes, taking on the ultimate struggle between those with extraordinary abilities and those with nefarious motives to hunt and harness their powers. The cast includes returning cast members Jack Coleman and Masi Oka as well as Zachary Levi (Chuck), Ryan Guzman (Pretty Little Liars and the Step Up franchise) and Robbie Kay (Once Upon a Time) [among others.

The Player stars former box office star Wesley Snipes and Philip Winchester (Strike Back) in an action-packed Las Vegas thriller about a former military operative turned security expert who is drawn into a high-stakes game where an organization of wealthy individuals gamble on his ability to stop some of the biggest crimes imaginable from playing out. The cast also includes Charity Wakefield (Mockingbird Lane) and Damon Gupton (The Divide). The show comes from John Rogers, John Davis and John Fox.

Friday:

8 PM – Undateable
8:30 PM – People Are Talking (NEW)
9 PM – Grimm
10 PM – Deadline

Saturday:

8 PM – Dateline Saturday Night Mystery
10 PM – Saturday Night Live (Classic Encores)

Sunday:

7 PM – Football in America
8:20 PM – Sunday Night Football

The new dramas that will debut later in the season include:

Chicago Med – The next drama in the franchise will look at the day-to-day chaos of the city’s most explosive hospital and the courageous team of doctors who hold it together. The cast will include Oliver Platt (The Big C), S. Epatha Merkerson (Law & Order), Laurie Holden (The Walking Dead), Nick Gehlfuss (Shameless) and Yaya Dacosta (the Lifetime movie Whitney).

Game of Silence – The drama will focus on successful Atlanta attorney (David Lyons from Revolution) whose long-lost childhood friends unexpectedly reappear after 25 years. When a dark secret they thought they had buried resurfaces, the brotherhood bands together to right the wrongs of their shared past – a journey that will push the limits of their loyalty and quench their thirst for revenge. The cast includes Michael Raymond-James (Once Upon a Time) and Larenz Tate (House of Lies).

Shades of Blue – Jennifer Lopez will star as sexy New York detective and single mother Harlee Santos, who fell in with a tight-knit group of dirty cops, taking bribes and protection money that she uses to provide the best life for her honest and talented daughter. When she’s trapped by the FBI, however, and forced to inform on her own “brothers,” she’ll have to walk the fine line between love, loyalty, honor and betrayal, and try to keep it together for her daughter’s future. The cast also includes film star Ray Liotta, Warren Kole (Common Law), Dayo Okeniyi (The Hunger Games franchise) and Drea De Matteo (The Sopranos).

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