The following is the proposed NBC line-up for the new fall 2016-2017 TV season:
Monday:
8 PM – The Voice
10 PM – Timeless (NEW)
Timeless is an action-adventure series in which a mysterious criminal steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America as we know it by changing the past. Our only hope is an unexpected team: a scientist, soldier and history professor who must use the machine’s prototype to travel back in time to critical events. While they must make every effort not to affect the past themselves, they must also stay one step ahead of this dangerous fugitive. Can this handpicked team uncover the mystery behind it all and end his destruction before it’s too late? The cast includes Abigail Spencer (Suits), Matt Lanter (90210 and Star-Crossed), Goran Visnjic (ER) and Sakina Jaffrey (Sleepy Hollow).
Tuesday:
8 PM – The Voice
9 PM – This Is Us
10 PM – Chicago Fire
This Is Us follows a unique ensemble whose paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways. We find several of them share the same birthday, and so much more than anyone would expect. The cast includes Mandy Moore (A Walk to Remember), Milo Ventimiglia (Heroes and Gilmore Girls), Justin Hartley (Smallville and Revenge) and Sterling K. Brown (The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story and Army Wives).
Wednesday:
8 PM – Blindspot (New Night and Time)
9 PM – Law & Order: SVU
10 PM – Chicago P.D.
Thursday:
8 PM – Superstore
8:30 PM – The Good Place (NEW)
9 PM – Chicago Med
10 PM – The Blacklist (New Time)
Friday:
8 PM – Caught on Camera with Nick Cannon
9 PM – Grimm
10 PM – Dateline NBC
Saturday:
8 PM – Saturday Dateline Mysteries
10 PM – Saturday Night Live (Encores)
Sunday:
7 PM – Football Night in America
8:20 PM – NBC’s Sunday Night Football
NOTE: Shades of Blue will also return, but it has not on the schedule right now.
The new dramas that will debut later in the season include:
The Blacklist: Redemption – This spin-off series will focus on undercover operative Tom Keen who joins forces with Susan “Scottie” Hargrave (Famke Janssen), the brilliant and cunning chief of Grey Matters, a covert mercenary organization that solves problems governments don’t dare touch. While on the hunt for Liz’s attacker, Tom secretly discovered that Scottie is actually his biological mother. Now, as they team up to employ their unique skills and resources in a dangerous world of deadly criminals, Tom begins his own covert mission to find out more about his shadowy past. The cast will include Edi Gathegi and Tawny Cypress.
Chicago Justice – The latest installment will focus on the State’s Attorney’s dedicated team of prosecutors and investigators navigate heated city politics and controversy head-on while fearlessly pursuing justice. As they take on the city’s high stakes and often media-frenzied cases, they must balance public opinion, power struggles within the system and their unwavering passion for the law. It all starts with a gut-wrenching case when one of Chicago’s finest is shot in the line of duty. The cast includes Philip Winchester (Strike Back and The Player), Carl Weathers (Colony), Nazneen Contractor (Heroes Reborn and Covert Affairs) and Joelle Carter (Justified).
Emerald City – In the blink of a tornado’s eye, 20-year-old Dorothy Gale (newcomer Adria Arjona from Person of Interest) and a K9 police dog are swept into a world far removed from our own – a mystical land of competing realms, lethal warriors, dark magic and a bloody battle for supremacy. Vincent D’Onofrio (Daredevil) will play the Wizard and other cast members include Isabel Lucas (Home and Away) and Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Dracula and Mr. Selfridge).
Midnight, Texas – Based on the hit book series from author Charlaine Harris (True Blood) comes a journey into a remote Texas town where no one is who they seem. From vampires and witches to psychics and hit men, Midnight is a mysterious safe haven for those who are different. As the town members fight off outside pressures from rowdy biker gangs, ever-suspicious cops and their own dangerous pasts, they band together and form a strong and unlikely family. The cast includes François Arnaud (The Borgias and Blindspot), Dylan Bruce (Orphan Black and Heroes Reborn), Arielle Kebbel (The Vampire Diaries), Sarah Ramos (Parenthood), Peter Mensah (Sleepy Hollow) and Yul Vazquez (The Lottery).
Taken – This series will follow the origin story of younger, hungrier former Green Beret Bryan Mills (Clive Standen from Vikings) [from the box office franchise that stars Liam Neeson] as he deals with a personal tragedy that shakes his world. As he fights to overcome the incident and exact revenge, Mills is pulled into a career as a deadly CIA operative, a job that awakens his very particular, and very dangerous, set of skills. The cast includes Jennifer Beals (Proof), Michael Irby (The Unit), Gaius Charles (Friday Night Lights and Grey’s Anatomy) and Monique Gabriela Curnen (The Following).
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