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

Monday:

8 PM – Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (NEW)
9 PM – Jane the Virgin

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend – This new series will focus on Rebecca Bunch (comedian Rachel Bloom from Robot Chicken) is a successful, driven, and possibly crazy young woman who impulsively gives up everything – her partnership at a prestigious law firm and her upscale apartment in Manhattan – in a desperate attempt to find love and happiness in that exotic hotbed of romance and adventure: suburban West Covina, Calif. (it’s only two hours from the beach! Four in traffic). The executive producers include Rachel Bloom, Aline Brosh McKenna and Marc Webb.

Tuesday:

8 PM – The Flash
9 PM – iZombie

Wednesday:

8 PM – Arrow
9 PM – Supernatural

Thursday:

8 PM – The Vampire Diaries
9 PM – The Originals

Friday:

8 PM – Reign
9 PM – America’s Next Top Model

NOTE: The 100 will be back midseason and Beauty and the Beast will be back sometime in 2016.

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

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow – When heroes alone are not enough…the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat – one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known? The cast will include Victor Garber (The Flash and Alias), Brandon Routh (Arrow and Superman Returns), Arthur Darvill (Doctor Who), Caity Lotz (Arrow), Ciarra Renee (Pippin), Franz Drameh (Edge of Tomorrow), Dominic Purcell (The Flash and Prison Break) and Wentworth Miller (The Flash and Prison Break). The executive producers include Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg and Sarah Schechter.

Containment – When a mysterious and deadly epidemic breaks out in Atlanta, a vast urban quarantine is quickly enforced, forcing those stuck on the inside to fight for their lives while local and federal officials desperately search for a cure. Trying to keep the peace on the streets is police officer Lex Carnahan, who has quickly risen through the ranks of the Atlanta PD. But Lex’s job becomes even harder when he learns that his longtime girlfriend, Jana, and his best friend and fellow officer Jake, are trapped within the cordoned area. Also quarantined in viral ground zero is 17 year-old Teresa, who is eight months pregnant and now separated from her boyfriend on the other side; Katie Frank, an elementary school teacher now placed on lockdown with her entire class, including her young son; and CDC researcher Dr. Victor Cannerts, the doctor who initially made the controversial call to quarantine the area and is now racing to find a cure for the virus. On the outside, Dr. Sabine Lommers is leading the government efforts to contain the outbreak, and has asked for Lex’s help in enforcing the cordon, which grows increasingly difficult as the public trust deteriorates. And the public has reason to be wary, as journalist Leo begins unraveling a conspiracy, finding that something doesn’t add up in the official story being told. Torn apart from their loved ones, the survivors trapped within the cordon are fighting against not only fatal infection, but also isolation, fear, and the disintegration of society around them. But as they begin to gain each other’s trust, hope remains, and on either side of the cordon unlikely heroes will rise. The cast includes David Gyasi (Interstellar) Christina Moses (Starship: Apocalypse and Starship: Rising) Chris Wood (The Vampire Diaries), Kristen Gutoskie (Beaver Falls), Claudia Black (The Originals, Stargate SG1 and Farscape), George Young (Casualty); Hanna Mangan Lawrence (Spartacus: War of the Damned) and Trevor St. John (One Life to Live). The executive producers include Julie Plec and David Nutter.

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

Monday:

8 PM – The Big Bang Theory
8:30 PM – Life in Pieces (NEW)
8 PM – Supergirl (NEW) (in November)
9 PM – Scorpion
10 PM – NCIS: Los Angeles

Supergirl – Based on the DC Comics character Kara Zor-El (Melissa Benoist from Glee and The Longest Ride), this modern adaptation will focus on Superman’s cousin, who, after 12 years of keeping her powers a secret on Earth, decides to finally embrace her superhuman abilities and be the hero she was always meant to be. Twelve-year-old Kara escaped the doomed planet Krypton with her parents’ help at the same time as the infant Kal-El. Protected and raised on Earth by her foster family, the Danvers, Kara grew up in the shadow of her foster sister, Alex (Chyler Leigh from Grey’s Anatomy), and learned to conceal the phenomenal powers she shares with her famous cousin in order to keep her identity a secret. Years later at 24, Kara lives in National City assisting media mogul and fierce taskmaster Cat Grant (Calista Flockhart from Ally McBeal and Brothers & Sisters), who just hired the Daily Planet’s former photographer, James Olsen (Mehcad Brooks from Necessary Roughness), as her new art director. However, Kara’s days of keeping her talents a secret are over when Hank Henshaw (David Harewood from Homeland), head of a super-secret agency where her sister also works, enlists her to help them protect the citizens of National City from sinister threats. The executive producers include Greg Berlanti, Ali Adler, Sarah Schecter and Andrew Kreisberg.

Tuesday:

8 PM – NCIS
9 PM – NCIS: New Orleans
10 PM – Limitless (NEW)

Limitless – Based on the feature film, this TV version is a fast-paced drama about Brian Finch (Jake McDorman from Greek), who discovers the brain-boosting power of the mysterious drug NZT and is coerced by the FBI into using his extraordinary cognitive abilities to solve complex cases for them. Working closely with Brian in the major case squad in New York City is Special Agent Rebecca Harris (Jennifer Carpenter from Dexter), a formidable investigator with a dark past, and Special Agent Boyle (Hill Harper from CSI: NY and Covert Affairs), a former military officer and Rebecca’s confidante. They report to Special Agent in Charge Nasreen “Naz” Pouran (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio from Grimm), a canny manipulator of the reins of power. Unbeknownst to the FBI, Brian also has a clandestine relationship with Senator Edward Mora (Bradley Cooper), a presidential hopeful and regular user of NZT who has plans of his own for his new protégé. The executive producers include Craig Sweeny, Marc Webb, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Heather Kadin, Bradley Cooper, Todd Phillips, Ryan Kavanaugh, Tucker Tooley and Tom Forman.

Wednesday:

8 PM – Survivor
9 PM – Criminal Minds
10 PM – Code Black (NEW)

Code Black – This medical drama takes place in the busiest, most notorious ER in the nation, where the staggering influx of patients can outweigh the limited resources available to the extraordinary doctors and nurses whose job is to treat them all, creating a condition known as Code Black. At the heart of the ER’s controlled chaos is Residency Director Dr. Leanne Rorish (Marcia Gay Harden from Mystic River), renowned for successfully performing high-risk procedures in Center Stage, the trauma area reserved for the most critical cases. Her four new first-year residents are Christa Lorenson (Bonnie Somerville from Golden Boy), Malaya Pineda (relative newcomer Melanie Kannokada), Mario Savetti (Benjamin Hollingsworth from Cult and The Joneses) and Angus Leighton (relative newcomer Harry M. Ford). Leanne’s confidante, Jesse Sallander (Luis Guzman from The Count of Monte Cristo), is an amiable seen-it-all senior nurse who manages the residents. Also working in the ER is Dr. Neal Hudson (Raza Jaffrey from Smash), an excellent physician who sometimes disagrees with Leanne’s “cowboy” approach, and Dr. Rollie Guthrie (William Allen Young from Moesha), the energetic, longest-serving attending. The executive producers include Michael Seitzman, Marti Noxon, Linda Goldstein-Knowlton, Ryan McGarry and David Semel.

Thursday:

8 PM – NFL Thursday Night Football
8 PM – The Big Bang Theory (Starting in November)
8:30 PM – Life in Pieces (Starting in November)
9 PM – Mom (Starting in November)
9:30 PM – Angel from Hell (NEW) (Starting in November)
10 PM – Elementary (Starting in November)

Friday:

8 PM – The Amazing Race
9 PM – Hawaii Five-0
10 PM – Blue Bloods

Saturday:

8 PM – Crimetime Saturday
9 PM – Crimetime Saturday
10 PM – 48 Hours

Sunday:

7 PM – 60 Minutes
8 PM – Madam Secretary
9 PM – The Good Wife
10 PM – CSI: Cyber

NOTE: Person of Interest will air later in the season as will 2 Broke Girls, Mike & Molly and The Odd Couple.

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

Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders – Gary Sinise (CSI: NY) will star in this spin-off drama about the specialized International Division of the FBI tasked with solving crimes and coming to the rescue of Americans who find themselves in danger while abroad. Heading the department is Unit Chief Jack Garrett (Sinise), a seasoned 20-year veteran of the Bureau. The team he trusts with his life includes Matthew Simmons (Daniel Henney from Revolution and Three Rivers), a former military hero with split-second profiling skills he honed on the battlefield, and Russ “Monty” Montgomery (Tyler James Williams from Everybody Hates Chris), the unit’s compassionate, brilliant tech analyst who additionally liaises stateside with the families of those in trouble while his group is far from home. The executive producers include Mark Gordon, Erica Messer and Nick Pepper.

Rush Hour – This is a reimagining of the hit feature film franchise, featuring a maverick LAPD detective and a by-the-book detective from Hong Kong who knock heads when they are forced to partner together. Detective Lee (Jon Foo from Tekken) is a reserved, honorable master martial artist with lightning-fast moves who comes to L.A. to avenge his sister’s alleged death and learn more about her connection to a Chinese organized crime ring. Detective Carter (Justin Hires from the box office film 21 Jump Street), on the other hand, is a wisecracking cop who plays by his own rules and has never wanted a partner. As exasperated as Carter’s boss, Captain Cole (Wendie Malick from Hot in Cleveland), gets with him, she knows he’s a brilliant detective who gets results. Attempting to help the two get along is Sergeant Didi Diaz (Aimee Garcia from Dexter), Carter’s friend and former partner who doesn’t hesitate to call him out on his antics. But even as cultures clash and tempers flare, Carter and Lee can’t deny they make a formidable team, and grudgingly admit that sometimes an unlikely pairing makes for a great partnership. The executive producers include Bill Lawrence, Blake McCormick, Jeff Ingold, Jon Turteltaub, Arthur Sarkissian and Brett Ratner.

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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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