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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.

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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 FOX:

MONDAY

8 PM – 9-1-1
9 PM – Prodigal Son *

Prodigal Son – Malcolm Bright (Tom Payne from The Walking Dead) has a gift. He knows how killers think. Back in the 1990s, his father, Dr. Martin Whitly (Michael Sheen) was one of the best, a notorious serial killer called The Surgeon. That is why Malcolm is the best criminal psychologist, as murder is the family business. He will use his twisted genius to help the NYPD solve crimes and stop killers, all while dealing with a manipulative mother (Bellamy Young from Scandal), annoyingly normal sister (Halston Sage from The Orville), a homicidal father still looking to bond with his prodigal son and his own constantly evolving neuroses.

Here is a trailer for Prodigal Son:

TUESDAY

8 PM – The Resident (New Night)
9 PM – Empire (New Night)

WEDNESDAY

8 PM – The Masked Singer
9 PM – Not Just Me *

Not Just Me – Only child Julia Bechley (Brittany Snow from Pitch Perfect franchise) finds her life turned upside down when her father, Leon Bechley (Timothy Hutton from Leverage), reveals that, over the course of his prize-winning career as a pioneering fertility doctor, he used his own sperm to conceive upwards of a hundred children. Reeling from this explosive revelation, Julia discovers two new sisters – her former best friend, Edie Palmer (Megalyn Echikunwoke from The 4400 and Vixen), and an ex-Olympic athlete, Roxy Doyle (Emily Osment from Young & Hungry). As these three young women begin to embrace their new reality, Julia must figure out what life is like without Leon by her side; Edie comes to grips with her burgeoning sexuality, as her marriage falters; and Roxy faces adulthood out of the spotlight. Against all odds, the three women will attempt to form an untraditional bond as sisters, even as they must welcome a tidal wave of new siblings into their rapidly expanding family.

Here is a trailer for Not Just Me:

THURSDAY

7:30 PM – Thursday Night Football Pregame Show
8 PM – NFL Football

FRIDAY

8 PM – WWE’s Smackdown Live

SATURDAY

7 PM – FOX Sports Saturday: College Football

SUNDAY

7 PM – NFL on FOX
7:30 PM – The OT/ FOX Encores
8 PM – The Simpsons
8:30 PM – Bless the Harts *
9 PM – Bob’s Burgers
9:30 PM – Family Guy

* Denotes new shows.

On August 7, BH90210, a meta-revival of the iconic 1990s teen soap will air a 6-episode run bringing original stars Jason Priestley (Brandon), Jennie Garth (Kelly), Ian Ziering (Steve), Gabrielle Carteris (Andrea), Brian Austin Green (David) and Tori Spelling (Donna) back to play heightened versions of themselves.

Here is a preview for this event series:

On January 19 and January 20, a two-night premiere of the spin-off series 9-1-1: Lone Star will debut after the NFC Championships. The series will star Rob Lowe (Code Black and The West Wing) as a sophisticated New York cop, who, along with his son, relocates and must try to balance saving those who are at their most vulnerable with solving the problems in his own life.

The following dramas will air sometime during mid-season:

Deputy – The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is one of the largest police forces in the world, but when the elected Sheriff dies, an arcane rule in the county charter, forged back in the Wild West, suddenly thrusts the most unlikely man into the job. That man is Bill Hollister (Stephen Dorff from True Detective and Star), a fifth-generation lawman, who is only interested in justice. Under Bill’s command is a county-wide crew of LA’s finest, including Deputy Cade Ward (Brian Van Holt from Cougar Town), a former Marine stationed in Afghanistan, eight years sober and one of Bill’s few confidantes; Deputy Rachel Delgado (Siena Goines from The Young & Restless), Walker’s partner, a meticulous officer who is knee-deep in a nasty divorce; Deputy Breanna Bishop (Bex Taylor-Klaus from Arrow and Scream: The Series), the whip-smart, sarcastic driver in charge of Bill’s security detail; and Deputy Joseph Blair (Shane Paul McGhie from the box office movie After). The dangers associated with the job often lead the police to LA County General Hospital, where Bill buts heads with Dr. Paule Reyes (Yara Martinez from Jane the Virgin), the hospital’s chief trauma surgeon – and his wife. Given a job he never wanted, in an unfamiliar sea of politics, Bill quickly learns that doing what is expected and doing what is right are two different things, and that his innate, dogged pursuit of justice is the only skill the job truly requires.

Here is a trailer for Deputy:

Filthy Rich – Meet the Monreauxes, a mega-rich Southern family famed for creating a wildly successful Christian television network. On the cusp of launching a digital retail arm of the company, the family’s patriarch, Eugene (veteran actor Gerald McRaney), dies in a plane crash (or so we think), leaving Margaret (Kim Cattrall from Sex and the City), a now-“Oprah” to the religious and Southern communities, to take charge of the family business. Not surprisingly, Eugene’s apparent death greatly impacts the Monreaux children: Eric (Corey Cott from The Good Fight), the couple’s ambitious son, who assumes he will now run the show; and daughter Rose (Aubrey Dollar from Women’s Murder Club), a budding fashion designer, who constantly struggles to evade the vast shadow cast by her mother. If that wasn’t enough, the Monreauxes are stunned to learn that Eugene fathered three illegitimate children, all of whom are written into his will. Now, Margaret must use her business savvy and Southern charm to control her newly legitimized heirs, whose very existence threatens the Monreaux family name and fortune: Ginger (Melia Kreiling from Salvation and Tyrant), the tough-as-nails daughter of a Vegas cocktail waitress, whose life was virtually destroyed by Eugene’s rejection; Antonio (relative newcomer Benjamin Levy Aguilar), a single dad and boxer from Queens, NY; and Jason (Mark L. Young from The Comeback), another scion, who is not what he seems to be. With monumental twists and turns, not to mention lies, deceit and shade from every direction, Filthy Rich presents a world in which everyone has an ulterior motive – and no one is going down without a fight.

Here is a trailer for Filthy Rich:

neXt – Silicon Valley pioneer Paul LeBlanc (John Slattery) built a fortune and legacy on the world-changing innovations he dreamed up, while ignoring and alienating the people around him, including his own daughter, Abby (Elizabeth Cappucino from Jessica Jones), and his short-sighted younger brother, Ted (Jason Butler Harner from Ozark and Ray Donovan), who now runs Paul’s company. After discovering that one of his own creations – a powerful A.I. called neXt – might spell doom for humankind, Paul tried to shutter the project, only to be kicked out of the company by his own brother, leaving him with nothing but mounting dread about the fate of the world. When a series of unsettling tech mishaps points to a potential worldwide crisis, LeBlanc joins forces with Special Agent Shea Salazar (Fernanda Andrade from The First and Here and Now).

Here is a trailer for neXt:

The Orville will return sometime in 2020.

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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 NBC:

MONDAY

8 PM – The Voice
10 PM – Bluff City Law *

Bluff City Law – Coming from a famous Memphis family known for taking on injustice, brilliant lawyer Sydney Strait (Caitlin McGee) used to work at her father Elijah’s (Jimmy Smits from NYPD Blue) celebrated law firm until their tumultuous relationship got in the way. After barely speaking to him for years, Sydney is suddenly thrust back into the family fold when her philanthropist mother passes away unexpectedly. In the wake of her loss, hoping to reconnect with the daughter he loves, Elijah asks Sydney to rejoin his firm. She agrees because despite her lingering resentment and distrust, she knows that working alongside her father is her best hope at changing the world … if they can ever get along. The cast includes Barry Sloane (Revenge and Six), Michael Luwoye (The Gifted) and Jayne Atkinson (House of Cards and Madam Secretary).

Here is a trailer for Bluff City Law:

TUESDAY

8 PM – The Voice
9 PM – This Is Us
10 PM – New Amsterdam

WEDNESDAY

8 PM – Chicago Med
9 PM – Chicago Fire
10 PM – Chicago P.D.

THURSDAY

8 PM – Superstore
8:30 PM – Perfect Harmony *
9 PM – The Good Place
9:30 PM – Sunnyside *
10 PM – Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

FRIDAY

8 PM – The Blacklist
9 PM – Dateline NBC

SATURDAY

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

SUNDAY

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

* Denotes new shows.

The following dramas will air during mid-season:

Council of Dads – When Scott (Tom Everett Scott from Reign and the box office movie That Thing You Do), a loving father of four, has his entire life’s plan thrown into upheaval by an unexpected health scare, he calls on a few of his closest allies to step in as back-up dads for every stage of his growing family’s life. Scott  assembles a trusted group of role models that includes Anthony (Clive Standen from Vikings and Taken), his oldest friend; Larry (Michael O’Neill from Scandal and Rectify), his AA sponsor; and Oliver (J. August Richards from Angel and Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), his surgeon and best friend to his wife, Robin (Sarah Wayne Callies from The Walking Dead and Colony). These men agree to devote themselves to supporting and guiding Scott’s amazing family through all the triumphs and challenges life has to offer – just in case he ever can’t be there to do so himself.

No trailer is available yet.

Lincoln – Inspired by the best-selling book The Bone Collector, former NYPD detective and forensic genius Lincoln Rhyme (Russell Hornsby from Grimm) was at the top of his game until a serious accident at the hands of a notorious serial killer forces him out of the field. When Amelia Sachs (Arielle Kebbel from Midnight Texas), an intuitive young officer who’s got her own gift for profiling, finds herself hot on the killer’s trail, Rhyme in turn finds a partner for this new game of cat and mouse. As the unlikely detective duo joins forces to crack the city’s most confounding cases, they must also race to take down the enigmatic “Bone Collector” who brought them together. The cast includes Brian F. O’Byrne (Nightflyers and The Magicians), Tate Ellington (Quantico), Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos) and Brooke Lyons (Life Sentence).

No trailer is available yet.

Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist – Zoey Clarke (Jane Levy from Suburgatory) is a whip-smart computer coder forging her way in San Francisco. After an unusual event she starts to hear the innermost wants and desires of the people around her through songs. At first, she questions her own sanity but soon realizes this unwanted curse may just be an incredibly wonderful gift. The show also stars Skylar Astin (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and the box office movie Pitch Perfect), Peter Gallagher (The O.C.) and Mary Steenburgen (The Last Man on Earth).

No trailer is available yet.

Blindspot, Manifest and Good Girls will be back sometime post-fall while decisions on The Enemy Within, The InBetween [which has yet to debut, airing its pilot on May 29]and The Village have yet to be made.

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