Podcast #753: New TV Shows for Fall 2016

New TV Shows for Fall 2016

Christmas. the Super Bowl, Fashion Week in New York, Taco Tuesday … Few things in life are as highly anticipated as television premier season every Fall. There isn’t much we look forward to more. All of your favorite shows coming back for another season, and a ton of new shows to potentially add to the DVR queue. Who knows, one of them could be the next Grey’s Anatomy or Ally McBeal, some of our favorite shows of all time. If you’re interested, Cinema Blend has a great post with all the Fall TV Premiere Dates by date, time, and Network.

ABC

American Housewife

Premieres: Tuesday, Oct. 11 at 8:30 PM

Stars: Katie Mixon, Diedrich Bader, Ali Wong Producer: Sarah Dunn

Premise: Mixon stars as Katie Otto, an unapologetic mother of three raising her family in the wealthy town of Westport, Connecticut that's full of "perfect" families.

HT Guys Preview Score: Meh

Conviction

Premieres: Monday, Oct. 3 at 10:00 PM

Stars: Hayley Atwell, Eddie Cahill, Shawn Ashmore, Merrin Dungey, Emily Kinney, Manny Montana, Daniel DiTomasso

Premise: Former ne'er-do-well first daughter Hayes Morrison (Atwell) gets blackmailed into working for New York District Attorney Wayne Wallis' (Cahill) Conviction Integrity Unit, where she has to turn over wrongful convictions.

HT Guys Preview Score: Meh

Designated Survivor

Premieres: Wednesday, Sep. 21 at 10:00 PM

Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Natascha McElhone, Maggie Q, Kal Penn, Adan Canto, Italia Ricci, LaMonica Garrett, Tanner Buchanan

Producers: David Guggenheim, Simon Kinberg, Kiefer Sutherland, Mark Gordon, Nick Pepper, Suzan Bymel, Aditya Sood

Premise: Sutherland stars as Tom Kirkman, a lower cabinet member who becomes president after an attack on Washington kills everyone ahead of him in the line of succession.

HT Guys Preview Score: Jack Bauer as President? Yeah, we’re in.

Notorious

Premieres: Thursday, Sep. 22 at 9:00 PM

Stars: Piper Perabo, Daniel Sunjata, Ryan Guzman, Kevin Zegers, J. August Richards, Aimee Teegarden

Premise: Inspired by the lives of criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos and cable news producer Wendy Walker, the drama examines the 24-hour news cycle and the relationship between the media and criminal law.

HT Guys Preview Score: Mark Geragos the TV show? Pass.

Speechless

Premieres: Wednesday, Sep. 21 at 8:30 PM

Stars: Minnie Driver, John Ross Bowie, Mason Cook, Micah Fowler, Kyla Kennedy, Cedric Yarbrough

Premise: Driver stars as Maya DiMeo, a mother of three, one of whom is a special needs child.

HT Guys Preview Score: Meh

CBS

Bull

Premieres: Tuesday, Sep. 20 at 9:00 PM

Stars: Michael Weatherly, Freddy Rodriguez, Geneva Carr, Chris Jackson, Jaime Lee Kirchner and Annabelle Attanasio

Producers: Paul Attanasio, Dr. Phil McGraw, Jay McGraw, Steven Spielberg, Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank

Premise: NCIS alum Michael Weatherly stars as Dr. Phil on the series, which will follow McGraw's early career as a trial consultant. McGraw will produce with his son Jay.

HT Guys Preview Score: Sounds like loads of Bull

The Great Indoors

Premieres: Thursday, Oct. 27 at 8:30 PM

Stars: Joel McHale, Stephen Fry, Chris Williams, Shaun Brown, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Christine Ko, Susannah Fielding

Premise: An adventure reporter (McHale) must adapt to his new job managing millennials in the digital department of a magazine.

HT Guys Preview Score: Joel McHale is super funny and millennials are easy to make fun of. If you need a new sitcom in your life, this could be worth a look.

Kevin Can Wait

Premieres: Monday, Sep. 19 at 8:30 PM

Stars: Kevin James, Erinn Hayes, Taylor Spreitler, Mary-Charles Jones, James Digiacomo, Ryan Cartwright

Premise: The King of Queens star returns to CBS, this time playing a retired cop who realizes that home life is tougher than anything he faced on the street.

HT Guys Preview Score: Meh. Have you seen Mall Cop 2?

MacGyver

Premieres: Friday, Sep. 23 at 8:00 PM

Stars: Lucas Till, George Eads

Premise: Till plays the titular problem-solver in the reboot, which follows 20-something MacGyver as he starts a clandestine organization to prevent disasters from happening.

HT Guys Preview Score: Uh, what’s next, an A-Team reboot?

Man With A Plan

Premieres: Monday, Oct. 24 at 8:30 PM

Stars: Matt LeBlanc, Jessica Chaffin, Matt Cook, Grace Kaufman, Hala Finley, Matthew McCann

Premise: A contractor (LeBlanc) becomes a stay-at-home dad when his wife returns to work and discovers that his kids are the worst.

HT Guys Preview Score: meh

Pure Genius

Premieres: Thursday, Oct. 27 at 10:00 PM

Stars: Augustus Prew, Dermot Mulroney, Brenda Song, Reshma Shetty, Ward Horton, Aaron Jennings, Odette Annable

Premise: A Silicon Valley millionaire (Prew) taps a veteran surgeon with a controversial past (Mulroney) to head a hospital that will employ groundbreaking but potentially risky new procedures.

HT Guys Preview Score: Doesn’t sound like it’ll last the season

Training Day

Premieres: Midseason

Stars: Bill Paxton, Justin Cornwell, Drew Van Acker, Katrina Law, Lex Scott Davis, Julie Benz

Premise: Based on the 2001 movie starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke, the reboot picks up 15 years later and revolves around a young idealistic LAPD police officer (Cornwell) who is partnered with a morally questionable detective (Paxton).

HT Guys Preview Score: No doubt. This is worth a look, but could go horribly wrong.

FOX

24: Legacy

Premieres: Mondays at 8/7c midseason

Stars: Corey Hawkins, Miranda Otto, Jimmy Smits

Producers: Howard Gordon, Brian Grazer, Manny Coto, Evan Katz, Stephen Hopkins, Kiefer Sutherland

Premise: Former Army Ranger Eric Carter (Hawkins), the new Jack Bauer, turns to the CTU to try to stop a terrorist attack. The series will adopt the same real-time format as the original series, but will consist of only 12 episodes like 2014's event series 24: Live Another Day.

HT Guys Preview Score: You had me at 24.

The Exorcist

Premieres: Friday, Sep. 23 at 9:00 PM

Stars: Geena Davis, Alfonso Herrera, Ben Daniels, Brianne Howey, Hannah Kasulka, Alan Ruck, Kurt Egyiawan

Premise: The horror remake follows two men who try to help the Rance family's case of demonic possession. Davis takes on the Ellen Burstyn role from the film as the family matriarch. Howey and Kasulka play the Rance daughters.

HT Guys Preview Score: Would be surprised if it last the full season

Lethal Weapon

Premieres: Wednesday, Sep. 21 at 8:00 PM

Stars: Damon Wayans, Sr., Clayne Crawford, Jordana Brewster, Kevin Rahm, Keesha Sharp

Premise: A remake of the beloved film franchise, Wayans is your new Roger Murtaugh of the LAPD and Crawford is your new Martin Riggs, a former Navy SEAL who moves from Texas to L.A. after losing his wife and child.

HT Guys Preview Score: Heck yeah! Definitely not too old for this $#!+ (show)

Pitch

Premieres: Thursday, Sep. 22 at 9:00 PM

Stars: Kylie Bunbury, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Ali Larter, Mark Consuelos, Dan Lauria, Michael Beach, Bob Balaban, Mo McRae, Meagan Holder, Tim Jo

Premise: Ginny Baker (Bunbury) defies the odds to become the first woman to play in the MLB when she joins the San Diego Padres as its pitcher.

HT Guys Preview Score: meh

Prison Break

Premieres: Tuesdays at 9/8c midseason

Stars: Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell, Sarah Wayne Callies, Robert Knepper, Rockmond Dunbar, Amaury Nolasco, Mark Feuerstein

Premise: A reboot of the original show, the event series picks up after Michael’s (Miller) apparent death in the 2009 finale, when clues surface that Michael might actually be alive.

HT Guys Preview Score: If you were into Prison Break before, it’s worth a shot

Son of Zorn

Premieres: Sunday, Sep. 25 at 8:30 PM

Stars: Jason Sudeikis, Cheryl Hines, Johnny Pemberton, Tim Meadows

Premise: The live-action/animated hybrid comedy features Sudeikis as the voice of the animated title character who returns to Earth for the first time in 10 years from the land of Zephyria and tries to reconnect with his human son Alan (Pemberton) and ex-wife Edie (Hines).

HT Guys Preview Score: Jason Sudeikis. Nuff said.

NBC

The Blacklist: Redemption

Premieres: Midseason

Stars: Famke Janssen, Ryan Eggold, Edi Gathegi, Tawny Cypress

Premise: This spin-off of The Blacklist will follow Tom Keen (Eggold) as he teams up with Susan "Scottie" Hargrave (Janssen), whom he discovered is his mother on the mothership. Scottie is the head of Grey Matters, a covert mercenary task force that handles cases the government won't touch.

HT Guys Preview Score: Blacklist is solid. Could work.

Chicago Justice

Premieres: Sundays at 9/8c midseason

Stars: Philip Winchester, Carl Weathers, Nazneen Contractor, Joelle Carter, Ryan-James Hatanaka

Premise: The fourth series in Dick Wolf's lucrative Chicago franchise takes viewers inside the Windy City's State's Attorney's office. The series was introduced as a backdoor pilot in an episode of Chicago P.D. in May.

HT Guys Preview Score: If you’re into the Chicago franchise. Plus, Apollo Creed?

Emerald City

Premieres: Midseason

Stars: Adria Arjona, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Vincent D’Onofrio, Joely Richardson, Florence Kasumba

Premise: An dark, edgy reimagining of the Land of Oz book series, the fantasy series stars Arjona as Dorothy Gale and D’Onofrio plays The Wizard.

HT Guys Preview Score: Maybe, if only to see how The Kingpin pulls off the role of The Wizard.

The Good Place

Premieres: Monday, Sep. 19 at 10:00 PM

Stars: Kristen Bell, Ted Danson, Jameela Jamil, William Jackson Harper, Manny Jacinto, D'Arcy Carden

Premise: When Eleanor (Bell) realizes that she's not a very good person, she gets a chance to start anew with the help of Michael (Danson) in the afterlife.

HT Guys Preview Score: Ted Danson? A Cheers reboot maybe, otherwise: pass.

Taken

Premieres: Mondays at 10/9c midseason

Stars: Clive Standen, Jennifer Beals, Gaius Charles, Monique Gabriela Curnen, James Landry Hebert, Michael Irby, Brooklyn Sudano, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Simu Liu

Premise: A prequel to the movie franchise, Standen plays a young version of Liam Neeson's ass-kicking CIA agent Bryan Mills.

HT Guys Preview Score: Young Liam Neeson? All in.

This Is Us

Premieres: Tuesday, Sep. 20 at 10:00 PM

Stars: Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, Sterling K. Brown, Justin Hartley, Chrissy Metz, Susan Kelechi Watson, Chris Sullivan, Ron Cephas Jones

Premise: The ensemble dramedy follows a group of people who share the same birthday and whose lives intersect in various ways.

HT Guys Preview Score: Meh

Timeless

Premieres: Monday, Oct. 3 at 10:00 PM

Stars: Abigail Spencer, Matt Lanter, Malcolm Barrett, Goran Visnjic, Paterson Joseph, Sakina Jaffrey, Claudia Doumit

Premise: A trio is tasked with traveling through time to catch a criminal who stole a time machine that could catastrophically alter history.

HT Guys Preview Score: Perhaps. We’ll give it an episode or two.

CW

Frequency

Premieres: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 9:00 PM

Stars: Peyton List, Riley Smith, Mekhi Phifer, Lenny Jacobson, Anthony Ruivivar, Devin Kelley, Daniel Bonjour

Premise: A remake of the 2000 film starring Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel, the series will star List as a detective in 2016 who discovers she can speak via a ham radio to her estranged father, who died in 1996 and was also a detective. They team up to solve a cold case with a "butterfly effect" on the present day.

HT Guys Preview Score: Maybe. It was a decent movie.

No Tomorrow

Premieres: Monday, Oct. 10 at 9:00 PM

Stars: Tori Anderson, Josh Sasse, Sarayu Blue, Amy Pietz, Jesse Rath, Jonathan Langdon

Premise: Based on a Brazilian format, the comedy focuses on procurement manager (Anderson) who falls for a man (Sasse) who lives every day like it's his last. Together, they try to fulfill every item on their bucket lists.

HT Guys Preview Score: Meh

Netflix

Marvel's Luke Cage

Premieres: Friday, September 30 at 12:01 AM Pacific Time

Stars: Mike Colter, Mahershala Ali, Alfre Woodard, Simone Missick, Theo Rossi, Frank Whaley, and Sônia Braga

Premise: Mike Colter stars as Luke Cage, a former convict who now fights crime. When a sabotaged experiment gives him super strength and unbreakable skin, Luke Cage becomes a fugitive attempting to rebuild his life in Harlem and must soon confront his past and fight a battle for the heart of his city.

HT Guys Preview Score: For sure.

A look back at the new TV shows for Fall 2015

How many survived? Of the shows we looked at for Fall premieres last year, not that many. This doesn’t include shows we didn’t talk about, or other late premiere shows like mid-season or summer replacement series.

ABC (3/6)

• Blood & Oil - canceled
• Dr. Ken - renewed
• The Muppets - canceled
• Quantico - renewed
• Wicked City - canceled

CBS (3/5)

• Angel From Hell - canceled
• Code Black - renewed
• Life in Pieces - renewed
• Limitless - canceled
• Supergirl - renewed

CW (1/1)

• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - renewed

FOX (2/5)

• Grandfathered - canceled
• The Grinder - canceled
• Minority Report - canceled
• Rosewood - renewed
• Scream Queens - renewed

NBC (2/6)

• Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris - canceled
• Blindspot - renewed
• Chicago Med - renewed
• Heroes Reborn - canceled
• The Player - canceled
• Truth Be Told - canceled

Research compiled with the help of TV Guide.