Television Premieres and Notables: January 23-29, 2017

Monday, 1/23

Supergirl; CW. 7 pm CST. Mid-season Premiere.
With Kevin Smith directing.


Tuesday, 1/24

The New Edition Story; BET. 8 pm CST. Mini-series Premiere.

Face Off; Syfy. 11th Cycle Premiere.

Outsiders; WGNA. 2nd Season Premiere.


Wednesday, 1/25

The Magicians; Syfy. 8 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.

Suits; USA. 9 pm CST. 6th Season Premiere.

The Path; Hulu. Streaming. 2nd Season Premiere.


Thursday, 1/26

Scandal; ABC. 8 pm CST. 6th Season Premiere.

Riverdale; CW. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
The Archie Comics gang in a teen soap opera that doesn't very Archie-ish...
But the show is brought to us by Greg Berlanti, who gets a hit more often than a strikeout, so I'll give it a shot.


Friday, 1/27

Z: The Beginning of Everything; Amazon. Streaming. Series Premiere.
A look at the love affair between Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald.


Sunday, 1/29

Black Sails; Starz. Final Season Premiere.

Television Premieres and Notables: January 16-22, 2017

Tuesday, 1/17

Neal Brennan: 3 Mics; Netflix. Streaming. Special.


Wednesday, 1/18

Six; History. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Walton Goggins leads a team of Navy SEALs.


Thursday, 1/19

The Good Place (NBC; 7 pm CST). Season Finale.

Baskets; FX. 9 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.


Friday, 1/20

Real Time With Bill Maher; HBO. 9 pm CST. Season Premiere.

Frontier; Netflix. Streaming. Series Premiere.
Jason Mamoa stars as a fur trapper in 18th Century Canada.

Television Premieres and Notables: January 9-15, 2017

Monday, 1/9

Big Fan; 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Fans are quizzed about their knowledge of celebrities.


Tuesday, 1/10

Being Mary Jane; BET. 8 pm CST. Season Premiere.

Taboo; FX. 9 pm CST. Mini-series Premiere.
Tom Hardy stars in this mini I know nothing about.


Wednesday, 1/11

Jeff & Some Aliens; Comedy Central. 9:30 pm CST.

Thursday, 1/12

Colony; USA. 9 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.

Caraoke Showdown; Spike. 9:30 pm CST.
Craig Robinson drives people around in a van and has them sing for money.


Friday, 1/13

The Wheel; Discovery. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
About people surviving tough environments.

A Series of Unfortunate Events; Netflix. Streaming. Series Premiere.
Neil Patrick Harris stars as the titular character in this series based on the books.

Sneaky Pete; Amazon; Streaming. Series Premiere.
Giovanni Ribisi plays a just-released con and finds himself in trouble again.


Sunday, 1/15

Vistoria; PBS. 8 pm CST (check local listings). Series Premiere.
In 1837, teenage Victoria becomes Queen of England.

The Young Pope; HBO. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere
Jude Law stars a young pope.

Television Premieres and Notables: January 2-8, 2017

Monday, 1/2

The Bachelor; ABC. 7 pm CST. Season Premiere.

The New Celebrity Apprentice; NBC. 7 pm CST. Season Premiere.
Now with 100% more Schwarzenegger...

The Wall; NBC. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Then moves to Tuesdays at 7 pm.


Wednesday, 1/4

Wahlburgers (A&E. 9 pm CST.) Season Finale.


Thursday, 1/5

Nashville; CMT. 8 pm CST. 5th Season Premiere.
Now at its new home network.

Portlandia; IFC. 9 pm CST. Season Premiere.


Friday, 1/6

Grimm; NBC. 7 pm CST. Final Season Premiere.

Sleepy Hollow; Fox. 8 pm CST. Season Premiere.

Emerald City; NBC. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
A new take on The Wizard if Oz.

Television Premieres and Notables: December 26, 2016-January 11, 2017

Tuesday, 12/27

Chasing Cameron; Netflix. Streaming. Series Premiere.
Social media star Cameron Dallas travels and the world and meets his fans.


Wednesday, 12/28

My Crazy Sex; LMN. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
People tell their sex stories.


Thursday, 12/29

The Pizza Show; Viceland. 9:30 pm CST. Series Premiere.
A Brooklyn pizzeria owner travels the world to see how others do it.


Sunday, 1/1

The Mick; Fox. 7 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Ransom; CBS. 7:30 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Sherlock; PBS. 8 pm CST. 4th Season Premiere.

Television Premieres and Notables: December 12-18, 2016

Wednesday, 12/14

Star; Fox. 7 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Younger; TV Land. 9 pm CST. Season Finale.


Friday, 12/16

Man in the High Castle; Amazon. Streaming. 2nd Season Premiere.

Television Premieres and Notables: December 5-11, 2016

Tuesday, 12/6

Reggie Watts: Spatial; Netflix. Streaming. Special.


Wednesday, 12/7

Shut Eye; Hulu. Streaming, Series Premiere.
Jeffrey Donovan stars as a con artist.


Friday, 12/9

Fuller House; Netflix. Streaming, 2nd Season Premiere.


Sunday, 12/11

The 22nd Annual Critics' Choice Awards; A&E. 7 pm CST. Special.
Hosted by T.J. Miller, so who knows what might happen?

Last Man on Earth (Fox; 8 pm CST). Mid-season Finale.

Television Premieres and Notables: November 28-December 4, 2016

Whoops-- missed this one last week (yes, I know I didn't do one; Thanksgiving Week is typically dead). Luckily it's streaming. And if you were a fan, you'd have already known about it.

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life; Netflix. Streaming. Four specials.


Monday, 11/28

Alright: this is the shiznit we've been waiting for.
The CW has four DC Comics Super Hero shows airing now, and what do the big companies love doing more than anything? Crossovers.
Taking inspiration from the short 1989 DC Universe crossover Invasion, this storyline shows us how the Arrowverse heroes react when the Dominators invade the Earth.
It begins (sort-of; heard it's the tag at the end) with Supergirl (Monday, 7 pm), then moves to The Flash (Tuesday, 7 pm), Arrow (Wednesday, 7 pm), and (presumably) ends with DC's Legends of Tomorrow (Thursday, 7 pm).
Previous crossovers (between two shows) have been a lot of fun, and I expect this one to follow that pattern.


Tuesday, 11/29

Fixer Upper; HGTV. 8 pm CST. Season Premiere.


Thursday, 12/1

Top Chef; Bravo. 9 pm CST. 14th Season Premiere.


Friday, 12/2

Mr. Neighbor's House; adult swim.  11 pm CST. Special.


Saturday, 12/3

Pete Holmes: Faces and Sounds; HBO. 9 pm CST. Special.


Sunday, 12/4

Once Upon a Time (ABC; 7 pm CST). Mid-season Finale.

Westworld (HBO; 8 pm CST). Season Finale.

Television Premieres and Notables: November 14-20, 2016

Monday, 11/14

Mars; Nat Geo. 8 pm CST. Mini-series Premiere.
Ron Howard and Brian Grazer bring us this mini about the first manned trip to Mars in 2033.


Tuesday, 11/15

Religion of Sports; AT&T Audience. 7 pm CST. Mini-series Premiere.
Tom Brady and Michael Strahan bring us this six-part look at the cultural impact of sports.

Good Behavior; TNT. 8 pm CST.  Series Premiere.
A series based on Blake Crouch's books starring Michelle Dockery as a con artist.

Teen Wolf; MTV. 8pm CST. 6th--and final-- season.

Sweet/Vicious; MTV. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Two college women beat up sex offenders at night.


Wednesday 11/16

Undercover; BBC America. 7 pm CST. Mini-series Premiere.

American Horror Story: Roanoke ( FX. 9 pm) Season Finale.


Thursday, 11/17

How to Get Away With Murder (ABC; 9 pm CST). Mid-season Finale.

Lovesick; Netflix. Streaming. Season Premiere.


Saturday, 11/19

Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks; BBC America. 7:25 pm CST.
BBC America put up the coin to animate some of the legendary "lost episodes" (episodes that aired, but were never saved) using existing audio recordings (usually from fans who wired an audio recorder to their 1960's televisions) and stills from the time.
Power of the Daleks is notable for having the first "renewal" (later known as regeneration) when Second Doctor came from the First.
I'm a minor Whovian, and even I know this is a big deal.  Part of the cool factor of this show is just seeing how hard people are working to make the missing past a little less missing.

Versailles (Ovation; 9 pm CST). Season Finale.


Sunday, 11/20

The Affair; Showtime. 9 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.

Television Premieres and Notables: November 7-13, 2016

Monday, 11/7

People Magazine Investigates; ID. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
The hard-hitting journalists from People Magazine investigate ten true-crimes.


Tuesday, 11/8

Vanderpump Rules; Bravo. 8 pm CST. Season Premieres.

And I am hoping our National Shit Show is finally done today (but I can see the loser not conceding, so it's bound to take a while).
Just about everyone will be doing election specials tonight. The big ones being:
The Daily Show With Trevor Noah (Comedy Central; 10 pm) and
Stephen Colbert's Live Election Night Democracy's Series Special (Showtime; 10 pm CST)
^^^Note: Colbert's on Showtime.


Thursday, 11/10

The Blacklist (NBC; 9 pm CST). Mid-season Finale.

Television Premieres and Notables: October 31-November 6, 2016

Monday, 10/31

People of Earth; TBS. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
A reporter brings together people who have had alien experiences.
--And we'll also see how the aliens cope with their experiences.

Chewing Gum; Netflix. Streaming. Series Premiere.
Netflix brings this British sitcom to The States.
In it, a young woman comes of age when she decides to enjoy all that life has to offer.


Wednesday, 11/2

Stan Against Evil; IFC. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
John C. McGinley stars as a demon hunter, and Janet Varney stars as his sidekick.

Salem; WGN America. 9 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.


Friday, 11/4

The Crown; Netflix. Streaming. Series Premiere.
Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon and The Queen) brings us this ambitious series that tells the story of Queen Elizabeth over six seasons.
It begins as Princess Elizabeth and her new husband try to figure out their future.

Dana Carvey: Straight White Male, 60; Netflix. Streaming. Special.

Television Premieres and Notables: October 24-30, 2016

Monday, 10/24

Man With a Plan; CBS. 7:30 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Matt LeBlanc stars as a contractor who has to become more involved with his kids now that his wife is going back to work.


Wednesday, 10/26

Rectify; SundanceTV. 9 pm CST. 4th-- and final-- Season Premiere.

Jon Glaser Loves Gear; TruTV. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
A reality show host tries out new outdoor gear-- and it doesn't go well.


Thursday, 10/27

The Great Indoors; CBS. 7:30 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Joel McHale stars as a magazine writer who must learn to live in the digital world.

Life in Pieces; CBS.  8:30 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.

Mom; CBS. 8 pm CST. 4th Season Premiere.

Pure Genius; CBS. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
A billionaire opens a hospital to treat really odd cases.


Friday, 10/28

Tracey Ullman's Show; HBO. 10 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Good Girls Revolt; Amazon. Streaming. Series Premiere.

Television Premieres and Notables: October 17-23, 2016

Monday, 10/17

Jane the Virgin; CW. 8 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.
It's silly and soap opera-y, but it's so fun and whimsical and crazy that it's also extremely delightful.

The Odd Couple; CBS. 8:30 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.


Wednesday, 10/19

Chance; Hulu. Streaming. Series Premiere.
Hugh Laurie stars in this series based on the Ken Numm novel about a forensic neurologist.


Thursday, 10/20

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Timewarp Again; Fox. 7 pm CST. Special.


Friday, 10/21

The Vampire Diaries; CW. 7 pm CST. 8th-- and final-- season.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend; CW. 8 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.
Even crazier than Jane, and even more delightful.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency; BBC America. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
A new take on Scott Adam's books.
I liked the first series based on them that starred the always-great Stephen Mangan, so I'll give this a shot too.

Black Mirror; Netflix. Streaming. 3rd Season Premiere.


Sunday, 10/23

The Simpsons (Fox; 7 pm CST) airs its 600th episode-- and it's a Treehouse of Terror ep.

The Walking Dead; AMC. 8 pm CST. 7th Season Premiere.
I've watched this show since the beginning, but I am especially fascinated by the idea of how this season is going to play out.
It's one of the biggest shows in the country, and it may have pushed it a little too much last season, so I'm curious to see how the storytelling changes-- and how fans react.
Firstly, I think they made a mistake when they showed what looked like a major character death-- and then held confirmation for a few episodes (and the silliness surrounding the reveal). I think, story-wise, it was an okay choice, but AMC made it a bigger deal than it should have, so fans rebelled a bit.
The second mistake was the cliffhanger. Yeah, it's TV; it's what is done. But I think not showing who Negan killed right away will take away the impact of that death. When Negan was introduced in the comics, he pulped a character in the same issue, and that made him even more terrifying.  But the series decided to hold the reveal over the summer, and I think with an entire eight eps following right after, there won't be time for fans to let it sink in.
And I'm sure things have changed in the TV business of the past few years (more cable shows, shorter seasons), but I wonder if The Walking Dead has the traditional network actor contracts. (I, seriously, don't know; just speculating based on "the way it used to be".)  Traditional contracts locked in an actor for five seasons with the studio getting an additional option for two more (with changes that gave more power to the actor for those additional two years). After that, the actor has the advantage of being able to walk away. That's why you see more cast changes happening around the 7-8 season mark.
It's likely the contracts nowadays are different, but we really are reaching the point in this series where actors may decide to pursue other projects, and character deaths may not be strictly story-based.
The cast makeup of this show may be pretty different in the coming years after being fairly stable (for the main characters) for a the past couple.

Talking Dead; AMC. 9:06 pm CST. 6th Season Premiere.
A special 90-minute episode featuring twelve of the actors on Negan's hit list".

Comic Book Men; AMC. 11:40 pm CST. 6th Season Premiere.

Television Premieres and Notables: October 10-16, 2016

And The CW now finishes-off their premiere (two)week.
My DVR just got a little more full...

Monday, 10/10

Supergirl; CW. 7 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.
Moving from CBS will mean a smaller budget-- but hopefully will also mean it can be a little more free in its storytelling.
Season One wasn't perfect, but it was fun and told the right types of stories.
Kara/Supergirl is just trying to find her place in the world, which is made even more difficult because her cousin is the greatest hero in that world.
And Kara does what she does because it's the right thing to do; because she has the power to do more.
This is the right way to do a superhero show. If you have a young girl in your household, this is the type of role model she should be watching.

Two Broke Girls; CBS. 8 pm CST. 6th Season Premiere.
Yeah, this show is still on...


Tuesday, 10/11

The Middle; ABC. 7 pm CST. 8th Season Premiere.

American Housewife; ABC. 7:30 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Katy Mixon stars as a housewife who decides not to be like the other "perfect" women in her neighborhood.

Fresh Off the Boat; ABC. 8 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.

The Real Husbands of Beverly Hills; BET. 8 pm CST. Season Premiere.

Channel Zero: Candle Cove; Syfy. 8 pm CST. Mini-series Premiere.

The Real O'Neals. ABC. 8:30 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.

Chicago Fire; NBC. 9 pm CST. 5th Season Premiere.


Thursday, 10/13

DC's Legends of Tomorrow; CW. 7 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.
The weakest of the CW DC shows, but it has the most potential.
It's got a great group of actors, and I hope they can even-out the issues from last season (trying to balance the special effects seemed to be one of the biggest), and with a team shake-up for this season, I think we'll be in a better place for S2.
But whatever. Hourman mentioned The Justice Society in the season finale.
I'm in.
All in.

Supernatural; CW. 8 pm CST. 12th Season Premiere.

Falling Water; USA. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Following on the heels of the surprise Mr. Robot; USA tries to reinvent itself with another mysterious show. This one has to do with people with shared dreams-- and someone(s) are able to hack into others'.

Bajillion Dollar Properties; Seeso. Streaming. 2nd Season Premiere.


Friday, 10/14

Goliath; Netflix. Streaming. Series Premiere.

Haters Back Off! Netflix. Streaming. Series Premiere.


Sunday, 10/16

Eyewitness; USA. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Dead bodies are found, and a cop has to figure out who did it.

Graves; Epix. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Nick Nolte stars as a Republican former-president, who considers his his ideals.

Television Premieres and Notables: October 3-9, 2016

So it's been a pretty unexciting fall season; one of the least-exciting (for me, anyway) in at least as long as I've been doing this.

[Quick new show run-down: I watched an episode each of Son of Zorn and Kevin Can Wait and-- wow-- not good. But I did like Speechless and Designated Survivor enough to keep going with them (both of which have been picked-up for a full 22-ep season). And while I rarely watched the original, the new MacGuyver has just enough charm that I will continue to watch it sporadically when I'm not at the DVR in my house and and have limited options OnDemand.]

Anyway, here's where shit gets real. This week are the season premieres of most of the shows I really get into- and new shows that sound like things I'd be into.  Yeah, I'm an old comic book geek, but some of these shows are so fun, I'm not afraid to admit I eat them up as much as any of the more realistic shows out there.

And who have guessed that The CW is the network I'd be hardcore into...?


Monday, 10/3

Scorpion; CBS. 8 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.

Conviction; ABC. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
The great Hayley Atwell stars as the head of a legal firm that finds (possibly) wrongly convicted people and tries to get them set free.
I, unfortunately, haven't heard much great about it.

Timeless; NBC. 9 pm CST.
Three people travel through time to stop another person from changing history.


Tuesday, 10/4

The Flash; CW. 7 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.
Unlike the moody, brooding, emo bullshit that is the DC Movie Universe, the DC TV Universe feature heroes who "do the right thing", Barry Allen is about as pure and good-hearted a hero as you can find. He does what he does because he is the only one who can.
But he also makes mistakes because he's human. Like when he has gone back in time and changed his past.  Like in the 2nd Season finale, when he made a big, selfish, mistake any one of us would have also made that will undoubtedly change his entire life, as well as the lives of the people he's close to. (And, if the show follows even a portion of the comic book story "Flashpoint" that this storyline is based on, it's likely much more than just Barry's world that changed. And they may just have the basis for the big crossover event later this year.)

MasterChef Canada; Cooking. 7 pm CST. Season Premiere.

No Tomorrow; CW. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
A young woman lives a normal, boring, life-- until a charismatic Aussie comes into her life and urges her to do more and be more.
Sounds great-- except the man actually thinks the world is going to end in eight months, so he may be going a little too gung-ho on the bucket list.

The Mindy Project; Hulu. Streaming. 6th Season Premiere.


Wednesday, 10/5

Arrow; CW. 7 pm CST. 5th Season Premiere.
This show has been embracing the more fantastical elements of super-hero stories as its seasons have gone on, but they may have gone too far with Damien Darhk last season.
So they're pulling back a little this year and getting back to ground-level heroics with Prometheus and The Vigilante, as well as (maybe) Mr. Terrific and Artemis.

Frequency; CW. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
A young woman detective in 2016 finds herself able to communicate with her dead cop father from 1996.


Friday, 10/7

The Ranch; Netflix. Streaming. Mid-season Premiere.
Netflix drops the back half of the the first season on us.


Saturday, 10/8

The Graham Norton Show; BBC American. 9 pm CST. Season Premiere.
The best celeb chat show out there.
Watch it and then cry because the U.S. equivalents are so dull.


Sunday, 10/9

Divorce; HBO. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Hayden Church star as a couple who are deciding if their marriage is worth saving.
Sounds like a hoot...

Insecure; HBO. 9:30 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Issa Rae (from the Awkward Black Girl webseries) brings her voice to HBO.

Television Premieres and Notables: September 26-October 2, 2016

Monday, 9/26

Vice News Tonight; HBO. 6:30 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Food Network Star Kids (Food; 7 pm CST). Season Finale.

Tuesday, 9/27

Aftermath; Syfy. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Drunk History; Comedy Central. 9:30 pm CST. 4th Season Premiere.

Wednesday, 9/28

Criminal Minds; CBS. 8 pm CST. 12th Season Premiere.

Code Black; CBS. 9 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.

Younger; TV Land. 9 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.

Friday, 9/30

Crisis in Six Scenes; Amazon. Streaming. Mini-series Premiere.

Luke Cage; Netflix. Streaming. Series Premiere.

Saturday, 10/1

Versailles; Ovation. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Saturday Night Live; NBC. 10:30 pm CST. Season Premiere.

Sunday, 10/2

NCIS: Los Angeles; CBS. 7 pm CST. 8th Season Premiere.

Ash vs. Evil Dead; Starz. 7 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.

Blunt Talk; Starz. 7:30 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.

Madam Secretary; CBS. 8 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.

Westworld; HBO. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Shameless; Showtime. 8 pm CST. 7th Season Premiere.

Elementary; CBS. 9 pm CST. 5th Season Premiere.

Television Premieres and Notables: September 19-25, 2016

Okay, the 2016 Fall Season begins.
I'll got really got time or energy for is a straight-up "this is the show, channel, time" listing.

Monday, 9/19

The Big Bang Theory; CBS. 7 pm CST. 10 Season Premiere.

Gotham; Fox. 7 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.

The Voice; NBC. 7 pm CST. 11th Cycle Premiere.
Now with 100% more Alicia Keys and Miley Cyrus.

Kevin Can Wait; CBS. 7:30 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Lucifer; Fox. 8 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.

The Good Place; NBC. 9:00 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Beware: NBC is doing this a number of times this season; where a show premieres at a different time and day and then drops it in it's normal slot later. It's not clear if the the timeslot premiere will be a new ep, or a repeat of the pilot, so I'd plan for both.
This show will premiere in its usual timeslot on Thursday at 7:30 pm CST.


Tuesday, 9/20

NCIS; CBS. 7 pm CST. 14th Season Premiere.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine; Fox. 7 pm CST. 4th Season Premiere.

New Girl; Fox. 7:30 pm CST. 6th Season Premiere.

Bull; CBS. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Scream Queens; Fox. 8 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.; ABC. 9 pm CST. 4th Season Premiere.

NCIS: New Orleans; CBS. 9 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.

This is Us; NBC. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.


Wednesday, 9/21

The Goldbergs; ABC. 7 pm CST. 4th Season Premiere.

Speechless; ABC. 7:30 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Lethal Weapon; Fox. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Modern Family; ABC. 8 pm CST. 8th Season Premiere.

Survivor: Millennials vs Gen X: CBS. 33rd Cycle Premiere.

Empire; Fox.8 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.

Law & Order: SVU; NBC. 8 pm CST. 18th Season Premiere.

Black-ish; ABC. 8:30 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.

Designated Survivor; ABC. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Chicago P.D. NBC. 9 pm CST. 4th Season Premiere.


Thursday, 9/22

Grey's Anatomy; ABC. 7 pm CST. 13th Season Premiere.

Rosewood; Fox. 7 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.

Superstore; NBC. 7 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.

The Good Place (NBC) moves to it's normal timeslot (7:30 pm).

Notorious; ABC. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Pitch; Fox. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Chicago Med; NBC. 8 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.

How to Get Away With Murder; ABC. 9 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.

The Blacklist; NBC. 9 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.

Easy; Netflix. Streaming. Series Premiere.


Friday, 9/23

Last Man Standing; ABC. 7 pm CST. 6th Season Premiere.

MacGyver; CBS. 7 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Hell's Kitchen; Fox. 7 pm CST. 16th Season Premiere.

Dr. Ken; ABC. 7:30 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.

Shark Tank; ABC. 8 pm CST. 8th Season Premiere.

Hawaii Five-O; 8 pm CST. 7th Season Premiere.

The Exorcist; Fox. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Blue Bloods; CBS. 9 pm CST. 7th Season Premiere.

Van Helsing; Syfy. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Transparent; Amazon. Streaming. 3rd Season Premiere.


Sunday, 9/25
First off-- pay attention to football on CBS and Fox.
If a network has the late afternoon game, it'll inevitably "go long".
(Thus is especially true for CBS. Fox tends to know the game will go past 6 pm.)

Bob's Burgers; Fox. 6:30 pm CST. 7th Season Premiere.

Once Upon a Time; ABC. 7 pm CST. 6th Season Premiere.

The Simpsons; Fox. 7 pm CST. 28th Season Premiere.

Secrets and Lies; 8 pm CST. 2nd season Premiere.

Family Guy; Fox.  8 pm CST. 14th Season Premiere.

Last Man on Earth; Fox. 8:30 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.

Quantico; ABC. 9 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.

Television Premieres and Notables: September 12-18, 2016

Monday, 9/12.

Dancing With the Stars; ABC. 7 pm CST. 23rd Cycle Premiere.


Wednesday, 9/14

Blindspot; NBC. 9 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.

South Park; Comedy Central. 9 pm CST. 20th Season Premiere.

American Horror Story; FX. 9 pm CST. 6th Season Premiere.

Documentary Now! IFC. 9 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.


Thursday, 9/15

Project Runway; Lifetime. 8 pm CST. 15th Season Premiere.


Friday, 9/16

Z Nation; Syfy. 9 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.

High Maintenance; HBO. 10 pm CST. Series Premiere.
HBO is bringing the weed delivery man web-series to premium cable.


Sunday, 9/18

The Case of: JonBenet Ramsey; CBS. 7:30 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Television Premieres and Notables: September 5-12, 2016

Monday, 9/5

Harley and the Davidsons; Discovery. 8 pm CST. Mini-series Premiere.
A scripted 3-parter that looks at the beginnings of the motorcycle company and the men behind it.

Loosely Exactly Nicole; MTV. 9:30 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Nicole Byer stars in this autobiographical series kind-of about her life.


Tuesday, 9/6

From Dusk Til Dawn: The Series; El Rey. 8 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.
Catch up on the first 2 seasons as El Rey reairs them beginning at midnight (9/6) then get into S3 at 8 where more crazy shit is bound to happen.

Atlanta; FX. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Donald Glover stars as one of a pair of cousins trying to break into the Atlanta rap world.

Queen Sugar; OWN. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay bring us this adaptation of the Natalie Baszile novel.

StartUp; Crackle. Streaming. Series Premiere.


Wednesday, 9/7

American Gothic (CBS; 8 pm CST). Season Finale.



Thursday, 9/8

Finding Prince Charming; Logo. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Lance Bass hosts this gay dating show.

Better Things; FX. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Pamela Adlon stars in and co-created (with Louis CK) this look at a single mother actress.

Haylie's America; Cooking. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Haylie Duff travels the country, eating at various establishments.


Friday, 9/9

Quarry; Cinemax. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
A disgraced Vietnam vet returns and gets recruited to be a hitman, like one does.

One Mississippi; Amazon. Streaming. Series Premiere.
Tig Notaro stars in this series that is based on her life after her mother died.


Sunday, 9/11

Masters of Sex; Showtime. 9 pm CST. 4th Season Premiere.

Television Premieres and Notables: August 29-September 4, 2016

Monday, 8/29

THE MAKING OF THE MOB: CHICAGO (AMC; 9 pm CST). Season Finale.


Wednesday, 8/31

YOU'RE THE WORST; FXX. 9 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.

GREENLEAF (OWN; 9 pm CST). Season Finale.


Thursday, 9/1

SOUL MATES; SeeSo. Streaming. Series Premiere.


Friday, 9/2

CHEF'S TABLE; Netflix. Streaming. Season Premiere.

NARCOS; Netflix. Streaming. 2nd Season Premiere.


Sunday, 9/4

BUILDING STAR TREK; Smithsonian. 7 pm CST. Special.
Scientists explain how the show inspired them to invent/develop some of the technology seen on the show.

Television Premieres and Notables: August 22-28, 2016

Tuesday, 8/23

Halt and Catch Fire; AMC. 8 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.

Adam Ruins Everything; TruTV. 9 pm CST. Mid-season Premiere.


Wednesday, 8/24

Cleveland Hustles; CNBC. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
LeBron James brings us this series that looks at Cleveland entrepreneurs.

Gomorrah; Sundance TV. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Sundance brings the hit Italian series about a crime family to The States.


Thursday, 8/25

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars; Logo. 7 pm CST. Season Premiere.


Sunday, 8/28

The Strain; FX. 9 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.

Television Premieres and Notables: August 15-21, 2016

Wednesday, 8/17

Unlocking the Truth; MTV. 10 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Ryan Ferguson, a man who was wrongfully convicted of murder, tries to help three other possibly innocent prisoners.


Thursday, 8/18

60 Days In; A&E. 8 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.


Saturday, 8/20

Rush Hour (CBS; 7 pm CST). Series Finale.


Sunday, 8/21

Fear the Walking Dead; AMC. 8 pm CST. Mid-season Premiere.
This series has started to pull itself away from the original, and I'm interested to see if it can continue to show a different side of the zombie apocalypse.

Television Premieres and Notables: August 8-14, 2016

Monday, 8/8

Angie Tribecca (TBS; 8 pm CST). Season Finale.

Unreal (Lifetime; 9 pm CST). Season Finale.


Tuesday, 8/9

Hard Knocks: Training Camp With the Los Angeles Rams; HBO. 9 pm CST. Season Premiere.


Wednesday, 8/10

Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry; E! 7 pm CST. Season Premiere.


Thursday, 8/11

Take My Wife; Seeso. Streaming, Series Premiere.
Rhea Butcher and Cameron Esposito create and star in this series loosely based on their own life together.


Friday, 8/12

The Great British Baking Show (PBS; 8 pm [check local listings]). Season Finale.

Outcast (Cinemax 9 pm CST). Season Finale.

The Get Down; Netflix. Streaming. Series Premiere,
Baz Luhrmann (with Grandmaster Flash and Nas) brings us this series about the rise of hip-hop in the 1970s.

Television Premieres and Notables: August 1-7, 2016

Monday, 8/1

The Bachelorette (ABC; 7 pm CST). Season Finale.

Running Wild With Bear Grylls; NBC. 9 pm CST. Season Premiere.

Fameless; TruTV. 9 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.


Tuesday, 8/2

Bachelor in Paradise; ABC. 7 pm CST, 3rd Season Premiere.


Thursday, 8/4

Greatest Hits (ABC; 8 pm CST). Season Finale.


Friday, 8/5

2016 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony; NBC. 6:30 pm CST. Special.

David Cross' Making America Great Again! Netflix. Special.


Sunday, 8/7

Inspector Lewis; PBS. 8 pm CST (check local listings). Season Premiere.