Your Ultimate Guide to Fall's New TV Shows

The CW

In case you haven't turned on your TV in the past month, new shows have flooded onto primetime! The onslaught of new shows began weeks ago, but it's not too late to get the scoop. Check out NBC, ABC, Fox, and CBS's new shows, and find out which shows have already gotten full-season pickups, and what's been canceled.

01

Frequency

  • Network: The CW
  • Who's starring: Peyton List
  • What it's about: A woman accidentally alters the present when she's able to contact her father, who is twenty years in the past, in this reboot of the 2000 movie of the same name.
02

No Tomorrow

  • Network: The CW
  • Who's starring: Tori Anderson and Jesse Rath
  • What it's about: A woman falls for a guy in her neighborhood, even though he's convinced the apocalypse is imminent.
03

Timeless

  • Network: NBC
  • Who's starring: Abigail Spencer and Matt Lanter
  • What it's about: A historian is brought aboard a Homeland Security teams that travels through time.
04

The Good Place

  • Network: NBC
  • Who's starring: Kristen Bell and Ted Danson
  • What it's about: A woman dies and goes to "The Good Place," only she's not actually supposed to be there.
05

This Is Us

  • Network: NBC
  • Who's starring: Mandy Moore and Milo Ventimiglia
  • What it's about: A drama about a selection of people with the same birthday whose lives unexpectedly intersect.
06

Lethal Weapon

  • Network: Fox
  • Who's starring: Clayne Crawford, Damon Wayans
  • What it's about: The classic franchise is coming to the small screen with two new guys playing the mismatched partners that Danny Glover and Mel Gibson originated.
07

The Exorcist

  • Network: Fox
  • Who's starring: Alfonso Herrera and Geena Davis
  • What it's about: One of the most terrifying horror movies (based on a book, which was inspired by a true story) is now becoming a TV show!
08

Son of Zorn

  • Network: Fox
  • Who's starring: Jason Sudeikis
  • What it's about: Sudeikis is voicing an animated warrior in this mostly live-action comedy.
09

Pitch

  • Network: Fox
  • Who's starring: Kylie Bunbury and Ali Larter
  • What it's about: The story of the first woman to play in for a Major League Baseball team.
10

Prison Break

  • Network: Fox, midseason
  • Who's starring: Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell
  • What it's about: This reboot of the original critically acclaimed series will focus on another prison escape.
11

APB

  • Network: Fox, midseason
  • Who's starring: Justin Kirk
  • What it's about: Kirk (Weeds) is playing a billionaire who privatizes and takes over a police force in Chicago.
12

Shots Fired

  • Network: Fox, midseason
  • Who's starring: Sanaa Lathan
  • What it's about: This is a 10-episode event series about the aftermath of several racially motivated crimes in a small town.
13

The Mick

  • Network: Fox, midseason
  • Who's starring: Kaitlin Olson
  • What it's about: A mess of a woman is suddenly put in charge of her rich sister's kids.
14

Making History

  • Network: Fox, midseason
  • Who's starring: Adam Pally and Leighton Meester
  • What it's about: A comedy about a couple of present-day teachers who travel back to Colonial America to get the revolution started.
15

Star

  • Network: Fox, midseason
  • Who's starring: Jude Demorest and Benjamin Bratt
  • What it's about: Queen Latifah and Lenny Kravitz guest-star in this musical drama about a girl who's meant to be a star.
16

24: Legacy

  • Network: Fox, midseason
  • Who's starring: Corey Hawkins and Miranda Otto
  • What it's about: A reboot of the series that made the character of Jack Bauer into a household name.
17

Downward Dog

  • Network: ABC, midseason
  • Who's starring: Allison Tolman and Lucas Neff
  • What it's about: A struggling woman and her talking dog.
18

Conviction

  • Network: ABC
  • Who's starring: Hayley Atwell and Eddie Cahill
  • What it's about: The daughter of a former president works with a team of lawyers to free the wrongly convicted.
19

Designated Survivor

  • Network: ABC
  • Who's starring: Kiefer Sutherland
  • What it's about: The secretary of housing and urban development is next in line for the presidency after a bomb kills everyone at the State of the Union address.
20

Notorious

  • Network: ABC
  • Who's starring: Piper Perabo and Daniel Sunjata
  • What it's about: A sexy TV producer and a sexy lawyer who work together on stories.
21

Time After Time

  • Network: ABC, midseason
  • Who's starring: Josh Bowman and Freddie Stroma
  • What it's about: H.G. Wells tracks down serial killer Jack the Ripper all the way to present-day New York City.
22

Still Star-Crossed

  • Network: ABC, midseason
  • Who's starring: Clara Rugaard and Torrance Coombs
  • What it's about: The aftermath of Romeo and Juliet's deaths.
23

Speechless

  • Network: ABC
  • Who's starring: Minnie Driver
  • What it's about: A comedy about a family supporting their disabled son (Micah Fowler).
24

American Housewife

  • Network: ABC
  • Who's starring: Katy Mixon
  • What it's about: One woman's quest to fit in without compromising her values in an uppity town.
25

Imaginary Mary

  • Network: ABC, midseason
  • Who's starring: Jenna Elfman
  • What it's about: Just when a woman starts dating a single dad, her imaginary friend (voiced by Rachel Dratch) reappears.
26

The Great Indoors

  • Network: CBS
  • Who's starring: Joel McHale
  • What it's about: An adventurer returns to the headquarters of the magazine he started to find that he's lost touch with his audience.
27

Pure Genius

  • Network: CBS
  • Who's starring: Dermot Mulroney and Augustus Prew
  • What it's about: A surgeon agrees to work at a high-tech facility in Silicon Valley despite the fact that he doesn't believe that the bells and whistles are worth it.
28

Man With a Plan

  • Network: CBS
  • Who's starring: Matt LeBlanc and Jenna Fischer
  • What it's about: A man becomes a stay-at-home dad and realizes how much work raising kids really is.
29

Kevin Can Wait

  • Network: CBS
  • Who's starring: Kevin James
  • What it's about: James plays a retired police officer who's having trouble figuring out what to do with his free time.
30

Bull

  • Network: CBS
  • Who's starring: Michael Weatherly
  • What it's about: A suave psychologist who manipulates juries on behalf of his wealthy clients.
31

Training Day

  • Network: CBS, midseason
  • Who's starring: Bill Paxton and Justin Cornwell
  • What it's about: A reimagining of Antoine Fuqua's 2001 cop drama of the same name.
32

MacGyver

  • Network: CBS
  • Who's starring: Lucas Till and George Eads
  • What it's about: A hip new version of the '80s action series.
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