Now that the holiday decorations have been packed away and the last of the New Year's confetti is swept up, it's time for the midseason TV schedule to begin. There are dozens of returning shows coming back within the first three months of 2018, plus a whole slew of new shows to feast your eyes on.
Will you get sucked into Dakota Fanning [1]'s period mystery thriller The Alienist on TNT? Or join in The Terror of finding the Northwest Passage on AMC? Or perhaps you can't wait to see Fox's new music competition series now that the network lost American Idol [2] to ABC. Freeform also has a few options, including Yara Shahidi [3]'s highly anticipated Black-ish [4] spinoff, Grown-ish.
Ellen's Game of Games
- Network: NBC
- Who's starring: Ellen DeGeneres [6]
- What it's about: This new game show is based on the popular game segments of DeGeneres's talk show.
- Premiere date: Jan. 2
LA to Vegas
- Network: Fox
- Who's starring: Dylan McDermott, Ed Weeks, and Peter Stormare
- What it's about: Follow the flight crew and their passengers on the puddle-jumper getaway weekend flight that takes Los Angelenos to Las Vegas and back.
- Premiere date: Jan. 2
Grown-ish
- Network: Freeform
- Who's starring: Yara Shahidi [7], Trevor Jackson, and Chris Parnell
- What it's about: This Black-ish [8] spinoff follows eldest Johnson child Zoey (Shahidi) as she goes off to college.
- Premiere date: Jan. 3
9-1-1
- Network: Fox
- Who's starring: Angela Bassett, Connie Britton, and Peter Krause
- What it's about: Ryan Murphy's new drama follows different first responders in Los Angeles — including cops, paramedics, firefighters, and dispatchers.
- Premiere date: Jan. 3
The Four: Battle For Stardom
- Network: Fox
- Who's starring: THe four judges are Sean Combs, DJ Khaled, Meghan Trainor, and Charlie Walk; Fergie [9] is the host.
- What it's about: With American Idol [10] jumping to ABC, this is Fox's answer to the long-running music competition series.
- Premiere date: Jan. 4
Child Support
- Network: ABC
- Who's starring: Fred Savage and Ricky Gervais
- What it's about: A game show hosted by Savage where contestants answer a series of 10 questions. If they get one wrong, they can only be saved if someone in a room can answer the question. The room is filled with five children and Gervais.
- Premiere date: Jan. 5
The Chi
- Network: Showtime
- Who's starring: Jason Mitchell, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, and Alex Hibbert
- What it's about: A coming-of-age drama set in Chicago's South Side, a rough area where the simplest decisions can have huge consequences.
- Premiere date: Jan. 7
Alone Together
- Network: Freeform
- Who's starring: Esther Povitsky and Benji Aflalo
- What it's about: Two oddball 20-somethings strike up a platonic friendship to try to navigate the status-obsessed world of Los Angeles.
- Premiere date: Jan. 10
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
- Network: Amazon
- Who's starring: Steve Buscemi, Greg Kinnear, Mireille Enos, Anna Paquin [11], Terrence Howard, Vera Farmiga, Richard Madden, Holliday Grainger, Janelle Monáe, Juno Temple, and Maura Tierney, among many others.
- What it's about: This sci-fi anthology series consists of 10 standalone episodes based on the famed works of Philip K. Dick, author behind The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner Darkly, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the book upon which Blade Runner is based.
- Premiere date: Jan. 12
Black Lightning
- Network: The CW
- Who's starring: Cress Williams, China Anne McClain, and Nafessa Williams
- What it's about: Jefferson Pierce (Williams), a retired superhero, is forced to don the cape and cowl again when a local gang starts terrorizing his community.
- Premiere date: Jan. 16
The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
- Network: FX
- Who's starring: Penélope Cruz, Edgar Ramirez, and Darren Criss
- What it's about: A dramatization of serial killer Andrew Cunanan's murder spree, which began in April 1997 and ended in July 1997 with the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace.
- Premiere date: Jan. 17
Counterpart
- Network: Starz
- Who's starring: J.K. Simmons, Olivia Williams, and Harry Lloyd
- What it's about: This sci-fi thriller follows a low-level UN worker (Simmons) who discovers the agency he works for is covering up an interdimensional portal, which leads him to meet his "counterpart" on the other side.
- Premiere date: Jan. 21
The Resident
- Network: Fox
- Who's starring: Matt Czuchry, Bruce Greenwood, and Emily VanCamp
- What it's about: A new medical drama about residents (graduate medical students receiving additional training, usually in a certain specialty) learning the ropes at their new hospital.
- Premiere date: Jan. 21
The Alienist
- Network: TNT
- Who's starring: Dakota Fanning [12], Luke Evans, and Daniel Bruhl
- What it's about: Set in 1896, this drama is about a psychologist, a newspaper illustrator, and a police secretary who investigate a series of gruesome murders of young male prostitutes.
- Premiere date: Jan. 22
Mosaic
- Network: HBO
- Who's starring: Sharon Stone [13], Garrett Hedlund, and Beau Bridges
- What it's about: This is the six-episode TV version of a murder mystery mobile app by Steven Soderbergh, Casey Silver, and Ed Solomon. The app is like an interactive movie, letting users investigate on their own time and choose which perspectives they view the plot from. The TV show will not be interactive, but will contain basically the same story as the app.
- Premiere date: Jan. 22
Bellevue
- Network: WGN America
- Who's starring: Anna Paquin [14], Shawn Doyle, and Billy MacLellan
- What it's about: A police officer (Paquin) investigates the murder of a transgender teen while dealing with the return of someone from her past.
- Premiere date: Jan. 23
Altered Carbon
- Network: Netflix
- Who's starring: Joel Kinnaman, Renee Elise Goldsberry, and James Purefoy
- What it's about: Set 300 years in the future, humans are now digitized and downloaded from body to body.
- Premiere date: Feb. 2
Good Girls
- Network: NBC
- Who's starring: Christina Hendricks, Mae Whitman, and Retta
- What it's about: Three suburban women rob a grocery store for a little extra cash and get a little more than they bargained for.
- Premiere date: Feb. 26
Living Biblically
- Network: CBS
- Who's starring: Jay Ferguson, Lindsey Kraft, and David Krumholtz
- What it's about: After the death of his best friend, a married film critic and expectant father decides to become a born-again Christian and begin living his life according to the BIble.
- Premiere date: Feb. 26
The Looming Tower
- Network: Hulu
- Who's starring: Alec Baldwin [15], Jeff Daniels, and Peter Sarsgaard
- What it's about: Based on the 2006 book of the same name, this limited series will examine the people involved in the Sept. 11 attacks.
- Premiere date: Feb. 28
Heathers
- Network: Paramount Network
- Who's starring: Grace Victoria Cox, James Scully, and Selma Blair [16]
- What it's about: The rebranded Spike network is bringing this very dark comedy to the small screen in anthology form, with a modern-day Veronica Sawyer (Cox) dealing with a modern-day set of Heathers.
- Premiere date: March 2018
Hard Sun
- Network: Hulu
- Who's starring: Agyness Deyn and Jim Sturgess
- What it's about: Two London cops discover via the investigation of a hacker's death that the world is facing an apocalypse in five years.
- Premiere date: March 7
Instinct
- Network: CBS
- Who's starring: Alan Cumming, Naveen Andrews, and Whoopi Goldberg
- What it's about: A former CIA agent (Cumming) who now works as a professor and author is asked to help the NYPD stop a serial killer. It's based on James Patterson's popular Murder Games novel.
- Premiere date: March 11
Rise
- Network: NBC
- Who's starring: Josh Radnor [17], Rosie Perez, and Auli'i Cravalho
- What it's about: Based on the true story of teacher Lou Volpe (Radnor), it's about the renowned theater program at a Pennsylvania high school.
- Premiere date: March 13
The Terror
- Network: AMC
- Who's starring: Tobias Menzies, Jared Harris, and Ciaran Hinds
- What it's about: The first season of this anthology series is based on a novel that fictionalizes Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedition that was looking for the Northwest Passage. This horror version incorporates a monster stalking the crew of the HMS Terror.
- Premiere date: March 26
Siren
- Network: Freeform
- Who's starring: Eline Powell, Alex Roe, and Ian Verdun
- What it's about: A young girl arrives in a small coastal town and proves that the mythical sea creatures known as sirens really do exist — and it starts a war for the ocean.
- Premiere date: March 29
Reverie
- Network: NBC
- Who's starring: Sarah Shahi, Dennis Haysbert, and Jessica Lu
- What it's about: A retired hostage negotiator is brought in to save people who have lost themselves inside a highly advanced virtual-reality program called Reverie.
- Premiere date: March 2018