Fall TV Preview: A Handy Guide to All the Shows You Don't Want to Miss

The Scoop: The sexy Spanish-language murder mystery series set in a top-tier private school is back for a second season and things are getting even more insane. Season one followed the investigation of Marina's death, but season two will explore the truth behind her murder!

Release Date: Sept. 6

The Scoop: When teenager Marie Adler (Kaitlyn Dever) files a police report claiming she's been sexually assaulted by an intruder in her home, the investigating detectives, as well as the people closest to her, come to doubt the truth of her story. Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away, detectives Grace Rasmussen and Karen Duvall (Emmy winners Toni Collette and Merritt Wever) meet while investigating an eerily similar pair of intruder rapes and partner to catch a potential serial rapist.

Release Date: Sept. 13

The Scoop: Season two of the ABC drama ended with Shaun (Freddie Highmore) getting his old job back at San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital and asking out his former pathology coworker Dr. Carly Lever. Season three will have him flexing his suitor muscles and dealing with the consequences of his actions from season two. And of course, the usual insanity that always seems to occur at San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital!

Release Date: Sept. 23

The Scoop: Getting an upgrade from 11 episodes to 19, season two will pick up exactly were the last left off, with Becky's boyfriend getting deported and the love triangle between Darlene, David, and her new boyfriend getting even more complicated.

Release Date: Sept. 24

The Scoop: Season four of the NBC drama will shift the focus from the mystery of Jack Pearson to the Big Three. The family keeps growing, relationships are being tested, and things keep getting complicated as life moves forward. And of course, there's still the mystery surrounding those flash-fowards . . .

Release Date: Sept. 24

The Scoop: The Johnson family returns for a sixth season full of love, laughter, and lots of shenanigans. It's been a serious season of change for the Johnson family and things will definitely take a turn when Pops (Laurence Fishburne) surprises everyone by introducing Lynette (Loretta Devine), his new fiancée!

Release Date: Sept. 24

The Scoop: The surprise-hit comes back for a second season of celebrity singers donning outrageous costumes and duking it out while remaining anonymous to the panelists, the audience, and each other. Jenny McCarthy, Ken Jeong, Robin Thicke, and Nicole Scherzinger return to star as the show's panelists, with Nick Cannon returning as the host extraordinaire.

Release Date: Sept. 25

The Scoop: Our favorite dysfunctional family returns for their eleventh and final season. Season 10 ended with the birth of Haley's twins and the final season will focus on the new additions to the Pritchett-Dunphy clan, as well as how their birth effects the entire family.

Release Date: Sept. 25

The Scoop: The second installment of this ABC comedy will track our favorite single parents as they navigate the new relationships among the group, all while wrangling their wily group of 7-year-old kids.

Release Date: Sept. 25

The Scoop: We're heading back to Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital for another season and there's plenty of loose ends from the last season finale to last us until season 17. Now that Teddy and Owen have welcomed their baby girl, how are they going to go about being parents? They seemed to reconcile, but Teddy is still in a relationship with Koracick, so that's bound to get very messy, very quickly. There's also the fact that the top three senior doctors at Grey Sloan Memorial have been fired (rightly so), and one might even be on her way to prison, so it's safe to say there's more than enough turmoil to go around.

Release Date: Sept. 26

The Scoop: Team Cockroach is back for a final season and everything is on the line. Eleanor is pretending to be the Architect of the new Good Place as the remaining members of Team Cockroach attempt to rehabilitate new residents and prove to Judge Jen that people are capable of becoming good even after they die. Of course, things won't be easy for them since the demons have teamed up to wreak havoc, like planting Chidi's ex Simone and Tahani's former nemesis John in the afterlife.

Release Date: Sept. 26

The Scoop: Olivia Benson and the SVU squad return for another addictive season of everyone's favorite cop show.

Release Date: Sept. 26

The Scoop: This Netflix series follows Payton Hobart (Ben Platt), a wealthy student from Santa Barbara, California, who has known since age seven that he's going to be President of the United States. But first he'll have to navigate the most treacherous political landscape of all: Saint Sebastian High School. To get elected Student Body President, secure a spot at Harvard, and stay on his singular path to success, Payton will have to outsmart his ruthless classmates without sacrificing his own morality and carefully crafted image.

Release Date: Sept. 27

The Scoop: It's never a quiet day in the Otto household! Katy Mixon will return for a third season as Katie Otto, a mother attempting to raise her flawed family in a picturesque Connecticut community while juggling a new job, her hatred for everything her neighborhood represents, and her own machinations.

Release Date: Sept. 27

The Scoop: Bob, Linda, Tina, Eugene, and Louise return for another season of making burgers, causing chaos, and thinking about butts.

Release Date: Sept. 29

The Scoop: After the devastating deaths in season nine, season 10 will focus on the united communities as they initiate a fight in order to end the threat of the Whisperers. It will also be the final season of Danai Gurira, who has played Michonne since season three.

Release Date: Oct. 6

The Scoop: According to the season's synopsis, season two of the football drama "finds Spencer James (Daniel Ezra), now a football State Champion, with a tough decision to make. Does he stay in Beverly Hills and play for Coach Billy Baker (Taye Diggs)? Or does he move back home to South LA, reunite with his mother, Grace (Karimah Westbrook), brother, Dillon (Jalyn Hall), and play for his father, Corey (Chad Coleman) – the new head coach for the South Crenshaw Chargers?"

Release Date: Oct. 7

The Scoop: After the defeat of Tobias Whale in season two, the Pierce family will continue protecting the streets of Freeland in season three — but it won't be easy. Freeland has been plagued by government-sponsored experiments and drug trafficking that have created metahumans and addicts while making Freeland a target of a dangerous foreign power, Markovia. The nation of Markovia and their teleporting assassin, played by Tosin Morohunfola, are planning an invasion with their own army of metahumans and it's up to the Pierces to put a stop to it.

Release Date: Oct. 7

The Scoop: Season five of the costumed-hero drama ended with Team Flash defeating Cicada, but also erasing Nora's (Jessica Parker Kennedy) timeline and letting Thawne (Tom Cavanagh) slip away. Season six will deal with the aftermath of Nora's disappearance, the growth of Iris's (Candice Patton) newspaper The Central Citizen, and the annual Arrowverse crossover event! The final minutes of season five showed the date of the crisis in the future newspaper changing from 2024 to 2019, which means The Flash could end this season with Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) disappearing for good.

Release Date: Oct. 8

The Scoop: Put down the jingle jangle, folks, Archie and the gang are returning for another season of mystery, murder, and musicals. The final episode of season three acted as a culmination of the show's first three seasons, bringing the stories of Jason Blossom, the Black Hood, and the Gargoyle King together at last. But there's still the mystery of The Farm and Betty's serial killer genes.

Release Date: Oct. 9

The Scoop: The Winchesters are down to one final ride and it'll be a doozy of a final showdown for the boys to contend with. Season 14 ended with the trio facing down a horde of the undead as God/Chuck releases all the souls from Heaven and Hell, proving himself to be the ultimate big bad in the process. Meanwhile, Jack is dead and stuck in the Empty having a chat with Death. Things really aren't looking great for Team Free Will going into their final season!

Release Date: Oct. 10

The Scoop: Season two of the magical family drama will see a focus shift to more supernatural storylines rather than focusing on the sisters themselves. Season one ended with Maggie, Macy, and Mel feeling more secure as witches and sisters and the show's sophomore season will explore the trio working together as the new Elders of the magical community. Cue some seriously witchy chaos!

Release Date: Oct. 11

The Scoop: It's time for the Gallagher family to learn how to function without Emmy Rossum's Fiona for the first time ever and it's a sh*tshow. Debbie has assumed the role of head of household, Lip welcomes a baby with his girlfriend Tami, and Ian's still in jail, but at least he has Mickey around! It's going to be a very bumpy ride for the South Side.

Release Date: Nov. 3

The Scoop: The highly-anticipated third season of Netflix's royal drama follows Queen Elizabeth II's (Oscar-winner Olivia Colman wears the crown this season) reign from the late '60s and spanning into the late 1970s. The show will explore Prince Philip's relationship with his children, the dissolution of Princess Margaret and her photographer husband, Lord "Tony" Snowdon's marriage, and the introduction of Camila Parker Bowles.

Release Date: Nov. 17

The Scoop: Netflix brings us Dolly Parton's Heartstrings, an anthology series that showcases the stories, memories, and inspirations behind the singer's most beloved songs. New and classic Dolly music will score every episode, while each story will vary in tone, from love stories and inspirational tales to family dramas, westerns, and revenge comedies.

Release Date: Fall

The Scoop: Season one's ending followed the Charles S. Forsman graphic novel it's based on, which basically implies that James is dead. But things are a bit open to interpretation since the show never actually shows his demise. The plot of season two is up in the air, but we're hoping it picks up right where we left off, with James and Alyssa having to pick up the pieces since they've got quite a list of crimes racked up since they left home.

Release Date: Fall