There Are So Many New TV Shows Coming This Fall, We Need a Calendar to Keep Track

Grey's Anatomy's Caitlin McGee stars in this legal drama as Sydney Keller, a brilliant lawyer who used to work for her famous Memphis-based father's law firm until their strained relationship forced them to part ways. However, after the unexpected death of her philanthropist mother, Sydney and her father, Elijah, (played by L.A. Law, NYPD Blue, and The West Wing's Jimmy Smits) decide to give working together another try.

Based on the 2010 book The Council of Dads by Bruce Feiler, this drama series revolves around Scott Perry, a father who discovers he has cancer and decides to team up with his wife and six of their good friends to determine what fatherly wisdom they can pass on from Scott to his children after his death. The Walking Dead's Sarah Wayne Callies stars in the series as Scott's wife, Robin Perry, with Doubt creators Joan Rater and Tony Phela producing.

Created by The Goldbergs' Dan Levy, this sitcom tells the story of new empty-nesters Dave and Rebecca who are ready to enjoy life after raising their children — until Dave's parents announce that they are broke and in need of a place to stay. The Mindy Project's Adam Pally and Odd Mom Out actress Abby Elliot costar as Dave and Rebecca, with The Nanny's Fran Drescher and Wings alum Steven Weber playing Dave's overbearing parents Linda and Stew.

Inspired by the bestselling crime novel by Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector, this drama series follows a young female NYPD officer named Amelia Sachs and a quadriplegic ex-forensic criminalist named Lincoln Rhyme who team up to solve cases together. Russell Hornsby (best known as Edward "Eddie" Sutton on ABC Family's Lincoln Heights) plays Lincoln, with Arielle Kebbel (also known as Alexia "Lexi" Branson from The Vampire Diaries) costarring as Amelia and The Sopranos actor Michael Imperioli appearing as NYPD detective Rick Sellitto.

Starring The West Wing's Bradley Whitford and Pitch Perfect's Anna Camp, this comedy tells the story of a former Princeton music professor whose fortuitous discovery of a church choir group may just give him an opportunity for his next endeavor. Whitford also serves as an executive producer, and other cast members include Drunk History's Tymberlee Hill and The Dictator's Rizwan Manji.

House actor Kal Penn and comedy writer Matt Murray co-created this comedy series, which revolves around a disgraced former NYC councilman named Garrett Modi who decides to use his skills to help immigrants in search of the American Dream find their way. Penn also stars in the series as Garrett, with The Good Place creator Mike Schur serving as an executive producer.

Long-running SNL cast member Kenan Thompson stars in this family sitcom as the titular Kenan, a newly widowed dad struggling to raise his two daughters on his own (while also grudgingly accepting the assistance of his persistent father-in-law, who's played by veteran actor Andy Garcia). The show is written by Superstore writer Jackie Clarke, with Thompson, Chris Rock, and SNL creator Lorne Michaels serving as executive producers.

Suburgatory star Jane Levy leads this musical dramedy as the titular Zoey, an awkward, type-A coder who develops the ability to hear other people's innermost thoughts through song (and sometimes even elaborate musical numbers in which she stars). Zoey is then able to use her incredible new ability to better understand the people in her life whom she wasn't quite able to connect with before receiving her "gift."

Starring Orange Is the New Black's Ruby Rose, this new entry in The CW's Arrowverse follows Kate Kane, cousin of Bruce Wayne (also known as Batman), who must take over her cousin's responsibilities after he goes missing. Though Kate's father tries to protect her from Gotham City's crime wave through his private security firm, Crows Private Security, Kate refuses to hide any longer after her girlfriend, security officer Sophie Moore, is kidnapped.

The eponymous young female detective is getting a modern take on The CW, played by newcomer Kennedy McMann. Like Riverdale, the series will be much darker than its source material, following 18-year-old Nancy Drew as she finds her college plans put on hold after she and four friends are witnesses to the murder of a classmate.

Riverdale is getting a second spinoff (the first being Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) with Katy Keene, which stars Pretty Little Liars' Lucy Hale as the titular Archie-verse character. The series will follow aspiring fashion designer Katy as she works as a personal shopper and tries to make it in New York City alongside Josie McCoy (reprised by Ashleigh Murray).

Created by The Big Bang Theory's Chuck Lorre, this sitcom stars Mike & Molly's Billy Gardell as Bob, a compression sock factory owner in Detroit who suffers a heart attack and wakes up in a hospital to find himself in the care of a beautiful Nigerian nurse named Abishola (played by Transparent's Folake Olowofoyeku). Bob then sets his sights on getting the cardiac nurse to fall in love with him, though he quickly finds that he's going to have a hard time getting past her steely exterior.

Everybody Loves Raymond's Patricia Heaton stars in this sitcom as the titular Carol, who decides after years of teaching and raising two children that she wants to embark on an unexpected midlife career change: becoming a doctor. Kyle MacLachlan from Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives costars in the series as the senior attending physician who takes an immediate liking to Carol as she begins her journey.

Created by This Is Us director and producer Ken Olin, this courtroom drama revolves around a cast of judges, prosecutors, and public defenders as they work to get justice for the people of Los Angeles despite a deeply flawed system. Cast members include Luke Cage's Simone Missick, Daredevil's Wilson Bethel, and The Flash's Jessica Camacho, among many others.

In this sitcom, a recently widowed father named Wade (played by Justified's Walton Goggins) attempts to get back into the dating scene with the encouragement of his friends. However, much to everyone's surprise (including Wade's), his status as a sexy single father makes him the most sought-after bachelor in the middle-aged dating pool.

Created by Robert and Michelle King (the same husband-and-wife team who created The Good Wife), this paranormal thriller revolves around a skeptical psychologist (played by Westworld's Katja Herbers) who teams up with a priest-in-training and carpenter to investigate potentially supernatural occurrences. Together, they work through the church's many unexplained mysteries to look for evidence of everything from miracles to demonic possessions.

This sitcom — created by Will & Grace executive producer Alex Herschlag — stars NCIS's Pauley Perrette as Jackie, a working single mother who reluctantly takes in her estranged brother and his wife after their wealthy father cuts him off. Jane the Virgin's Jaime Camil will costar as Jackie's trust-fund baby brother and Chelsea Lately alum Natasha Leggero as his wife.

Homicide creator Paul Attanasio created this cop drama, which revolves around Abigail "Tommy" Thomas (played by The Sopranos and Nurse Jackie star Edie Falco), a former high-ranking NYPD officer who becomes the first female chief of police for the Los Angeles Police Department. Other cast members include Orange Is the New Black's Michael Chernus and Rectify's Adelaide Clemens.

Executive-produced by Law & Order mastermind Dick Wolf, this drama series centers on the team tasked with tracking and capturing the criminals on the FBI's Most Wanted list. Nip/Tuck actress Julian McMahon stars as FBI Agent Jess Lacroix, with Twilight's Kellan Lutz playing Agent Crosby and Law & Order's Alana De La Garza playing Assistant Agent in Charge Isobel Castille.

Inspired by the Israeli rom-com series Beauty and the Baker, this romantic musical comedy follows a hardworking Cuban baker named Daniel (played by How to Make It in America's Victor Rasuk) who happens upon international superstar and fashion mogul Noa (played by Dynasty's Nathalie Kelley) one night in a Miami nightclub. Though everything that Daniel has done up to this point has been for his family, he suddenly finds himself thrust into the public spotlight on Noa's arm.

Fargo's Allison Tolman stars in this mystery-thriller drama as Jo Evans, a newly divorced police chief on Long Island's Peconic Bay who decides to take in a little girl, Piper, whom she finds at the scene of a mysterious plane crash. Though she finds it odd that Piper has no memory of what happened (or even who she is), the mystery surrounding the girl only continues to develop as Jo investigates the events leading up to the accident.

Inspired by the life of Isaac Wright Jr. (a man who was wrongfully convicted of being the mastermind behind one of the largest drug distribution networks in the New Jersey area), this 50 Cent-produced drama will tell the story of Aaron, a former prisoner who becomes a lawyer in order to litigate cases for other inmates while still fighting to overturn his own life sentence. Marcella actor Nicholas Pinnock stars in the series as the fictional Aaron.

In a show inspired by the graphic novels published by Oni Press, How I Met Your Mother actress Colbie Smulders stars as Dex Parios, a savvy army veteran who becomes a private investigator in Portland, OR. Between her love life, her gambling debts, taking care of her brother, and butting heads with the police, Dex's unapologetic demeanor works well for her professional work, but not so much for her personal life.

This second spinoff of Black-ish (the first being Grown-ish) follows the childhood years of Rainbow "Bow" Johnson (voiced by Tracee Ellis Ross) and chronicles her experience growing up in a mixed-race family in the 1980s. Ride Along actress Tika Sumpter plays Bow's mom, Alicia, and legendary TV and film actor Gary Cole plays Bow's dad, Harrison.

Taina star Christina Vidal and former Mad TV cast member Will Sasso costar in this family sitcom as Jo and Bill, a couple attempting to raise their two daughters their own way, despite all of the criticism coming from Jo's large Latino Catholic family and Bill's overbearing live-in mother. Legendary comedy actress Jane Curtin is set to appear as Bill's larger-than-life mom, Sandy, who Jo and Bill took in when she had a health scare two years before, not expecting that she would then never leave.

Tiffany Haddish will serve as executive producer and host of this revival series, which will feature her chatting and interacting with new kiddie guest stars in every episode. Some of the segments planned for the new series, according to ABC, include, "Kids Rule, in which kids explain to Tiffany the rules for everything from sportsmanship to dating; Love Talk, where Tiffany seeks advice on her love life; Best Carpool Ever, with Tiffany taking on carpool duty with a minivan full of kids; Granny Tiff, when Tiffany, in prosthetics and dressed up as an older woman, receives technology advice from the kids; and more."

The Walking Dead's Tom Payne stars in this dark comedy about a criminal psychologist and forensic profiler named Malcolm Bright who has a very good reason he's able to get into the mind of serial killers: his father, Dr. Martin Whitly, was a notorious serial killer called "The Surgeon." Michael Sheen from Masters of Sex plays Martin and Bellamy Young (who's better known as Melody "Mellie" Grant from Scandal) plays Jessica Whitly, Malcolm's manipulative mother.

Based on the Australian TV drama Sisters, this series stars Pitch Perfect's Brittany Snow as Julia Bechley, a woman who reunites with two of her half siblings after it is revealed that their shared fertility doctor father had used his own sperm to conceive at least 100 children throughout his career. Arrowverse's Megalyn Echikunwoke plays Julia's former friend and now-sister Edie, while Young & Hungry's Emily Osment plays retired Olympic athlete Roxy, Julia's other newly discovered half sibling.

Created by former SNL staff writer Emily Spivey, this adult animated comedy follows a down-on-their-luck family living in North Carolina and struggling to get by with the help of friends and good humor. The show features Phil Lord and Chris Miller as executive producers and Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolphs, Jillian Bell, and Ike Barinholtz as the primary voice actors, so you know that it's going to be good.

Amy Poehler teamed up with the husband-and-wife team behind The Simpsons, Mike and Julie Scully, to create this other new adult animated comedy, which follows the daily life of average 15-year-old boy Duncan Harris. Poehler will lend her voice to the character of Duncan, as well as his overbearing mother, Annie, while other voice actors include Wiz Khalifa, Modern Family's Ty Burrell, and Poehler's fellow Parks and Recreation alum Rashida Jones.

Starring American Pie's Jason Biggs and Psych's Maggie Lawson, this family sitcom revolves around a totally normal blue-collar couple living in Atlantic City, NJ, and raising their four kids — three of whom are actual geniuses. While Cay and Mike are a casino pit boss and a handyman, respectively, their brood includes a math whiz, a language prodigy, and a musical savant, and their youngest child with the average IQ is the only one they can really understand.

In this modern cop drama, a fifth-generation lawman somehow ends up taking on the role of Los Angeles County sheriff after the previous sheriff dies, though he is much better acquainted with hunting down bad guys than wrestling with city politics. Stephen Dorff (who played Roland West in True Detective's third season) stars as Deputy Bill Hollister alongside Jane the Virgin's Yara Martinez and Cougar Town's Brian Van Holt.

Based on the New Zealand satirical dramedy of the same name, this series revolves around a filthy-rich Southern family who made their money with a Christian TV network and who discover — after the untimely death of its patriarch — three illegitimate children in the estate will that no one ever knew about. Sex and the City's Kim Cattrall stars in the series as family matriarch Margaret Monreaux, while TV veteran Gerald McRaney plays her philandering husband Eugene Monreaux.

If you've been missing Black Mirror, then you're going to want to check out this John Slattery-led dystopian series, which revolves around the eponymous neXt AI (affectionately called Iliza) that may just be interested in taking over the world. Mad Men's Slattery plays Paul Leblanc, the tech CEO who inadvertently created the Alexa-gone-wrong, and Brazilian-American actress and model Fernanda Andrade costars as Shea, a Homeland Cybersecurity agent who works alongside Paul.

9-1-1 is getting an Austin, TX-based spinoff series starring Rob Lowe, which will revolve around a New York firefighter who relocates to Austin with his son. Lowe also will serve as an executive producer on the spinoff alongside 9-1-1 co-creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Tim Minear.

Fox's third adult animated comedy for this season was created by Bob's Burgers creator and executive producer Loren Bouchard, as well as the series's writers and coexecutive producers Wendy and Lizzie Molyneux. The series follows the adventures of the Alaska-based Tobin family, led by single dad, Beef, who does everything he can to keep his weird little family close, with voice actors including Nick Offerman, Jenny Slate, and Megan Mullally.