The Seasons Are Changing: What to look out for in the fall TV lineup
The calm before the storm has come to an end. The networks have announced their new and renewed shows for their upcoming fall schedule.
The Internet eagerly awaits in anticipation of their soon-to-be new favorite shows.
“Supergirl”, which will air on CBS in November, is currently one of fall’s most eagerly anticipated new shows. A week after the trailer was released; it gained 10 million views, which eclipsed the total views, of all the other CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox upfront trailers combined. The airing of “Supergirl” will be the first time CBS has not aired a comedy show on Monday night since 1949. “Supergirl” will also be the network’s first superhero series since the 1990s show, “The Flash”.
Despite the lag of joining in on the superhero war, which ABC, Fox and The CW are currently battling in, things look prosperous for CBS with the release of “Supergirl”.
For two years in a row, the network with the top ratings for the key demographic of adults 18 to 49 is NBC.
NBC doesn’t have a comic book show on their schedule but they are throwing their own show in the mix. “Heroes” is coming back from the grave with a new title, “Heroes Reborn”. This highly anticipated 13-episode series will reconnect with the basic elements of the show’s first season. The show will continue the story line of ordinary people waking up to the fact that they have extraordinary abilities. The 15-second teaser that was aired during the Super Bowl did not give away much other than some familiar and new cast faces.
On Tuesday nights this fall, Fox and ABC will be going head-to-head with new comedy shows “Grandfathered” (Fox) and “The Muppets” (ABC).
“Grandfathered”, with its lead actor John Stamos, should pull a large audience due to “Full House” nostalgia, but “The Muppets” might be the winner. The change from variety shows to spoof mockumentary should make the show something that the current generations can call their own. The Muppets already have a large younger viewership due to the recent cinema reboot.
With the release of the TV show, Kermit, Miss Piggy and Fozzie are not going away anytime soon.
“Blindspot”, NBC’s Monday night thriller, is gaining a substantial following as well.
The show centers on Jane Doe who is discovered naked in Times Square. Doe is completely covered in mysterious, intricate tattoos with no memory of who she is or how she got there. The only clues to who she is and what happened to her are hidden in the tattoos, which she was given. Over the course of the season, not only are the meanings behind her tattoos uncovered but also who she was in her previous life becomes uncovered as well.
Finally, be on the lookout for “Code Black” (CBS) and “The Catch” (ABC).
“Code Black” is inspired by the documentary that shares its name. The show is set in the busiest and most notorious ER in the nation, LA County Hospital. The extraordinary staff confronts a broken system in order to protect their ideals and the patients who need them the most.
Joining ABC this fall by Shondaland’s Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers is “The Catch”. It will be the mid-season replacement for “How To Get Away With Murder” and will round off ABC’s self-branded TGIT. The show centers on Alice Martin, a fraud investigator who becomes a victim of fraud herself because of her fiancé. In the similar style to Shonda Rhimes’ other TGIT show, each episode will center around a new case but will also progress the overall fraud conducted by the fiancé.














