It’s that time of year and even though the network premieres aren’t what they used to be, it’s time to take a look. Stay tuned to New & Noteworthy posts for any updates on these and the variety of cable and streaming.
- Line of Fire (NBC, 9/21) – Peter Krause and Hope Davis head a family of law enforcement agents tangled in a deadly conspiracy, the cast here is the draw and oddly Jenna Bush Hager is an EP loosely drawing on her own Secret Service years so maybe a fresh take on the premise.
- Private Eyes West Coast (CW, 10/5) – Jason Priestley and Cindy Sampson reprise their Private Eyes investigators, now married with a baby and relocated from Toronto to Victoria, British Columbia, until a would-be detective pulls them back onto a case, I watched and have completely forgotten the original of this but it echoes the light Canadian capers I like and wondering if we’ll still see Priestley in Wild Cards as well.
- NCIS: New York (CBS, 10/6) – LL Cool J’s Sam Hanna returns to his hometown and partners with a roguish agent played by Scott Caan, if you watch these then this is a no-brainer, and I don’t.
- Eternally Yours (CBS, 10/8) – From the Ghosts team, two vampires married 500 years contend with the human dating their daughter, the initial preview on this looks silly but then again so does Ghosts and that’s a fave.
- Cupertino (CBS, 10/8) – Robert and Michelle King’s Silicon Valley legal drama, with Mike Colter as a lawyer cheated out of his stock options by his former startup, who opens a firm to fight back, I’m a big fan of the Kings and glad to see they’re keeping their Colter streak and I’m happy to catch a bit of drama poking at the tech neighbors in my backyard.
- Newlyweds (NBC, 10/23) – A multi-camera comedy starring real-life spouses Téa Leoni and Tim Daly, the Friday night lineup doesn’t promise magic but this sounds like a Dharma & Greg-ish marriage, and with a good cast it’s worth a watch, plus Jamie Lee Curtis, who EPs, sneaks in as the ex.
And a few returning shows I’ll keep my eye on: R.J. Decker (ABC, 9/15), Best Medicine (Fox, 9/22), Doc (Fox, 9/22), Animal Control (Fox, 9/27), Scrubs (ABC, 9/30), Tracker (CBS, 10/4), Abbott Elementary (ABC, 10/7), Elsbeth (CBS, 10/8), Happy’s Place (NBC, 10/23), St. Denis Medical (NBC, 11/2), The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins (NBC, 11/2).
And a few I watch look like they are being held for midseason: High Potential (ABC), Shifting Gears (ABC), Matlock (CBS), Murder in a Small Town (Fox), Bob’s Burgers (Fox), and Wild Cards (CW), which has finished filming but has no announced date and has turned up in January or February in past years. Ghosts (CBS) is down to a Halloween special in October and a Christmas special in December, with the remaining 18 episodes of season six held until early 2027.
New shows are waiting for midseason too… this list tends to shift a bit: The Rockford Files (NBC, January), with David Boreanaz as a newly paroled James Rockford; Baywatch (Fox, January), with Stephen Amell as Hobie Buchannon and David Chokachi back from the original; The Interrogator (Fox), created by and starring Stephen Fry as a former MI6 agent running a team of outsiders; Einstein (CBS), with Matthew Gray Gubler as Albert Einstein’s great-grandson; The Rookie: North (ABC), with Jay Ellis; and an untitled Grey’s Anatomy spinoff (ABC).
