Category Archives: Fall TV Preview

Even for Sunday, television’s showcase night, broadcast networks have few new broadcast shows to offer this season. Content with their cartoons, on one network, game shows on another, and especially football on a third, there’s little room for anything new for 2021. Leave it to the CW, which not long ago didn’t have any Sunday […]

The wisdom of taking a day-to-day approach on detailing what’s new for the fall season on broadcast TV is especially questionable today, when there is apparently only one new show on the Thursday schedules. What was once the biggest TV night for networks now offers just one variation. The reason may be that the networks […]

Our night-by-night survey of new broadcast TV shows hits hump day with a couple of “new” shows that are actually variations on favorite old shows. On the other hand, there’s a singing competition that looks like something out of the future. NEW SHOWS “The Wonder Years” (ABC, 8:30 p.m., starts tonight). The most successful remake […]

We’re taking a night-by-night look at the new fall season of broadcast TV, which frankly is not full of a heck of a lot of new titles. And some of the titles, as we see tonight, already sound pretty familiar.  NEW SHOWS “FBI: International” (CBS, 10 p.m., tonight, moving to 9 p.m. next week). Can […]

It’s no wonder I nearly forgot about the formatted Fall TV preview I’d regularly do each year since it’s been two years since I did the last one. Nonetheless, we’ll spend the week looking at the new broadcast offerings, night by night, weak as they may be, in a quest for normalcy during the pandemic […]

We close out a week of night-by-night considerations of the new fall TV season with Sunday, still a strong showcase ( following Saturdays, a night so dismal we skipped it altogether).  Again, cable has the most ambitious titles for the evening, mostly later in the season. But broadcasters reboot a 50s format that few remember, […]

We’re approaching the end of a week-long look at broadcast TV’s fall premiere week and of course it starts to peter out at the end of the workweek in the same way that Fridays have for years. The one new title for the night isn’t new at all, of course, but the kind of over-the-top […]

We’re taking a night by night look at the new fall season on broadcast television, and on what used to be the most stable night of the week, Thursdays this year sees the most new network shows premiering. By and large they’re comedies, which play on the half hours, immediately after established shows precede them […]

It’s the new fall season TV week, which we are reviewing night-by-night. Mostly this year that means new seasons for lots of returning shows — including three tonight from Chicago, covering fire, police and medicine. Even though Wednesday doesn’t seem to be night locked down by favorites (the way, say, Thursdays are), the five broadcast […]

Fall TV season is here, and we’re reporting on the new offerings day by day. If nothing else, this time of year means new episodes of everything, which tonight means mostly returning shows, with just two newcomers on the broadcast networks. Yet both are instantly familiar as a TV type. On is a big mysterious […]