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Modern Family, Riverdale, Scandal and more! Set your PVRs as we round up fall's must-watch returning TV shows

Modern Family, Riverdale, Scandal and more! Set your PVRs as we round up fall’s must-watch returning TV shows

 

1. The DC Comics Universe

ARROW PREMIERE: Thursday, October 12, CTV & The CW
DC’S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW PREMIERE: Tuesday, October 10, CTV & The CW
THE FLASH PREMIERE: Tuesday, October 10, CTV & The CW
SUPERGIRL PREMIERE: Monday, October 9, Showcase & The CW
Arrow is primed to tangle with some old frenemies. Katie Cassidy rejoins the cast as a series regular, as the alternate-universe Laurel Lance (a.k.a. the dastardly Black Siren) takes up residence in Star City. Also dropping by: fan-fave antihero Deathstroke (Manu Bennett), who’ll hopefully be by Ollie’s side as he faces off with a mysterious Big Bad played by Lost vet Michael Emerson; the character was described by producer Wendy Mericle as “the biggest [villain] we’ve had.” Elsewhere in The CW’s DC Comics universe, Supergirl recruits yet another actor from Superman series past, with Erica Durance (Smallville) taking over the role of Kara’s mother Alura (formerly played by Laura Benanti). Battlestar Galactica alum Katee Sackhoff joins The Flash as Blacksmith, a metal-suited fiend who runs Central City’s criminal underworld. Lastly, Legends of Tomorrow’s next round of time-hopping hijinks will include a Dracula-inspired gothic horror story, and an episode in which Helen of Troy is plucked out of her ancient era and dropped into 1930s Hollywood.

 

2. The Blacklist

PREMIERE: Wednesday, September 27, City & NBC
After four seasons of misdirection, this conspiracy thriller finally revealed the truth in last year’s finale: criminal mastermind Red Reddington (James Spader) is Elizabeth’s (Megan Boone) father. It’s a revelation that many fans saw coming from episode one, but per producer Jon Bokenkamp, it’s just the tip of a much larger iceberg. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Bokenkamp divulged: “That bigger secret involves, in part, some bones that were dug up by Mr. Kaplan, and that Elizabeth Keen is unaware of, and that Red is desperate to keep Liz from finding. That bag of bones represents a much larger story that is the ultimate hook of the show. So yes, the paternal issue is something that perhaps one might have expected, but in hindsight, when we look back on the entire series, it will make sense in a way that perhaps it doesn’t now.” Delivering those bones to Lizzie is her ex-husband Tom (Ryan Eggold), who, following the cancellation of his Redemption spinoff, will return to the original series full-time.

 

3. black-ish

PREMIERE: Tuesday, October 3, ABC; Wednesday, October 4, City
The new season tackles a holiday most white people have never heard of: Juneteenth, with June 19 marking the date when slavery was declared illegal in the U.S. As you’d expect, black-ish puts an unexpected spin on the whole thing by having the cast singing their hearts out in a Hamilton-inspired musical episode.

 

4. The Big Bang Theory

PREMIERE: Monday, September 25, CTV & CBS
Despite the shocking turn of events that saw Sheldon (Jim Parsons) propose to Amy (Mayim Bialik) in the season finale, will the new season begin with Sheldon getting fitted for a tux? That remains to be seen, and Parsons claimed plausible deniability while speaking to reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour (where he was promoting BBT spinoff Young Sheldon, on which he’s an exec producer). According to Parsons, he had yet to see a script for the season’s first episode, and claimed to have no idea what’s going to happen. “They keep me well in the dark on this show,” he joked.

 

5. The Chicago Universe

CHICAGO P.D. PREMIERE: Wednesday, September 27, Global & NBC
CHICAGO FIRE PREMIERE: Thursday, September 28, Global & NBC
CHICAGO MED PREMIERE: Midseason
Dick Wolf’s Windy City franchise had its first misfire last year, as spinoff Chicago Justice was cancelled after just one season. Fortunately, Fire, P.D. and Med are still going strong, which is good news for actor Jon Seda; after being shuffled from P.D. to Justice to help launch the new series, it’s been confirmed that his character Detective Antonio Dawson will rejoin P.D. for season five. He’ll return just in time to fill the void left by Detective Erin Lindsay, as actress Sophia Bush has opted to leave the show. But the most burning question heading into this new fall season concerns the fate of the Firehouse 51 crew, after Chicago Fire wrapped season five with some key personnel trapped in a burning building—prompting a teary, walkie-talkie farewell between Casey and Dawson. We can’t imagine they’ll all perish, but these writers have never been shy about killing off a fan favourite or two.

 

6. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

PREMIERE: Friday, October 13, The CW
Perhaps the first thing viewers will notice at the start of season three is that the show will have a new theme song and a new opening sequence, to be directed by Joseph Kahn, who’s directed music videos for the likes of Britney Spears, Eminem, Gwen Stefani, Imagine Dragons, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and many more.

 

7. Brooklyn Nine-Nine

PREMIERE: Tuesday, September 26, City & Fox
Season four of Fox’s deliciously absurdist cop comedy ended with Jake and Rosa being framed and convicted for a series of bank robberies. And just in case you were wondering if the writers are really willing to send two members of their core ensemble to prison, creator Dan Goor offers up the following (via Entertainment Weekly): “There will not be somebody running down the aisle of the courthouse saying, ‘He was innocent! He was innocent!’ . . . We want to do the juiciest, funniest end result of the conviction.” Also in store for season five, per Goor: “It’s going to be the best Halloween we’ve ever had. I can tell you that the 99th episode, which right now is scheduled to be Thanksgiving, will be a big deal. And more flashbacks than ever before to Hitchcock and Scully’s drug-induced stupor of the ’80s.”

 

8. Bull

PREMIERE: Tuesday, September 26, Global & CBS
One of last fall’s most-watched freshman series gets a new showrunner in season two, as Glenn Gordon Caron, the man best known for creating Moonlighting and Medium, takes over the legal drama. Caron’s knack for romantic banter should be on display right from the premiere, as trial consultant Dr. Jason Bull (NCIS favourite Michael Weatherly) again shares a courtroom with Texas attorney Diana (The Night Shift’s Jill Flint), his bitter rival/possible one true love. But there’s another former romantic interest that fans have been buzzing about, as whispers persist that Weatherly’s old NCIS co-star Cote de Pablo (a.k.a. Agent Ziva David) will make an appearance on Bull. When asked in interviews, Weatherly has confirmed nothing—but he hasn’t said no.

 

9. Designated Survivor

PREMIERE: Wednesday, September 27, CTV & ABC
It was one of the most explosive new arrivals of fall 2016, as lowly housing secretary Tom Kirkman (Kiefer Sutherland) found himself propelled into the Oval Office after a terrorist attack wiped out the rest of the government. There were twists, there were conspiracies and there were multiple showrunner changes, as ABC aimed to retool on the fly. Network head Channing Dungey explained to TVLine: “As much as we love the twists and turns and the cliffhangers . . . I do think that we’re going to focus a little bit less on huge cliffhangers and a little bit more on the intimate character stories [in season two].” As part of the revamp, the show is adding Royal Pains alum Paulo Costanzo as the new White House political director, Doubt’s Ben Lawson as an MI-6 agent and NCIS: New Orleans alum Zoe McLellan as the White House counsel.

 

10. Empire/Star

PREMIERE: Wednesday, September 27, Fox
The season premiere of Empire will see Lucious Lyon, Cookie and the crew enter the world of Queen Latifah and Star as these two music-based dramas—both created by Lee Daniels—kick off their seasons with a special two-hour crossover event. Things begin in the season premiere of Empire as Lucious (Terrence Howard) makes his first public appearance after the explosion in Vegas, while all members of the Lyon family—including his nurse, Claudia (guest star Demi Moore)—have their own agendas when it comes to Lucious recovering his physical and mental faculties. The story continues on Star when Carlotta (Latifah) guides the girls through the pitfalls of the music business following their victory at Atlanta NextFest. In other news, Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker will join Empire for a multi-episode story arc as Uncle Eddie, a hit-making radio deejay who gave a then-unknown Lucious his first airplay, and steps up for Lucious at a critical moment.

 

11. Criminal Minds

PREMIERE: Wednesday, September 27, CTV & CBS
Although the Beyond Borders spinoff was cancelled, one of that show’s characters will be joining the original: Daniel Henney’s Special Agent Matt Simmons will join the BAU team, replacing Supervisory Special Agent Stephen Walker following news that actor Damon Gupton had parted ways due to “creative differences.”

 

12. Dancing With the Stars

PREMIERE: Monday, September 18, CITY & ABC
While the cast hasn’t been set, so far Property Brothers star Drew Scott has already been confirmed, with rumoured celebrity dancers to include WWE Diva Nikki Bella, Nick and Vanessa Lachey and Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran.

 

13. The Exorcist

PREMIERE: Friday, September 29, Fox
After saving an all-grown-up Regan MacNeil (Geena Davis) and her family from the spawns of hell, Father Tomas Ortega (Alfonso Herrera) and his recently defrocked mentor Marcus Keane (Ben Daniels) take their holy war from Chicago to Seattle, where they find a former child psychologist (Star Trek’s John Cho) and his five foster children (including Deadpool standout Brianna Hildebrand) under siege by another demonic presence. Creator Jeremy Slater told The Hollywood Reporter that this season of the show will hearken back to ’80s fright flicks like Poltergeist.

 

14. The Goldbergs

PREMIERE: Wednesday, September 27, CTV2 & ABC
The season-five premiere will deliver one of the sitcom’s trademark 1980s movie homages, with the episode inspired by Weird Science, in which Adam attempts to build a girl by using a computer (“I don’t want to spoil it for you, but it doesn’t work,” quips star Wendi McLendon-Covey). Meanwhile, the premiere will also feature one of the movie’s stars, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, guest starring as a teacher. Later in the season, look for wrestler Bill Goldberg to guest star as the brother of Coach Mellor (Bryan Callen).

 

15. Family Guy

PREMIERE: Sunday, October 1, CITY & Fox
The animated comedy’s 16th season will feature an appearance from Oscar-winner Sir Ian McKellen, who’ll voice the child psychologist appointed to examine Stewie after the youngest Griffin kid starts to act out in school.

 

16. Gotham

Thursday, September 21, CTV & Fox
Batman begins! Or at least that’s what seems to be happening in new promos for this prequel series that feature young Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) donning a mask and costume to police the streets of Gotham City. Also heading to Gotham in season four is the iconic supervillain known as Scarecrow.

 

17. The Good Place

PREMIERE: Thursday, September 28, Global & NBC
Creator Michael Schur threw fans of a Lost-calibre twist in the season-one finale, as divine architect Michael (Ted Danson) revealed to Eleanor (Kristen Bell) and friends that what they thought was heaven all this time was actually an elaborate form of hell, designed to torment them all for being self-absorbed schmucks in life. Schur gave Entertainment Weekly a breakdown of what Michael has in store for his captives, after wiping their memories in the finale’s closing moments. “Well, he’s going for a different thing now… The problem was that they all spent too much time together too quickly, so he’s going to spread them out, give them each a different soulmate, torture them individually for a while, and then slowly bring them together. Obviously, the long-term plan, his explicit plan, is to design a world where they torture each other. That’s why he chose these four specific people, because they had specific personality traits that would drive each other nuts.”

 

18. Kevin Can Wait

PREMIERE: Monday, September 25, Global & CBS
Fans loved seeing guest star Leah Remini reunite with her former King of Queens spouse Kevin James in the two-part season finale, and CBS execs liked the ratings so much they’re bringing Remini onto the show full-time as a series regular. In order to do this, star Erinn Hayes (who played the wife of James’ retired cop character) was let go, with producers revealing they’ll be killing off her character in order to make James’ character a single father.

 

19. Hawaii Five-0

PREMIERE: Friday, September 29, Global & CBS
When the reboot of the iconic Jack Lord-starring cop show returns, it will be without two of its stars: Daniel Dae Kim and Vancouver’s own Grace Park both left the show after a salary dispute, reportedly after their demands to be paid on par with co-stars Alex O’Loughlin and Scott Caan were not met. “We love both those actors and did not want to lose them,” CBS Entertainment president Kelly Kahl said at the Television Critics Association press tour. “We made very, very strong attempts to keep them and offered them a lot of money to stick around.” To fill the void left by their departure, Ian Anthony Dale (who plays Adam Noshimuri) has been upped to a series regular, while two new cast members have been added: Meaghan Rath will play Tani Rey, a new recruit to the Five-0 team; and Beulah Koale will play Junior Reigns, a former Navy SEAL who asks McGarrett for a job.

 

20. Great News

Thursday, September 28, Global & NBC
This comedy’s sophomore season brings exec producer Tina Fey as a recurring guest star, playing the network’s imperious new owner, Diana St. Tropez. “Her presence in the show, I hope, really sets up all of our characters on really funny stories for the rest of the season.”

 

21. Grey’s Anatomy

PREMIERE: Thursday, September 28, CTV & ABC
Fans have been griping that the past season was heavy, and co-star Giacomo Gianniotti spoke with TV Line to reveal that things will be remedied this season. “It’s funnier, it’s sexier, it’s lighter,” he says of season 14. “We’re going to have fun this season.” Admitting that the show has “been dreary for a long time,” he explains that “we want to show the characters having some fun. Also, a lot of the men are single now, so we’re going to explore what that dynamic is like.” However, it won’t all be fun and games. “You’re still going to need the tissue box every Thursday,” Gianniotti promises, “because our guest stars are going to be coming in with new [medical] problems and crazy hospital scenarios.”

 

22. Law & Order: SVU

PREMIERE: Wednesday, September 27, CTV & NBC
Fans of the dearly departed spinoff Chicago Justice will see a familiar face, with Philip Winchester bringing his character, Peter Stone, to the show on a recurring basis this year—which makes perfect sense, given that his character is the son of ADA Benjamin Stone (Michael Moriarty) from the show’s early years, with Peter to follow in the old man’s footsteps by becoming new ADA. Meanwhile, Brooke Shields will also play a recurring character in season 19. “I play a very different character from any I have ever played,” Shields said in a statement. “I’m excited to stir the SVU pot a bit.”

 

23. The Last Man on Earth

PREMIERE: Sunday, October 1,City & Fox
As the world’s nuclear reactors begin to fail, Tandy and his ragtag group of survivors hit the open ocean in search of a place to weather the impending fallout. Along the way, they’ll meet a new survivor in the form of David Letterman-era Late Night alum Chris Elliott, who’s set to recur in season four as a quirky desert-island castaway. What’s more, the post-apocalyptic comedy continues roping in star Will Forte’s old SNL buddies, as Kristen Wiig has been confirmed to reprise her season-three guest role as high-society survivalist Pamela in multiple episodes.

 

24. Lucifer

PREMIERE: Sunday, October 1, CTV; Monday, October 2, Fox
The third season of this supernatural crime drama brings a daunting new foil into the orbit of the Prince of Darkness (played by Tom Ellis), and it’s a familiar face for fans of Smallville: Tom Welling, who played the young Man of Steel, is joining the cast of Lucifer as Marcus Pierce, an accomplished police lieutenant who is everything that Lucifer isn’t—strategic, reserved and respected. Yet they also share their similarities, as both are charming, handsome and charismatic, which comes to irk Lucifer when Marcus develops a close connection with Decker (Lauren German).

 

25. MacGyver

Friday, September 29, Global & CBS
In season two, Mac (Lucas Till) and the team are still locked in a death match with arch-nemesis Murdoc (David Dastmalchian), who, in the season-one finale, infiltrated and very nearly decimated the Phoenix Foundation. “We have targets on our backs, especially when season two opens up,” creator Peter Lenkov told Entertainment Weekly. “While he’s hunting us, we’re hunting him. We have established that he had a kid, so we’re going to use that to leverage him, and in an interesting way.” Meanwhile, Lenkov’s quest to convince original MacGyver Richard Dean Anderson to drop by for a guest arc continues: “The minute he says yes, he’ll be in there. I’ve been pursuing him for this role but so far I haven’t been able to convince him. But I will. I’m not giving up.”

 

26. The Middle

PREMIERE: Tuesday, October 3, ABC; Friday, October 6, City
Fans had better prepare to say goodbye, as the upcoming season of The Middle will be its last. “The truth is we could write this family for 10 more years,” admits exec producer DeAnn Heline of deciding to end the sitcom after nine seasons. “The actors are so great. We all love each other. We’re a great family. To keep it going was certainly appealing. But also, at a certain point, we didn’t want to be in the situation where it felt like we either had to end it now or just go for 10 more years… We didn’t want to be at a point where, a few years down the road, it was the kind of thing where we didn’t get to end it on our terms. So it felt like the timing was right.”

 

27. Mom

Thursday, November 2, City & CBS
Look for Steven Weber (Wings) to appear in at least one episode this season, playing the recently divorced brother of Bonnie’s (Allison Janney) boyfriend, Adam (William Fichtner), who’ll create some tension when he reveals he’s attracted to Christy (Anna Faris).

 

28. Modern Family

Wednesday, September 27, City & ABC
While details of the upcoming ninth season are being kept under wraps, the junior members of the cast are celebrating some big raises, with stars Sarah Hyland, Ariel Winter, Nolan Gould and Rico Rodriguez all renegotiating their contracts to arrive at salaries in excess of $100K per episode now that the show has been renewed up to season 10. The grown-up stars, by the way, recently re-upped their salaries as well, ranging from $350K to $500K per episode.

 

29. Once Upon a Time

PREMIERE: Friday, October 6, CTV2 & ABC
Fans were understandably dismayed when ABC announced stars Jennifer Morrison, Ginnifer Goodwin, Josh Dallas, Rebecca Mader, Jared Gilmore and Emilie de Ravin were all leaving the show, wondering how a new season could possibly proceed without them. As it turns out, producers are pressing the “reset” button on OUAT, with the new chapter jumping ahead several years to focus on now-grown Henry (Andrew J. West), who receives a knock on his door from a girl claiming to be his daughter, telling him she needs his help to save her mother, Cinderella (Dania Ramirez), who’s been placed under a curse. Lana Parrilla is one of the few cast members to return, but don’t be surprised to see some big differences in evil Queen Regina, with Parrilla teasing that “she’s not the queen we’re used to.”

 

30. NCIS

PREMIERE: Tuesday, September 26, Global & CBS
The addition of Jennifer Esposito to the NCIS cast last season proved to be a short-lived one; Esposito has parted ways with the show, which is bringing in Maria Bello, whose character will be introduced in the season’s fourth episode. Bello will play an NCIS agent regarded as the agency’s top forensic psychologist, which gives her carte blanche to challenge and second-guess Gibbs, resulting in friction along with mutual respect. “She is a positive force,” notes the CBS character description, “mischievous and at times acerbic.” Meanwhile, there’s a new cast addition on spinoff NCIS: Los Angeles: Nia Long is now a series regular, playing Shay Mosely, a former Secret Service agent who is now the team’s new executive assistant director.

 

31. Riverdale

PREMIERE: Wednesday, October 11, The CW
The CW’s David Lynch-inspired reimagining of the Archie comics ended on a massive cliffhanger, as Archie’s dad Fred (Luke Perry) was gunned down in Pop’s Diner. Word has it, the elder Andrews’ life will be hanging in the balance throughout the season-two premiere, while the identity of his assailant will be revealed by episode’s end. Whether his dad lives or dies, star KJ Apa has promised fans we’ll be seeing a much “darker” Archie in season two. Another doozy the writers dropped on us in the finale: Jughead following in his old man’s footsteps by joining the Southside Serpents, much to girlfriend Betty’s displeasure; the romance that fans have affectionately dubbed “Bughead” will face yet another challenge in Toni Topaz (Vanessa Morgan), a seductive Serpent who shows Jughead the ropes of Riverdale’s criminal underworld. Finally, creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has teased that a certain teenage witch might just show up this year.

 

32. Saturday Night Live

PREMIERE: Saturday, September 30, Global & NBC
Coming off of one of the show’s strongest seasons ever, the 43rd season will see viewers missing longtime cast member Bobby Moynihan, who left to star in CBS sitcom, Me, Myself & I. While no additional cast additions/departures have been announced (yet), it’s been confirmed that Alec Baldwin will continue to Make America Laugh Again as President Donald Trump, albeit in a more limited role (“a couple celery sticks” instead of a “whole meal,” he explains). In other news, following a successful experiment last season, exec producer Lorne Michaels has strongly hinted that SNL will continue to air live in all time zones when it returns on September 30, with the premiere featuring host Ryan Gosling and musical guest JAY-Z.

 

33. Scandal

PREMIERE: Thursday, October 5, ABC
The seventh season of this Shonda Rhimes-created political thriller will be its last, with ABC announcing that Rhimes has decided to bring the show to a conclusion. “Deciding how to end a show is easy,” says Rhimes of wrapping Scandal. “Deciding when to finish it is quite simple when the end date is years away. But actually going through with it? Actually standing up to say: ‘This is it?’ Not so much. So, next season we are going all out. Leaving nothing on the table. Creating this world in celebration. We are going to handle the end the way we like to handle the important things in our Scandal family: all together, white hats on, gladiators running full speed over a cliff.”

 

34. The Simpsons

PREMIERE: Sunday, October 1, Global & Fox
Springfield’s First Family is back for season 29, with guest voices like Martin Short, Shaquille O’Neal and Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. In terms of what sort of antics we can expect, the one surefire, calendar-circling event the show continues to serve up each year is its “Treehouse of Horrors” Halloween episode. This year’s trio of macabre stories is highlighted by an entry titled “Mmm… Homer,” wherein the titular doofus, left to his own devices absent Marge and the kids, runs out of food and proceeds to “cannibalize himself.” William Friedkin, director of The Exorcist, will have a cameo.

 

35. Superior Donuts

PREMIERE: Monday, October 30, CBS
For the sitcom’s second season, Diane Guerrero (who plays inmate Maritza on Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black) has joined the cast as the owner of a food truck serving health-conscious foods, who ticks off Arthur (Judd Hirsch) when she parks her truck right in front of his old-school donut shop.

 

36. Supernatural

PREMIERE: Thursday, October 12, The CW
The monster-hunting mayhem recommences, as Sam and Dean do battle with Jack, son of the devil. We’re coming off a downright deadly season-12 finale, which bid farewell to fan-favourite angel Castiel (Misha Collins) and the demon you love to hate, Crowley (Mark Sheppard); one of them won’t stay gone for long, however. Also of concern to the brothers: the fate of Mama Winchester, who was trapped in an apocalyptic alternate reality last season, a realm that also opens up the potential for a few unexpected returns (“Some people that have been long dead in our show are less dead in the apocalyptic world,” producer Andrew Dabb told TVLine.) As avid viewers well know, the show has a penchant for delivering at least one totally outside-the-box episode per season; this year’s will involve Sam and Dean getting animated in a Scooby-Doo homage.

 

37. Superstore

PREMIERE: Thursday, September 28, Global & NBC
A tornado left Cloud Nine in shambles at the end of season two, but that wasn’t the most earth-shaking event in the episode, as Amy (America Ferrera) and Jonah (Ben Feldman) finally took their playful flirting to the next level with a much-anticipated lip-lock. But don’t expect a torrid romance to spring from that momentary lapse (at least not yet). Amy made it pretty clear she’s staying with her husband, while Jonah will be introduced to another co-worker with work-wife potential, in the form of No Tomorrow’s Kelly Stables; she joins the cast as a divorcée who lands at Cloud Nine just after hitting rock bottom.

 

38. Survivor

PREMIERE: Wednesday, September 27, Global & CBS
For the long-running reality hit’s 35th season, producers have stepped away from the recent trend of bringing back past contestants, instead going with a fresh crop of newbies to outwit, outplay and outlast in Fiji. The castaways will be divided into three tribes of six based on “the positive traits most often associated with them by others,” reveals host Jeff Probst, resulting in the new season’s Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers theme.

 

39. This Is Us

PREMIERE: Tuesday, September 26,  CTV & NBC
Last season’s breakout hit will hit the ground running in season two, dropping more clues about what led to the death of Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) while, in the past, he and Rebecca (Mandy Moore) enter a rocky patch in their marriage. In the present, Randall (Sterling K. Brown) continues to mourn the death of his birth father, and considers adopting a baby just as he was adopted. When it comes to guest stars this season, the big news is that Sylvester Stallone will appear in a multi-episode arc, playing himself as the star of a new action movie in which Kevin (Justin Hartley) also appears.

 

40. The Voice

PREMIERE: Monday, September 25, CTV2 & NBC
The new season will feature long-timers Blake Shelton and Adam Levine back in TV’s most familiar spinning red chairs, joined by Miley Cyrus in her second season as coach. There’s also a new arrival: former American Idol contestant Jennifer Hudson, making her debut as coach. Meanwhile, the coaches’ advisers have also been revealed, with Cyrus getting a hand from her achy-breaky dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, while Levine will be assisted by Joe Jonas, Shelton will be advised by Rascall Flatts and Hudson will turn to Kelly Rowland.

 

Cancelled: Say goodbye to the following shows…

» 2 Broke Girls
» 24: Legacy
» American Crime
» APB
» The Blacklist: Redemption
» Bones
» The Carmichael Show
» The Catch
» Chicago Justice
» Conviction
» Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders
» Doubt
» Downward Dog
» Dr. Ken
» Emerald City
» Frequency
» The Great Indoors
» Grimm
» Imaginary Mary
» Last Man Standing
» Making History
» No Tomorrow
» Notorious
» The Odd Couple
» Pitch
» Powerless
» Pure Genius
» The Real O’Neals
» Reign
» Rosewood
» Scream Queens
» Secrets & Lies
» Shots Fired
» Sleepy Hollow
» Son of Zorn
» Time After Time
» Training Day
» The Vampire Diaries

 

Survivors: Last year’s newbies that are returning for a second season…

» American Housewife
» Bull
» Designated Survivor
» The Exorcist
» The Good Place