PARTNERS

CBS • premieres September 24

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Stars: David Krumholtz, Michael Urie, Sophia Bush, Brandon Routh

Premise: Somewhat of a roman-à-clef of Will & Grace creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, Partners is a comedic take on two friends and business partners, one gay and one straight, and their significant others.

THE MOB DOCTOR

FOX • premieres September 17

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Stars: Jordana Spiro, James Carpinello, William Forsythe, Zach Gilford, Željko Ivanek, Jesse Lee Soffer

Premise: To save her brother from gangsters due to unpaid gambling debts, surgical resident Grace Devlin agrees to perform on-demand medical services for the mob.

REVOLUTION

NBC • premieres September 17

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Stars: Tracy Spiridakos, Billy Burke, Elizabeth Mitchell, JD Pardo, Giancarlo Esposito, Daniella Alonso, Tim Guinee, Marla Howell, David Lyons, Zak Orth, Graham Rogers

Premise: After a mysterious planetwide blackout shuts off all the power, the series picks up 15 years later as the United States – now known as the Monroe Republic – is a land of relatively primative farm communities.  Beneath the seemingly peaceful surface is a place where guns are outlawed and ownership is punishable by death.  Law is enforced by a roving militia headed by Captain Tom Neville who is opposed by a band of resistance fighters.  However, the militia secretly holds the answers to turning all the electricity back on.

VEGAS

CBS • premieres September 25

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Stars: Michael Chiklis, Dennis Quaid, Jason O'Mara, Sarah Jones, Carrie-Anne Moss

Premise: 60's-era drama tells the story of the mob and its ever-growing influence in Sin City.  Business and personal interactions between mobsters and the law fuel the drama in this period piece.

BEN & KATE

FOX • premieres September 25

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Stars: Dakota Johnson, Nat Faxon, Maggie Elizabeth Jones, Echo Kellum, Lucy Punch

Premise: The ever-durable Odd Couple template gets another go-round in this sitcom as free spirit brother (Faxon) moves in with his uptight sister (Johnson, daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson) and her young daughter in order to "help" them.  Frequent flashbacks will be woven into the narrative to explain how the siblings turned out the way they did.

THE MINDY PROJECT

FOX • premieres September 25

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Stars: Mindy Kaling, Ike Barinholtz, Anna Camp, Zoe Jarman, Chris Messina, Amanda Setton, Stephen Tobolowsky, Ed Weeks

Premise: Sitcom stars Kaling, who played Kelly Kapoor on The Office, as a New York City OB-GYN who tries – and often fails – to balance her career and her dating life.  Kaling created this series with Howard Klien and also serves as its head writer and co-producer.

GO ON

NBC • premieres September 10

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Stars: Matthew Perry, Laura Benanti, John Cho, Brett Gelman, Suzy Nakamura, Julie White, Tyler James Williams

Premise: Perry plays a sports radio host who joins a support group after the death of his wife in a car accident while she was texting him.  Despite the nature of the promos that have been run, this comedic series will mix in large doses of sadness and heart.

THE NEW NORMAL

NBC • premieres September 10

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Stars: Andrew Rannells, Justin Bartha, Georgia King, Bebe Wood, Ellen Barkin, Nene Leaks

Premise: Co-created by Ali Adler and Ryan Murphy (Glee), this new sitcom explores the comedic situations arising from a gay couple (Rannells, Bartha) who hire a woman to be their gestational carrier for their baby to the consternation of Barkin's bigoted grandmother, Jane.

EMILY OWENS, MD

The CW • premieres October 16

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Stars: Mamie Gummer, Justin Hartley, Aja Naomi King, Kelly McCreary, Michael Rady, Necar Zadegan

Premise: Dramedy following surgical intern Emily Owens (Gummer, Meryl Streep's daughter) as she attempts to balance her hectic personal and professional lives.

NASHVILLE

ABC • premieres October 10

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Stars: Hayden Panettiere, Connie Britton, Powers Boothe, Clare Bowen, Eric Close, Charles Esten, Jonathan Jackson, Sam Palladio, Robert Wisdom

Premise: Filmed entirely in Nashville, this new soap opera drama stars Panettiere as Juliette Barnes, an up-and-coming country-music star who tries to navigate through the drama of both the music business and her personal life.  The expansive cast will also allow stories about Nashville itself – its people, politics, and power.

THE NEIGHBORS

ABC • premieres September 26

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Stars: Lenny Venito, Jami Gertz, Toks Olagundoye, Simon Templeman

Premise: After the Weavers (Venito, Gertz) move with their children to a suburban gated community, they discover that all of their neighbors are extraterrestrial aliens.  Culture clash comedy ensues as the aliens are not as up-to-date on American culture as they should be.  For instance, they think kids' meals are made from actual kids.

ANIMAL PRACTICE

NBC • premieres September 26

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Stars: Justin Kirk, Tyler Labine, JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Crystal the monkey

Premise: Sitcom showcasing the hijinks of veterinarian Dr. George Coleman (Kirk) and the various pets and animals – both ordinary and exotic – that come through the door.

GUYS WITH KIDS

NBC • premieres September 12

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Stars: Jesse Bradford, Anthony Anderson, Zach Cregger, Tempestt Bledsoe, Jamie-Lynn Sigler

Premise: Jimmy Fallon executive produces this sitcom focusing on the friendship and fatherhood of three longtime pals.

CHICAGO FIRE

NBC • premieres October 10

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Stars: Taylor Kinney, Charlie Barnett, David Eigenberg, Lauren German, Monica Raymund, Teri Reeves, Jesse Spencer, Eamonn Walker

Premise: New ensemble drama from Dick Wolf, creator of the Law & Order franchise, follows the lives and careers of the firefighters of Chicago's Firehouse 51 squad.

ARROW

The CW • premieres October 10

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Stars: Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, Paul Blackthorne, Colin Donnell, Willa Holland, David Ramsey, Susana Thompson

Premise: Adapted from the long-running DC Comics character Green Arrow, Amell plays billionaire Oliver Queen who returns to his native Starling City after having been shipwrecked on an island for five life-changing years.  Cassidy (David Cassidy's daughter) plays Dinah Laurel Lance, who comic book fans will know as the superheroine Black Canary.  At this time, however, Cassidy is not set to join in on the action.  The tone of this series will be a bit darker than standard superhero fare, and Oliver will simply call himself Arrow as he stalks the night and the criminal underbelly of the city because that's CW-cool.  Oliver's time on the island will unfold gradually in flashbacks week-to-week as new secrets and connections between that time and the denizens of Starling City are revealed.

LAST RESORT

ABC • premieres September 27

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Stars: Scott Speedman, Andre Braugher, Daisy Betts, Dichen Lachman, Daniel Lissing, Sahr Ngaujah, Robert Patrick, Camille de Pazzis, Autumn Reeser, Jessy Schram

Premise: The crew of the nuclear-armed Navy submarine USS Colorado seeks refuge on a Pacific Island after being attacked by the US government itself.  A growing conspiracy begins to reveal itself and the crew attempts to make sense of things while fighting conflicts from without and dissension from within.  But that nucler arsenal they carry on their sub makes for an excellent equalizer and gives them the breathing room they need as they try to piece things together in this new action thriller.

ELEMENTARY

CBS • premieres September 27

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Stars: Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu, Aidan Quinn

Premise: Current-day take on the Sherlock Holmes character with Liu as a female Dr. Watson.  When we first encounter Holmes, here a British ex-pat living in New York, he's bottomed out from his drug abuse and has escaped the rehab center.  Holmes will still be the smartest guy in the room, and won't be afraid to show it, but we'll see his awkwardness in social situations and his core of self-doubt.  Despite Watson being a female in this take, there will be no romance between the two leads.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

The CW • premieres October 11

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Stars: Kristin Kreuk, Jay Ryan, Austin Basis, Nina Lisandrello

Premise: Reboot of the 1987-1990 CBS series finds Kreuk taking on Linda Hamilton's role of Catherine Chandler while New Zealand actor Jay Ryan (of the Australian TV series Neighbors and Sea Patrol) re-creates Ron Perlman's role of Vincent.  Since this is the CW where aesthetics are important, Ryan sports merely a scar and his beastly nature is more internal with only occassional transformations into something different.  Other changes include Catherine being a police detective rather than an Assistant District Attorney, and Vincent's condition being the result of army experiments while stationed in Afghanistan after 9-11.

MALIBU COUNTRY

ABC • premieres November 2

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Stars: Reba McEntire, Lily Tomlin, Juliette Angelo, Justin Prentice, Jai Rodriguez, Sara Rue

Premise: The Gallagher family tries to adjust to life in Malibu as divorced mom Reba attempts to get back into the music business after having given it up for marriage and family.  After receiving cheating husband's beachfront property in the divorce settlement, Reba, her kids, and her mother uproot themselves from Nashville and head off to sunny California in this fish-out-of-water comedy.

MADE IN JERSEY

CBS • premieres September 28

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Stars: Janet Montgomery, Kyle MacLachlan, Erin Cummings

Premise: Street smart Italian Ameircan Martina Garretti is an attorney trying to fit in with a posh Manhattan law firm and win the respect of her more polished co-workers and bosses.  Her people skills and quirky bits of knowledge often enable her to find the truth that her colleagues overlook.

666 PARK AVENUE

ABC • premieres September 30

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Stars: David Annable, Rachael Taylor, Vanesa Williams, Terry O'Quinn, Robert Buckley, Samantha Logan, Mercedes Masöhn, Helena Mattsson, Erik Palladino

Premise: Loosely based on the novel by Gabriella Pierce, O'Quinn and Williams play Gavin and Olivia Doran, a couple who may be hiding a sinister – and supernatural – secret as owners of The Drake, the apartment building located at the titular address.  Annable and Taylor play a couple hired to manage the building where the wife begins to uncover the Drake's darker and ominous side.  The mythology of the building and of its owners reveal themselves over the course of the episodes as some uncooperative tenants meet a grisly end.