This fall feels a little more like fall television used to, with plenty of your favorite shows re-emerging like perennial plants. The ones that have been here all along (“Grey’s Anatomy,” “NCIS,” “The Simpsons”) are being joined by a new generation of long-running titles (“The Gilded Age,” “Only Murders in the Building,” “Slow Horses”).
But there is still room for the fresh and potentially interesting. Did you think you would ever get to see Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey playing themselves as best frenemies? Now you can, in “Brothers” on Apple TV. Did you think Michael Schur and Amy Poehler would reunite to make a comedy set at a Greek archaeological dig? They did, for “Dig” on Peacock. Did you think HBO would spend the G.D.P. of a small island nation to remake the Harry Potter books as a TV series? OK, yeah, we all knew that would happen, and it’s arriving on Christmas Day.
Here are 47 new and returning fall shows in chronological order; all dates are subject to change.
September
‘HIGH VALUE TARGET: THE HUNT FOR SADDAM’ Joel Kinnaman plays John Nixon, the C.I.A. analyst who conducted the first interrogation of Saddam Hussein (Waleed Zuaiter) after his capture in 2003. (TNT, Sunday)
‘60 MINUTES’ After an annus horribilis of infighting and high-profile departures, the once pre-eminent newsmagazine will be closely watched as it begins its 59th season. (CBS, Sunday)
‘AGATHA CHRISTIE’S TOMMY & TUPPENCE’ Partners in life and crime solving, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford spanned Agatha Christie’s career: They were introduced as bright young things in her second published novel, “The Secret Adversary,” in 1922 and bid farewell as 70-something retirees in the last she wrote, “Postern of Fate,” in 1973. This series, set in the present, stars Josh Dylan and Antonia Thomas as the detectives and Imelda Staunton as Tommy’s Aunt Ada. (BritBox, Tuesday)
‘SAMBRE’ Best known for the documentary series “The Staircase,” about a sensational murder trial in North Carolina, the French director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade has also made sensitive dramas about the treatment of women by the French justice system (“3xManon,” “Laetitia”). His latest dramatizes the case of a serial rapist who attacked women for 30 years along the same stretch of the Sambre River near the French-Belgian border. (MHz Choice, Tuesday)
‘GOLDEN AXE’ An animated comedy based on a last-century Sega arcade game features the voices of Matthew Rhys and Danny Pudi. (Paramount+, Wednesday)
‘ROUTE 187’ Tyler Perry is an executive producer of this mini-series about a rash of murders along a city bus route, which probably would have landed on BET+ if Paramount had not bought out Perry’s share in that streamer and shut it down. (Paramount+, Wednesday)
‘SLOW HORSES’ The sixth season of the esteemed comic spy thriller is the first without Will Smith, who had been the showrunner and head writer; he was replaced by Gaby Chiappe (“Shetland,” “The Level”). (Apple TV, Wednesday)
‘MONSTER: THE LIZZIE BORDEN STORY’ Having dramatized the murderous misconduct of Jeffrey Dahmer, Ed Gein and the Menendez brothers, this anthology series from Ryan Murphy’s production house turns to a female subject. Ella Beatty plays Borden, who, it should be pointed out, was acquitted in the ax murders of her parents. (Netflix, Thursday)
‘JAŸ-Z IN 8’ The rap impresario gets the genius treatment in an eight-part documentary profile, focused on an interview conducted over several days by the producer Rick Rubin. (HBO, Friday)
‘AMERICAN HOSTAGE’ This series, a dramatic re-creation of a hostage-taking in Indianapolis in 1977, originated as a podcast starring Jon Hamm as a radio newscaster who was drawn into the crisis. Hamm returns in the role for the TV show, so now we get to look at him too. Giovanni Ribisi plays Tony Kiritsis, the angry property owner who wired a mortgage broker’s head to a shotgun. (MGM+, Sept. 20)
‘YOUTH’ In the latest deeply ambivalent comedy about sex and romance from Sharon Horgan (“Catastrophe,” “Divorce,” “Bad Sisters”), she plays a book agent entering her 50s with a “grown” son (Aran Murphy) and a puzzlingly friendly ex (Rupert Friend). (HBO, Sept. 20)
‘LINE OF FIRE’ Peter Krause and Hope Davis headline this new crime-and-family drama whose selling point is variety: The members of the family at the show’s center all belong to different law-enforcement agencies. (NBC, Sept. 21)
‘BROTHERS’ Sendup of celebrity narcissism or sheer celebrity self-indulgence? Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, playing (even more) comic versions of themselves, hang out at McConaughey’s Texas home and hash out their father issues, which might include having the same father. (Apple TV, Sept. 23)
‘AMERICAN HORROR STORY: 13’ Alumni of the horror anthology series, including Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates and Gabourey Sidibe, return for a season billed as a tribute to the unlucky number 13. (FX and Hulu, Sept. 24)
‘A DIFFERENT WORLD’ A reboot of the “Cosby Show” spinoff, which ran from 1987-93, returns to the campus of the fictional, historically Black Hillman College. Maleah Joi Moon, a Tony winner for “Hell’s Kitchen,” plays a legacy student, the daughter of the original show’s Whitley and Dwayne; Jasmine Guy and Kadeem Hardison are back to reprise those roles. (Netflix, Sept. 24)
‘4 BLOCKS ZERO’ The award-winning German crime drama “4 Blocks” (2017-19) inspired this prequel series, set in the 1990s and recounting how the Hamadys, the Lebanese refugee family at the show’s center, were pulled into Berlin’s underworld. (HBO Max, Sept. 25)
October
‘EAST OF EDEN’ Zoe Kazan wrote this mini-series based on the 1952 John Steinbeck novel that transposes the story of Cain and Abel to a California farm. She’s keeping it in the family: Her grandfather, Elia Kazan, directed the 1955 film adaptation that starred James Dean. (Netflix, Oct. 1)
‘WAR’ George Kay, creator of “Lupin” and the multinational “Criminal” series — as well as “Hijack,” but we’ll try not to hold that against him — is behind this one-case-a-season courtroom anthology. It starts with the tabloid-frenzy divorce of a film star (Sienna Miller) and a tech baron (Dominic West). (HBO, Oct. 1)
‘THE APOTHECARY DIARIES’ The story of Maomao, a poker-faced pharmacist and ace medical detective who moves between the red-light district and the royal palaces of a fictional imperial capital, reaches a third season in this thoughtful historical anime. (Crunchyroll, Oct. 2)
‘TIP TOE’ Russell T Davies, creator of “Queer as Folk” and remaker of “Doctor Who,” wrote this British drama about neighbors in Manchester — an electrician, played by David Morrissey, and the gay owner of a local bar, played by Alan Cumming. Their relationship takes a disastrous course fueled by social media. (Starz, Oct. 2)
‘NCIS: ORIGINS’ An eighth series, “NCIS: New York,” joins the lineup on Oct. 6. But the real news in the “NCIS”-verse is that Mark Harmon will return to play the franchise’s North Star, Leroy Jethro Gibbs, throughout the third season of this prequel series. (CBS, Oct. 6)
‘CARRIE’ Having adapted venerable horror stories like “The Haunting of Hill House” and “The Turn of the Screw” into mini-series, the writer and director Mike Flanagan now updates Stephen King’s high school Götterdämmerung for the social media age. (Amazon Prime Video, Oct. 7)
‘SMALL PROPHETS’ Mackenzie Crook, whose tart but gentle comedy “Detectorists” played subversive games with the notion of twee, created this series about a British store clerk, Michael (Pearce Quigley), whose life is shadowed by the disappearance of his girlfriend. The Monty Python alum Michael Palin plays Michael’s father, who helps him use alchemy to try to find her. (Apple TV, Oct. 7)
‘BELOW’ There’s something in the water, and it’s really big. Josh Hartnett plays a fisherman whose Newfoundland town is under threat in a moody Canadian thriller. (Netflix, Oct. 8)
‘CUPERTINO’ Robert and Michelle King wrap several of their abiding interests — lawyers, faith, show tunes, the moral failings of the tech industry — into a series starring Mike Colter (who has worked with the Kings previously on “The Good Wife,” “The Good Fight” and “Evil”) and Rachel Keller as lawyers fired by an A.I. start-up. (CBS, Oct. 8)
‘ETERNALLY YOURS’ Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, the showrunners of CBS’s “Ghosts,” team up on another supernatural sitcom, this one about a blended family of vampires in Seattle. (CBS, Oct. 8)
‘AVATAR: SEVEN HAVENS’ The creators of the original “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and “The Legend of Korra,” Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, continue the story with an animated series focused on Korra’s successor as the Avatar. (Paramount+, Oct. 9)
‘TREASURE ISLAND’ Tom Sweet, who played the young Pip in the BBC’s 2023 “Great Expectations,” stars as the adventurous Jim Hawkins in a new adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale of pirates and buried treasure. David Oyelowo plays Long John Silver and Hayley Atwell plays Jim’s mother, a role that has been beefed up for this production. (MGM+, Oct. 11)
‘THE LOWDOWN’ Sterlin Harjo’s Tulsa, Okla.-set series about a muckraking citizen journalist and self-righteous gadfly — its real subject is the precarious status of truth, and courage, in our craven moment — has soul, a sense of humor and a great cast, not all of whose characters were killed off in the first season. Ethan Hawke returns as the scuzzily charming Lee Raybon, and the cast around him is further enhanced with the additions of Betty Gilpin, Martha Plimpton and, as Lee’s father, Tommy Lee Jones. (Oct. 14, FX and Hulu)
‘VISIONQUEST’ Perhaps the most appealing combination of actor and character in the Marvel screen-a-verse — Paul Bettany as the superheroic robot Vision — gets its own series. (Disney+, Oct. 14)
‘CRYSTAL LAKE’ A prequel to “Friday the 13th” might seem like, if you’ll pardon the expression, overkill. But Linda Cardellini plays the grieving mother Pamela Voorhees, so bring on the bloody axes! (Peacock, Oct. 15)
‘HOLLYWOOD ARTS’ In a sequel to the Nickelodeon series “Victorious,” which ended in 2013, Daniella Monet returns as Trina Vega, now a substitute teacher at the performing arts high school she and her sister, Tori, attended in the original series. (Netflix, Oct. 15)
‘THE GOLD’ Hugh Bonneville and Jack Lowden return as dedicated cop and unrepentant robber in the second season of this absorbing British true-crime drama, based on the epic 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery. (PBS, Oct. 18)
‘NEWLYWEDS’ The real-life married couple Téa Leoni and Tim Daly play a couple who marry in haste, in a sitcom whose creative team includes veterans of “Will & Grace,” “Two and a Half Men” and “How I Met Your Mother.” Jamie Lee Curtis plays the husband’s ex. (NBC, Oct. 23)
‘LUPIN’ Bereft fans of the master thief played by Omar Sy can take heart, as Season 4 of Netflix’s playful French mystery finally arrives after a three-year break. And at eight episodes, it’s the longest season yet. (Netflix, Oct. 23)
‘IN PURSUIT: LESSONS OF AMERICAN LEADERSHIP’ Retro Report, an education project that partners with The New York Times, produced this documentary based on an essay series whose authors included the presidents and first ladies Bill and Hillary Clinton, George W. and Laura Bush and Barack and Michelle Obama. (PBS, Oct. 27)
‘NOCTURNE’ To the growing roster of downbeat crime dramas set in Pennsylvania — “Mare of Easttown,” “Long Bright River,” “Task” — add this series starring Liev Schreiber as a Philadelphia cop who moves to a small town and Stephen Graham as the serial killer he finds there. Zazie Beetz also stars as an F.B.I. agent caught up in the case. (Apple TV, Oct. 30)
November
‘THE GILDED AGE’ The knock-down, drag-out fight between Bertha (Carrie Coon) and Agnes (Christine Baranski) for social supremacy in late-19th-century New York enters its fourth round. (HBO, Nov. 1)
‘BASS X MACHINA’ The storied Black lawman Bass Reeves, frequently portrayed onscreen, is the inspiration for the hero of this animated steampunk western. Brian Tyree Henry voices Bass; the animation is by the Korean outfit Studio Mir (“X-Men ’97”). (Netflix, Nov. 3)
‘THE GREATEST’ Ben Watkins (“Hand of God,” “Cross”) is the creator and showrunner of this authorized drama series about the life of Muhammad Ali. Jaalen Best plays Ali; the large cast includes Giovanni Ribisi as Angelo Dundee, Amin Joseph as Sonny Liston, Michael Ealy as Malcolm X and Regen Wilson as Howard Cosell. (Amazon Prime Video, Nov. 4)
‘THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER’ The elves are at war with Sauron, who is still working on forging the One Ring, which will eventually find its way into the hands of Frodo — but we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Amazon’s “Lord of the Rings” prequel series has reached the third of its projected five seasons and has reportedly already cost more than $1 billion; not long ago, that would have seemed like pure fantasy. (Amazon Prime Video, Nov. 11)
‘CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN AMERICA’ A four-part documentary by Lynn Novick, who has collaborated on many of Ken Burns’s films, offers a history of the American criminal justice system, asking how we came to lead the world in the number of people we lock up. (PBS, Nov. 16)
‘THE ALTRUISTS’ Anthony Boyle, who won a Tony Award for playing Scorpius Malfoy in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” on Broadway, takes on a character who seemed, for a while, to have similarly magical powers: the crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried. Julia Garner plays Caroline Ellison, the executive whose testimony helped convict Bankman-Fried of fraud and money laundering. (Netflix, Nov. 19)
‘YELLOWJACKETS’ An end to the craziness: Season 4 will be the last installment of this baroque mystery thriller about a New Jersey girls’ soccer team stranded in the Canadian wilderness. Or so we’ve been told. (Paramount+, Nov. 20)
‘DIG’ The producer Michael Schur and his “Parks and Recreation” star Amy Poehler created this comedy set at an archaeological dig in Greece; the cast includes Poehler and Hugh Laurie. (Peacock, Nov. 23)
‘BLADE RUNNER 2099’ Michelle Yeoh is the latest replicant off the “Blade Runner” factory line, in a mini-series set 80 years after the action of the original film. The replicants are now in control, and Yeoh plays an aging synthetic blade runner — a hunter of her own kind — with a younger partner played by Hunter Schafer. (Amazon Prime Video, Nov. 25)
December
‘HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE’ HBO’s Christmas gift to us is the first season in its projected decade-long adaptation of the Harry Potter books, this time with J.K. Rowling as an executive producer from the start. Prepare for fierce and irritating arguments comparing the TV seasons to the corresponding films. (HBO, Dec. 25)
OTHER RETURNING SHOWS:
ABC: “R.J. Decker” Sept. 15; “Scrubs” Sept. 30; “Abbott Elementary” Oct. 7; “9-1-1,” “9-1-1: Nashville,” “Grey’s Anatomy” Oct. 15; Amazon Prime Video: “The Terminal List” Oct. 21; “The Chosen” Nov. 15; Apple TV: “Where’s Wanda?” Oct. 21; “Stick” Nov. 4; “Bad Monkey” Dec. 2; BritBox: “Ludwig” Oct. 13; “Time” Oct. 22; “Blue Lights” Nov. 12; “Death Valley” Nov. 17; CBS: “Marshals,” “Tracker” Oct. 4; “CIA,” “FBI” Oct. 5; “NCIS” Oct. 6; “Elsbeth,” “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage” Oct. 8; “Boston Blue,” “Fire Country,” “Sheriff Country” Oct. 9; Comedy Central: “South Park” Wednesday; CW: “Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent” Oct. 5; Disney+: “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” Nov. 20; Fox: “Best Medicine,” “Doc” Sept. 22; “Animal Control,” “Grimsburg,” “The Simpsons,” “Universal Basic Guys” Sept. 27; Hulu: “Reasonable Doubt” Oct. 6; “Only Murders in the Building” Dec. 8; MGM+: “The Institute” Nov. 8; MHz Choice: “Arctic Circle” Oct. 27; “Das Boot” Nov. 10; NBC: “Chicago Fire,” “Chicago Med,” “Chicago P.D.” Oct. 7; “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU” Oct. 8; “Happy’s Place” Oct. 23; “The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins,” “St. Denis Medical” Nov. 2; Netflix: “Gabby’s Dollhouse” Monday; “Stranger Things: Tales From ’85” Thursday; “The Diplomat” Oct. 15; “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2” Oct. 20; “Nobody Wants This” Oct. 22; “The Hunting Wives” Nov. 26; “Emily in Paris” Dec. 24; Paramount+: “MobLand” Friday; “Sacrifice” Sept. 30; “Tulsa King” Oct. 16; “Dexter: Resurrection” Oct. 30; PBS: “Antiques Roadshow” Sept. 21; “Nature” Oct. 14; “Maigret” Oct. 18; “Professor T” Oct. 18; “Craft in America” Dec. 18; Shudder: “The Creep Tapes” Tuesday; Starz: “Outlander: Blood of My Blood” Friday; Up Faith & Family: “Blue Skies” Oct. 1.
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