Cinema Siren's New Fall TV Shows: 2015

You need a post apocalyptic story with a motorcycle-driving martial artist? Have you missed Don Johnson in prime time? Has the theme from The Muppets been stuck in your head since 1976? Is Neil Patrick Harris like cowbell, and you just need more?

Here for the benefit of planning, is a list of scheduled release dates and plots behind the tv shows on offer this fall. If the show has already started, like Blunt Talk and Fear the Walking Dead, we didn’t include it. For better or worse, in alphabetical order by network or platform, here are some options for those of you craving something new.

ABC

BLOOD AND OIL (Sunday, Sept 27)

Chace Crawford and Don Johnson star in a drama pitting a couple after the American dream against the ruthless tycoon who controls everyone and everything oil related with an iron fist.

QUANTICO (Sunday, Sept 27)

A recruit (Priyanka Chopra) that enters the FBI Quantico Base for training competes for highest rank with a diverse cast of wannabes. One of them, however, may be the mastermind planning the biggest attack on New York City since 9/11.

DR. KEN (Friday, Oct 2)

Ken Jeong plays Dr. Ken in this sitcom about a doctor with no bedside manner, a family that drives him crazy, and a therapist wife who tries to keep things sane.

THE MUPPETS (Tuesday, Sept 22)

This primetime return of the Muppets will explore, documentary-style, their personal lives, relationships, and careers. Who wouldn’t rather watch THE MUPPETS over the Kardashians?

WICKED CITY (Tuesday, Oct 27)

Ed Westwick goes back to LA in 1982 and stars as Kent, who kills girls. It’s up to detectives to stop him. Adam Rothenberg was playing the detective but when Ripper Street got picked up again he had to bow out. The TV trailer still has him in the role. Jeremy Sisto picked up the role, but will it be ready by release date?

AMAZON PRIME

HAND OF GOD (Friday sept 4)

Ron Perlman is a corrupt judge that believes God is compelling him down the path of vigilante justice. It costars Dana Delany as his wife. All the new shows on Amazon Prime were chosen based on votes by fans who watched pilots and voted. HAND OF GOD was by far the most well received of the shows offered.

RED OAKS (Friday, October 9)

20 year-old David Myers comes of age as an assistant tennis pro at a New Jersey country club in the 80s. Paul Reiser, Jennifer Grey, and Craig Roberts star.

THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE (Friday, Nov 20)

Based on Philip K. Dick’s novel, and exec produced by Ridley Scott, this show explores what the US would be like is it had lost WWII and Japan and Germany ruled the country, and stars Rufus Sewell.

AMC

INTO THE BADLANDS (Sunday, Nov 15)

What looks like a mix of Young Adult lit and Martial arts movies that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, this genre mash overload will either be the best or the worst idea ever.

BBC AMERICA

THE LAST KINGDOM (Saturday, Oct 10)

An adaptation of Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon Warlord Chronicles. Uhtred starts as a boy taken by vikings, and grows to forge many kingdoms into one: England. Look for great English actors, tots of swords, armor, and men with long hair.

CBS

ANGEL FROM HELL (Thursday Nov 6)

Jane Lynch stars as Amy who reveals herself to her charge Allison (Maggie Lawson) to be an angel, albeit one of the a hard-living, blunt, pain in the neck variety of angels.

CODE BLACK (Wednesday, Sept 30)

Marcia Gay Harden stars in this medical drama about the pressures and experiences in an LA county emergency room. It costars Luis Guzman, and lots of fresh faced actors as the interns working under her. Without a medical drama on primetime the world will spontaneously combust.

LIFE IN PIECES (Monday, Sept21)

A sitcom starring Dianne Wiest and James Brolin, with Colin Hanks, about the life of a family told from a variety of points of view, a la Rashomon.

LIMITLESS (Tuesday, Sept. 22)

Based on the movie starring Bradley Cooper, who appears as a recurring character, Limitless is about the experiences Brian Finch (Jake Mcdormand) has when using a mysterious drug NZT-48 that increases his IQ beyond all other humans.

SUPER GIRL (Monday, October 26th)

Melissa Benoist stars as Kara Zor El, or Supergirl, who embraces her powers after hiding them like her fellow Kryptonian, Superman. It costars Calista Flockhart as Cat Grant, Kara’s boss, and features Helen Slater, Supergirl from the 1984 film, as her adoptive mother.

LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT (Tuesday, Sept. 8)

Colbert changes the marquee and takes up the mantle from David Letterman and everyone is both sad David is gone and excited for Stephen to start.

COMEDY CENTRAL

MOONBEAM CITY (Wednesday, Sept 16)

This animated comedy series is a parody of 1980s cop shows and stars the voices of Rob Lowe, who plays a sex-craved detective, and Elizabeth Banks as his boss Chief Pizzaz Miller. The whole show looks like A-ha’s Take Me On video.

CW

CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND (Monday, Oct 12)

A gal, played by Rachel Bloom, leaves a good law firm job to find love with the boy she had a crush in as a teen, in the random town of West Covina, California, then everyone sings.

FOX

GRANDFATHERED (September 29),

In this comedy series, John Stamos discovers he’s a father and a grandfather. aannd, that’s the show. Where can they go from there?

MINORITY REPORT (Monday Sept 21)

An offshoot of the 2002 film of the same name, this action drama follows a “pre-cog” and the detective as they help stop crimes before they happen. It’s like Sleepy Hollow in the future.

ROSEWOOD (Wednesday, September 23)

Morris Chestnut plays Miami pathologist Baumont Rosewood, who solves medical problems for the police using state-of-the-art lab equipment and his charm. It’s like the anti-House.

SCREAM QUEENS (Tuesday, September 22)

Ryan Murphy and co. create another show hybrid in this horror-comedy anthology series, and centers on a series of murders happening at a sorority that may be connected to those from 20 years before. It stars Emma Roberts, Lea Michele, Abigail Breslin, and Jamie Lee Curtis. Highly anticipated and previewed at SDCC 2015, it could be a killer…but will there be singing?

THE GRINDER (Tuesday, September 29)

Rob Lowe and Fred Savage play brothers who are a flamboyantly famous actor and serious-minded lawyer respectively, in this sitcom that might do well with the Parks and Rec set, and anyone who saw ST. ELMO’S FIRE.

FX

THE BASTARD EXECUTIONER (Tuesday, Sep 15)

Brought to you by Kurt Sutter, and the Sons of Anarchy folk, starring Lee Jones, Darren Evans, Stephen Moyer, and a few SoA vets including Katey Sagal, this bloody historical epic tells the story of a warrior knight who turns dispassionate killer for hire. Sutter promises to build that same complicated kind of world he did for Sons of Anarchy. Sharpen your swords.

AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL (Wednesday, October 7)

Most of the former cast members from AHS will be appearing in this new FX Horror anthology series, with the exception of Jessica Lange and the interesting addition of Lady Gaga. Think SLEEP NO MORE on TV.

HULU

CASUAL (Wednesday October 7)

A new Jason Reitman comedy series about a divorced mom trying to navigate her life and rediscover herself. Starring Michaela Watkins, it has Frances Conroy as the mom’s manipulative mom.

IFC

BENDERS (Thursday, Oct 1)

A group of friends bond over their obsession with their men’s ice hockey team. This eight episode series is exec produced in part by Denis Leary. Just let them keep their teeth.

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About this column: I am Leslie Combemale. You can see ALL my reviews at www.cinemasiren.com. I am a movie lover and aficionado who aspires to get more people back into the beautiful alternate worlds offered in the dark at movie houses across the country. I am the owner of ArtInsights Animation and Film Art Gallery. I interview actors, directors, and production artists from all over the world, and often I’m invited to present at conventions such as the San Diego Comic-Con, where I have been a panelist and host for The Art of the Hollywood Movie Poster, Classic Film History, Disney & Harry Potter Fandom discussions. Visit my film art gallery at www.artinsights.com and see interviews and video reviews on my YouTube channel.