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Fall TV preview: Your guide to what's on


What else is on tap for fall?  Paste BN provides this handy list of highlights from broadcast TV, cable and streaming.  All times ET/PT.

Sept. 11

Masters of Sex (Showtime, Sundays, 10). Masters and Johnson move their sex studies into the early '70s in the drama's fourth season.

Son of Zorn (Fox, 8, then Sundays, 8:30 as of Sept. 25). The Lego Movie filmmakers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller mix animation and live action in this hybrid comedy, about a warrior (Jason Sudeikis) who reunites with his wife and son in Orange County.

Sept. 12

Dancing With the Stars (ABC, Mondays, 8). Disgraced Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte hits the dance floor with social-media star Amber Rose and former presidential candidate Rick Perry.

Sept. 14

American Horror Story (FX, Wednesdays, 10). Lady Gaga returns for the horror anthology's sixth season, the theme of which is shrouded in mystery.

Sept. 16

Fleabag (Amazon). British playwright Phoebe Waller-Bridge writes and stars in a new comedy about an angry, overtly sexual woman navigating relationships and family in London.

High Maintenance (HBO, Fridays, 11). Married duo Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair bring their hit web series to HBO for six episodes, following a marijuana deliveryman in New York.

Sept. 18

The Case of JonBenet Ramsey, (CBS, Sunday, 8:30). A three-part, six-hour docu-series about the 1996 murder of JonBenet Ramsay, arriving a week after Investigation Discovery's own dueling JonBenet: An American Murder Mystery.

Sept. 19

Kevin Can Wait (CBS, Mondays, 8:30). Kevin James plays a retired cop in his second CBS sitcom after the long-running King of Queens.

The Voice (NBC, 8). Alicia Keys and Miley Cyrus take a spin in the coaches' chairs in the singing competition's 11th season.

The Good Place (NBC, 10, then Thursdays, 8:30) Ted Danson and Kristen Bell lead this comedy about a woman who enters the afterlife and mistakenly ends up in the Good Place.

Sept. 20

Bull (CBS, Tuesdays, 9). Michael Weatherly stars in a new drama based on the early career of talk-show host Dr. Phil McGraw.

Scream Queens (Fox, Tuesdays, 9). Ryan Murphy's campy comedy swaps out college crimes for hospital horrors in its second season.

This Is Us (NBC, Tuesdays, 9) Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia and Sterling K.Brown are in the cast of this family drama.

Sept. 21

Lethal Weapon (Fox, Wednesdays, 8) This adaptation of the big-screen action thriller franchise stars Damon Wayans and Clayne Crawford.

Speechless (ABC, Wednesdays, 8:30). Minnie Driver plays a mother of a child with special needs in the ground-breaking new sitcom.

Empire (Fox, Wednesdays, 9). Lucious and Cookie Lyon roar back for a third season of the hip-hop soap, which ended with a literal cliffhanger as a major character was pushed off a balcony.

Designated Survivor (ABC, Wednesdays, 10) Kiefer Sutherland returns to television in this political conspiracy thriller as a cabinet member who must take office as president.

Sept. 22

Easy (Netflix). Indie filmmaker Joe Swanberg's new anthology series follows a group of people navigating love and life in Chicago, with a cast led by Orlando Bloom, Malin Akerman, Hannibal Buress, and Dave Franco.

Pitch (Fox, Thursdays, 9) Kylie Bunbury plays Ginny Baker, he first woman to play Major League Baseball, in this drama.

Notorious (ABC, Thursdays, 9)  Piper Perabo plays a powerful TV producer whose relationship with a high-profile defense attorney played by Daniel Sunjata is the focus of this drama.

Sept. 23

Transparent (Amazon). Maura Pfefferman (Jeffrey Tambor) pursues gender-confirmation surgery in the Emmy-winning dramedy's third season.

MacGyver (CBS, Fridays, 8). Lucas Till stars as the ever-resourceful secret agent in CBS' reboot of the '80s action-adventure series.

The Exorcist (Fox, Fridays, 9). The 1971 novel of the same name is resurrected on the small screen as a drama series with Geena Davis.

Sept. 26

Vice News Tonight (HBO, Monday, 7:30). Vice's nightly half-hour newscast, covering national and global stories.

Sept. 30

Crisis in Six Scenes (Amazon) Woody Allen's first series features Miley Cyrus as a house guest who disrupts the life of a  suburban husband in the 1960s.

Luke Cage (Netflix) Mike Colter plays the Marvel Comics superhero.

Oct. 2

Westworld (HBO, Sundays, 9) Told from the point of view of the robots, series puts a spin on Michael Crichton's 1973 movie about a futuristic, Western-themed amusement park.

Oct. 3

Conviction (ABC, Mondays, 10). A new legal starring Agent Carter's Hayley Atwell as Carter Morrison, a former U.S. president's daughter who heads up Los Angeles' Conviction Integrity Unit.

Timeless (NBC, Mondays, 10). Another time-travel series

Oct. 4

No Tomorrow (CW, Tuesdays) Tori Anderson stars in this romantic comedy about a woman who falls for a man who is convinced that the world is about to end.

Oct. 5

Frequency (CW, Wednesdays, 9). A detective communicates with her deceased father to investigate an unsolved murder in a new series from Supernatural's Jeremy Carver.

Oct. 9

Divorce (HBO, Sundays, 10).  Sarah Jessica Parker makes her post-Sex and the City return to HBO in this marriage dramedy, penned by Catastrophe's Sharon Horgan.

Insecure (HBO, Sundays, 10:30) YouTube star Issa Rae stars in this comedy as a black woman in South Los Angeles struggling with people telling her what she needs to do to fit in.

Oct. 10

Supergirl (CW, Mondays, 8). The Girl of Steel flies to a new network for a second season.

Oct. 11

American Housewife (ABC, Tuesdays, 8:30). Katy Mixon plays an unapologetic wife and mother of three raising her family in a wealthy Connecticut town.

Oct. 13

Falling Water (USA, Thursdays, 10). Three unrelated people realize they're dreaming separate parts of one dream in this supernatural drama.

Oct. 14

Goliath (Amazon) Billy Bob Thornton is a down-and-out attorney taking on giants in this legal drama from David E. Kelley.

Oct. 16

Eyewitness (USA, Sundays, 10). A grisly crime is explored from the point of view of eyewitnesses in this adaptation of Norwegian thriller Øyevitne.

Oct. 17

Chance (Hulu). Hugh Laurie stars as a forensic neuropsychiatrist who gets sucked into a violent world of mistaken identity and police corruption in this adaptation of Kem Nunn's novel.

Oct. 21

Crazy-Ex Girlfriend (CW, Fridays, 9). Rachel Bloom's breakout musical smash deftly navigates love and mental illness in Season 2.

Oct. 23

The Walking Dead (AMC, Sundays, 9). Negan's first victim will be revealed in the zombie thriller's seventh season.

Oct. 24

Man With a Plan (CBS, Mondays, 8:30). A new sitcom starring Matt LeBlanc as a stay-at-home dad discovering parenting is harder than he thought when his wife returns to work.

Oct. 27

The Great Indoors (CBS, Thursdays, 8:30). Joel McHale stars as a seasoned nature reporter put in charge of a group of millennial journalists in this savvy new sitcom.

Pure Genius (CBS, Thursdays, 10). Parenthood's Jason Katims helms a new drama about a Silicon Valley hospital treating rare and insuperable medical cases.

Oct. 28

Good Girls Revolt (Amazon). Picking up where Mad Men left off, a group of female researchers at News of the Week fight sex discrimination in the workplace in this late-'60s drama.

Nov. 4

The Crown (Netflix) Based on the award-winning play, The Audience, this series focuses on Queen Elizabeth II's early reign,

Nov. 15

Good Behavior (TNT, Tuesdays, 9). Downton Abbey's Michelle Dockery stars as con artist trying to turn her life around in this gritty thriller, based on Blake Crouch's books.

Nov. 25

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (Netflix) Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel are back for this much-anticipated revival of the beloved WB series.

Nov. 30

Incorporated (Syfy, Wednesdays, 10). A man (Reign's Sean Teale) tries to infiltrate a dangerous corporate firm to save the woman he loves.