Here's When Your Favorite Shows on ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC Return This Fall

There are so many different places to watch TV now — too many places, perhaps — that deciding what to watch can feel like overload. It's not always just a matter of picking something you like and watching it anymore. You have to figure out where the show comes from and whether it's on a streaming service you already have, and if it's not, you have to sign up for an account and remember to cancel it when you finish the show you want to watch, and so on. It's just a lot. But hey, let's not forget that the broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, and The CW — are still making new shows, and can be much cheaper and more accessible than cable and streaming. 

For those among us who are keeping it simple in 2026, we've put together a list of all the major premiere dates for the fall broadcast TV season, including both new series and returning favorites. The fall season kicks off in September after the Emmys, with premieres continuing all the way into November. Let's take a look at what we've got.

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Rob Lowe hosts Season 6 of this game show that pits experts against each other in a competition to win $250,000.

Premieres Sunday, Sept. 13 at 8/7c on Fox (regular time slot begins Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 8/7c on Fox)

The extremely popular celebrity dancing competition series is back for its 35th season, with a fascinating slate of celebs that includes Olympic figure skater Amber Glenn, Step Up star Jenna Dewan, and Jimmy Kimmel's delightful sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez. You can catch this series on Hulu and Disney+ as well as on ABC.

Premieres Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 8/7c on ABC and Disney+

Scott Speedman returns for Season 2 of this crime drama about a disgraced journalist-turned-private investigator.

Premieres Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 10/9c on ABC

While Peacock's Emmy-winning edition of The Traitors has always featured celebrities, this new spin-off of the popular reality competition features a cast made up entirely of regular folks for the first time (in the U.S., anyway).

Premieres Thursday, Sept. 17 at 8/7c on NBC

The second season of this quirky dramedy follows a big city doctor (Josh Charles) who starts a private practice in a small town after developing a blood phobia.

Premieres Sunday, Sept. 20 at 8/7c on Fox (regular time slot begins Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 8/7c on Fox)

Returning coaches Kelly Clarkson and Adam Levine are joined by hip-hop icon Queen Latifah and country singer Riley Green for the 30th season of the popular music competition series.

Premieres Monday, Sept. 21 at 8/7c on NBC

Celebrities compete to guess what song is being played by a live band in the sixth season of this revival of the classic game show.

Premieres Monday, Sept. 21 at 8/7c on Fox

Jane Lynch hosts the second season of this celebrity-focused version of  the popular game show, which first moved to Fox in 2025.

Premieres on Monday, Sept. 21 at 9/8c on Fox

This new drama focuses on a family of federal law enforcement agents who are caught up in some sort of murderous conspiracy. Peter Krause and Hope Davis star.

Premieres Monday, Sept. 21 at 10/9c on NBC

The story of Molly Parker's amnesiac doctor, who forgets nearly a decade of her life — and the medical experience that comes with it — after suffering a grievous brain injury, continues in Season 3 of this remake of the Italian series.

Premieres Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 9/8c on Fox

The biggest name in American reality television returns for its 51st outing.

Premieres Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 8/7c on CBS with a two-hour special

One hundred contestants battle it out to be the only player to never finish last in a series of silly games. Hosted by Erin Andrews and Ken Jeong.

Premieres Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 9/8c on Fox

Gordon Ramsay is back and ready to yell at some young chefs in the 25th season of everybody's favorite reality cooking show.

Premieres Thursday, Sept. 24 at 8/7c on Fox

Ick. Convicted fraudster and disgraced politician George Santos takes part in the new season of this military-themed reality series.

Premieres Thursday, Sept. 24 at 9/8c on Fox

Jalen Brunson hosts and girl group superstars Katseye provide the musical performance in the sketch comedy series' Season 52 premiere.

Premieres Saturday, Sept. 26 at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT on NBC, and will be broadcast live coast to coast

The beloved animated sitcom is back for Season 38, and once again serves as the lead-in for Fox's Sunday night comedy block.

Premieres Sunday, Sept. 27 at 8/7c on Fox

The Joel McHale sitcom about the wacky misadventures of a team of animal control specialists is kicking off its fifth season.

Premieres Sunday, Sept. 27 at 8:30/7:30c on Fox

The comedy about a group of guys who are enrolled in a universal basic income pilot program and use all their new free time to get into weird shenanigans is back for Season 3.

Premieres Sunday, Sept. 27 at 9/8c on Fox

The best detective in the world (Jon Hamm) is back for a third season in which he solves a bunch of wacky mysteries while also trying to convince his estranged family to like him.

Premieres Sunday, Sept. 27 at 9:30/8:30c on Fox

JD and Turk (Zach Braff and Donald Faison) may be practically elderly now, at least to their interns, but that doesn't mean they've grown up at all in Season 2 of the Scrubs revival.

Premieres Wednesday, Sept. 30 at 8/7c on ABC with a two-episode special

Marty Supreme villain Kevin O'Leary also plays the bad guy in this brainrotted capitalism competition.

Premieres Wednesday, Sept. 30 at 9/8c on ABC with a two-episode special, before moving to its usual 10/9c time slot the following week

The popular reality series about tourists who are always in too much of a hurry is back for its 39th journey.

Premieres Wednesday, Sept. 30 at 9:30/8:30c on CBS

Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes) has to race against time to save someone very important to him in Season 2 of this Yellowstone spin-off series.

Premieres Sunday, Oct. 4 at 8:30/7:30c on CBS, before shifting to its regular 8/7c time slot the following week

Justin Hartley's Colter Shaw is back and ready to go to extreme lengths to save some more missing persons in the fourth season of this adventure series.

Premieres Sunday, Oct. 4 at 9:30/8:30c on CBS, before shifting to its regular 9/8c time slot the following week

The latest of Dick Wolf's TV franchise flagships about cops solving crimes is now entering its ninth season.

Premieres Monday, Oct. 5 at 8/7c on CBS

This spin-off of FBI, in which a stuffy FBI agent (Nick Gehlfuss) and loose cannon CIA agent (Tom Ellis) have to team up to stop domestic terror threats, returns for Season 2.

Premieres Monday, Oct. 5 at 9/8c on CBS

This series actually has three seasons under its belt in Canada, but The CW is only starting Season 2 this year. Please, no spoilers from our friends to the north!

Premieres Monday, Oct. 5 at 9/8c on The CW

The popular mystery author is back and ready to dive into a pile of new true crime stories in Season 2.

Premieres Monday, Oct. 5 at 10/9c on CBS

The Tony and Ziva spin-off on Paramount+ may not have worked out, but that's OK because it freed up Michael Weatherly, who played Tony on NCIS for 13 seasons, to return to the flagship series for the first time in years.

Premieres Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 8/7c on CBS

LL Cool J is back as Sam Hanna, his NCIS: Los Angeles character, in this new spin-off series set in the character's hometown.

Premieres Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 9/8c on CBS

This retro prequel, about the early career of Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon's character from the flagship series, played here by Austin Stowell), is back for another season of analog investigations.

Premieres Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 10/9c on CBS

There's no crossover with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia to start us off this year, but everybody's favorite mockumentary sitcom set in a school will probably be just fine as we head into Season 6.

Premieres Wednesday, Oct. 7 at 8:30/7:30c on ABC

The Dick Wolf medical drama is still going strong as it heads into its 12th season.

Premieres Wednesday, Oct. 7 at 8/7c on NBC

After the series left us on a cliffhanger at the end of Season 14, the fate of Dermot Mulroney's embattled Chief Pascal will finally be determined in the Season 15 premiere.

Premieres Wednesday, Oct. 7 at 9/8c on NBC

The first few episodes of Season 14 will be pivotal for Chicago P.D., as original cast member LaRoyce Hawkins will be making his exit sometime early in the season.

Premieres Wednesday, Oct. 7 at 10/9c on NBC

Will this be the season when Mandy and Georgie get divorced?

Premieres Thursday, Oct. 8 at 8/7c on CBS

A 500-year-old vampire couple (Ed Weeks and Allegra Edwards) get quite a shock when their daughter falls in love with a regular human boy in this new sitcom from the duo who created Ghosts.

Premieres Thursday, Oct. 8 at 8:30/7:30c on CBS

In the fourth season of this quirky mystery series, spun off from The Good Wife and The Good Fight, Elsbeth (Carrie Preston) is once again single and lovin' it. 

Premieres Tuesday, Oct. 8 at 9/8c on CBS

TV legend and 2026 Emmys host Mariska Hargitay continues to be the face of SVU, which is somehow still going very strong as it heads into its 28th season.

Premieres Thursday, Oct. 8 at 9/8c on NBC

The premise for this new series from The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King is an intriguing one: A pair of lawyers (Mike Colter and Rachel Keller) set up a new firm in Cupertino, Calif., in order to represent folks who have been burned by the tech oligarchs of Silicon Valley.

Premieres on Tuesday, Oct. 8 at 10/9c on CBS

Dick Wolf's venerable series heads into its 26th season with an impressive cast that includes Hugh Dancy, Tony Goldwyn, and Maura Tierney. Plus, James Badge Dale joins the cast as Reid Scott exits.

Premieres Thursday, Oct. 8 at 10/9c on NBC

Sheriff Mickey Fox (Morena Baccarin) will have a lot on her mind in Season 2, after her corrupt fed boyfriend was killed in a shootout with his boss, DEA deputy director Eva Santos (Rachel Ticotin), who apparently is also secretly Mickey's mother. There's a lot going on here.

Premieres Friday, Oct. 9 at 8/7c on CBS

Dredd star Olivia Thirlby joins the cast as a series regular for Season 5, which will have a new crossover episode with Sheriff Country in November. Sounds hot!

Premieres Friday, Oct. 9 at 9/8c on CBS

The Blue Bloods spin-off pits Danny Reagan (Donnie Wahlberg) and Lena Silver (Sonequa Martin-Green) against a serial killer in Season 2 — let's hope things go better for Wahlberg here than they did in Saw II.

Premieres Friday, Oct. 9 at 10/9c on CBS

Athena Grant (Angela Bassett) finally became a detective at the end of Season 9, but she'll still be right there in the muck in Season 10 — starting, apparently, with a volcano erupting in the middle of Los Angeles.

Premieres Thursday, Oct. 15 at 8/7c on ABC

Shooter star Ryan Phillippe joins the cast in Season 2, just in time for the team to have to face a swarm of deadly hornets.

Premieres Thursday, Oct. 15 at 9/8c on ABC.

The halls of Grey Sloan will feel a little bit empty without Teddy (Kim Raver) and Owen (Kevin McKidd) around, but we have faith that Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) and co. will be able to generate plenty of drama without them.

Premieres Thursday, Oct. 15 at 10/9c on ABC

Melissa Peterman and Reba McEntire are back for another round in the sweet little bar-based sitcom.

Premieres Friday, Oct. 23 at 8/7c on NBC

Tea Leoni and Tim Daly, who are married in real life, star in this sitcom about two sixtysomethings who get married not long after they meet for the first time — and now they have to figure out if they even like each other.

Premieres Friday, Oct. 23 at 8:30/7:30c on NBC

This hospital-set mockumentary sitcom should have another excellent roster of guest stars in Season 3, starting with Damon Wayans in the premiere episode.

Premieres Monday, Nov. 2 at 8/7c on NBC

Created by 30 Rock alums Robert Carlock and Sam Means and starring Tracy Morgan and Daniel Radcliffe, Reggie Dinkins is a mockumentary sitcom for people people who hate mockumentary sitcoms. We know that doesn't make any sense, but you'll just have to trust us — Season 1 was great.

Premieres Thursday, Nov. 2 at 8:30/7:30c on NBC

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