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

The fall television season used to be easy. There were three channels, and sometime in September, all your favorite shows returned around the same time. And if you were lucky enough to have a VCR, you could record one show while another aired. Fast-forward a million years (or what feels like a millions years), and now figuring out what's on TV is like operating a nuclear submarine blindfolded. 

Maybe we can help. This gallery of fall's broadcast TV shows includes all the returning and new shows from ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox, and NBC in the order in which they premiere, which will come in handy considering premieres go all the way into November this year. 

And if you're looking for more help planning your fall binge sessions, take a look at our complete guide to fall TV, our most anticipated shows of the season, and all the new shows coming out over the next few months. 

Fox's second most-watched series last year (behind the canceled 9-1-1: Lone Star) stars Molly Parker as a doctor who loses her memory of the last eight years after a car accident. Felicity Huffman joins the cast in Season 2.

Premieres Sunday, Sept. 14 at 8/7c on Fox as a special presentation; re-airs in its regular time slot on Tuesday, Sept. 23 at 9/8c on Fox

Celebrities like Aisha Tyler test their music acumen in this star-studded version of the classic game show. Jane Krakowski hosts.

Premieres Monday, Sept. 15 at 8/7c on Fox

Jane Lynch hosts this new take on the quiz show that got its start in England in 2000.

Premieres Monday, Sept. 15 at 9/8c on Fox

Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough return to host the reality competition, which boasts a celebrity roster that includes Jordan Chiles, Corey Feldman, Dylan Efron, and Andy Richter. The show will be simulcast live on ABC and Disney+ and also be available on demand on Disney+ and Hulu. 

Premieres Tuesday, Sept. 16 at 8/7c on ABC and Disney+

ABC's breakout procedural returns for Season 2 with Kaitlin Olson solving more crimes as a cleaning lady-turned-police consultant. 

Premieres Tuesday, Sept. 16 at 10/9c on ABC

NBC's long-running singing competition returns for Season 28, with judges Reba McEntire, Snoop Dogg, Michael Bublé, and Niall Horan, and host Carson Daly.

Premieres Monday, Sept. 22 at 8/7c on NBC

The medical drama based on the works of neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks will go deeper on the blossoming relationship between Oliver (Zachary Quinto) and Josh (Teddy Sears) in Season 2.

Premieres Monday, Sept. 22 at 10/9c on NBC

Murder in a Small Town, which is a drama about murder in a small town, is based on L.R. Wright's Karl Alberg books and stars Rossif Sutherland as Alberg, a detective who leaves the big city for a small coastal town, only to realize that people get murdered there too.

Premieres Tuesday, Sept. 23 at 8/7c on Fox

Former NFL player Mel Owens, 66, looks for love in Season 2 of the Bachelor spin-off, despite sparking outrage when he previously said on a podcast that he would cut any contestant over the age of 60. He later apologized for the comments. 

Premieres Wednesday, Sept. 24 at 8/7c on ABC

The much anticipated Survivor 50 won't air until next year, but Season 49 of the reality competition hits the beach this fall. The series returns to the islands of Fiji for more competitive starvation.

Premieres Wednesday, Sept. 24 at 8/7c on CBS

This Canadian version of Dick Wolf's legal procedural already aired north of the border, but will debut its first season this fall on The CW.

Premieres Wednesday, Sept. 24 at 8/7c on The CW

Rob Lowe hosts this trivia game show, which heads into its fourth season with a gimmick: Two contestants from each state will be featured.

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

Fox's newest game show pits 100 contestants against each other in simple competitions, but only one can walk away with the million dollar prize. Ken Jeong and Erin Andrews host.

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

Rich people listen to ideas to make them richer in this unscripted capitalist competition.

Premieres Wednesday, Sept. 24 at 10/9c on ABC

Thirteen teams scramble around Europe in Season 38 of The Amazing Race, and if the competitors look familiar, it's intentional. Each team includes at least one veteran of the reality series Big Brother.

Premieres Thursday, Sept. 25 at 8/7c on CBS; moves to Wednesdays at 9:30/8:30c starting Oct. 1

Here's a recipe for a successful culinary show: one part Gordon Ramsay, one part screaming, and one part frazzled contestants. Hell's Kitchen returns for Season 24.

Premieres Thursday, Sept. 25 at 8/7c on Fox

Dick Wolf's venerable franchise reaches a milestone 25th season this fall, but Mehcad Brooks, who played Detective Jalen Shaw, will not be returning.

Premieres Thursday, Sept. 25 at 8/7c on NBC

The reality series enters a third season of putting celebrities through Special Forces training. Participants this season include Teresa Giudice and Jussie Smollett.

Premieres Thursday, Sept. 25 at 9/8c on Fox

Law & Order: SVU extends its record as TV's longest running scripted, live-action program when it begins Season 27 this fall. 

Premieres Thursday, Sept. 25 at 9/8c on NBC

Pat Sajak — who retired earlier this year — may have left the series, but Wheel of Fortune lives on with celebrities buying vowels. Vanna White and Ryan Seacrest host. 

Premieres Friday, Sept. 26 at 8/7c on ABC

*Boiiiiiiing!* *Slide whistle* *Coconuts banging into each other* The original viral video show returns, with host Alfonso Ribeiro pretending to try his best not to laugh too hard, but also laughing juuuuuuust enough.

Premieres Sunday, Sept. 28 at 7/6c on ABC

The Simpsons did it! And by "it" we mean that TV's longest-running scripted primetime series premieres its 37th season this fall.

Premieres Sunday, Sept. 28 at 8/7c on Fox

Despite getting lashed by critics, the new animated series Universal Basic Guys, about a pair of dudes on universal basic income who use their free time to get in trouble, was Fox's top-rated scripted series in the 18-49 demographic last season. Season 2 premieres this fall, and it's already been renewed for Season 3.

Premieres Sunday, Sept. 28 at 8:30/7:30c on Fox

The animated series spoofing Greek mythology airs its third season this fall.

Premieres Sunday, Sept. 28 at 9/8c on Fox

Like The Simpsons, Bob's Burgers was renewed for four more seasons by Fox in a mega-deal. The first of those seasons, Season 16, debuts this fall.

Premieres Sunday, Sept. 28 at 9:30/8:30c on Fox

Late night's biggest shill will become primetime's biggest shill when Jimmy Fallon and NBC debut On Brand with Jimmy Fallon, a reality competition in which contestants help famous brands with new marketing campaigns aimed at parting consumers from their cash. It's like watching a commercial about making commercials! Capitalism at its blandest.

Premieres Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 10/9c on NBC; also airs Friday nights at 8/7c beginning Oct. 3

Tim Allen and Kat Dennings' comedy about a car restoration shop owner (Allen) whose estranged daughter (Dennings) and two grandchildren move in with him returns for Season 2. 

Premieres Wednesday, Oct. 1 at 8/7c on ABC

Chicago's got health issues! The baby of the One Chicago franchise leads off Chi-Wednesdays with its 11th season.

Premieres Wednesday, Oct. 1 at 8/7c on NBC

The comedy about Philadelphia teachers trying their best at an underfunded public elementary school — and TV Guide's show of the year in 2022 — airs its fifth season this fall.

Premieres Wednesday, Oct. 1 at 8:30/7:30c on ABC

Chicago's on fire! The men and women of Firehouse 51 whip their hoses out for Season 14, but they'll be without two regulars: Darren Ritter (Daniel Kyri) and Sam Carver (Jake Lockett) won't be returning. 

Premieres Wednesday, Oct. 1 at 9/8c on NBC

Chicago's got crime! But the boys and girls in blue will do their best to keep it at a minimum when Chicago P.D. returns for Season 13.

Premieres Wednesday, Oct. 1 at 10/9c on NBC

Now in its third season on ABC, 9-1-1 returns for its ninth overall season of first-responder drama, even after its head-scratching decision to kill off one of its most beloved characters late in Season 8. We're still mad.

Premieres Thursday, Oct. 9 at 8/7c on ABC

Chris O'Donnell leads this Southern-fried spin-off of 9-1-1, and from what we know, interpersonal drama and country music — the unofficial sound of Nashville — will play a big part in the show, as will the expected harrowing rescues. Jessica Capshaw, LeAnn Rimes, and Hailey Kilgore also star.  

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

Unlike some of the patients at Grey Sloan, Grey's Anatomy may never die. The soapy medical drama scrubs in for Season 22 this fall, picking up after a big explosion rocked the hospital in the Season 21 finale. Ellen Pompeo will be back in a limited capacity, but series regulars Jake Borelli (Dr. Levi Schmitt) and Midori Francis (intern Mika Yasuda) won't return.

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

Kathy Bates received an Emmy nomination for her role as Madeline "Matty" Matlock in this legal drama inspired by the '80s-and-'90s series starring Andy Griffith. Season 2 follows Matty's attempts to expose the Wellbrexa scandal now that she knows who did it, but that brings her in opposition with Olympia (Skye P. Marshall).

Premieres Sunday, Oct. 12 at 8:30 p.m. ET/8:00 p.m. PT on CBS; moves to Thursdays at 9/8c on Oct. 16

Carrie Preston returns as New York's most colorful lawyer in the third season of this spin-off of The Good Wife and The Good Fight.

Premieres Sunday, Oct. 12 at 9:30 p.m. ET/9:00 p.m. PT on CBS; moves to Thursdays at 10/9c on Oct. 16

The longest-running sitcom on CBS moves into the eighth and final year of its lease, with stars Cedric the Entertainer, Tichina Arnold, and Max Greenfield returning. A spin-off, called Crutch and starring Tracy Morgan, streams on Paramount+ this fall.

Premieres Monday, Oct. 13 at 8/7c on CBS

The lone new sitcom on CBS this fall is a workplace comedy set in the Department of Motor Vehicles, starring Tim Meadows and Harriet Dyer. 

Premieres Monday, Oct. 13 at 8:30/7:30c on CBS

FBI: International and FBI: Most Wanted may have been canceled earlier this year, but the original lives on for an eighth season of catching bad guys. A new spin-off, CIA, is scheduled to premiere in the spring.

Premieres Monday, Oct. 13 at 9/8c on CBS

Watson, a CBS medical procedural starring Morris Chestnut as a new take on Sherlock Holmes' right-hand man, returns for a second season of investigating rare diseases. And this season, he'll be in familiar company: Robert Carlyle is joining the cast as Holmes. 

Premieres Monday, Oct. 13 at 10/9c on CBS

Heading into its 23rd season, NCIS has outlived about a billion shows and remains one of CBS's top series. Expect Parker (Gary Cole) to settle some scores early in the season as he avenges his father's murder. 

Premieres Tuesday, Oct. 14 at 8/7c on CBS

The second season of the Leroy Jethro Gibbs prequel series, starring Austin Stowell as Gibbs in his younger days, has some 'splainin' to do, most notably whether or not Special Agent Cecilia "Lala" Dominguez (Mariel Molino) is still alive after a car crash in the Season 1 finale. 

Premieres Tuesday, Oct. 14 at 9/8c on CBS

This international edition of NCIS heads into its third season and has become a staple on CBS after initially serving as replacement programming during the actors and writers strikes for fair wages. Thanks, Australia!

Premieres Tuesday, Oct. 14 at 10/9c on CBS

Georgie (Montana Jordan) and Mandy (Emily Osment) are still married headed into Season 2, but we all know a split is coming. Could it happen in this season of the Young Sheldon spin-off?

Premieres Thursday, Oct. 16 at 8/7c on CBS

With four seasons of afterlife comedy under its belt, Ghosts is CBS's second longest running sitcom currently on the air, and a boo-nafide hit. 

Premieres Thursday, Oct. 16 at 8:30/7:30c on CBS

Fire Country isn't flaming out anytime soon. The firefighter drama is heading into its fourth season anchoring Friday nights, and the franchise is expanding this fall with the spin-off Sheriff Country.

Premieres Friday, Oct. 17 at 8/7c on CBS; moves to Fridays at 9/8c beginning Oct. 24

Morena Baccarin leads this law enforcement-focused spin-off of Fire Country as Mickey Fox, a sheriff's deputy in Edgewater who was introduced in Season 2 of Fire Country. 

Premieres Friday, Oct. 17 at 9/8c on CBS; moves to Fridays at 8/7c beginning Oct. 24

Donnie Wahlberg's Blue Bloods character Danny Reagan takes on a position with the Boston Police Department, where he's partnered up with a cop (Sonequa Martin-Green) who is also part of a family stuffed with members of law enforcement.

Premieres Friday, Oct. 17 at 10/9c on CBS

CBS's highest-rated scripted series returns for Season 3, with Colter Shaw (Justin Hartley) finding more missing people. This season, he will have to do it without the help of Bobby (Eric Graise) and Velma (Abby McEnany), who won't be part of the new episodes.

Premieres Sunday, Oct. 19 at 8/7c on CBS

Blake Shelton, Keith Urban, and Taylor Sheridan are executive producers for this country music competition series that sees a dozen emerging artists compete to be Urban's opening act.

Premieres Sunday, Oct. 19 at 9/8c on CBS

The hospital sitcom St. Denis Medical proves that the mockumentary format isn't dead yet. The series returns for a sophomore season after a critically acclaimed first season.

Premieres Monday, Nov. 3 at 8/7c on NBC

Reba McEntire's comedy about a woman who inherits a bar and discovers she has a half-sister is back for a second round this fall.

Premieres Friday, Nov. 7 at 8/7c on NBC

More TV schedules and fall TV info:

• CBS fall 2025 TV schedule: Here's when Tracker, NCIS, and more return
• NBC fall 2025 TV schedule: The return of the NBA forces cancellations
• ABC fall 2025 TV schedule: Shifting Gears shifts premieres
• Fox fall 2025 TV schedule: Doc returns on Tuesdays
• The complete guide to fall TV
• Our most anticipated shows of the fall
• All the noteworthy new shows coming this season