All Your Favorite TV Shows Are Coming Back This Week
It's official: All your favorite TV shows are back. OK, maybe not all of them—but certainly a good bit. This Is Us! Grey's Anatomy! The Good Place! All three of these shows kick off their new seasons this week, alongside some new promising projects like A Million Little Things, Manifest, and the Murphy Brown reboot. Seriously, good luck trying to watch all 16 (sixteen) of the shows, below. Thank God streaming and DVR exist.
Sunday, September 23
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown: These will be the first post-humous episodes of Bourdain's popular CNN series, which features the chef traveling to lesser-traveled areas around the world and trying their cuisine. 9 P.M. ET on CNN
9-1-1: Ryan Murphy's gripping procedural drama is back for another heart-pumping season, this time with Jennifer Love Hewitt in a starring role. 8 P.M. ET on Fox
Monday, September 24
Jane Fonda in Five Acts: Jane Fonda's illustrious life and career is explored in this HBO original documentary. For more information on the actress, read the profile we recently published on her for our Icons Week. 8 P.M. ET on HBO
The Big Bang Theory: The 12th and final season of this successful CBS sitcom kicks off tonight. Here's to one last hurrah with Sheldon, Penny, and all your favorite characters. 8 P.M. ET on CBS
Manifest: This NBC show follows the passengers on Air Flight 828, which goes tragically missing but reemerges after just a few hours. Back on the ground, though, time has jumped five years. Spooky! 10 P.M. ET on NBC
Tuesday, September 25
This Is Us: Season three of NBC's hit weep-fest begins tonight. Tune in to see how Kate and Toby are adjusting to married life, plus the next chapter of the flashbacks following Jack's death. 9 P.M. ET on NBC
Wednesday, September 26
A Million Little Things: Straight out of the This Is Us playbook, this heartfelt slice of melodrama tracks the lives of a group of friends who realize they don't know each other as well as they thought after one of them dies by suicide. 10 P.M. ET on ABC
Single Parents: A group of parents (including a very non-Blair Waldorf Leighton Meester) aim to help a single dad (Taran Killam) regain his life, which has been taken over by his fatherly duties. 9:30 P.M. ET on ABC
Thursday, September 27
Murphy Brown: Candice Bergen returns to her rightful place (in the middle of primetime) with a reboot of the series that made her a household name. 9:30 P.M. ET on CBS
The Good Place: Kristen Bell is about to be super busy. Not only is Veronica Mars getting the reboot treatment over at Hulu, the new season of her wildly successful series about the after-life is back (and funnier than ever). 8 P.M. ET on NBC
Mom: Allison Janney and Anna Faris deliver feels and laughs for the sixth season in a row, starting with an episode directed by one of Mom's main auteurs, James Widdoes. 9 P.M. ET on ABC
How to Get Away With Murder: Shondaland won't be the same without Scandal, but at least you have a new season of HTGAWM and Grey's Anatomy to look forward to! Annalise Keating will help us through this difficult time. 10 P.M. ET on CBS
Grey's Anatomy: Have you seen the trailer for the newest season of Grey's? It's going to be nuts. 8 P.M. ET on ABC
Friday, September 28
The Cool Kids: This delightful new series centers on four older folks (David Alan Grier, Leslie Jordan, Vicki Lawrence, and Martin Mull) as they adjust to their new lives in a retirement community. 8:30 P.M. ET on Fox
Night School: Tiffany Haddish plays a no-nonsense night school teacher who must help Kevin Hart receive his GED. Of course, shenanigans ensue. In theaters
Saturday, September 29
Saturday Night Live: Adam Driver hosts and Kanye West performs in the season opener of Saturday Night Live. 11:30 P.M. ET on NBC
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