Midseason Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series: 2017 Edition
The 2016-17 TV season is nearing the halfway point, so here’s our annual list of midseason premiere dates for new series and new seasons of returning shows. The list covers hundreds of broadcast, cable and streaming programs bowing from January 1 through mid-May, shows that were on extended hiatus (about two months or more) and some high-profile one-off programs. Please send any additions or adjustments to erik@deadline.com. We’ll update the post regularly as more dates are revealed.
January 1:
Ransom (CBS, new series; moves to Saturdays starting January 7)
The Mick (Fox, new series)
To Tell the Truth (ABC, Season 2)
Conviction (ABC, Season 1B; new night)
Sherlock (PBS, Season 4)
Worst Cooks in America (Food Network, Season 10)
Guy’s Grocery Games: Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Tournament (Food Network, new limited series)
Evil Lives Here (Investigation Discovery, Season 2)
January 2:
The Bachelor (ABC, Cycle 21)
The New Celebrity Apprentice (NBC, new series)
Beyond (Freeform, new series)
Shadowhunters (Freeform, Season 2)
My Knight and Me (Cartoon Network, new series)
Kids Baking Championship (Food Network, Season 3)
Murdoch Mysteries (Acorn TV, Season 10; U.S. premiere)
January 3:
The Wall (NBC, new series)
The Mick (Fox, new series; time slot premiere)
Bones (Fox, Season 12; final season)
Match Game (ABC, Season 2)
The Haves and the Have Nots (OWN, Season 5)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (Bravo, new season)
Killing Fields (Discovery, Season 2)
First Take (ESPN, moving from ESPN2)
SportsCenter Face to Face (ESPN2, new series)
SportsCenter Coast to Coast (ESPN2, new series)
The Dengineers (Discovery Family, new series)
Post My Party (Discovery Family, new series)
Seven Year Switch (FYI, Season 2)
Kiss Bang Love (FYI, new series)
January 4:
Star (Fox, new series; time period premiere)
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FXX, Season 12)
Man Seeking Woman (FXX, Season 3)
Alaskan Bush People (Discovery, Season 6)
Too Close to Home (TLC, Season 1B)
My 600-LB Life (TLC, Season 5)
I, Witness (Investigation Discovery, new series)
January 5:
Nashville (CMT, Season 5; new network)
Portlandia (IFC, Season 7)
Ghosts in the Hood (WE tv, new series)
L.A. Hair (WE tv, Season 5)
F*ck, That’s Delicious (Viceland, Season 2)
January 6:
Grimm (NBC, Season 6; final season)
Emerald City (NBC, new series)
Sleepy Hollow (Fox, Season 4)
One Day at a Time (Netflix, new series)
Ginormous Food (Food Network, new series)
Worst Cooks in America (Food Network, Season 10)
January 7:
Sesame Street (HBO, Season 47)
The Guardians (Animal Planet, new series)
Trisha’s Southern Kitchen (Food Network, Season 2)
Emeril’s Florida (Cooking Channel, Season 5)
Tiny House Nation (FYI, Season 4)
Unplugged Nation (FYI, Season 2)
January 8:
The 74th annual Golden Globes (NBC, live event)
Everest Rescue (Discovery, new series)
Giada Entertains (Food Network, Season 2)
Dinner at Tiffani’s (Cooking Channel, Season 3)
Tia Mowry at Home (Cooking Channel, Season 3)
The Real Mad Men of Advertising (Discovery, new miniseries)
January 9:
Big Fan (ABC, new series)
Hate Thy Neighbor (Viceland, new series)
January 10:
Taboo (FX, new series)
Being Mary Jane (BET, Season 4)
Giada Entertains (Food Network, new series)
Noisey (Viceland, Season 2)
January 11:
Workaholics (Comedy Central, Season 7; final season)
Jeff & Some Aliens (Comedy Central, new series)
Schitt’s Creek (Pop, Season 3)
January 12:
My Kitchen Rules (Fox, new series)
Colony (USA Network, Season 2)
Revenge Body with Khloé Kardashian (E!, new series; previewed November 23)
Caraoke Showdown (Spike, new series)
Fancy Boy (Seeso, new series)
Wham Bam, Thank you Ma’am (Seeso, new series)
January 13:
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix, new series)
Sneaky Pete (Amazon Prime, new series)
The Wheel (Discovery, new series)
January 14:
Home Made Simple (OWN, Season 6)
January 15:
Homeland (Showtime, Season 6)
The Young Pope (HBO, new limited series)
Mickey and the Roadside Racers (Disney Junior, new series)
Victoria (PBS, new series)
First Family of Hip Hop (Bravo, new series)
The Kitchen Sink (Food Network, Season 2)
Murder Calls (Investigation Discovery, new series)
Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing Evidence (Investigation Discovery, new limited series)
O.J. After the Evidence (Investigation Discovery, new limited series)
January 16:
800 Words (Acorn TV, Season 2; U.S. premiere)
January 17:
Teachers (TV Land, Season 2)
Throwing Shade (TV Land, new series)
Friday Night Tykes (Esquire, Season 4)
January 18:
Six (History, new series)
Bering Sea Gold (Discovery, Season 6)
January 19:
Scandal (ABC, Season 6)
Baskets (FX, Season 2)
Divided (GSN, new series)
Idiotest (GSN, Season 4)
The Detectives Club: New Orleans (Investigation Discovery, new series)
January 20:
Voltron: Legendary Defender (Netflix, Season 2)
Frontier (Netflix, new series)
January 21:
Hack My Life, (TruTV, Season 3)
Beaches (Lifetime, new telefilm)
January 22:
Hunted (CBS, new series; moves to Wednesdays starting February 1)
Mercy Street (PBS, Season 2)
Secrets of the Six Wives (PBS, new limited series)
January 23:
Quantico (ABC, Season 2B; new night)
January 24:
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (The CW, Season 2B; new night)
Outsiders (WGN America, Season 2)
Face Off: All Stars (Syfy, Season 11)
The New Edition Story (BET, new miniseries)
Tattoo Girls (TLC, new series; time slot premiere)
January 25:
Suits (USA Network, Season 6B)
The Magicians (Syfy, Season 2)
The Path (Hulu, Season 2)
Bakers vs. Fakers (Food Network, new series)
January 26:
Riverdale (The CW, new series)
Supernatural (The CW, Season 12B; new night)
Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle II (Comedy Central, Season 2)
January 27:
Z: The Beginning of Everything (Amazon Prime, new series)
Rise (Viceland, new series)
January 28:
Planet Earth II (BBC America, new miniseries)
January 29:
Black Sails (Starz, Season 4)
January 30:
Adventure Time: Islands (Cartoon Network, new miniseries)
January 31:
The Fosters (Freeform, Season 4B)
Switched at Birth (Freeform, Season 5; final season)
The Quad (BET, new series)
Bizarre Foods (Travel Channel, Season 5)
Ching’s Amazing Asia (Cooking Channel, new series)
Friday Night Tykes: Steel Country (Esquire, Season 2)
The Game of Dating (TV One, new series)
January TBA:
Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Spike, new limited series)
February 1:
The 100 (The CW, Season 4)
Spy in the Wild (PBS, new miniseries)
Madiba (BET, new miniseries)
The Carbonero Effect, (TruTV, Season 2)
February 2:
Training Day (CBS, new series)
Powerless (NBC, new series)
Superior Donuts (CBS, new series; moves to regular slot February 6)
Nirvanna the Band the Show (Viceland, new series)
People Just Do Nothing (Viceland, new series)
February 3:
Santa Clarita Diet (Netflix, new series)
February 5:
Super Bowl LI (Fox, live event)
24: Legacy (Fox, new series)
February 6:
APB (Fox, new series)
24: Legacy (Fox, new series; time slot premiere)
February 7:
Tosh.0 (Comedy Central, Season 9)
Detroiters (Comedy Central, new series)
Imposter (Bravo, new series; fka My So-Called Wife)
February 8:
Legion (FX, new series)
The Expanse (Syfy, Season 2)
City in the Sky (PBS, new miniseries)
So Cosmo (E!, new series)
February 6:
MasterChef Junior (Fox, Season 5)
February 9:
Impractical Jokers, (TruTV, Season 7)
February 10:
Reign (The CW, Season 4; final season)
February 12:
The Walking Dead (AMC, Season 7B)
Talking Dead (AMC, Season 7B)
The 59th annual Grammy Awards (CBS, live event)
Girls (HBO, Season 6; final season)
Last Week Tonight with John Oilver (HBO, Season 4)
The Missing (Starz, Season 2)
February 13:
Humans (AMC, Season 2)
February 14:
The Mindy Project (Hulu, Season 5B)
February 15:
Doubt (CBS, new series)
Murder Chose Me (Investigation Discovery, new series)
February 18:
For Peete’s Sake (OWN, Season 1B)
February 19:
Billions (Showtime, Season 2)
Crashing (HBO, new series)
Big Little Lies (HBO, new series)
The Good Fight (CBS All Access, new series; first episode also on CBS)
February 23:
The Blacklist: Redemption (NBC, new series)
Sun Records (CMT, new limited series; fka Million Dollar Quartet)
My Brother, My Brother and Me (Seeso, new series)
February 24:
Vice (HBO, Season 5)
February 26:
The 89th annual Academy Awards (ABC, live event)
February 27:
The Voice (NBC, Cycle 12)
Taken (NBC, new series)
The High Court (Comedy Central, new series)
Africa’s Great Civilizations (PBS, new miniseries)
February 28:
Who Killed Jane Doe? (Investigation Discovery, new series)
February TBA:
The History of Comedy (CNN, new limited series)
March 1:
UConn Huskies: The March to Madness (HBO, new series)
National Treasure (Hulu, new series; U.S. premiere)
Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Spike, new miniseries)
March 5:
Little Big Shots (NBC, Season 2)
Chicago Justice (NBC, new series)
Shades of Blue (NBC, Season 2)
March 7:
Trial & Error (NBC, new series)
March 8:
Survivor (CBS, Cycle 34)
Underground (WGN America, Season 2)
March 16:
Shrink (Seeso, new series)
March 17:
The Originals (The CW, Season 4)
Marvel’s Iron Fist (Netflix, new series)
March 22:
The Comedy Jam (Comedy Central, new series)
March 23:
Idiotsitter (Comedy Central, Season 2)
March 28:
Dead Reckoning: War, Crime and Justice From WW2 to the War on Terror (PBS, new miniseries)
March 29:
Harlots (Hulu, new series)
April 2:
Call the Midwife (PBS, Season 6)
Home Fires (PBS, Season 2; final season)
Major League Baseball Opening Day (ESPN, new season)
Sunday Night Baseball (ESPN, new season)
April 4:
iZombie (The CW, Season 3)
April 10:
Monday Night Baseball (ESPN, new season)
April 18:
Pretty Little Liars (Freeform, Season 7; final season)
Famous in Love (Freeform, new series)
April 21:
The Amazing Race (CBS, Cycle 29)
April 25:
Great News (NBC, new series)
April 26:
The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu, new series)
April TBA:
Fargo (FX, Season 3)
The Leftovers (HBO, Season 3; final season)
May 2:
The Victorian Slum (PBS, new series; working title)
May 5:
Sense8 (Netflix, Season 2)
May 23:
Casual (Hulu, Season 3)
May TBA:
Star Trek: Discovery (CBS All Access, new series; first episode also on CBS)
Let It Fall: LA 1982-1992 (ABC, new feature documentary)
Bloodline (Netflix, Season 3; final season)
Bobcat Goldthwait’s Messed Up Stories (truTV, new series)
I’m Sorry (truTV, new series)
Married at First Sight: Second Chances (FYI, new series)
I Love Dick (Amazon Prime, new series)
Jean-Claude Van Johnson (Amazon Prime, new series)
The Tick (Amazon Prime, new series)
There’s Johnny! (Seeso, new series)
The Comedy Jam (Comedy Central, new series)
Midseason TBA:
Prison Break (Fox, new series)
Kicking & Screaming (Fox, new series)
Shots Fired (Fox, new series)|
Making History (Fox, new series)
Hypnotize Me (Fox, new series)
Marlon (NBC, new series)
Midnight, Texas (NBC, new series)
Game of Thrones (HBO, Season 7)
Veep (HBO, Season 6)
Silicon Valley (HBO, Season 4)
Bill Nye Saves the World (Netflix, new series)
Catastrophe (Amazon, Season 3)
American Gods (Starz, new series)
Better Caul Saul (AMC, Season 3)
Animal Review (Animal Planet, new series; working title)
Greenleaf (OWN, Season 2)
The Book of John (OWN, new series; working title)
Super Soul Sunday (OWN, Season 6B)
Love Thy Neighbor (OWN, Season 4)
Booze Traveler (Travel Channel, new series)
Hustle & Soul (WE tv, new series)
Still the King (CMT, Season 2)
Ghost Brothers (Destination America, Season 2)
Hap and Leonard (SundanceTV, Season 2)
You Can Do Better (TruTV, Season 1B)
Talk Show the Game Show (TruTV, new series)
Chris Webber’s Full Court Pranks (TruTV, new series)
Upscale with Prentice Penny (truTV, new series)
Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ (Seeso, Season 3)
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