Fall TV is Finally Here, But is Anyone Watching Network Television?: Part 1

 Monday:

What Am I Watching? 

Guilty Pleasure-- 

Bachelor in Paradise premieres 10.3 on ABC @ 8pm, here's a who's who of the cast courtesy of The Today Show: https://www.today.com/popculture/tv/bachelor-in-paradise-cast-2022-rcna45758

Major Dramas---

9-1-1 premieres 9.19 on FOX @ 8pm, In the premiere the team tries to avoid a "Hindenburg level" catastrophe, it involves a blimp at an L.A. Stadium. 

All American and All American: Homecoming enter Season's 5 and 2 respectively as the dramas pick up six weeks after where they left off last Spring. They premiere 10.10 on The CW @ 8 and 9pm. Spencer throws a party that brings Simone home to L.A. 

Blast from the Past---

Quantum Leap premieres 9.19 on NBC @ 10pm almost 30 years after the original cult series last aired. 

Tuesday: 

What Am I Watching?

Soapy--

Monarch premiered already but moves to its permanent spot on 9.20 on FOX @ 9pm. Trace Adkins and Susan Sarandon star as country music's Royal Family. If this is anything like Nashville (old ABC series), I'm all in. 

Agent Drama-- 

FBI and FBI Most Wanted are both back on 9.20 on CBS @ 8 and 10pm respectively. I'm not really into FBI International. FBI is the most stable of the three series with the cast staying intact throughout it's 5 seasons. Special Agent Maggie Bell is back after taking time off to recover from being exposed to a near fatal gassing. She looks healed from the ordeal but she may be dealing with some mental and emotional scarring. How will it impact her relationship with her long time partner Zidan? FBI Most Wanted lost a couple of agents last year as Jess LaCroix was killed in the line of duty and Ivan Ortiz transferred. I am excited though for their replacements played by Dylan McDermott and Edwin Hodge. 

Wednesday:

What Am I Watching? 

Chicago Wednesdays-- 

Season 7 of Med picks up with a fire moving through Dr. Halstead's building. Will everyone escape? Maggie deals with the fall out of meeting Vanessa's birth father. Doctor's Marcel, Choi, and Archer will deal with the fire's survivors. 

Fire enters it's 10th season exactly where it left us last season with some baddies targeting Kelly and Kidd while they are at a cabin for their honeymoon. And with Casey leaving permanently last season, where does it leave Sylvie?

P.D. enters season 9 two weeks after the shooting that killed Anna. How Voight and Upton deal with the effects of that will be on display. We also know that Jesse Lee Soffer who plays Detective Jay Halstead and is Hailey Upton's hubby is now leaving the series. I am super curious as to who that will play out. He's been a part of the series since day one. 

Reba joins Big Sky, Oh My! 

Big Sky writes it's third chapter on ABC and this one is titled "Deadly Trails". It premieres 9.21 on ABC @ 10pm. Lots of new people becoming intertwined with Jenny and Cassie this season. Jensen Ackles is back as Sheriff Beau Arlen, Reba McEntire joins as Sunny Barnes, and Henry Ian Cusick (Lost), Luke Mitchell, Seth Gabel, and Rosanna Arquette are also checking in to Big Sky. The show creator promise lots of twists and turns and reminds us that anyone can die on the series.