Winter 2016 TV Preview
Winter is coming. Well, winter is here, but the new winter TV shows are coming. So if you wanna bundle up and stay in, we have a rundown of the new TV shows, including where and when to find them.
Network: Fox
Premiere: Jan 3, 8:30pm
Cooper Barrett (Jack Cutmore-Scott) has a knack for making mistakes in this new action-adventure comedy about what it means to survive your twenties.
Network: Fox
Premiere: Jan 3, 9:30pm
From Family Guy‘s Mark Hentemann comes Bordertown, a satirical look at the cross cultural divide and the friendship that ensues between two families in a small desert town on the U.S. Border.
Network: NBC
Premiere: Jan 4, 8:30pm
Eva Longoria’s Ana Sofia is the star of a Spanish-language soap opera who doesn’t speak Spanish. The main problem? There’s more soap opera off camera than on in this new comedy of errors.
Network: MTV
Premiere: Jan 5
Adapted from Terry Brooks’ best-selling fantasy books, this Jon Favreau-produced series tells the tale of three teens on an epic journey.
Network: CBS
Premiere: Jan 7, 9pm
Allison (Maggie Lawson) isn’t sure if her new friend Amy (Jane Lynch) is her guardian angel or a crazy person in this new half-hour comedy.
Network: NBC
Premiere: Jan 7, 10pm
Harlee (Jennifer Lopez) must navigate her loyalty to her family in uniform (Ray Liotta) and her daughter when she is forced to be an informant for the FBI’s anticorruption task force.
Network: Freeform (Formerly ABC Family)
Premiere: Jan 12, 9pm
Based on the best selling YA fantasy book series The Mortal Instruments, Clary discovers her lineage to a long line of shadow hunters (human-angel hybrids who are tasked with hunting down demons) and embarks on a new life path full of fairies, warlocks, vampires, and werewolves.
Network: TV Land
Premiere: Jan 13, 11pm
Alison Brie executive produces this new comedy based on the webseries created by improv group, Katydids, who portray six elementary school teachers that struggle in their own lives while trying to enhance the lives of their students.
Network: Fox
Premiere: Jan 13, 9pm
With a Mary Shelly touch, Fox’s modern resurrection tale centers on a corrupt cop, Jimmy Pritchard, who is given a second chance at life when a billionaire and bioengineer bring him back from the dead.
Network: USA
Premiere: Jan 14, 10pm
Josh Holloway and Sarah Callies struggle to stay alive and together in a near-future Los Angeles occupied by an oppressive outside force, where many are forced to decide whether they will colloborate or resist.
Network: Comedy Central
Premiere: Jan 14, 10:30pm
Gene (Workaholics‘ Jillian Bell) is a rich, spoiled wild-child who strikes up an unlikely friendship with the straight-laced nanny her family hired to look after her.
Network: HBO
Premiere: Jan 16, 9am
Given a fresh and fun make-over, the engaging children’s educational series promises to keep the best of the old at its new home on HBO.
Network: Showtime
Premiere: Jan 17, 10pm
Centered on its revered stars Damien Lewis and Paul Giamatti, the new Showtime series is a tangled tale of the ascendancy in New York’s exclusive high finance world and the U.S. Attorney who goes after its ruling class.
Network: PBS
Premiere: Jan 17, 10pm
Inspired by real life memoirs and letters at the time, this Civil War drama produced by Ridley Scott focuses not only the battlefield but on the lives of two nurses on opposite sides of the conflict whilst serving side by side at Mansion House Hospital.
Network: TBS
Premiere: Jan 17, 9pm
Co-created and executive produced by Steve and Nancy Carell, Angie Tribeca spoofs crime procedurals a la Naked Gun, with Rashida Jones leading an all-star comedic cast.
Network: BBC/A&E/Lifetime/History
Premiere: Jan 18, 9pm
Tolstoy’s epic novel comes to life as the aristocratic families of Tsarist Russia see their world changed by the Napoleanic wars. This six-hour miniseries will air on the BBC, A&E, Lifetime and the History Channel.
Network: BBC America
Premiere: Jan 21, 10pm
Espionage, intrigue, love, despair — this new 5-part mystery boasts an all star cast (Ben Wishaw, Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling) and a compelling story of love lost and a dangerous search for truth.
Network: FX
Premiere: Jan 21, 10pm
Zack Galifianakis stars as Baskets, a dreamer who flunks out of an elite Parisian clown college and soon finds himself back in his hometown of Bakersfield working as a rodeo clown.
Network: Showtime
Premiere: Jan 21, 11pm
This eight-part documentary series delves into the deep, dark recesses of the internet.
Network: CW
Premiere: Jan 21, 8pm
This spin-off of Arrow and The Flash follows Rip Flash as he travels to the past (which is our present day), where he’ll assemble a team of heroes that must save the world.
Network: Netflix
Premiere: Jan 23
With her matchless voice and spiritous ways, Chelsea Handler digs deep in this four-part documentary series exploring a range of topics that are anything but easy to talk about. Her humor aims to get us there.
Network: ITV/Esquire
Premiere: Jan 23, 10pm
The epic story of troubled warrior Beowulf receives a grittier incarnation in Esquire’s second scripted series.
Network: Fox
Premiere: Jan 24, 10pm
Mulder and Scully are back to face down all things that go bump in the night in this six-episode miniseries reprise of their hit 90s show. The truth is still out there.
Network: SyFy
Premiere: Jan 25, 10pm
Based on Lev Grossman’s popular book series, a gifted grad student enters the world of Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, a secret New York university specializing in magic.
Network: FOX
Premiere: Jan 25, 9pm
Lucifer is bored of ruling hell. He heads to L.A. to run a luxury nightclub when a twinge of — could it be — conscience, moves him to help the LAPD catch bad guys.
Network: Freeform (Formerly ABC Family)
Premiere: Jan 25, 9pm
A young girl moves into a sober living facility where she must deal with the troubles of teenage life as she confronts her addiction.
Network: WGN
Premiere: Jan 26, 9pm
David Morse stars at the patriarch of the Farrell Clan, a family that has occupied the top of Shay Mountain for 200 years and must stand down against anyone who threatens their renegade way of life.
Network: Fox
Premiere: Jan 31, 7pm
Class is back in session at Rydell High, as a cast of young stars including Julianne Hough, Vanessa Hudgens, and Keke Palmer take the stage in this one-night-only LIVE performance of the musical hit.
Network: FX
Premiere: Feb 2, 10pm
FX’s new limited series takes us behind the scenes of the notorious O.J. Simpson murder trial.
Network: ABC
Premiere: Feb 3, 8pm
Richard Dreyfuss stars as Bernie Madoff, the man who pulled off one of the largest financial scams in U.S. history.
Network: HBO
Premiere: Feb 5, 11:30pm
This animated adult comedy from the Duplass brothers follows the trials and troubles of New York’s animals.
Network: Comedy Central
Premiere: Feb 9, 10:30pm
Part panel discussion, part social experiment, Not Safe w/ Nikki Glaser is place where comics can go discuss sex.
Network: True TV
Premiere: Feb 11, 10:30pm
TruTV’s first scripted comedy follows three trouble-making teachers just trying to make it through the school day.
Network: HBO
Premiere: Feb 14, 9pm
Bobby Canavale stars as a struggling music mogul trying to keep his company afloat in this drama from Martin Scorcese and Mick Jagger.
Network: Hulu
Premiere: Feb 15
James Franco journeys to the past in order to prevent JFK’s assassination in this star-studded eight-part series from JJ Abrams and Stephen King.
Network: Netflix
Premiere: Feb 26
DJ Tanner is all grown up and raising kids of her own, but like her father before her, she’ll need a little help from her friends.
Network: CBS
Premiere: Mar 2, 10pm
Criminal Minds sets its sights internationally this time around, and Gary Sinise is there to heed the call as the chief of an FBI unit tasked with helping citizens in predicaments abroad.
Network: ABC
Premiere: Mar 3, 9pm
Former Shondaland writer Jenna Bans’ new series packs a dramatic one-two punch, starring Joan Allen as a mayor with fierce political ambitions whose presumably dead son reappears and causes an upsurge of intrigue.
Network: ABC
Premiere: Mar 8, 10pm
Saul, David, their families and political rivals are at the center of this drama based on the biblical books of Samuel.
Network: ABC
Premiere: Mar 8, 8:30pm
Executive produced by Dan Savage, this new sitcom stars Martha Plimpton as the matriarch of a seemingly perfect Catholic family who must pick up the pieces after some very startling truths shake up the household.
Network: WGN
Premiere: Mar 9
Set during the bleak and barbaric existence of slavery, a group of men and women plan a brave escape from a Georgia plantation, an escape that is 600 miles long and promises them liberty.
Network: ABC
Premiere: Mar 24, 10pm
Mireille Enos (The Killing) stars in this new Shonda Rhimes thriller as an incredibly successful fraud investigator who becomes entangled in a dangerous pursuit when her fiance pulls a hustle on her.
Network: Hulu
Premiere: Mar 30
Aaron Paul returns to television in this story of a family at the center of a notorious cult.
Network: Sundance TV
Premiere: March TBD
Two best friends just can’t seem to stay out of trouble in the little town of LaBorde, Texas.
