Fall 2019 TV Survey: 40 Most Anticipated Returning Shows

Starring: Carson Daly, Gwen Stefani, John Legend, Blake Shelton

Starring: Oliver Platt, S. Epatha Merkerson, Nick Gehlfuss, Yaya DaCosta

Starring: Randall Park, Constance Wu, Hudson Yang, Forrest Wheeler

Critics Consensus: Penn Badgley's perversely endearing serial stalker keeps looking for love in all the wrong places during a second season that maintains the subversive tension while adding some welcome variations on the series' formula.

Starring: Penn Badgley, Victoria Pedretti, James Scully, Jenna Ortega

Starring: Jesse Spencer, Taylor Kinney, Eamonn Walker, David Eigenberg

Critics Consensus: By focusing on its strong ensemble and the character moments fans have come to love, Runaways ends its three season run on an exciting -- and surprisingly introspective -- high note.

Starring: Rhenzy Feliz, Lyrica Okano, Virginia Gardner, Ariela Barer

Starring: K.J. Apa, Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes, Cole Sprouse

Starring: John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, Alicia Goranson, Sara Gilbert

Starring: Missy Peregrym, Zeeko Zaki, Ebonée Noel, Jeremy Sisto

Critics Consensus: Smart and thrilling as ever, The Expanse's fourth season doesn't miss a beat, successfully navigating network changes without losing any of its rich character work or narrative complexities.

Starring: Steven Strait, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Dominique Tipper, Cas Anvar

Starring: Ellen Pompeo, Justin Chambers, Chandra Wilson, James Pickens Jr.

Starring: William H. Macy, Jeremy Allen White, Ethan Cutkosky, Shanola Hampton

Starring: Viola Davis, Billy Brown, Jack Falahee, Aja Naomi King

Starring: Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Yara Shahidi, Marcus Scribner

Starring: Nick Cannon, Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger

Critics Consensus: The Man in the High Castle finds something close to closure, wrapping up major threads to bring everything full circle in sufficiently dramatic fashion.

Starring: Alexa Davalos, Joel de la Fuente, Rufus Sewell, Brennan Brown

Starring: Ryan Eggold, Freema Agyeman, Janet Montgomery, Jocko Sims

Starring: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Alexander Calvert

Critics Consensus: As visually spectacular as ever, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel's witty banter flies with comedic fury -- but shallow social commentary and wandering storylines highlight the show's increasingly superficial tendencies.

Starring: Rachel Brosnahan, Michael Zegen, Alex Borstein, Tony Shalhoub

Starring: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Mona Marshall, April Stewart

Starring: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith

Starring: Angela Bassett, Peter Krause, Oliver Stark, Aisha Hinds

Critics Consensus: Though the strangeness of reality threatens to one-up it, Silicon Valley's final season is funny, fearless, and still playing by its own rules to the very end.

Starring: Thomas Middleditch, Zach Woods, Kumail Nanjiani, Martin Starr

Starring: James Spader, Megan Boone, Diego Klattenhoff, Amir Arison

Starring: Nathan Fillion, Alyssa Diaz, Mekia Cox, Richard T. Jones

Starring: Mariska Hargitay, Ice-T, Kelli Giddish, Peter Scanavino

Critics Consensus: Always Sunny's provocative humor has lost some bite, but the patrons of Paddy's Pub ought to be pleased by the Gang's inability to cope with modernity -- and each other.

Starring: Danny DeVito, Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Kaitlin Olson

Starring: Freddie Highmore, Antonia Thomas, Nicholas Gonzalez, Hill Harper

Critics Consensus: Oliver Queen's final adventure hits emotional peaks while spearheading the game-changing "Crisis on Infinite Earths," giving the Emerald Archer a rousing sendoff.

Starring: Stephen Amell, David Ramsey, Emily Bett Rickards, Echo Kellum

Starring: Mark Harmon, Sean Murray, Emily Wickersham, Wilmer Valderrama

Critics Consensus: Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland hit pause on serialized storytelling to focus primarily on self-contained exploits, which hit far more often than they miss in this uproariously funny season.

Starring: Justin Roiland, Sarah Chalke, Spencer Grammer, Chris Parnell

Critics Consensus: Jack Ryan's second season is both more refined and more predictable, doubling down on its espionage set-pieces while toning down its titular character's moral complexities to create a more straight-forward spy show.

Starring: John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, Noomi Rapace, Michael Kelly

Critics Consensus: Olivia Colman shines, but as The Crown marches on in reliably luxurious fashion through time it finds space for the characters around her, providing ample opportunity for the appealing ensemble to gleam, too.

Starring: Olivia Colman, Tobias Menzies, Helena Bonham Carter, Jason Watkins

Starring: Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Danielle Panabaker, Carlos Valdes

Critics Consensus: A few changes in front of and behind the camera allow TWD create space for compelling new stories and some seriously scary new adversaries.

Starring: Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Danai Gurira, Lauren Cohan

Critics Consensus: A heartfelt goodbye that leaves the door open, Modern Family's final season is a touching tribute to the show and a fitting enough farewell to one of TVs favorite families.

Starring: Ed O'Neill, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Sofía Vergara

Critics Consensus: This Is Us reaffirms that it is more than just a mystery box in its fourth season, pressing on with some of its most central questions answered -- but its emotional power intact.

Starring: Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz

Critics Consensus: A wild philosophical ride to the very end, The Good Place brings it home with a forking good final season.

Starring: Kristen Bell, Ted Danson, William Jackson Harper, Jameela Jamil

Critics Consensus: Mindhunter expands its narrative horizons without losing sight of the details that made its first season so rich, crafting a chilling second season that is as unsettling as it is utterly absorbing.

Starring: Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, Anna Torv, Joe Tuttle

Critics Consensus: A near-perfect blend of slasher tropes and American Horror Story's trademark twists, 1984 is a bloody good time.

Starring: Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd, Leslie Grossman, Cody Fern