The countdown has begun! To find out when your favorite shows return this fall (or when new confections like 2 Broke Girls or Pan Am begin), keep this chart handy. The new season (at least according to Nielsen) officially begins on Sept. 19, but several shows are firing up earlier.
This doesn’t include midseason starts, people.
| MONDAY | ||||||
| Time | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
| CBS | How I Met Your Mother (9/19) | 2 Broke Girls (9/19) | Two and a Half Men (9/19) | Mike & Molly (9/26) | Hawaii Five-O (9/19) | |
| NBC | The Sing-Off (9/19) | The Playboy Club (9/19) | ||||
| FOX | Terra Nova (9/26) | House (10/3) | ||||
| ABC | Dancing with the Stars (9/19) | Castle (9/19) | ||||
| CW | Gossip Girl (9/26) | Hart of Dixie (9/26) | ||||
| TUESDAY | ||||||
| Time | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
| CBS | NCIS (9/20) | NCIS: Los Angeles (9/20) | Unforgettable (9/20) | |||
| NBC | The Biggest Loser (9/20) | Parenthood (9/13) | ||||
| FOX | Glee (9/20) | New Girl (9/20) | Raising Hope (9/20) | |||
| ABC | Last Man Standing (10/11) | Man Up! (10/18) | Dancing with the Stars (9/20) | Body of Proof (9/20) | ||
| CW | 90210 (9/13) | Ringer (9/13) | ||||
| WEDNESDAY | ||||||
| Time | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
| CBS | Survivor: South Pacific (9/14) | Criminal Minds (9/21) | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (9/21) | |||
| NBC | Up All Night (9/14) | Free Agents (9/14) | Harry’s Law (9/21) | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (9/21) | ||
| FOX | The X-Factor (9/21) | I Hate My Teenage Daughter (11/23) | ||||
| ABC | The Middle (9/21) | Suburgatory (9/28) | Modern Family (9/21) | Happy Endings (9/28) | Revenge (9/21) | |
| CW | H8R (9/14) | America’s Next Top Model (9/14) | ||||
| THURSDAY | ||||||
| Time | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
| CBS | The Big Bang Theory (9/22) | How to Be a Gentleman (9/29) | Person of Interest (9/22) | The Mentalist (9/22) | ||
| NBC | Community (9/22) | Parks and Recreation (9/22) | The Office (9/22) | Whitney (9/22) | Prime Suspect (9/22) | |
| FOX | The X-Factor results show (11/3) |
Bones (11/3) | ||||
| ABC | Charlies Angels (9/22) | Grey’s Anatomy (9/22) | Private Practice (9/29) | |||
| CW | The Vampire Diaries (9/15) | The Secret Circle (9/15) | ||||
| FRIDAY | ||||||
| Time | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
| CBS | A Gifted Man (9/23) | CSI: NY (9/23) | Blue Bloods (9/23) | |||
| NBC | Chuck (10/21) | Grimm (10/21) | Dateline (9/23) | |||
| FOX | Kitchen Nightmares (9/23) | Fringe (9/23) | ||||
| ABC | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (9/25) | Shark Tank (TBA) | 20/20 (9/16) | |||
| CW | Nikita (9/23) | Supernatural (9/23) | ||||
| SATURDAY | ||||||
| Time | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
| CBS | Rules of Engagement (9/24) | Comedytime Saturday | Crimetime Saturday | 48 Hours Mystery (9/24) | ||
| NBC | Encore Programming | |||||
| FOX | Cops (9/10) | Encore Programming | ||||
| ABC | Saturday Night Football (9/3) | |||||
| SUNDAY | ||||||
| Time | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
| CBS | 60 Minutes (9/25)/ The Amazing Race (9/25) | The Good Wife (9/25) | CSI: Miami (9/25) | |||
| NBC | Football Night in America (9/11) |
NBC Sunday Night Football (9/11) | ||||
| FOX | The Simpsons (9/25) | Allen Gregory (10/30) | Family Guy (9/25) | American Dad (9/25) | ||
| ABC | America’s Funniest Home Videos (10/2)/ Once Upon a Time (10/23) |
Desperate Housewives (9/25) | Pan Am (9/25) | |||
| KEY: ABC: PINK | CBS: BLUE | FOX: ORANGE | NBC: GREEN | CW: PURPLE Note: New shows highlighted in red | NT: New Time Slot | ||||||
30 Rock?!?!?!?!?!
Oooh, that better be a typo NBC or I’m coming after ya!
It’s not coming back until midseason.
When is AWAKE coming on NBC – that at least seems like a unique premise
30 Rock is one of the only good shows on tv like Fringe.NBC should keep it for as long as Tina Fey will make it.
Tina Fey’s pregnancy and maturnity-leave pushed the show to a mid-season premiere date.
30 rock and COUGARTOWN???!!?!??!?!!?
I hope the addition of “New Girl” cancels out what appears to a lapse in judgement by Fox airing a show called “I Hate My Teenage Daughter.”
Who DOESN’T hate their teenage daughter (if you find someone who doesn’t, get me the name of their medication!!!)
TheReado01 on September 28, 2010 push ups where wank,can almost feel my back hinutrg on those dead lifts for him. sloppy rest of the way..but then i guess hes not even broken sweat from what i can see very fit though, hard to judge.
Women are idiots. Especially teenage women. Easy to hate those shrill, catty, narcissistic morons.
You seriously did not just type those words? Idiot is too kind a word for you.
Skye = troll
a teenager would be a girl not a woman
Lucy, 18 and 19 year-old females are women.
oooohhh well said! I second that emotion!
I hated my teenage daughter with the fury of a thousand
I hated my teenage daughter with the fury of a thousand suns!!
How can both 60 Minutes and The Amazing Race be premiering on 9/25 on CBS from 8:00-9:00pm?
Football usually pushes 60 Minutes back, so half the time it airs past 8:30 and Amazing Race airs right after.
60 Minutes airs at 7pm, but this grid wasn’t set up to place them there.
30 Rock is premiering later in the year because of Tina Fey’s pregnancy.
Monday
Terra Novas
Watch online: , HIMYM, 2 Broke Girls, Two and a…. and Mike & Molly. Gonna watch the Sheen Roast online later
Tuesday
Check out ABC and Fox’s new comedies + Raising Hope
Wednesday
I like comedy, Up All Night at 8:00 with Arnett and Applegate and Suburgatory at 8:30 looks good. Looking forward to the returns of MF, Happy Endings and I watch “I hate my teenage” later on.
Thursday
Holy frak, lot’s of shows!
TBBT. Community, Parks & Rec Persons of…, Office, new Whitney.
Friday
Chuck, probably.
Saturday
Rules oF Engagemant (underrated) + the rerun block CBS is putting ut.
Sunday
Simpson, FG, AD and Pan AM
thanks for sharing
GO AWAY ERIN!
Who CARES????
ITA on Rules of…
I LOVE Happy Endings but I hate the fact that Cougar Town isn’t in regular rotation. The Cul de sac crew gets no love.
The shows who’s premerie ratings will be “swagtastic”.
Two and Half Men, people want to see how or IF the show can surivive without the motherload aka Charlie Sheen.
Glee, its the last season for Lea Michele, Cory Montieth and Chris Colfer and others I presume (I must admit its kinda weird saying its Lea Michele and Co. last season) and hard core fans and former ones will probally tune in to see the characters they fell in “love” with say farewell. Fans alike will also be interested to see all the changes happening to Glee in preparation for graduation. And the big question: Will Rachel stay in Ohio with Finn or head to the Big Apple? Although, that seems like an obvious choice, it IS Glee, expect the unexpected.
House, everyone wants to see if House can get back to basis and what the show will be like post the Cuddy/Huddy era. Can us fans adjust to a new Dean? Well, since we had to sit through Huddy, we can surivive Armaggedon. Hopefully, this will be Dr. Houses last season, and the show can go out semi- on top.
Desperate Housewives, its the last season for the old hags and old fans will return to see the old cast off. Ta ta, Marcia Cross and Felicity Huffman (good luck finding work is Hollywood even though, your’re totally credible)
The New Girl? Maybe, I hope this show last. Deja Vu, how cool would it be to have both Deschannel sisters on shows on FOX. This would be Heaven, if it was aby other newtwork besides FIX, we know how they ruin every show.
Lastly, XFactor. Simon + Paula, need I say more?
The 3 actors on ‘Glee’ are not getting fired, they are graduating on the show and will probly have strories of how hard it is to get into show biz [maybe not]
So now when a woman is in her late 40s she is an old hag? Hopefully you die before then so you wont have to deal with the “shame”
where’s Cougar Town?!
MIDSEASON!!
oh okay, thanks
What does “midseason” mean exactly? January? I’m actually curious about Awake, not Cougar Town, but both are coming back midseason and I don’t know when to look for them.
@justjack Midseason shows usually premiere around January-March. They replace shows that are cancelled in the Fall or short season shows.
Why does ABC keep messing with Cougar Town? We had to endure that extended hiatus in the winter for Mr Sunshine, and now they’re holding it til midseason this year? This is just going to lose more viewers.
can we get a printer friendly version please?
maybe you need a new computer from this century…..looked fine to me!
Tuesday: where television goes to die.
That would be Wednesday in our house.
Although I’ll certainly choose “Glee”, it was a very bad ratings move by CW to put “90210″ against it on Tuesdays
My thoughts exactly. Its not even like 90210 has good ratings as it is. Putting it against Glee on Tuesday, is show suicide.
I Agree… But my choice is 90210 after Glee became a mess!!!
I agree 90210 isn’t that good. But they killed glee!
I’ll watch “90210″ because it’s my favorite guilty pleasure, I love it!!! Glee is meh.
9-22-11. Charlie’s Angels, Person of Interest and The Mentalist. ABC and NBC better turn things around, CBS will ruin the year ’cause of Ashton Kutcher.
Tuesday- NCIS AND NCIS LA
Wednesday Criminal mind
Other then those two All the other show dont matter
Thanks, dad
These “Old Geezer CBS shows” have some of the highest ratings on TV, so either that tired cliche is false, or we old folks seriously outnumber you young whippersnappers….watch out.
Of course old folks outnumber the young. Young people don’t watch TV ; that’s a problem. They watch TV on the Internet, rarely live. Even on the CW the age of the live viewers is incredibly older than you’d think.
Glad I don’t have to choose between The Good Wife and Parenthood on Tuesdays anymore (TGW always won–then watched Parenthood on DVR). But overall, I’m not excited about this schedule at all. Too few quality shows.
nbc’s schedule looks unbearably boring. I love how the change in leaderag is like rearranging deck chaira on the titanic. None of the new shows appeal to me… Maybe pan am but they will probably focus more on the sex than the travel and ill check out… Also really dont like christina ricci. Wheres alcatraz?
Alcatraz will be midseason at 9pm on Monday.