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THE WEEK AHEAD: September 24-30, 2018

Premiere Week is here! Here's a look at this busy week on TV!

ABC
ABC really only has three days of premiere lineups as their Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday lineups are not premiering this week. ABC has seven new shows this fall, but only two premiere this week.. Comedy Single Parents and heavily promoted drama A Million Little Things will both premiere on Wednesday night. Elsewhere, Dancing with the Stars gets a two night premiere while Grey's Anatomy has a two hour premiere. Perhaps the most interesting show to watch besides the newbies will be The Good Doctor, which was hot out of the gate last season and will be looking to avoid a sophomore slump.

 MONDAY
8:00 Dancing with the Stars (Edition Premiere)
10:00 The Good Doctor (Season Premiere)

TUESDAY
8:00 Dancing with the Stars
10:00 20/20: The Real Rookies (Special)

WEDNESDAY
8:00 The Goldbergs (Season Premiere)
8:30 American Housewife (Season Premiere)
9:00 Modern Family (Season Premiere)
9:30 Single Parents (SERIES PREMIERE)
10:00 A Million Little Things (SERIES PREMIERE)

THURSDAY
8:00 Grey's Anatomy (Season Premiere)
10:00 How to Get Away with Murder (Season Premiere)

FRIDAY
8:00 Truth & Lies: Johnstown - Paradise Lost (Special)
10:00 20/20

SATURDAY
8:00 College Football

SUNDAY
7:00 America's Funniest Home Videos (Repeat)
8:00 Movie: Frozen
10:00 Shark Tank (Repeat)

CBS
CBS has four of its six new series premiering this week. On Monday, Magnum P.I. will get a premiere following a special Monday night hour of The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon. Tuesday has FBI which will have to go against This is Us. Thursday has the revival of Murphy Brown, which has gotten perhaps the most promotion of any new show on the broadcast networks this fall. Sunday has God Friended Me on an NFL-infused night. Elsewhere, Bull airs after Magnum on its new night and time and Wednesday has the usual premiere week combo of Survivor's premiere and Big Brother's finale.

 MONDAY
8:00 The Big Bang Theory (Season Premiere)
8:30 Young Sheldon (Season Premiere)
9:00 Magnum P.I. (SERIES PREMIERE)
10:00 Bull (Season Premiere)

TUESDAY
8:00 NCIS (Season Premiere)
9:00 FBI (SERIES PREMIERE)
10:00 NCIS: New Orleans (Season Premiere)

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Survivor (Edition Premiere)
9:30 Big Brother (Season Finale)

THURSDAY
8:00 The Big Bang Theory
8:30 Young Sheldon
9:00 Mom (Season Premiere)
9:30 Murphy Brown (SERIES PREMIERE)
10:00 S.W.A.T. (Season Premiere)

FRIDAY
8:00 MacGyver (Season Premiere)
9:00 Hawaii Five-0 (Season Premiere)
10:00 Blue Bloods (Season Premiere)

SATURDAY
8:00 Magnum P.I. (Repeat)
9:00 48 Hours (Season Premiere)

SUNDAY
7:00 NFL Overrun
7:30 60 Minutes
8:30 God Friended Me (SERIES PREMIERE)
9:30 NCIS: Los Angeles (Repeat)
10:00 FBI (Repeat)

NBC
NBC is fully premiering their first three nights of the week, but only partway premiering Thursday while holding off Friday for a couple weeks. Both their drama newbies premiere at the beginning of the week and both have gotten a lot of promotion. Manifest follows the premiere of The Voice on Mondays while New Amsterdam follows the heavily hyped return of This is Us on Tuesday. Speaking of heavy hype, their all-Chicago night premieres on Wednesday. It will be interesting to see how they impact each other by airing together. Thursday has a one hour The Good Place and two hour Law & Order: SVU while the other comedies will wait until next week.

 MONDAY
8:00 The Voice (Edition Premiere)
10:00 Manifest (SERIES PREMIERE)

TUESDAY
8:00 The Voice
9:00 This is Us (Season Premiere)
10:00 New Amsterdam (SERIES PREMIERE)

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Chicago Med (Season Premiere)
9:00 Chicago Fire (Season Premiere)
10:00 Chicago PD (Season Premiere)

THURSDAY
8:00 The Good Place (Season Premiere)
9:00 Law & Order: SVU (Season Premiere)

FRIDAY
8:00 Manifest (Repeat)
9:00 New Amsterdam (Repeat)
10:00 Dateline NBC

SATURDAY
8:00 College Football

SUNDAY
7:00 Football Night in America
8:30 Sunday Night Football: Baltimore at Pittsburgh

FOX
FOX's entire lineup is showing up during premiere week, the only network that isn't holding any shows. There are drama season premieres the first three nights (9-1-1 had its season premiere last night and will continue tonight). Friday has the heavily promoted return of Last Man Standing and series premiere of The Cool Kids while Sunday has the return of the animated lineup and timeslot premiere of Rel. It could be a rough week for FOX, but a good performance by Last Man will help matters.

 MONDAY
8:00 The Resident (Season Premiere)
9:00 9-1-1

TUESDAY
8:00 The Gifted (Season Premiere)
9:00 Lethal Weapon (Season Premiere)

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Empire (Season Premiere)
9:00 Star (Season Premiere)

THURSDAY
8:00 Thursday Night Football: Minnesota at LA Rams

FRIDAY
8:00 Last Man Standing (Season Premiere)
8:30 The Cool Kids (SERIES PREMIERE)
9:00 Hell's Kitchen (Season Premiere)

SATURDAY
8:00 College Football

SUNDAY
7:00 The Simpsons (Repeat)
7:30 Bob's Burgers (Repeat)
8:00 The Simpsons (Season Premiere)
8:30 Bob's Burgers (Season Premiere)
9:00 Family Guy (Season Premiere)
9:30 Rel

CW
As usual, the CW remains in summer mode for a couple more weeks with their lineup not coming until October.

 MONDAY
8:00 Penn & Teller: Fool Us
9:00 Whose Line is it Anyway?
9:30 Whose Line is it Anyway? (Repeat)

TUESDAY
8:00 The Flash (Repeat)
9:00 The Outpost

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Burden of Truth
9:00 Supergirl (Repeat)

THURSDAY
8:00 Supernatural (Repeat)
9:00 The Originals (Repeat)

FRIDAY
8:00 Masters of Illusion
8:30 Masters of Illusion (Repeat)
9:00 Penn & Teller: Fool Us (Repeat)

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