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THE WEEK AHEAD: September 23-29, 2019

Welcome to Premiere Week! Here's a look at this week on TV, a week where the big four are premiering almost everything. It's less staggered than it is some other years, we'll see how that works out for them.

ABC
ABC's lineup is fully premiering this week except for Sunday 8pm where the season finale of Celebrity Family Feud will air ahead of next week's premiere of Kids Say the Darndest Things. Most interesting to watch ill be how the two new dramas, Emergence and Stumptown, do in difficult slots as well as how things go for the return of A Million Little Things, which had a little momentum but ended its first season way back in February.

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

TUESDAY
8:00 The Conners (Season Premiere)
8:30 Bless This Mess (Season Premiere)
9:00 Mixed-ish (SERIES PREMIERE)
9:30 Black-ish (Season Premiere)
10:00 Emergence (SERIES PREMIERE)

WEDNESDAY
8:00 The Goldbergs (Season Premiere)
8:30 Schooled (Season Premiere)
9:00 Modern Family (Season Premiere)
9:30 Single Parents (Season Premiere)
10:00 Stumptown (SERIES PREMIERE)

THURSDAY
8:00 Grey's Anatomy (Season Premiere)
9:00 A Million Little Things (Season Premiere)
10:00 How to Get Away with Murder (Season Premiere)

FRIDAY
8:00 American Housewife (Season Premiere)
8:30 Fresh Off the Boat (Season Premiere)
9:00 20/20

SATURDAY
8:00 College Football

SUNDAY
7:00 America's Funniest Home Videos (Season Premiere)
8:00 Celebrity Family Feud (Season Finale)
9:00 Shark Tank (Season Premiere)
10:00 The Rookie (Season Premiere)

CBS
CBS is also filled with premieres. The only nights not completely unveiling all their shows are Wednesday and Sunday. On Wednesday, CBS will go with its usual Survivor premiere/Big Brother finale combo and wait a week on their Wednesday dramas. On Sunday, with the lineup pushed back at least half an hour due to football, they will wait on premiering the final season of Madam Secretary.

 MONDAY
8:00 The Neighborhood (Season Premiere)
8:30 Bob Hearts Abishola (SERIES PREMIERE)
9:00 All Rise (SERIES PREMIERE)
10:00 Bull (Season Premiere)

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

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

THURSDAY
8:00 Young Sheldon (Season Premiere)
8:30 The Unicorn (SERIES PREMIERE)
9:00 Mom (Season Premiere)
9:30 Carol's Second Act (SERIES PREMIERE)
10:00 Evil (SERIES PREMIERE)

FRIDAY
8:00 Hawaii Five-0 (Season Premiere)
9:00 Magnum P.I. (Season Premiere)
10:00 Blue Bloods (Season Premiere)

SATURDAY
8:00 TBA
10:00 48 Hours

SUNDAY
7:00 NFL Overrun
7:30 60 Minutes
8:30 God Friended Me (Season Premiere)
9:30 NCIS: Los Angeles (Season Premiere)
10:30 TBA

NBC
Just like the other networks, NBC's lineup is almost all here for Premiere Week except for The Blacklist, which will wait so a repeat of Bluff City Law can air. The three new shows ratings will be interesting to watch and it will also be interesting to see how This is Us can do to start off season four. Will it still be a big hit or will we start to see declines?

 MONDAY
8:00 The Voice (Edition Premiere)
10:00 Bluff City Law (SERIES PREMIERE)

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

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

THURSDAY
8:00 Superstore (Season Premiere)
8:30 Perfect Harmony (SERIES PREMIERE)
9:00 The Good Place (Season Premiere)
9:30 Sunnyside (SERIES PREMIERE)
10:00 Law & Order: SVU (Season Premiere)

FRIDAY
8:00 Bluff City Law (Repeat)
9:00 Dateline NBC

SATURDAY
8:00 The Voice (Repeat)
9:00 Dateline NBC
10:00 Saturday Night Live (Repeat)

SUNDAY
7:00 Football Night in America
8:30 Sunday Night Football: Dallas at New Orleans

FOX
FOX's new lineup is almost in tact. Do I sound like a broken record? This week will have a two hour premiere of The Masked Singer, pushing off the series premiere of Almost Family for a week. The only two new shows are Prodigal Son and Bless the Harts. Harts has to air without FOX having the late NFL window, I'm a little surprised FOX didn't wait on that.

 MONDAY
8:00 9-1-1 (Season Premiere)
9:00 Prodigal Son (SERIES PREMIERE)

TUESDAY
8:00 The Resident (Season Premiere)
9:00 Empire (Season Premiere)

WEDNESDAY
8:00 The Masked Singer (Season Premiere)

THURSDAY
8:00 Thursday Night Football: Philadelphia at Green Bay

FRIDAY
8:00 WWE Smackdown's Greatest Hits (Special)
9:00 Prodigal Son (Repeat)

SATURDAY
8:00 MLB Baseball

SUNDAY
7:00 The Simpsons (Repeat)
7:30 Bob's Burgers (Repeat)
8:00 The Simpsons (Season Premiere)
8:30 Bless the Harts (SERIES PREMIERE)
9:00 Bob's Burgers (Season Premiere)
9:30 Family Guy (Season Premiere)

CW
The CW is still in summer mode for a couple weeks so none of their fall shows are starting yet.

 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 Pandora
9:00 Mysteries Decoded

WEDNESDAY
8:00 Penn & Teller: Fool Us (Repeat)
9:00 Hypnotize Me

THURSDAY
8:00 The Outpost
9:00 The Outpost (Season Finale)

FRIDAY
8:00 Masters of Illusion (Season Finale)
8:30 The Big Stage (Season Finale)
9:00 Peaking
9:30 Peaking

SUNDAY
8:00 iHeartRadio Music Festival Greatest Moments (Special)
9:00 Mysteries Decoded

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