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The Undefeated Culture Staff
The Undefeated Culture Staff
The first Golden Age of Television kicked off as America was transitioning out of radio as its primary mass entertainment — 1947-1960. Lucky Americans gathered around their TV sets to watch high-quality series and made-for-TV movies on limited channels. I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, and many more. But something was missing. Black folks.
There was the racist Amos ’n Andy in the early 1950s. And then from
Julia (1968-72) to
Room 222 (1969-74) to
Good Times (1974-79), there were peaks, certainly, and many valleys. By 1975, George and Weezie Jefferson made us all aspire to “the East Side,” and a dee-luxe apartment in the sky. NBC introduced us to the Huxtables in 1984 (a show now impossible to watch, and rarer than ever in syndication), an upper-middle-class family who just happened to be black and who proved that white America would watch shows that starred black people. But it took 30 years before the United States was introduced to its millennial counterparts, ABC’s
black-ish Johnsons.
But hello, 2016. The year in which we’re all over the dial is unlike anything seen before. In front of the camera. Creating shows. Directing. Show-running.
It’s a new day. No longer do shows that resemble black life all have to be contained on a lone page on the back of a historic micro magazine no longer in print publication. There’s diversity of blackness on television now. And it’s about time.
What follows is a roster of as many fall shows as we could come up with that feature black people, the black experience, black people on-screen, black people behind the camera, blacks being their creative, fun, dramatic, comedic, authentic selves. Please send us any shows we’re missing, and let us know about any professionals we left out. All times are Eastern Standard.
Fox
Lethal Weapon
Clayne Crawford and Damon Wayans Sr. on LETHAL WEAPON
Clayne Crawford and Damon Wayans Sr. on Lethal Weapon.
Richard Foreman/FOX
Debut season
How to watch: Wednesdays at 8 p.m. beginning Sept. 21
Featuring: Damon Wayans, Keesha Sharp, Johnathan Fernandez, Chandler Kinney, Dante Brown
An action-drama show based on the late ’80s/early ’90s film series fronted by Danny Glover and Mel Gibson as Los Angeles police detectives Murtaugh and Riggs. This time taking the lead roles are Wayans and Clayne Crawford (Rectify).
Why you should watch: While not everyone is loving it, Wayans does know how to do good TV. He helped his brother Keenan Ivory Wayans make the Fox network a go-to station for black families in the ’90s with the groundbreaking In Living Color, which made his entire family famous. In this series, he’ll integrate the funny with seriously good crime capers.
Pitch
Kylie Bunbury in the all-new series premiere episode of PITCH
Kylie Bunbury in the all-new series premiere episode of Pitch.
Tommy Garcia / FOX
Debut season
How to watch: Thursdays at 9 p.m. beginning Sept. 22
Featuring: Paris Barclay (director), Kylie Bunbury, Kelly Jenrette, Shamier Anderson
Major League Baseball is finally breaking the gender barrier — Ginny Baker is a pitching force to be reckoned with and women all over the world are ready for her to show the boys of summer how it’s done.
Why you should watch: Bunbury is a relatively fresh-faced actor who’s stepping up to the big leagues. Her entire life has prepared her for this role (dad and brother are professional soccer players, she was a high school athlete) and she’s comes across as authentic and rooted.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW: LET'S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW: LET’S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN
Miranda Penn Turin/FOX
Live production
How to watch: Oct. 20 at 8 p.m.
Featuring: Laverne Cox, Ben Vereen, Christina Milian
Forty years is a long time, and longtime fans were concerned about this remake. But as Ben Vereen (Dr. Scott) says, “I don’t believe that we’re remaking anything … this is not a remake. You cannot remake The Rocky Horror Picture Show. But you can pay tribute, and honor it. That’s what we wanted to do, and we accomplished.” Victoria Justice, Staz Nair and Adam Lambert round out the cast.
Why you should watch: Tim Curry returns (in a different role), and is into it.
Empire
EMPIRE: Pictured L-R: Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson in EMPIRE
Terrence Howard (L) and Taraji P. Henson in Empire.
Chuck Hodes/FOX
Season 3
How to watch: Wednesdays at 9 p.m. beginning Sept. 21
Featuring: Taraji P. Henson, Terrence Howard, Jussie Smollett, Trai Byers, Bryshere Y. Gray
The premiere will answer the question we’ve been pondering all summer long: WHO GOT PUSHED OFF THAT BALCONY?
Why you should watch: Henson is at her best as former inmate-turned-music-mogul Cookie Lyon. Also, Mariah Carey is on deck as a guest star, and other visitors include Taye Diggs, Birdman, Sierra McClain and French Montana.
Rosewood
ROSEWOOD
Rosewood.
Justin Stephens/FOX
Season 2
How to watch: Thursdays at 8 p.m. beginning Sept. 22
Featuring: Morris Chestnut, Lorraine Toussaint, Gabrielle Dennis, Jaina Lee Ortiz
Fresh off his starring turn in When The Bough Breaks, Chestnut returns as a private pathologist who teams up with Miami police to solve mysterious deaths. Brian Austin Green was set to join the cast, but at the last minute, Eddie Cibrian of CSI: Miami was brought on board in a “mysterious” new role. Anna Konkle and Domenick Lombardozzi are also featured.
Why you should watch: Chestnut is a consistent, steady (and sexy) actor who pushes past his heartthrob status to turn in really good work.
Scream Queens
SCREAM QUEENS
Scream Queens.
Michael Becker / FOX
Season 2
How to watch: Tuesdays at 9 p.m. beginning Sept. 20
Featuring: Keke Palmer, Niecy Nash
You can’t mention Ryan Murphy these days without mentioning The People v. O.J. Simpson: An American Crime Story, but don’t forget about Scream Queens, where Murphy indulges his campier inclinations.
Why you should watch: The show is full of winning one-liners like: “Everyone loves me: men, women, animals at the zoo, plants probably.”
New Girl
NEW GIRL
New Girl.
Ray Mickshaw/FOX
Season 6
How to watch: Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m. beginning Sept. 20
Featuring: Lamorne Morris, Damon Wayans Jr.
Elizabeth Meriwether’s half-hour comedy began as a cheerfully optimistic show following Jess (Zooey Deschanel) and her oddball roommates looking out for each other. The show has weathered some ups (the gang gets to go to a party and meet Prince) and downs (figuring out what to do with Jess and Nick), but it’s still good for a consistent laugh.
Why you should watch: Lamorne Morris’ Winston Bishop is still one of the most gloriously peculiar balls of contradictions on television these days.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
BROOKLYN NINE-NINE: L-R: Andy Samberg, Joel McKinnon Miller, Dirk Blocker, Stephanie Beatriz, Terry Crews and Andre Braugher in the "The Bureau" episode of BROOKLYN NINE-NINE airing Tuesday, April 12 (9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. ©2016 Fox Broadcasting Co. CR:
From left to right: Andy Samberg, Joel McKinnon Miller, Dirk Blocker, Stephanie Beatriz, Terry Crews and Andre Braugher in Brooklyn Nine-Nine on Fox.
John P. Fleenor/FOX
Season 4
How to watch: Tuesdays at 8 p.m. beginning Sept. 20
Featuring: Terry Crews, Andre Braugher
Last season ended with detective Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg) and captain Ray **** (Andre Braugher) forced to abandon their beloved Brooklyn for the safer, suburban confines of witness protection in Florida. How will they make their way back?
Why you should watch: Maya Rudolph and Niecy Nash drop in this season as guest stars.
ABC
Notorious
NOTORIOUS - ABC's "Notorious" stars Sepideh Moafi as Megan Byrd, Ryan Guzman as Ryan Mills, Kate Jennings Grant as Louise Herrick, Piper Perabo as Julia George, Daniel Sunjata as Jake Gregorian, Aimeé Teegarden as Ella Benjamin, J. August Richards as Bradley Gregorian and Kevin Zegers as Oscar Keaton. ()
Notorious
ABC/Bob D'Amico
Debut season
How to watch: Thursdays at 9 p.m. beginning Sept. 22
Featuring: Daniel Sunjata, Lisa Arrindell
It’s the high-stakes and manipulative world of the “nightly news” and gives us an intimate look at what’s happening behind those big, delicious high-profile court cases and crime dramas. Piper Perabo of the late, great Covert Affairs co-stars.
Why you should watch: Sunjata, a former football player known for Rescue Me and Graceland, smolders in his portrayal of attorney Jake Gregorian (built on high-profile and not black lawyer to the stars Mark Geragos), and is not afraid to cry in character. Also: The show is in the Scandal slot, and apparently “employs some How to Get Away With Scandal-esque music cues.”
Secrets and Lies
SECRETS AND LIES - ABC's "Secrets and Lies" stars Kenny Johnson as Danny Wade, Terry O’Quinn as John Warner, Mekia Cox as Amanda Warner, Juliette Lewis as Detective Cornell, Charlie Barnett as Patrick Warner, Jordana Brewster as Kate Warner and Michael Ealy as Eric Warner.
Secrets and Lies
ABC/Bob D'Amico/Craig Sjodin
Season 2
How to watch: Sundays at 9 p.m. beginning Sept. 25
Featuring: Michael Ealy, Mekia Cox, Charlie Barnett
The Secrets and Lies cast experienced a complete shakeup, save for Juliette Lewis as Detective Cornell, at the end of its 10-episode first season run. Like Fargo or American Horror Story, Secrets and Lies is a limited series, meaning it will explore new storylines and characters this season. This season, Detective Cornell is investigating the death of Kate Warner (Jordana Brewster), a newly wealthy bride. Ealy plays Warner’s husband Eric, the prime suspect in her death. Cox plays Amanda Warner Young, Eric’s protective sister who’s also a criminal attorney. Barnett is the youngest Warner sibling.
Why you should watch: Fans will be pleased to hear that we’ll be finding out more about Cornell’s secret criminal daughter as the new storyline unfolds.
black-ish
BLACK-ISH - "VIP" - Dre decides to take his family to Walt Disney World on the magical, first-class vacation experience he was never able to have as a kid. With the help of a VIP tour guide, Dre and the kids take full advantage of their VIP status. Meanwhile, Bow, Pops and Ruby set off on their own adventure at Walt Disney World, on the season three premiere of "black-ish," WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 (9:31-10:00 p.m. EDT), on the ABC Television Network.
Black-ish.
ABC/Todd Anderson
Season 3
How to watch: Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. beginning Sept. 21
Featuring: Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Daveed Diggs, created by Kenya Barris
An upwardly mobile father (Anthony Anderson) worries that his upper-middle-class kids are assimilating too much into the white world his success affords them.
Why you should watch: The show isn’t afraid to go there. Last season’s episode about black kids being gunned down was touching, poignant, and very special without being “very special.”
Quantico
QUANTICO - "Kudove" - When season two begins, Alex finds herself at "The Farm," the CIA's mysterious training facility. As Alex navigates the dark world of espionage, far different and more dangerous than what she's learned before, she's pulled into the center of a deadly conspiracy that not only threatens the lives of this country's citizens, but the lives of countless others across the globe. This conspiracy calls everyone around her into question, be it new faces from the CIA or old ones from the Bureau. Prepare yourselves for another thrilling and heart-stopping adventure loaded with surprises you won't see coming, on "Quantico," airing SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 (10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT), on the ABC Television Network. () PRIYANKA CHOPRA
Quantico
ABC/Giovanni Rufino
Season 2
How to watch: Sundays at 10 p.m. beginning Sept. 25
Featuring: Aunjanue Ellis
Quantico was one of the buzziest new shows of the fall 2015 season, due in no small part to its Bollywood star lead, Priyanka Chopra. Chopra stars as Alex Parrish, an FBI recruit, who, by the end of season one, discovered that her fellow trainee Liam O’Connor was the terrorist who’d been framing her for his murderous misdeeds.
Why you should watch: Quantico is completely nutty (like detonating nukes nutty), filled with all sorts of improbable twists and turns that keep it fun.
How to Get Away With Murder
HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER - "We're Good People Now" - With Wallace Mahoney's murder unsolved and Frank's whereabouts unknown, the "Keating 5" struggle to move on with their lives as they enter into their second year of law school. Meanwhile, Annalise's reputation at Middleton University is on the line, so she creates a criminal law clinic where the students will compete to try their own pro bono cases. Annalise also wrestles with a decision involving Frank that could change everything, on the highly anticipated season premiere of "How to Get Away with Murder," THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 (10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT), on the ABC Television Network. VIOLA DAVIS
How to Get Away With Murder
ABC/Mitch Haaseth
Season 3
How to watch: Thursdays at 10 p.m. beginning Sept. 22
Featuring: Viola Davis, Billy Brown, Alfred Enoch, Aja Naomi King, Mary J. Blige, Stephen Williams, Erika Harrison
Considered one of the most progressive shows on television: a brilliant law professor assembles four top students to help her defend her seemingly indefensible clients.
Why you should watch: Davis rightly earned an Emmy last year for her portrayal of Annalise Keating. The Oscar-nominated actor leaves it all on the soundstage and delivers a master class in how to pull off good, meaty drama — without making it too campy. Someone’s always dying. Get used to this.
There was the racist Amos ’n Andy in the early 1950s. And then from
Julia (1968-72) to
Room 222 (1969-74) to
Good Times (1974-79), there were peaks, certainly, and many valleys. By 1975, George and Weezie Jefferson made us all aspire to “the East Side,” and a dee-luxe apartment in the sky. NBC introduced us to the Huxtables in 1984 (a show now impossible to watch, and rarer than ever in syndication), an upper-middle-class family who just happened to be black and who proved that white America would watch shows that starred black people. But it took 30 years before the United States was introduced to its millennial counterparts, ABC’s
black-ish Johnsons.
But hello, 2016. The year in which we’re all over the dial is unlike anything seen before. In front of the camera. Creating shows. Directing. Show-running.
It’s a new day. No longer do shows that resemble black life all have to be contained on a lone page on the back of a historic micro magazine no longer in print publication. There’s diversity of blackness on television now. And it’s about time.
What follows is a roster of as many fall shows as we could come up with that feature black people, the black experience, black people on-screen, black people behind the camera, blacks being their creative, fun, dramatic, comedic, authentic selves. Please send us any shows we’re missing, and let us know about any professionals we left out. All times are Eastern Standard.
Fox
Lethal Weapon
Clayne Crawford and Damon Wayans Sr. on LETHAL WEAPON
Clayne Crawford and Damon Wayans Sr. on Lethal Weapon.
Richard Foreman/FOX
Debut season
How to watch: Wednesdays at 8 p.m. beginning Sept. 21
Featuring: Damon Wayans, Keesha Sharp, Johnathan Fernandez, Chandler Kinney, Dante Brown
An action-drama show based on the late ’80s/early ’90s film series fronted by Danny Glover and Mel Gibson as Los Angeles police detectives Murtaugh and Riggs. This time taking the lead roles are Wayans and Clayne Crawford (Rectify).
Why you should watch: While not everyone is loving it, Wayans does know how to do good TV. He helped his brother Keenan Ivory Wayans make the Fox network a go-to station for black families in the ’90s with the groundbreaking In Living Color, which made his entire family famous. In this series, he’ll integrate the funny with seriously good crime capers.
Pitch
Kylie Bunbury in the all-new series premiere episode of PITCH
Kylie Bunbury in the all-new series premiere episode of Pitch.
Tommy Garcia / FOX
Debut season
How to watch: Thursdays at 9 p.m. beginning Sept. 22
Featuring: Paris Barclay (director), Kylie Bunbury, Kelly Jenrette, Shamier Anderson
Major League Baseball is finally breaking the gender barrier — Ginny Baker is a pitching force to be reckoned with and women all over the world are ready for her to show the boys of summer how it’s done.
Why you should watch: Bunbury is a relatively fresh-faced actor who’s stepping up to the big leagues. Her entire life has prepared her for this role (dad and brother are professional soccer players, she was a high school athlete) and she’s comes across as authentic and rooted.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW: LET'S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW: LET’S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN
Miranda Penn Turin/FOX
Live production
How to watch: Oct. 20 at 8 p.m.
Featuring: Laverne Cox, Ben Vereen, Christina Milian
Forty years is a long time, and longtime fans were concerned about this remake. But as Ben Vereen (Dr. Scott) says, “I don’t believe that we’re remaking anything … this is not a remake. You cannot remake The Rocky Horror Picture Show. But you can pay tribute, and honor it. That’s what we wanted to do, and we accomplished.” Victoria Justice, Staz Nair and Adam Lambert round out the cast.
Why you should watch: Tim Curry returns (in a different role), and is into it.
Empire
EMPIRE: Pictured L-R: Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson in EMPIRE
Terrence Howard (L) and Taraji P. Henson in Empire.
Chuck Hodes/FOX
Season 3
How to watch: Wednesdays at 9 p.m. beginning Sept. 21
Featuring: Taraji P. Henson, Terrence Howard, Jussie Smollett, Trai Byers, Bryshere Y. Gray
The premiere will answer the question we’ve been pondering all summer long: WHO GOT PUSHED OFF THAT BALCONY?
Why you should watch: Henson is at her best as former inmate-turned-music-mogul Cookie Lyon. Also, Mariah Carey is on deck as a guest star, and other visitors include Taye Diggs, Birdman, Sierra McClain and French Montana.
Rosewood
ROSEWOOD
Rosewood.
Justin Stephens/FOX
Season 2
How to watch: Thursdays at 8 p.m. beginning Sept. 22
Featuring: Morris Chestnut, Lorraine Toussaint, Gabrielle Dennis, Jaina Lee Ortiz
Fresh off his starring turn in When The Bough Breaks, Chestnut returns as a private pathologist who teams up with Miami police to solve mysterious deaths. Brian Austin Green was set to join the cast, but at the last minute, Eddie Cibrian of CSI: Miami was brought on board in a “mysterious” new role. Anna Konkle and Domenick Lombardozzi are also featured.
Why you should watch: Chestnut is a consistent, steady (and sexy) actor who pushes past his heartthrob status to turn in really good work.
Scream Queens
SCREAM QUEENS
Scream Queens.
Michael Becker / FOX
Season 2
How to watch: Tuesdays at 9 p.m. beginning Sept. 20
Featuring: Keke Palmer, Niecy Nash
You can’t mention Ryan Murphy these days without mentioning The People v. O.J. Simpson: An American Crime Story, but don’t forget about Scream Queens, where Murphy indulges his campier inclinations.
Why you should watch: The show is full of winning one-liners like: “Everyone loves me: men, women, animals at the zoo, plants probably.”
New Girl
NEW GIRL
New Girl.
Ray Mickshaw/FOX
Season 6
How to watch: Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m. beginning Sept. 20
Featuring: Lamorne Morris, Damon Wayans Jr.
Elizabeth Meriwether’s half-hour comedy began as a cheerfully optimistic show following Jess (Zooey Deschanel) and her oddball roommates looking out for each other. The show has weathered some ups (the gang gets to go to a party and meet Prince) and downs (figuring out what to do with Jess and Nick), but it’s still good for a consistent laugh.
Why you should watch: Lamorne Morris’ Winston Bishop is still one of the most gloriously peculiar balls of contradictions on television these days.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
BROOKLYN NINE-NINE: L-R: Andy Samberg, Joel McKinnon Miller, Dirk Blocker, Stephanie Beatriz, Terry Crews and Andre Braugher in the "The Bureau" episode of BROOKLYN NINE-NINE airing Tuesday, April 12 (9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. ©2016 Fox Broadcasting Co. CR:
From left to right: Andy Samberg, Joel McKinnon Miller, Dirk Blocker, Stephanie Beatriz, Terry Crews and Andre Braugher in Brooklyn Nine-Nine on Fox.
John P. Fleenor/FOX
Season 4
How to watch: Tuesdays at 8 p.m. beginning Sept. 20
Featuring: Terry Crews, Andre Braugher
Last season ended with detective Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg) and captain Ray **** (Andre Braugher) forced to abandon their beloved Brooklyn for the safer, suburban confines of witness protection in Florida. How will they make their way back?
Why you should watch: Maya Rudolph and Niecy Nash drop in this season as guest stars.
ABC
Notorious
NOTORIOUS - ABC's "Notorious" stars Sepideh Moafi as Megan Byrd, Ryan Guzman as Ryan Mills, Kate Jennings Grant as Louise Herrick, Piper Perabo as Julia George, Daniel Sunjata as Jake Gregorian, Aimeé Teegarden as Ella Benjamin, J. August Richards as Bradley Gregorian and Kevin Zegers as Oscar Keaton. ()
Notorious
ABC/Bob D'Amico
Debut season
How to watch: Thursdays at 9 p.m. beginning Sept. 22
Featuring: Daniel Sunjata, Lisa Arrindell
It’s the high-stakes and manipulative world of the “nightly news” and gives us an intimate look at what’s happening behind those big, delicious high-profile court cases and crime dramas. Piper Perabo of the late, great Covert Affairs co-stars.
Why you should watch: Sunjata, a former football player known for Rescue Me and Graceland, smolders in his portrayal of attorney Jake Gregorian (built on high-profile and not black lawyer to the stars Mark Geragos), and is not afraid to cry in character. Also: The show is in the Scandal slot, and apparently “employs some How to Get Away With Scandal-esque music cues.”
Secrets and Lies
SECRETS AND LIES - ABC's "Secrets and Lies" stars Kenny Johnson as Danny Wade, Terry O’Quinn as John Warner, Mekia Cox as Amanda Warner, Juliette Lewis as Detective Cornell, Charlie Barnett as Patrick Warner, Jordana Brewster as Kate Warner and Michael Ealy as Eric Warner.
Secrets and Lies
ABC/Bob D'Amico/Craig Sjodin
Season 2
How to watch: Sundays at 9 p.m. beginning Sept. 25
Featuring: Michael Ealy, Mekia Cox, Charlie Barnett
The Secrets and Lies cast experienced a complete shakeup, save for Juliette Lewis as Detective Cornell, at the end of its 10-episode first season run. Like Fargo or American Horror Story, Secrets and Lies is a limited series, meaning it will explore new storylines and characters this season. This season, Detective Cornell is investigating the death of Kate Warner (Jordana Brewster), a newly wealthy bride. Ealy plays Warner’s husband Eric, the prime suspect in her death. Cox plays Amanda Warner Young, Eric’s protective sister who’s also a criminal attorney. Barnett is the youngest Warner sibling.
Why you should watch: Fans will be pleased to hear that we’ll be finding out more about Cornell’s secret criminal daughter as the new storyline unfolds.
black-ish
BLACK-ISH - "VIP" - Dre decides to take his family to Walt Disney World on the magical, first-class vacation experience he was never able to have as a kid. With the help of a VIP tour guide, Dre and the kids take full advantage of their VIP status. Meanwhile, Bow, Pops and Ruby set off on their own adventure at Walt Disney World, on the season three premiere of "black-ish," WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 (9:31-10:00 p.m. EDT), on the ABC Television Network.
Black-ish.
ABC/Todd Anderson
Season 3
How to watch: Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. beginning Sept. 21
Featuring: Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Daveed Diggs, created by Kenya Barris
An upwardly mobile father (Anthony Anderson) worries that his upper-middle-class kids are assimilating too much into the white world his success affords them.
Why you should watch: The show isn’t afraid to go there. Last season’s episode about black kids being gunned down was touching, poignant, and very special without being “very special.”
Quantico
QUANTICO - "Kudove" - When season two begins, Alex finds herself at "The Farm," the CIA's mysterious training facility. As Alex navigates the dark world of espionage, far different and more dangerous than what she's learned before, she's pulled into the center of a deadly conspiracy that not only threatens the lives of this country's citizens, but the lives of countless others across the globe. This conspiracy calls everyone around her into question, be it new faces from the CIA or old ones from the Bureau. Prepare yourselves for another thrilling and heart-stopping adventure loaded with surprises you won't see coming, on "Quantico," airing SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 (10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT), on the ABC Television Network. () PRIYANKA CHOPRA
Quantico
ABC/Giovanni Rufino
Season 2
How to watch: Sundays at 10 p.m. beginning Sept. 25
Featuring: Aunjanue Ellis
Quantico was one of the buzziest new shows of the fall 2015 season, due in no small part to its Bollywood star lead, Priyanka Chopra. Chopra stars as Alex Parrish, an FBI recruit, who, by the end of season one, discovered that her fellow trainee Liam O’Connor was the terrorist who’d been framing her for his murderous misdeeds.
Why you should watch: Quantico is completely nutty (like detonating nukes nutty), filled with all sorts of improbable twists and turns that keep it fun.
How to Get Away With Murder
HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER - "We're Good People Now" - With Wallace Mahoney's murder unsolved and Frank's whereabouts unknown, the "Keating 5" struggle to move on with their lives as they enter into their second year of law school. Meanwhile, Annalise's reputation at Middleton University is on the line, so she creates a criminal law clinic where the students will compete to try their own pro bono cases. Annalise also wrestles with a decision involving Frank that could change everything, on the highly anticipated season premiere of "How to Get Away with Murder," THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 (10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT), on the ABC Television Network. VIOLA DAVIS
How to Get Away With Murder
ABC/Mitch Haaseth
Season 3
How to watch: Thursdays at 10 p.m. beginning Sept. 22
Featuring: Viola Davis, Billy Brown, Alfred Enoch, Aja Naomi King, Mary J. Blige, Stephen Williams, Erika Harrison
Considered one of the most progressive shows on television: a brilliant law professor assembles four top students to help her defend her seemingly indefensible clients.
Why you should watch: Davis rightly earned an Emmy last year for her portrayal of Annalise Keating. The Oscar-nominated actor leaves it all on the soundstage and delivers a master class in how to pull off good, meaty drama — without making it too campy. Someone’s always dying. Get used to this.
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