My Picks for the 2015-2016 Fall TV Season

Over the course of last week, all five of the major networks made their official announcements about their fall schedules, including the new shows for which each network has picked up either for the fall or for mid-season.

The following are the new dramas that I think are the most interesting or the ones for which I am most curious.

First there are these from NBC:

The new Monday night series for which I am most intrigued is Blindspot. It stars Jaimie Alexander (from the Thor films), Sullivan Stapleton (from Strike Back) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (from Without a Trace). Blindspot is about what happens when a vast international plot explodes after a beautiful Jane Doe (Alexander), completely covered in mysterious, intricate tattoos, is discovered naked in Times Square with no memory of who she is or how she got there. But there’s one tattoo that is impossible to miss: the name of FBI agent Kurt Weller (Stapleton), emblazoned across her back. “Jane,” Agent Weller and the rest of the FBI quickly realize that each mark on her body is a crime to solve, leading them closer to the truth about her identity and the mysteries to be revealed.

Here is a trailer for Blindspot:

I am also curious about the reboot Heroes Reborn mainly because Chuck star Zachary Levi is the lead; but the following teaser trailer hasn’t revealed much:

ABC has one interesting new drama called Quantico that will air on Tuesday nights. The series will focus on a diverse group of recruits who have arrived at the FBI Quantico Base for training. They are the best, the brightest and the most vetted, so it seems impossible that one of them is suspected of masterminding the biggest attack on New York City since 9/11. The cast includes Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra, Dougray Scott (from Hemlock Grove), Jake McLaughlin (from Believe), Aunjanue Ellis (from NCIS: Los Angeles) and Graham Rogers from (Revolution).

Here is a trailer for Quantico:

And then there is The Catch from Shonda Rhimes, which will debut mid-season. The new thriller will center on the strong, successful Alice Martin (Mireille Enos from The Killing), a fraud investigator who’s about to be the victim of fraud herself by her fiancé. Between her cases, she is determined to find him before it ruins her career.

Here is a trailer for The Catch:

CBS has only one new drama that I was most interested in seeing, which is Supergirl, based, of course, on the DC Comics character; but I have to admit that after seeing the extended trailer, I’m a little concerned. I’ll let our readers be the judge, though.

Here is the trailer for Supergirl:

Over on FOX, they have the new drama Minority Report, based on the blockbuster film that follows the unlikely partnership between a man haunted by the future and a cop haunted by her past, as they race to stop the worst crimes of the year 2065 before they happen. Set in Washington, D.C., it is 10 years after the demise of Precrime, a law enforcement agency tasked with identifying and eliminating criminals before their crimes were committed.

Here is the trailer for Minority Report:

Lastly, there is DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, the new mid-season drama over on The CW. When heroes alone are not enough… the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat – one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?

Here is a trailer for Legends of Tomorrow:

Do any of the above strike your fancy?