A Look at the Upcoming 2024-2025 TV Season

This year’s upfront presentations happened as usual in New York with the major networks announcing their fall 2024, and in some instances their spring 2025, line-ups.

The following details the dramas that will be back on each of the major networks and when they will air as well as the new dramas that will be introduced throughout the 2024-2025 TV season.

First up is CBS:

The most watched drama of this current season – Tracker – will take over the 8 PM time slot on Sunday nights, swapping places with The Equalizer, which will move to 9 PM. In the spring, the Morris Chestnut medical drama Watson will debut at 10 PM once the NFL season is over.

Watson takes place seven months after the death of the titular character’s friend and partner Sherlock Holmes at the hands of Moriarty. Dr. John Watson (Chestnut) resumes his medical career as the head of a clinic dedicated to treating rare disorders. Watson’s old life isn’t done with him, though – Moriarty and Watson are set to write their own chapter of a story that has fascinated audiences for more than a century.

On Monday nights, NCIS will continue at 9 PM followed by the prequel series NCIS: Origins at 10 PM.

NCIS: Origins follows a young Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Austin Stowell) in 1991, years prior to the events of NCIS, and is narrated by Mark Harmon. In the series, Gibbs starts his career as a newly minted special agent at the fledgling NCIS Camp Pendleton office where he forges his place on a gritty, ragtag team led by NCIS legend Mike Franks (Kyle Schmid).

Tuesday night will not change with all three FBI dramas airing throughout the night.

Then on Thursday nights, the Matlock reboot will take over the 9 PM timeslot followed by the second season of Elsbeth at 10 PM.

In Matlock, Kathy Bates will play the brilliant septuagenarian Madeline “Matty” Matlock, who, after achieving success in her younger years, decides to rejoin the workforce at a prestigious law firm where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases and expose corruption from within.

Here is a trailer for Matlock:

Friday night will be busy with S.W.A.T. at 8 PM followed by Fire Country at 9 PM and the final 8 episodes (EVER) of Blue Bloods at 10 PM. In the spring, the second season of NCIS: Sydney will take over the 8 PM time slot while S.W.A.T. will move to 10 PM.

Next is FOX:

Monday nights will find the strike-delayed 5th season of 9-1-1: Lone Star airing at 8 PM followed at 9 PM by the new drama Rescue: Hi-Surf, after it debuts in the plush time slot after Super Bowl LIX.

Rescue: Hi-Surf will follow the personal and professional lives of the heavy-water lifeguards who patrol and protect the North Shore of O’ahu – the most famous and dangerous stretch of coastline in the world. The Vampire Diaries, 9-1-1 and Midnight, Texas alum Arielle Kebbel will play the lead role.

Here is a trailer for Rescue: Hi-Surf:

On Tuesday nights, the second season of the anthology series Accused will air at 8 PM followed by the new drama Murder in a Small Town at 9 PM.

Murder in a Small Town follows Karl Alberg (Rossif Sutherland), who moves to a quiet coastal town to soothe a psyche that has been battered by big-city police work. But this gentle paradise has more than its share of secrets and Karl will need to call upon all the skills that made him a world-class detective in solving the murders that, even in this seemingly idyllic setting, continue to wash up on his shore. Kristin Kreuk co-stars.

Here is a trailer for Murder in a Small Town:

The FOX dramas The Cleaning Lady and Alert: Missing Persons Unit will both be back for mid-season as well as the new medical series Doc.

Doc will star Molly Parker as the hard-charging, brilliant Dr. Amy Elias, Chief of Internal and Family Medicine at Westside Hospital in Minneapolis. After a brain injury erases the last eight years of her life, Amy must navigate an unfamiliar world where she has no recollection of patients she’s treated, colleagues she’s crossed, the soulmate she divorced, the man she now loves and the tragedy that caused her to push everyone away.

Here is a trailer for Doc:

Then there is ABC:

Tuesday nights will find the new drama High Potential airing at 10 PM with Will Trent and The Rookie returning at mid-season with 18 uninterrupted episodes each.

High Potential stars Kaitlin Olson as Morgan, a single mom with an exceptional mind (she has an IQ “North of 160”) whose unconventional knack for solving crimes leads to an unusual and unstoppable partnership with a by-the-book seasoned detective.

Here is a trailer for High Potential:

Thursday will find 9-1-1 back at 8 PM followed at 9 PM by the new drama Doctor Odyssey and Grey’s Anatomy moving to 10 PM.

Doctor Odyssey will find Joshua Jackson as Max, the new on-board doctor for a luxury cruise ship where the staff works hard and plays harder. It’s all hands on deck as Max and his small but mighty medical team navigate unique medical crises and each other, miles from shore. Don Johnson and Hamilton alum Phillipa Soo co-star.

Here is a teaser for Doctor Odyssey:

Next up is NBC:

Monday nights at 10 PM will feature the new drama Brilliant Minds that will star Zachary Quinto as a revolutionary, larger-than-life neurologist who with his team of interns explore the last great frontier – the human mind – while grappling with their own relationships and mental health.

Tuesday nights at 10 PM will be the new home for season two of The Irrational while the Wednesday night line-up will include all three of the One Chicago franchise dramas.

Thursday nights will still find Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit airing at 8 and 9 PM respectively with the second season of Found taking over the 10 PM time slot. Law & Order: Organized Crime will continue, but now on its new home: Paramount+

The new drama The Hunting Party will be held back until mid-season while the new spin-off series Suits: L.A. and the other new drama Grosse Pointe Garden Society have yet to be officially ordered to series, but are in contention for mid-season slots.

The Hunting Party will star Manifest alum Melissa Roxburgh. This crime procedural will focus on a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.

Suits: L.A. will focus on Ted Black (Arrow alum Stephen Amell), a former federal prosecutor from New York, who has reinvented himself, representing the most powerful clients in Los Angeles. His firm is at a crisis point, and in order to survive he must embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career. Ted is surrounded by a stellar group of characters who test their loyalties to both Ted and each other while they can’t help but mix their personal and professional lives. All of this is going on while events from years ago slowly unravel what led Ted to leave behind everything and everyone he loved.

Grosse Pointe Garden Society will follow four members of a suburban garden club, all from different walks of life, who get caught up in murder and mischief as they struggle to make their conventional lives bloom. Among the cast are Matthew Davis, Nancy Travis, AnnaSophia Robb and Aja Naomi King.

Lastly, there is CW:

There have been a lot of changes for this network that’s always been seen as a bit of a bastard by the other major networks since it was primarily taken over by the folks at Nexstar Media Group. This fall one of the few remaining dramas from before the takeover – Superman & Lois – will air its final season.

But first let’s focus on Wednesday nights that will find the second season of the Canadian transplant drama Sullivan’s Crossing airing at 8 PM followed at 9 PM by the new drama Joan that will star Game of Thrones alum Sophie Turner.

Turner will play notorious jewel thief Joan Hannington. The series will be set against the vibrant backdrop of the 1980s.

Here is a trailer for season 2 of Sullivan’s Crossing:

Then on Thursday nights, Superman & Lois will finally be back at 8 PM with new episodes of its fourth and final season; the show aired its last new episode back in June of 2023. It will be followed at 9 PM by the reboot The Librarians: The Next Chapter.

This new version will center on Vikram, a “Librarian” from the past, who time traveled to the present and finds himself stuck here. When he returns to his castle, which is now a museum, he inadvertently releases magic across the continent. He is given a new team to help him clean up the mess he made, forming a new team of Librarians. Christian Kane who was part of the original TV series will reprise his role of Jacob Stone.

The new drama Sherlock & Daughter will be held until mid-season. The series stars Harry Potter alum David Thewlis in the title role of Sherlock Holmes with a bit of a twist. An American girl finds out after her mother’s mysterious murder that her missing father just may be the legendary detective. Despite wildly different backgrounds and attitudes, the pair must work together to solve a global conspiracy, crack her mother’s murder and find out for sure if she really is Sherlock’s daughter. Dougray Scott will play Holmes’ nemesis, Moriarty.

The fate of the few remaining CW dramas All American, All American: Homecoming and Walker as well as the co-productions Sight Unseen and Wild Cards and the acquired Canadian series Family Law are still in limbo, however.  There was no word provided on The Spencer Sisters, which is another acquired Canadian series, that aired on CW last fall.

REVISION: The official word has come down that Walker will end after its current 4th season, and it’s looking likely that All American: Homecoming will not be renewed either.

REVISION: CW has ordered a 13-episode second season of Wild Cards, which will premiere sometime in 2025.

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