TV Talk: Broadcast networks announce fall schedules

This week, “the upfronts” took place in New York as advertisers committed to buy ads ahead of the 2024-25 TV season that begins in September.

With no pandemic or strikes, this fall the networks get back to normal — albeit a new normal with more, lower-cost unscripted programs than ever (ABC had 17 scripted shows in fall 2017 but just five for fall 2024). New series are in bold below:

Sunday

7 p.m.: “America’s Funniest Home Videos” (ABC)

“60 Minutes” (CBS)

“The CW Sunday Night Movie” (The CW)

“NFL on Fox” (Fox)

“Football Night in America” (NBC)

8 p.m.: “The Wonderful World of Disney” (ABC)

“Tracker” (CBS)

“The Simpsons” (Fox)

8:20 p.m.: “Sunday Night Football” (NBC)

8:30 p.m.: “Universal Basic Guys” (Fox): Animated comedy about brothers who lose their jobs to automation and get $3,000 per month from a new basic income program.

9 p.m.: “The Equalizer” (CBS)

“Bob’s Burgers” (Fox)

9:30 p.m.: “Krapopolis” (Fox)

Monday

8 p.m.: “Monday Night Football” (ABC) select Mondays/other programming TBA.

“The Neighborhood” (CBS)

“Trivial Pursuit” (The CW): LeVar Burton hosts a reimagined version of this board game-based competition.

“9-1-1: Lonestar” (Fox)

“The Voice” (NBC)

8:30 p.m.: “Poppa’s House” (CBS): Damon Wayans stars as a happily divorced talk radio host who’s still raising his adult son (Damon Wayans Jr.).

9 p.m.: “NCIS” (CBS)

“Scrabble” (The CW): Raven- Symone hosts a new take on the board game.

“Rescue: HI-Surf” (Fox): Lifeguards patrol the North Shore of O’ahu in this new John Wells (“ER”) drama.

10 p.m.: “NCIS: Origins” (CBS): In 1991 a young Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Austin Stowell) starts his career as a special agent at NCIS Camp Pendleton.

“Brilliant Minds” (NBC): Pittsburgh native Zachary Quinto stars as a neurologist.

Tuesday

8 p.m.: “Dancing With the Stars” (ABC)

“FBI” (CBS)

“WWE NXT” (The CW)

“Accused” (Fox)

“St. Denis Medical” (NBC): Single-cam mockumentary set at a hospital starring Wendi McClendon-Covery, David Alan Grier and Allison Tolman.

8:30 p.m.: “Night Court.” (NBC)

9 p.m.: “FBI: International” (CBS)

“Murder in a Small Town” (Fox): Drama following a former city police detective (Rossif Sutherland) as he moves to a small town where the librarian (Kristin Kreuk, “Smallville”) becomes his foil and romantic interest.

“The Voice” (NBC)

10 p.m.: “High Potential” (ABC): Crime procedural about a single mom (Kaitlin Olson) who helps the police solve crimes.

“FBI: Most Wanted” (CBS)

“The Irrational” (NBC)

Wednesday

8 p.m.: “The Golden Bachelorette” (ABC)

“Survivor” (CBS)

“Sullivan’s Crossing” (The CW)

“The Masked Singer” (Fox)

“Chicago Med” (NBC)

9 p.m.: “Joan” (The CW): Sophie Turner (“Games of Thrones”) stars in this limited series as real-life ‘80s jewel thief Joan Hannington.

“The Floor” (Fox)

“Chicago Fire” (NBC)

9:30 p.m.: “Abbott Elementary” (ABC)

“The Summit” (CBS): Manu Bennett hosts this competition that features 16 strangers trying to reach the peak of a New Zealand mountain.

10 p.m.: “Scamanda” (ABC): Documentary series about a mommy blogger whose tragic cancer tale isn’t all it appears to be.

“Chicago P.D.” (NBC)

Thursday

8 p.m.: “9-1-1” (ABC)

“Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage” (CBS): “Young Sheldon” sequel series following Georgie (Montana Jordan) and Mandy (Emily Osment) as they raise their family.

“Superman & Lois” (The CW)

“Hell’s Kitchen” (Fox)

“Law & Order” (NBC)

8:30 p.m.: “Ghosts” (CBS)

9 p.m.: “Dr. Odyssey” (ABC): Max (Joshua Jackson) is the new doctor on a luxury cruise ship in this Ryan Murphy-produced series that also stars Don Johnson.

“Matlock” (CBS): A reboot of the Andy Griffith-starring legal show, this time with Kathy Bates as Madeline “Matty” Matlock.

“The Librarians: The Next Chapter” (The CW): A spin-off of the TNT series about a “librarian” from the past (Callum McGowan) stuck in the present.

“Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test” (Fox)

“Law & Order: SVU” (NBC)

10 p.m.: “Grey’s Anatomy” (ABC)

“Elsbeth” (CBS)

“Found” (NBC)

Friday

8 p.m.: “Shark Tank” (ABC)

“S.W.A.T.” (CBS)

“Whose Line Is It Anyway?” rerun (The CW)

“Fox College Football Friday”/“Fox College Hoops”/“Fox UFL” (Fox)

“Happy’s Place” (NBC): Reba McEntire inherits her father’s restaurant and meets the half-sister she never knew.

8:30 p.m.: “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” new episodes (The CW)

“Lopez vs. Lopez” (NBC)

9 p.m.: “20/20” (ABC)

“Fire Country” (CBS)

“Inside the NFL” (The CW)

“Dateline NBC” (NBC)

10 p.m.: “Blue Bloods” (CBS)

Saturdays are devoted to scripted series reruns, news magazines and sports.

Midseason

Pittsburgh-set CBS medical drama “Watson,” filming in Vancouver, Canada, (and possibly shooting some scenes locally), will air at 10 p.m. Sunday next spring. That might also be around the time Pittsburgh-set Max medical drama “The PITT” ends up streaming.

CBS’s “The Amazing Race,” “The Price Is Right at Night” and “Raid the Cage” will return in 2025 with a prime-time “Hollywood Squares” (Drew Barrymore is the Center Square). “Fire Country” spin-off “Sheriff Country,” starring Morena Baccarin, will air during the 2025-26 TV season.

At NBC, Joe Manganiello-hosted “Deal or No Deal Island” returns alongside new crime procedural “The Hunting Party,” competition series “Destination X” and Tom Hanks-narrated natural history docu-series “The Americas.”

Fox’s “Family Guy,” “The Great North,” “Grimsburg,” “Animal Control,” “Alert: Missing Persons Unit,” “The Cleaning Lady,” “Crime Scene Kitchen,” “Next Level Chef” and “LegoMasters: Holiday Bricktacular” will air later in the 2024-25 TV season alongside newcomers “Doc,” a medical drama starring Molly Parker as a doctor with a brain injury that erases eight years of memories, and comedy “Going Dutch,” starring Denis Leary (“Rescue Me”) as a U.S. Army colonel stationed at the least important base in the world.

At midseason ABC will bring back “The Rookie,” “Will Trent,” the final season of “The Conners,” “American Idol,” “The Bachelor,” “Celebrity Jeopardy!,” “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune,” “What Would You Do?” and “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.”

The CW’s midseason entries will include new dramas “Good Cop/Bad Cop,” a crime procedural about sibling detectives in the Pacific Northwest, and “Sherlock Daughter,” about Sherlock Holmes (David Thewlis, “Fargo”) solving crimes with a young American (Blu Hunt) who may be his daughter. No decisions have been announced on the futures of “Walker” or “All American.”

Channel surfing

Netflix renewed “3 Body Problem” for an indeterminate number of episodes/seasons to wrap up its story. … Disney Channel canceled “Raven’s Home” after six seasons but will consider a spin-off series, “Alice in the Palace.” … The joint Disney, Fox, Warner Bros. Discovery streaming service will be called Venu Sports.