TV Talk: Prepare for an onslaught of unscripted series on broadcast channels’ fall lineups

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers viewing tips for the coming season.

With just two exceptions — NBC’s “Quantum Leap” and “Magnum P.I.” reboots, which filmed enough episodes to debut new episodes this fall — viewers’ scripted live-action favorites won’t have any new episodes this fall because of the dual writers’ and actors’ strikes. (Fox’s Sunday night animated comedies record actors’ voices far enough in advance that they will also have new episodes this fall.)

Steel yourself for wall-to-wall reality on the major broadcast channels along with imported episodes of cable, streaming and foreign series.

One bright spot: The CW, under its new cheaper-is-better business model, has a slew of scripted originals imported from Canada and Europe, including the fall’s best new scripted comedy.

New series below are in bold; shows without a premiere date listed have already premiered or are ongoing (as of deadline, ABC had not announced programming for Monday night):

Sunday

7 p.m.: “AFV” (ABC, Oct. 1).

7:30-8:30 p.m.: “60 Minutes” (CBS, Sept. 17).

8-11 p.m.: “The Wonderful World of Disney” (ABC, Oct. 1).

8:30-10:30 p.m.: “Yellowstone” reruns (CBS, Sept. 17).

8 p.m. “The Simpsons” (Fox, Oct. 1).

8-11 p.m.: “Sunday Night Football” (NBC).

8-9 p.m.: “The Chosen” (The CW).

8:30-9 p.m.: “Krapopolis” (Fox, premieres 8 p.m. Sept. 24): Fox’s latest animated comedy comes from creator Dan Harmon (“Community,” “Rick and Morty”), is set in mythical ancient Greece and focuses on Tyrannis (voice of Richard Ayoade), the mortal son of goddess of self-destruction Deliria (Hannah Waddingham, “Ted Lasso”) and manitaur-manticore Shlub (Matt Berry, “What We Do in the Shadows”), the self-described “life of the orgy.” Fast-paced and funny, this series fits the Fox Animation Domination sensibility well.

9-9:30 p.m.: “Bob’s Burgers” (Fox, Oct. 1).

9:30-10 p.m.: “Family Guy” (Fox, Oct. 1).

10:30-11:30 p.m.: “Big Brother” (CBS, Sept. 17).

Monday

8-9 p.m.: “The Price is Right at Night” (CBS, Oct. 2).

8-9 p.m.: “Kitchen Nightmares” (Fox, Sept 25).

8-10 p.m.: “The Voice” (NBC, Sept. 25).

8-10 p.m.: “F-Boy Island” (The CW, Oct. 16).

9-10 p.m.: “Loteria Loca” (CBS, Oct. 2): Two players go head-to-head picking cards to get four in a row. Jaime Camil (“Jane the Virgin”) hosts.

9-10 p.m. “Special Forces” (Fox, Sept. 25).

10-11 p.m.: “NCIS: Sydney” (Nov. 13): After weeks of original “NCIS” reruns in the time period, CBS will insert the first-ever international edition of the franchise. Set in Sydney, Australia, this latest “NCIS” (No. 5 for those keeping score) follows a team of U.S. NCIS agents and the Australian Federal Police, who join forces to investigate naval crimes in the Indo-Pacific.

10-11 p.m.: “The Irrational” (NBC, Sept. 25): Jesse L. Martin stars as a behavioral scientist who helps law enforcement solve crimes. It’s as pedestrian a procedural as NBC’s “Found” (see below) but with a less heightened twist.

Tuesday

8-10 p.m.: “Dancing With the Stars” (ABC, Sept. 26).

8-9 p.m.: “Big Brother” (CBS).

8-9 p.m.: “Name That Tune” (Fox, Sept. 19).

8-10 p.m.: “The Voice” (NBC).

8-9 p.m.: “Inside the NFL” (The CW).

9-10 p.m.: “FBI True” (CBS, Oct. 10),

9-10 p.m.: “911: Lone Star” reruns (Fox).

9-10 p.m.: “The Swarm” (The CW).

10-11 p.m.: “Press Your Luck” (ABC, Oct. 10).

10-11 p.m. “FBI” reruns (CBS).

10-11 p.m.: “Found” (NBC, Oct. 3): Remember Fox’s “Alert: Missing Persons Unit”? Well, “Found” is a similar missing persons procedural that’s ridiculous in its own way. Gabi (Shanola Hampton, “Shameless”) was once kidnapped herself and now helps find others who have been taken. Her team includes a mother (Kelli Williams, “The Practice”) still searching for her son 13 years after he went missing. The procedural aspects are typical for a meh broadcast drama, but there’s a “Gabi’s hiding a secret” twist that’s way over the top.

Wednesday

8-9 p.m.: “Celebrity Jeopardy” (ABC, Sept. 27).

8-9:30 p.m.: “Survivor” (CBS, Sept. 27).

8-9 p.m.: “The Masked Singer” (Fox, Sept. 27).

8-9 p.m.: “Quantum Leap” (NBC, Oct. 4).

8-9 p.m.: “Sullivan’s Crossing” (The CW, Oct. 4): A very Hallmark-style light drama about Boston neurosurgeon Maggie (Morgan Kohan), disgraced by a scandal, who returns home to Nova Scotia, where her father, Sully (Scott Patterson), runs a popular local camp and a hunky handyman (Chad Michael Murray) is a ready-made love interest for Maggie, who is shamed for wanting to get a local dementia patient assessed. Sully says that’s not necessary, folks there just watch over each other. Geez, Maggie, how dare you offer competent medical care? Try that in a small town.

9-10 p.m.: “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune” (ABC, Sept. 27).

9-10 p.m.: “Snake Oil” (Fox, Sept. 27): David Spade hosts this game show where entrepreneurs pitch unique, bizarre products to contestants who must deduce which ones are real and which are fake. Celebrity advisers will include Will Arnett, Adam Devine, Ice T and Bethenny Frankel.

9-10 p.m.: “Magnum P.I.” (NBC, Oct. 4).

9-10 p.m.: “The Spencer Sisters” (The CW, Oct. 4): Edgier than “Sullivan’s Crossing,” this fizzy drama with comedy stars Lea Thompson as novelist Victoria Spencer. She starts a detective agency with her polar opposite, lookalike daughter (people think they’re sisters!) Darby (Stacey Farber). “The prodigal daughter returns,” Victoria says after Darby quits the police force. “But why do you look like a long-haul trucker”? Thompson gets the quickest, cattiest lines in this show that’s fairly entertaining.

9:30-11 p.m.: “The Amazing Race” (CBS, Sept. 27).

10-11 p.m.: “The $100,000 Pyramid” (ABC, Sept. 27).

10-11 p.m.: “Chicago” show reruns (NBC).

Thursday

8-9 p.m.: “The Golden Bachelor” (ABC, Sept. 28): It’s the elderly iteration of “The Bachelor,” with 71-year-old Indiana grandfather Gerry Turner as the star wooing retirement-age women.

8-9 p.m.: “Big Brother” (CBS).

8-9 p.m.: “Hell’s Kitchen” (Fox, Sept. 28).

8-9 p.m.: “Law & Order” universe reruns (NBC).

8-8:30 p.m.: “Son of a Critch” (The CW, Oct. 19).

8:30-9 p.m.: “Run the Burbs” (The CW, Oct. 19).

9-11 p.m.: “Bachelor in Paradise” (ABC, Sept. 28).

9-10 p.m.: “Buddy Games” (CBS): Josh Duhamel hosts this competition that’s all the stupid human tricks of “Survivor” with little else. The British version of “Ghosts,” imported from streaming service Max, will move into the time period beginning Nov. 16 after “Buddy Games” concludes its run.

9-10 p.m.: “LEGOMasters” (Fox, Sept. 28).

9-10 p.m.: “Transplant” (NBC, Oct. 12).

9-9:30 p.m.: “Children Ruin Everything” (The CW, Oct. 19).

9:30-10 p.m.: “Everyone Else Burns” (The CW, Oct. 19): Easily the fall’s best original scripted series, this British import follows a strictly religious family who believe the world will end soon. Patriarch David (Simon Bird) blusters with unearned self-confidence like David Brent (Ricky Gervais) on the original “Office.” He’s disappointed in his daughter’s straight-As in school (because it means she didn’t spend enough time proselytizing), and he takes away his wife’s TV (because it showed a couple kissing) when he’s not running his family through apocalypse drills or plotting to become a church elder. Daughter Rachel (Amy James-Kelly) is the heart of the series as she’s torn between collegiate aspirations, interest from a boy who has been shunned by her church and remaining true to her family’s values.

10-11 p.m.: “SEAL Team” (CBS, Nov. 2).

10-11 p.m.: “Dateline NBC” (NBC).

Friday

8-9 p.m.: “Shark Tank” (ABC, Sept. 29).

8-9 p.m.: “Let’s Make a Deal” (CBS).

8-10 p.m.: “Friday Night Smackdown” (Fox).

8-9 p.m.: “The Wall” (NBC, Nov. 3).

8-9 p.m.: “Penn & Teller: Fool Us” (The CW, Oct. 20).

9-11 p.m.: “20/20” (ABC, Sept. 29).

9-10 p.m.: “Raid the Cage” (CBS, Oct. 13): Two teams of two face off to grab prizes from a cage before time runs out and the doors close. Correctly answering trivia questions adds seconds to the clock. After three rounds, the team that banks the highest total dollar value in prizes wins. Damon Wayans Jr. and Jeannie Mai Jenkins host.

9-10 p.m.: “Dateline NBC” (NBC, Sept. 29).

9-10 p.m.: “Inside the NFL” rerun (The CW).

10-11 p.m.: “Blue Bloods” reruns (CBS).

Saturday

8-11 p.m.: “College Football” (ABC).

7:30-11 p.m.: “Big Ten on CBS” college football (CBS, Sept 23).

8-10 p.m.: “Fox Sports Saturday” (Fox).

7:30-11 p.m.: “Big Saturday Night” college football (NBC).

8-9 p.m.: “Masters of Illusion” (The CW, Oct. 28).

9-10 p.m.: “World’s Funniest Animals” (The CW, Oct. 28).

10-11 p.m.: “48 Hours” (CBS, Sept. 16).