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Network: BBC Two
Genre: Drama

Who's in it: Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Claire Foy, David Bradley, Mark Gatiss, Charity Wakefield, Joanne Whalley, Jonathan Pryce, Anton Lesser, Emma Hiddleston, Joss Porter, Thomas Sangster, Ed Speelers, Kate Phillips, Florence Bell, Saskia Reeves, Iain Batchelor, Jessica Raine, Paul Clayton

What's it about?
An adaptation of Hilary Mantel's novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies which documents the rise to power of Thomas Cromwell

Premieres On: January 22, 2015

Network: FOX
Genre: Crime, Drama
Who's in it?: Rainn Wilson, Genevieve Angelson, Page Kennedy, Dennis Haysbert, Beatrice Rosen, Thomas Dekker

What's it about?
Backstrom centers on Everett Backstrom (Rainn Wilson), an "overweight, offensive, irascible" detective who is engaged in a constant struggle with his "self-destructive" tendencies, and is part of a team of eccentric criminologists

Premieres On: January 25, 2015

Network: History
Genre: Docudrama, Historical Drama
Who's in it?: Jason O'Mara, Ben Barnes, Henry Thomas, Dean Norris, Rafe Spall, Michael Raymond-James, Ryan Eggold, Marton Csokas, Emily Berrington, Kevin Ryan, Steven Guttenberg

What's it about?
Drama set during the revolutionary war.

Premieres: January 29, 2015

Network: Sky Atlantic
Genre: Drama
Who's in it?: Stanley Tucci, Richard Dormer, Michael Gambon, Sofie Grabol, Christopher Eccleston, Jessica Raine, Luke Treadaway, Nicholas Pinnock, Johnny Harris

What's it about?
The series centers on a mysterious death in a community located in the Arctic Circle.

Premieres On: February 4, 2015

Network: ABC
Genre: Sitcom
Who's in it?: Randall Park, Constance Wu, Ian Chen, Forrest Wheeler, Hudson Yang

What's it about?
The story follows the story of Eddie Huang's Taiwanese family as they make their way from Washington DC to Orlando, Florida to open up a steak restaurant during the 1990s. The mother struggles with culture clash of having to move from Washington D.C. to Orlando, Florida, the father embraces the "American Dream", and Eddie and his brothers struggle with assimilating into the school.

Premieres On: February 5, 2015

Network: NBC
Genre: Thriller
Who's in it?: Gavin Stenhouse, Hope Davis, Scott Cohen, Margarita Levieva, Kenneth Choi, Annie Ilonzeh, Morgan Spector

What's it about?
Allegiance revolves around the O’Connor family and their son, Alex, a decorated American war hero and CIA analyst whose parents and sister, unbeknownst to him, are part of a dormant Russian sleeper cell that has just been reactivated. Once the parents are reluctantly pulled back in, the stakes rise as they are coerced into spying on their own son and turning him against his country.

Premieres On: February 8, 2015

Network: AMC
Genre: Drama, Black Comedy
Who's in it?: Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Michael McKean, Rhea Seehorn, Patrick Fabian, Micahel Mando

What's it about?
A prequel spin-off of Breaking Bad, this series is set in 2002 and focuses on small-time lawyer Saul Goodman

Premieres On: March 1, 2015

Network: CBS
Genre: Crime Drama
Who's in it?: Josh Duhamel, Dean Winters

What's it about?
An FBI agent and a police detective team up to clean up the semi-mean streets of Battle Creek, Michigan

Premieres On: March 1, 2015

Network: ABC
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Who's in it?: Ryan Philippe, Juliette Lewis, KaDee Strickland, Natalie Martinez, Clifton Collins, Jr, Indiana Evans, Belle Shouse

What's it about?
The series is based on the Australian series of the same name and follows Ben Garner, a family man who discovers the body of a young boy and quickly becomes the prime suspect in his death. Ben then goes in search of the real killer in order to clear his name.

Premieres On: March 4, 2015

Network: CBS
Genre: Police Procedural, Drama
Who's in it?: Patricia Arquette

What's it about?
CSI spin-off dealing with a cyber-psychologist in charge of the Cyber Crime Division in Quantico, Virginia.

Premieres On: March 5, 2015

Network: USA
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Who's in it?: Jason Isaacs, Anne Heche, Melinda Page Hamilton

What's it about?
The story focuses on an FBI agent who is based in Jerusalem and discovers a plot that dates back 2000 years, during a murder investigation

Premieres On: March 5, 2015

Network: ABC
Genre: Crime, Drama
Who's in it?: Felicity Huffman, Timothy Hutton, W. Earl Brown, Richard Cabral, Caitlin Gerard, Benito Martinez, Penelope Ann Miller, Elvis Nolasco, Johnny Ortiz

What's it about?
The series will center on race, class, and gender politics as it follows a racially charged murder and the subsequent trial

Premieres On: March 6, 2015

Network: Netflix
Genre: Comedy
Who's in it?: Ellie Kemper, Tituss Burgess, Sara Chase, Lauren Adams

What's it about?
Centers on a woman who escapes from a doomsday cult and starts life over in New York City.

Premieres On: March 2015

Network: Netflix
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Who's in it?: Kyle Chandler, Ben Mendelsohn, Linda Cardellini, Norbert Leo Butz, Jacinda Barrett, Jamie McShane, Enrique Murciano, Sam Shepard, Sissy Spacek

What's it about?
A family of adult siblings whose secrets and scars are revealed when their black sheep brother returns home.

Premieres On: April 5, 2015

Network: NBC
Genre: Drama, Thriller

Who's in it?: Anna Friel, Peter Facinelli, Jake Robinson, Jim True-Frost, Treat Williams, Nate Mooney, Elena Kampouris, Daniella Pineda, Sadie Sink, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Omar Ghazaoui

What's it about?
Odyssey centers three families whose lives are torn apart when a stranded female soldier, a disillusioned corporate attorney and a disrespected political activist are pulled into the same shocking international military conspiracy.

Premieres On: April 10, 2015

Network: Netflix
Genre: Action, Adventure, Superhero
Who's in it?: Charlie Cox, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Hensen, Ayelet Zurer, Rosario Dawson, Vincent D'Onofrio

What's it about?
Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of New York City's Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood as Daredevil

Premieres On: Spring 2015
Network: Fox
Genre: Drama

Who's in it?: Matt Dillon, Carla Gugino, Melissa Leo, Toby Jones, Juliette Lewis, Terrence Howard, Reed Diamond, Tim Griffin, Shannyn Sossamon, Charlie Tahan

What's it about:
A Secret Service agent goes to Wayward Pines, Idaho in search of two federal agents who have gone missing in the bucolic town. He soon learns that he may never get out of Wayward Pines alive.

Premieres On: 2015

Network: BBC America
Genre: Drama
Who's in it?: Eddie Marsan, Bertie Carvel, Alice Englert, Marc Warren, Samuel West, Charlotte Riley, Enzo Cilenti

What's it about?
Set at the beginning of the 19th-century, England no longer believes in practical magic. The reclusive Mr Norrell of Hurtfew Abbey stuns the city of York when he causes the statues of York Cathedral to speak and move. With a little persuasion and help from his man of business Childermass, he goes to London to help the government in the war against Napoleon. It is there Norrell summons a fairy to bring Lady Pole (Englert) back from the dead, opening a whole can of worms.

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Network: NBC
Genre: Drama
Who's in it?: David Duchovny, Gethin Anthony, Grey Damon, Emma Dumont

What's it about?
In 1967, Los Angeles police sergeant Sam Hodiak is helped in a missing persons case by undercover officer Brian Shafe, who behaves like a hippie and fits in with the people being questioned. Unknown to them, their investigation will lead them to Charles Manson.

Premieres On: Spring 2015
Network: ABC
Genre: Historical Drama

Who's in it?: JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Odette Annable, Zoe Boyle, Azure Parsons, Desmond Harrington

What's it about:
This limited series tells the story of the women who were key players behind some of the biggest events in American history. As America’s astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, Life Magazine documented the astronauts’ families, capturing the behind-the-scenes lives of their young wives. Overnight, these women were transformed from military spouses into American royalty. As their celebrity rose and tragedy began to touch their lives, they rallied together.

Network: SyFy
Genre: Science Fiction, Mystery
Who's in it?: Thomas Jane, Steven Strait, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Dominique Tipper, Cas Anvar, Wes Chatham, Florene Faivre

What's it about?
The crew of the Rocinante discover a derelict vessel which holds a secret that may be devastating to human existence.

Network: Nine Network, Australia
Genre: Drama

Who's in it: Lachy Hulme, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Harry Greenwood, Sam Parsonson, Tom Budge, Lincoln Lewis, Ashleigh Cummings, Matt Nable, James Callis, Grant Bowler

Premieres On: Spring 2015

Network: NBC
Genre: Serial Drama, Science Fiction
Who's in it?:

What's it about?
Continuing the Heroes saga witha 13-episode miniseries

Network: CW
Genre: Crime, Comedy, Drama
Who's in it?: Rose mcIver, David Anders, Malcolm Goodwin, Rahul Kohli, Robert Buckley

What's it about?
Olivia "Liv" Moore was a rosy-cheeked, disciplined, over-achieving medical resident who had her life path completely mapped out…until the night she attended a party that unexpectedly turned into a zombie feeding frenzy.

Premieres On: Spring 2015

Network: NBC
Genre: Comedy
Who's in it?: Craig Robinson

What's it about?
Mr. Robinson is an upcoming American sitcom starring Craig Robinson as a music teacher at a middle school

Premieres On: Spring 2015

Network: NBC
Genre: Comedy
Who's in it?: Elisha Cuthbert, Nick Zano, Kelly Brook

What's it about?
A lesbian becomes pregnant with her best friend's baby.

Premieres On: 2015
Network: Netflix
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi

Who's in it?:

What's it about:
A group of people around the world are suddenly linked mentally, and must find a way to survive being hunted by those who see them as a threat to the world's order.

BUZZ: N/A

Premieres On: Spring 2015

Network: CW
Genre: Drama, Action, Mystery, Science Fiction
Who's in it?: Shantel VanSanten, Jon Fletcher, Sofia Black-D'Elia, JD Pardo, Joel Courtney, Anna Diop Diogo Morgado

What's it about?
A mysterious object crashes on earth and a group of unconnected strangers die from an energy pulse it emits, but then re-awaken to find out that they have been deemed responsible for preventing the impending Apocalypse.

Premieres On: Spring 2015

Network: ABC
Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller, Supernatural
Who's in it?: Lily Rabe, Barry Sloane, Milo Ventimiglia, Derek Webster, Catalina Denis, Kylie Rogers, Kyle Harrison Breitkopf

What's it about?
The series explores what happens when an alien race from another world begins a mysterious and quiet takeover of Earth by using the most unlikely and unsuspecting inhabitants on the planet - the children.

Premieres On: Summer 2015

Network: CBS
Genre: Drama
Who's in it?:

What's it about?
Zoo is an upcoming American drama television series based on the novel of the same name by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge

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Network: NBC
Genre:
Who's in it?: Krysten Ritter

What's it about?
A workplace ensemble set in 1962, this series examines what happens when a strong woman butts heads with a macho astronaut in the race to land on the moon.

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Network: NBC
Genre:
Who's in it?:

What's it about?
Emerald City is an American fantasy television series based on the Land of Oz book series written by L. Frank Baum

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Network: Fox
Genre: Comedy
Who's in it?: Chris D'Elia, Bianca Kajlich, Brent Morin, Ron Funches

What's it about?
The multi-cam project centers on a group of young friends dubbed the "Undateables" whose lives are altered when a more confident character enters their world. Based on the British comedy, Gavin & Stacey.

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Network: FOX

Who's in it?: Will Rothhaar

What's it about:
ER, The West Wing and Top Gun collide in this young ensemble about the working men and women on board a US Aircraft Carrier. Equipped with a 500 foot landing strip, a nuclear reactor and 6000 souls on board, Wild Blue is an upstairs/downstairs look at pressure-cooker lives of the US Navy

Premieres On: 2014
Network: AMC
Genre: Sci-Fi

Who's in it?:

What's it about:
Lewis Bernt, a National Transportation Safety Board (Ntsb) investigator, survives a mysterious plane crash, bringing him on an emotionally disorienting quest to discover the accident's cause

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Network: ABC

Who's in it?: Odette Annable, Luke Bracey, Bruce Greenwood, Jennifer Beals, Michael Graziadei, Lincoln Lewis, Dean Winters, Lexi Ainsworth, Brooklyn Sudano

What's it about:
The show in revolves around the haves and have-nots of Venice, Los Angeles and focuses on two rival families like classic story of Romeo and Juliet

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Network: FOX

Who's in it?: Brittany Snow, Catherine O’Hara

What's it about:
Based upon the blog and upcoming book To My Assistant, by Lydia Whitlock. Assistants at a big NY law firm band together as a family to help each other cope with the obnoxious overbearing bosses who challenge their sanity on a daily basis

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Network: CBS

Who's in it?: Jason Isaacs, Sean Astin, Kathryn Morris, Beth Riesgraf, Katherine McNamara, Anna Deavere Smith, Mike Colter, Miguel Sandoval

What's it about:
Medical show centered around America’s doctor: the Surgeon General of the United States

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Network: ABC

Who's in it?: Parminder Nagra, Naveen Andrews, Bess Armstrong, Stephen Lang

What's it about:
When his wife is unjustly imprisoned during a political uprising overseas, resourceful problem solver David desperately pursues every legal option to secure her release. But when he’s stymied by the US government in the name of diplomacy, David is forced to consider less-than-legal options – entering a world of political intrigue, dangerous alliances and high emotional stakes as he crafts an elaborate scheme to do what our government cannot: topple a brutal dictator and bring his wife home. Inspired by real events

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Network: CBS

Who's in it?: Charlie Cox, Emmanuelle Chiriqui, Sam Neill, Jorge Garcia, Hope Davis, Francois Chau, Sonia Braga, Linda Park

What's it about:
The drama follows the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to get closer to his family’s enemies and prevent his politician sister from being assassinated

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Network: ABC

Who's in it?: Bridget Regan, Brendan Hines, Annie Potts

What's it about:
Hour long dramedy set in NYC centering on a mother and daughter who team up as amateur sleuths.

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Network: ABC

Who's in it?: Chris Egan, Tom Ellis and Melissa George

What's it about:
A sexy gothic soap set in present day that weaves together a mythology that incorporates the legends of Dracula, Jekyll and Hyde, Frankenstein and Dorian Gray among others.

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Network: FOX

Who's in it?: Rob Riggle, Angela Kinsey

What's it about:
A neurotic family with contempt for all things normal tries their best to fit into their small Midwest town where everyone knows each other and politeness reigns

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Network: ABC

Who's in it?: Steve Coogan, Carla Gugino, Mercedes Ruehl, Rockmond Dunbar, Greg Grunberg

What's it about:
A former cop who’s now a cunning, but charming low-rent lawyer uses his street smarts to work the system for his clients while battling his own demons and wooing his ex-wife.

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Network: FOX

Who's in it?: Michael Peña, Gary Cole

What's it about:
Centers on U.S. Marshal Dan Shaker, who leads the hunt for the person who stole “the list” — a file with the identities of every member in the Federal Witness Security Program — after those in the program begin popping up dead

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Network: FOX

Who's in it?: Emma Roberts, Corey Reynolds, Billy Campbell

What's it about:
Based on bestselling trilogy about a world where love is deemed illegal and is able to be eradicated with a special procedure. With 95 days to go until her scheduled treatment, Lena Holoway does the unthinkable: she falls in love

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Network: FOX

Who's in it?: Anthony LaPaglia, Felicity Huffman

What's it about:
Focuses on the usual, everyday drama surrounding a family business — except this family is in the business of executing hits as assassins for the U.S. government. star

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Network: ABC

Who's in it?: Ana de la Reguera, Pierce Gagnon, Alex Meraz, Ed MacLiam

What's it about:
When a brilliant, late 19th century New York doctor and his family are given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to relocate to a frontier mining town run by a powerful, but mysterious tycoon, they quickly realize that not everything in Big Thunder is as it seems