TV Shows That Premiered in 2016

Network: ABC
Premiere Date: October 2016
Starring: Katie Mixon, Diedrich Bader, Ali Wong

About: A family comedy narrated by Katie, a strong-willed mother, raising her flawed family in a wealthy town filled with perfect wives and their perfect offspring.

Network: ABC
Premiere Date: October 2016 (cancelled November 2016)
Starring: Hayley Atwell, Eddie Cahill, Shawn Ashmore, Merrin Dungey, Emily Kinney, Manny Montana, Daniel DiTomasso

About: A brilliant young attorney (Atwell), who is also the daughter of a former U.S. president, is blackmailed to head up LA's new Conviction Integrity Unit. She and her team investigate cases where people may have been wrongly convicted.

Network: ABC
Premiere Date: September 2016
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Natascha McElhone, Maggie Q, Kal Penn, Adan Canto, Italia Ricci, LaMonica Garrett, Tanner Buchanan

About: A lower level United States Cabinet member (Sutherland) is suddenly appointed President after a catastrophic attack during the State of the Union kills everyone above him in the Presidential line of succession.

Network: ABC
Premiere Date: September 2016
Starring: Minnie Driver, John Ross Bowie, Mason Cook, Micah Fowler, Kyla Kennedy, Cedric Yarbrough

About: A family with a special-needs child is good at dealing with the challenges it faces and excellent at creating new ones.

Network: ABC
Premiere Date: September 2016 (cancelled May 2017)
Starring: Piper Perabo, Daniel Sunjata, Ryan Guzman, Kevin Zegers, J. August Richards, Aimee Teegarden

About: Follows the professional and personal relationship between a charismatic attorney and a powerhouse television producer as they attempt to control the media, the justice system, and ultimately - each other...

Network: ABC
Premiere Date: June 2016
Starring: Alec Baldwin

About: A revival of the classic American television panel game show that premiered on NBC in 1962. Hosted by Alec Baldwin, the game features contestants trying to come up with answers to fill-in-the-blank questions, with the object being to match answers given by celebrity panelists.

Network: ABC
Premiere Date: June 2016
Starring: Michael Strahan

About: An American television game show franchise, newly revived and hosted by Michael Strahan. The game features two contestants, each paired with a celebrity. Contestants attempt to guess a series of words or phrases based on descriptions given to them by their teammates.

Network: ABC
Premiere Date: June 2016 (cancelled July 2016)
Starring: Mike Epps, Nia Long, James Lesure, Iman Benson, Sayeed Shahidi, Aalyrah Caldwell

About: Based on the hit movie of the same name, Uncle Buck (Mike Epps) is a fun-loving but irresponsible guy who needs a job and a place to stay. By happy coincidence, his nieces' and nephew's nanny has just quit and his brother and sister-in-law need his help. His unconventional personality may just make him the right fit for the family and they may be the answer to his problems, too.

Network: ABC
Premiere Date: March 2016 (cancelled May 2017)
Starring: Mireille Enos, Alimi Ballard, Damon Dayoub, Jay Hayden, Jacky Ido, Bethany Joy Lenz, Rose Rollins, Elvy Yost

About: Follows a female private investigator whose career specialty is exposing fraud for a living.

Network: ABC
Premiere Date: March 2016 (cancelled May 2016)
Starring: Joan Allen, Alison Pill, Margot Bingham, Zach Gilford, Liam James, Floriana Lima, Madeleine Arthur, Rarmian Newton, Rupert Graves, Andrew McCarthy

About: This thriller follows the return of a politician's young son who was presumed dead after disappearing over a decade earlier. As the mysterious young man is welcomed back into his family, suspicions emerge - is he really who he says he is?

Network: ABC
Premiere Date: March 2016 (cancelled May 2017)
Starring: Martha Plimpton, Jay R. Ferguson, Noah Galvin, Matthew Shively, Bebe Wood, Mary Hollis Inboden

About: A fresh take on a seemingly perfect Catholic family whose lives take an unexpected turn when surprising truths are revealed. Instead of ruining their family, the honesty triggers a new, messier chapter where everyone stops pretending to be perfect and actually starts being real.

Network: ABC
Premiere Date: March 2016 (cancelled March 2016)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Simone Kessell, Oliver Rix, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Haaz Sleiman, James Floyd, Mohammad Bakri, Tomer Kapon

About: An epic Biblical saga of faith, ambition and betrayal as told through the eyes of a battle-weary king, a powerful and resentful prophet and a resourceful young shepherd on a collision course with destiny.

Network: CBS
Premiere Date: November 2016 (cancelled November 2016)
Starring: Augustus Prew, Dermot Mulroney, Brenda Song, Reshma Shetty, Ward Horton, Aaron Jennings, Odette Annable

About: A young Silicon Valley tech-titan enlists a veteran surgeon with a controversial past in starting a hospital with a cutting-edge, new school approach to medicine.

Network: CBS
Premiere Date: October 2016 (cancelled May 2017)
Starring: Joel McHale, Stephen Fry, Chris Williams, Shaun Brown, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Christine Ko, Susannah Fielding

About: Community star McHale plays an adventure reporter who trades his life exploring the wilderness for a desk job managing a group of twentysomething writers at a magazine.

Network: CBS
Premiere Date: October 2016
Starring: Matt LeBlanc, Jessica Chaffin, Matt Cook, Grace Kaufman, Hala Finley, Matthew McCann

About: When his wife goes back to work, a dad (LeBlanc) takes on the role of Mr. Mom and discovers that his kids are the worst.

Network: CBS
Premiere Date: September 2016
Starring: Lucas Till, George Eads

About: A reimagining of the television series of the same name, following a 20-something MacGyver as he creates a clandestine organization where he uses his knack for solving problems in unconventional ways to help prevent disasters from happening.

Network: CBS
Premiere Date: September 2016
Starring: Michael Weatherly, Freddy Rodriguez, Geneva Carr, Chris Jackson, Jaime Lee Kirchner, Annabelle Attanasio

About: Inspired by the early career of Dr. Phil McGraw, Michael Weatherly stars as Dr. Jason Bull. Brilliant, brash and charming, he's the ultimate puppet master combining psychology, intuition and high tech data to learn what makes jurors and the accused tick.

Network: CBS
Premiere Date: September 2016
Starring: Kevin James, Erinn Hayes, Taylor Spreitler, Mary-Charles Jones, James DiGiacomo, Ryan Cartwright

About: A newly retired police officer looks forward to spending more quality time with his wife and three kids only to discover he faces much tougher challenges at home than he ever did on the streets.

Network: CBS
Premiere Date: June 2016 (cancelled October 2016)
Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Tveit, Nikki M. James, Johnny Ray Gill, Danny Pino

About: Laurel is pulled back into the family business when her brother, the senate majority whip, needs her help running his senate office. She discovers two things: The government has stopped working, and alien spawn have come to Earth and eaten the brains of a growing number of congressmen and Hill staffers.

Network: CBS
Premiere Date: June 2016 (cancelled October 2016)
Starring: Megan Ketch, Justin Chatwin, Antony Starr, Juliet Rylance, Stephanie Leonidas, Gabriel Bateman

About: Centers on a prominent Boston family that is attempting to redefine itself in the wake of a chilling discovery that links their recently deceased patriarch to a string of murders spanning decades, amid the mounting suspicion that one of them may have been his accomplice.

Network: CBS
Premiere Date: March 2016 (cancelled May 2016)
Starring: Jon Foo, Justin Hires, Wendie Malick, Aimee Garcia

About: TV show based on the action-comedy 'Rush Hour' films about an L.A. cop who teams up with a detective from Hong Kong.

Network: CBS
Premiere Date: March 2016 (cancelled May 2017)
Starring: Gary Sinise, Daniel Henney, Tyler James Williams, Anna Gunn

About: A Criminal Minds Spinoff about the specialized International Division of the FBI tasked with solvin

Network: CBS
Premiere Date: January 2016 (cancelled February 2016)
Starring: Jane Lynch, Maggie Lawson, Kevin Pollak, Kyle Bornheimer

About: Allison isn't quite sure if her new friend, Amy, is her guardian angel or a crazy person.

Network: Fox
Premiere Date: December 2016
Starring: Queen Latifah, Benjamin Bratt, Jude Demorest, Ryan Destiny, Brittany O’Grady

About: The series follows three young singers as they strive to break into the music business.

Network: Fox
Premiere Date: September 2016 (cancelled May 2017)
Starring: Kylie Bunbury, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Ali Larter, Mark Consuelos, Dan Lauria, Michael Beach, Bob Balaban, Mo McRae, Meagan Holder, Tim Jo

About: Pitch centers on gifted pitcher Ginny Baker (Bunbury), who becomes the first woman to play for the MLB when she joins the San Diego Padres.

Network: Fox
Premiere Date: September 2016
Starring: Geena Davis, Alfonso Herrera, Ben Daniels, Brianne Howey, Hannah Kasulka, Alan Ruck, Kurt Egyiawan

About: Based on William Blatty's 1971 novel about a priest who performs exorcisms on demonic spirits.

Network: Fox
Premiere Date: September 2016
Starring: Damon Wayans Sr., Clayne Crawford, Jordana Brewster, Kevin Rahm, Keesha Sharp

About: Based on the buddy cop movie franchise of the ’80s and ’90s. Wayans Sr. takes over for Danny Glover as LAPD Homicide Sergeant Rogert Murtaugh, and Crawford is the new Mel Gibson as LAPD Narcotics Sergeant Martin Riggs.

Network: Fox
Premiere Date: September 2016 (cancelled May 2017)
Starring: Jason Sudeikis, Cheryl Hines, Johnny Pemberton, Tim Meadows

About: This live-action and animated comedy, stars Jason Sudeikis voicing the title character, Zorn, an animated warrior from the mystical land of Zephyria in the Pacific Ocean who returns to Orange County, California, for the first time in a decade. He struggles with the banality of his suburban life as he tries to reconnect with his live-action son Alan and win back his ex-wife Edie.

Network: Fox
Premiere Date: March 2016 (cancelled August 2016)
Starring: Stephen Mangan, Michael Weston, Emily Carey

About: Two great men of the 20th Century - Harry Houdini, master magician, escape artist and paranormal debunker; and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, prolific writer, creator of "Sherlock Holmes" and paranormal aficionado - grudgingly join forces with New Scotland Yard to investigate unsolved and inexplicable crimes with a supernatural slant.

Network: Fox
Premiere Date: January 2016
Starring: Tom Ellis, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Lauren German, Nicholas Gonzalez, Rachael Harris, D. B. Woodside

About: Satan takes up residence in Los Angeles.

Network: Fox
Premiere Date: January 2016 (cancelled May 2016)
Starring: Robert Kazinsky, Adhir Kalyan, Tim DeKay, Dilshad Vadsaria, Ciara Bravo

About: Twin scientists and billionaire founders of the social networking empire, Lookinglass, Mary and Otto Goodwin are on a quest to save one of their own lives. Asking, “What would you do with with a second chance,” the series follows disgraced former sheriff and murder victim, Jimmy Pritchard, who is brought back to life, younger and stronger.

Network: Fox
Premiere Date: January 2016 (cancelled May 2016)
Starring: Jack Cutmore-Scott, Meaghan Rath, James Earl, Charlie Saxton, Justin Bartha, Maureen Sebastian

About: Wouldn't it be great to have a friend who has made all the mistakes in life there are to make, and then tells you exactly where he went wrong, so you don't have to? THE GUIDE TO SURVIVING LIFE is a new comedy that explores what we all go through on our way to figuring out what life is all about.

Network: Fox
Premiere Date: Revived January 2016
Starring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi

About: Returning 14 years after the original run for a 10th season. Two FBI agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and unexplained while hidden forces work to impede their efforts.

Network: NBC
Premiere Date: October 2016
Starring: Abigail Spencer, Matt Lanter, Malcolm Barrett, Goran Visnjic, Paterson Joseph, Sakina Jaffrey, Claudia Doumit

About: After a nefarious criminal steals a time machine, a three-person team — a scientist, a soldier, and a history professor — is assembled to stop him from changing the past and destroying the future.

Network: NBC
Premiere Date: September 2016
Starring: Kristen Bell, Ted Danson, Jameela Jamil, William Jackson Harper, Manny Jacinto, D’Arcy Carden

About: The Good Place follows Eleanor Shellstrop (Bell) and her mentor (Danson) as she tries to become a better person in the afterlife.

Network: NBC
Premiere Date: September 2016
Starring: Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Justin Hartley, Chrissy Metz, Sterling K. Brown, Susan Kelechi Watson, Chris Sullivan, Ron Cephas Jones

About: A group of people born on the same day, including Rebecca (Moore) and Jack (Ventimiglia), a married couple expecting triplets in Pittsburgh, and Kevin (Hartley), a handsome television actor growing bored of his fly bachelor lifestyle.

Network: NBC
Premiere Date: May 2016
Starring: Maya Rudolph, Martin Short

About: A variety show co-hosted by comedians Maya Rudolph and Martin Short, and produced by Lorne Michaels. The show features various comedy sketches, musical performances, and celebrity guests.

Network: NBC
Premiere Date: May 2016
Starring: William Shatner, Henry Winkler, George Foreman, Terry Bradshaw, Jeff Dye

About: A reality-travel show, adaptated from the popular South Korean Grandpas Over Flowers series.The cast includes four "seasoned" American celebrities William Shatner, Henry Winkler, George Foreman and Terry Bradshaw, accompanied by younger comedian Jeff Dye, as they backpack through Asia without luxuries, experiencing new cultures and checking off their bucket lists.

Network: NBC
Premiere Date: April 2016 (cancelled May 2016)
Starring: David Lyons, Michael Raymond-James, Larenz Tate, Bre Blair, Conor O’Farrell, Deidrie Henry, Demetrius Grosse, Claire Van Der Boom

About: A rising attorney finds his perfectly crafted life threatened when his long-lost childhood friends threaten to expose a dark secret from their past.

Network: NBC
Premiere Date: March 2016 (cancelled May 2016)
Starring: Melissa George, Don Hany, Dave Annable, Shelley Conn, D.L. Hughley, Jamie Kennedy, Maya Erskine, J. Louis Mills, Joshua Leonard

About: Based on the real life and achievements of Dr. Kathy Magliato, this unique character-driven medical drama follows Dr. Alex Panttiere, an outspoken world-renowned heart-transplant surgeon and one of the few women in her field. Stubborn and fearless, Alex always operates on her own terms. She revels in a racy personal life that’s a full-time job in itself, manages the daily demands of skeptical faculty and dutiful interns, and pushes the boundaries of medical science to impressive new heights.

Network: NBC
Premiere Date: March 2016 (cancelled May 2016)
Starring: Miranda Cosgrove, Patrick Warburton, Carrie Preston, Mia Serafino, Carlease Burke

About: An empty nest couple find out that their adult daughters want to move back home with them.

Network: NBC
Premiere Date: January 2016
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Drea De Matteo, Hampton Fluker, Ray Liotta, Warren Kole, Dayo Okeniyi, Vincent Laresca, Sarah Jeffery

About: A single mom works undercover for the FBI on an anti-corruption task force unit.

Network: The CW
Premiere Date: October 2016 (cancelled May 2017)
Starring: Tori Anderson, Josh Sasse, Sarayu Blue, Amy Pietz, Jesse Rath, Jonathan Langdon

About: Evie, a risk-averse quality-control assessor who falls for free-spirited thrill seeker Xavier only to find out he lives his life that way because he believes the apocalypse is coming.

Network: The CW
Premiere Date: October 2016 (cancelled May 2017)
Starring: Riley Smith, Mekhi Phifer, Peyton List, Lenny Jacobson, Anthony Ruivivar, Devin Kelley, Daniel Bonjour

About: A police detective in 2016 discovers that she is able to speak via a ham radio with her estranged father; Frank Sullivan, a detective who died in 1996 and the two must work together to change the history of tragic events to come while also getting the chance to heal their complicated relationship. Based on the 2000 movie of the same name.

Network: CW
Premiere Date: April 2016 (cancelled May 2016)
Starring: Chris Wood, Christina Moses, Claudia Black, David Gyasi, George Young, Hanna Mangan Lawrence, Kristen Gutoskie, Trevor St. John

About: When a mysterious and deadly epidemic breaks out in Atlanta, a vast urban quarantine is quickly enforced, forcing those stuck on the inside to fight for their lives while local and federal officials desperately search for a cure. Torn apart from their loved ones, the survivors trapped within the cordon are fighting against not only fatal infection, but also isolation, fear, and the disintegration of society around them. But as they begin to gain each other's trust, hope remains, and on either side of the cordon unlikely heroes will rise.

Network: CW
Premiere Date: January 2016
Starring: Arthur Darvill, Ciara Renee, Brandon Routh, Caity Lotz, Dominic Purcell, Franz Drameh, Victor Garber, Wentworth Miller

About: 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?

Network: Netflix
Premiere Date: December 2016
Starring: Brit Marling, Scott Wilson, Will Brill, Brandon Perea

About: Having gone missing seven years ago, the previously blind Johnson returns home, now in her 20s and her sight restored. While many believe she is miracle, others worry that she could be dangerous.

Network: Netflix, Showcase
Premiere Date: October 2016 (CA), December 2016 (US)
Starring: Eric McCormack, MacKenzie Porter, Jared Abrahamson, J. Alex Brinson, Nesta Cooper, Reilly Dolman, Patrick Gilmore, Arnold Pinnock, Dylan Playfair, Ian Tracey

About: Hundreds of years from now, surviving humans discover how to send consciousness back through time, into people of the 21st century. These travelers assume the lives of others, while attempting to save humanity from a terrible future.

Network: Netflix
Premiere Date: November 2016
Starring: Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Kelly Bishop, Keiko Agena, Sean Gunn, Yanic Truesdale, Matt Czuchry, Milo Ventimiglia, Jared Padalecki, Liza Weil

About: The follow-up series to 'Gilmore Girls', centering on the lives of a young woman raised by a single mom in Stars Hollow, Connecticut. to create their own 30-minute episode and do whatever they want.

Network: Netflix
Premiere Date: November 2016
Starring: Claire Foy, John Lithgow, Matt Smith, Vanessa Kirby

About: The Crown focuses on Queen Elizabeth II as a 25-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting prospect of leading the world's most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill. The British Empire is in decline, the political world is in disarray, and a young woman takes the throne....a new era is dawning. Peter Morgan's masterfully researched scripts reveal the Queen's private journey behind the public facade with daring frankness. Prepare to be welcomed into the coveted world of power and privilege and behind locked doors in Westminster and Buckingham Palace....the leaders of an empire await.