Tag: AMC

I’m jumping on board a little later in the game this year, but fellow television addicts, we’ve arrived! With the first day of autumn also comes booties, leather jackets, “harvest” scented candles (whatever that’s supposed to smell like), PSL overload, college football, and network premiere week 2016! We’re already fairly deep into this season’s pilots and returning series’ premieres, but like I’ve discussed before, in today’s state of television, there are no hard starts and stops of a traditional TV season. Traditional doesn’t really even exist any more. Things that used to be unicorns (good summer shows, binge releases, online-only content, etc.) are now common place in the landscape of surplus programming as we’ve come to know it. Sunday’s Emmys even delivered! Who knew!

Traditionally for this post, I’ve written a small blurb about each new show I’m excited about, and then catalog each returning show I regularly watch. But because I like keeping my readers on their toes (and I watch entirely too much television), we’re going to try something new this year. By network, I’ve assembled a list of everything I am currently watching/trying to keep up with/excited to begin watching this year. For distinction, I’m bolding the few new shows I think are worth giving a shot. As long as times permits, I plan to give a mini-review a few episodes in of each new program I watch, so stay tuned for that. But for now, behold my 2016-17 television to-do list:

ABC

• Designated Survivor: New series, premiered Wednesday, September 21
• Modern Family: Season 8 premiered Wednesday, September 21

AMAZON PRIME

• Transparent: Season 3 premieres Friday, September 23

AMC

• Better Call Saul: Season 3 premiere TBD Spring 2017

COMEDY CENTRAL

• Broad City: Season 4 premiere TBD Spring 2017
• Drunk History: Season 4 premieres Tuesday, September 27
• Inside Amy Schumer: Season 5 premiere TBD Spring 2017

THE CW

• Jane the Virgin: Season 3 premieres Monday, October 17

DISNEY

• Girl Meets World: Season 3 currently airing

FOX

• The Last Man on Earth: Season 3 premieres Sunday, September 25
• Making History: New series, premiere TBD 2017
• New Girl: Season 6 premiered Tuesday, September 20

FREEFORM

• The Fosters: Season 4B premiere TBD

FX

• The Americans: Season 5 premiere TBD Spring 2017
• Atlanta: New series, premiered Tuesday, September 6
• Better Things: New series, premiered Thursday, September 8

HULU

• Casual: Season 3 premiere TBD Spring 2017
• Difficult People: Season 2 just wrapped
• The Mindy Project: Season 5 premieres on Tuesday, October 4

HBO

• Girls: Season 6 (final season) premiere TBD Spring 2017
• Divorce: New series, premieres Wednesday, October 9
• High Maintenance: New to HBO, premiered Friday, September 16
• Last Week Tonight: Season 3 currently airing
• The Leftovers: Season 3 (final season) premiere TBD Spring 2017
• Veep: Season 6 premiere TBD Spring 2017

NBC

• This is Us: New series, premiered Tuesday, September 20

NETFLIX

• Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life: four new telefilms premieres Friday, November 25
• Grace and Frankie: Season 3 premiere TBD Spring 2017
• Jessica Jones: Season 2 premieres Friday, September 30
• Master of None: Season 2 premiere TBD April 2017
• Narcos: Season 2 premiered Friday, September 2
• Orange is the New Black: Season 5 premiere TBD Summer 2017
• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Season 3 premiere TBD Spring 2017

SHOWTIME

• Masters of Sex: Season 4 premiered Sunday, September 11

TBS

• Full Frontal: Season 1B premiered Monday, September 12

 

To summarize:

A) I watch and/or attempt to keep up with a lot of television, I know.

B) There’s a lot more I am interested in watching (i.e. Viceland shows, more late night and news programs, etc.), and there are likely some shows I’m committed to watching that in good faith I should weed out (i.e. Modern Family, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Girl Meets World, etc.) — but a huge part of what I love about television is the seriality of it. It’s a commitment, and I try my best to honor that, especially when beginning a new program.

C) Almost half of what I’m looking forward to watching doesn’t even premiere until Spring 2017 – which just further enforces the lack of timeliness in television release timelines. I don’t know about you, but I think I’ll have enough on my plate up until then.

On second thought, rumor has it these Chicago winters are BAD. What do you think – did I leave anything out? What do you have on your TV must watch list this year?