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Fall TV 2012: New and Returning Shows

A full listing of network series slated to air during the 2012-2013 season

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Below you can find a full schedule of the new and returning series slated to hit the broadcast networks during the 2012-13 season.

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FOX:

SUNDAY

Fall:

The Simpsons
8pm

Bob's Burgers
8:30

Family Guy
9pm

American Dad
9:30

Mid-season:

The Cleveland Show
7:30

MONDAY

Fall:

Bones
8pm

*Mob Doctor
9pm
Logline: A young female thoracic surgeon (Jordana Spiro) who becomes indebted to the South Chicago mafia is forced to moonlight as a "mob doctor" while also working full-time at Chicago's most prominent hospital.
Cast: James Carpinello, Jesse Lee Soffer, Jordana Spiro, Jamie Lee Kirchner

Mid-season:

*The Following
9pm
Logline: A retired FBI profiler joins the hunt for a serial killer who uses technology to create a cult of serial killers.
Cast: Kevin Bacon, James Purefoy, Shawn Ashmore

TUESDAY

Fall:

Raising Hope
8pm

*Ben and Kate
8:30
Logline: A single mother gets a helping hand from her brother, who moves in to help her raise her baby.
Cast: Nat Faxon, Maggie Jones, Echo Kellum, Abby Elliott

New Girl
9pm

The Mindy Project
9:30
Logline: A young doctor (Mindy Kaling) tries to balance her personal and professional life.
Cast: Mindy Kaling, Ed Weeks, Zoe Jarman, Dana DeLorenzo

Mid-season:

*The Goodwin Games
TBD
Logline: A single-camera family comedy about a father who leaves his fortune to his three daughters, but only on his terms.
Cast: Becki Newton, Scott Foley, Felisha Terrell

WEDNESDAY

Fall:

The X-Factor
8-10pm

Mid-season:

American Idol
8-10pm

THURSDAY

Fall:

The X-Factor results
8pm

Glee
9pm

Mid-season:

American Idol results
8pm

FRIDAY

Fall:

Touch
8pm

Fringe
9pm (fall only)

Mid-season:

Hell's Kitchen
9pm

SATURDAY

Fall:

FOX Sports Saturday
7-10:30pm (fall only)

TBD mid-season series:

Cops

 

NBC:

SUNDAY

Fall:

Football Night in America
7-8:15pm

NBC Sunday Night Football
8:15-11:30

Mid-season:

Dateline NBC
7pm

Fashion Star
8pm

The Celebrity Apprentice
9pm

*Do No Harm
10pm
Logline: A neurosurgeon battles with an alter-ego that threatens to send his life spiraling out of control.
Cast: Steven Pasquale, Alana de la Garza, Ruta Gedmintas, Mousa Kraish, Phylicia Rashad

MONDAY

Fall:

The Voice
8-10pm

*Revolution
10pm
Logline: A group of people survive in a world where all forms of energy no longer exist.
Cast: Billy Burke, Graham Rogers, Tracy Spiradakos, Anna Lise Phillips, Giancarlo Esposito
 
TUESDAY

Fall:

The Voice results
8-9pm

*Go On
9pm
Logline: An irreverent yet charming sportscaster tries to move on from loss and finds support in group therapy sessions.
Cast: Matthew Perry, Laura Benanti, Julie White, Suzy Nakamura

*The New Normal
9:30
Logline: A woman becomes a surrogate for two gay men as they start to build a family.
Cast: Justin Bartha, Georgia King, Andrew Rannells, Ellen Barkin

Parenthood
10pm
 
WEDNESDAY

Fall:

*Animal Practice
8pm
Logline: An office comedy about a veterinarian who loves animals but usually hates their owners.
Cast: Justin Kirk, Tyler Labine, Amy Huberman

*Guys with Kids
8:30
Logline: Three 30-something guys enjoy parenting despite having not grown up themselves.
Cast: Jesse Bradford, Zach Cregger, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Anthony Anderson

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
9pm

*Chicago Fire
10pm
Logline: Action drama about the men and women of the Chicago Fire Department’s Firehouse 55.
Cast: Eamonn Walker, Taylor Kinney, Monica Raymund, Jesse Spencer

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THURSDAY

Fall:

30 Rock
8pm

Up All Night
8:30

The Office
9pm

Parks and Recreation
9:30

Rock Center with Brian Williams
10pm
 
FRIDAY

Fall:

Whitney
8pm

Community
8:30

Grimm
9pm

Dateline NBC
10pm

TBD mid-season series:

Smash (returning)

Save Me
Logline: A single-camera comedy about a woman who, after an accident, believes she is channeling God and starts performing miracles.
Cast: Anne Heche, Alexandra Breckenridge, Michael Landes, Heather Burns

Next Caller
Logline: A comedy revolving around a brash male DJ and his feminist co-host set at a satellite radio station.
Cast: Dane Cook, Collette Wolfe, Joy Osmanski

1600 Penn
Logline: A single-camera comedy about a dysfunctional first family.
Cast: Bill Pullman, Jenna Elfman, Brittany Snow, Josh Gad

 

ABC:

SUNDAY

Fall:

America's Funniest Home Videos
7pm

Once Upon a Time
8pm

Revenge
9pm

*666 Park Avenue
10pm
Logline: A young couple become managers of apartment buildings in New York City where they have supernatural experiences.
Cast: Terry O’Quinn, Dave Annable, Mercedes Masohn, Robert Buckley, Vanessa Williams

MONDAY

Fall:


Dancing with the Stars (All-Stars edition)
8-10pm (fall only)

Castle
10pm

Mid-season:

The Bachelor
8-10pm

TUESDAY

Fall:


Dancing with the Stars results (All-Stars edition)
8pm (fall only)

Happy Endings
9pm

Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
9:30

Private Practice
10pm

Mid-season:

*How to Live With Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life)
8pm
Logline: A single-camera comedy about a recently divorced single mother who moves in with her eccentric parents.
Cast: Sarah Chalke, Jon Dore, Elizabeth Perkins

*The Family Tools
8:30
Logline: Based on the UK show about a man who puts his dreams on hold to run the family handyman business.
Cast: Kyle Bornheimer, JK Simmons, Edi Gathegin

WEDNESDAY

Fall:


The Middle
8pm

Suburgatory
8:30

Modern Family
9pm

*The Neighbors
9:30
Logline: Logline: A single-camera comedy about a family who move next door to aliens.
Cast: Jami Gertz, Simon Templeman, Toks Olagundoye, Tim Jo, Lenny Venito

*Nashville
10pm
Logline: A soap that follows the differing fortunes of two country music stars in Nashville.
Cast: Sam Palladio, Clare Bowen, Jonathan Jackson, Powers Boothe, Hayden Panettiere, Robert Wisdom

THURSDAY

Fall:

*Last Resort
8pm
Logline: A futuristic thriller about the crew of a US nuclear submarine who become fugitives after refusing to fire their missiles, and then establish themselves as an independent nuclear nation.
Cast: Daniel Lissing, Andre Braugher, Autumn Reeser, Daisy Betts, Scott Speedman

Grey's Anatomy
9pm

Scandal
10pm

FRIDAY

Fall:

Shark Tank
8pm

Primetime: What Would You Do?
9pm

20/20
10pm

Beginning in November:


Last Man Standing
8pm

*Malibu Country
8:30
Logline: A woman divorces her cheating rock star husband and moves her family from Nashville to a little house in Malibu.
Cast:Reba McEntire, Lily Tomlin, Sara Rue

Shark Tank
9pm (new time-slot)

SATURDAY

Saturday Night College Football
8pm

TBD mid-season series:

Wife Swap (returning)

Body of Proof (returning)

*Zero Hour
Logline: After his wife is kidnapped, a sceptical magazine editor becomes involved in a huge conspiracy dating back to the Second World War.
Cast: Anthony Edwards, Scott Michael Foster, Addison Timlin, Carmen Ejogo, Jacinda Barrett, Michael Nyquist

*Red Widow
Logline: Based on the Dutch format Penoza, about the widow of an assassinated criminal who is forced to take her husband’s place in a crime syndicate to protect her family.
Cast: Lee Tergesen, Luke Goss, Radha Mitchell, Rade Serbedzija

*Mistresses
Logline: Based on the UK series about four women and their scandalous love lives.
Cast: Alyssa Milano, Jes Macallan, Rochelle Aytes, Yunjin Kim


 

CBS:

SUNDAY

Fall:

60 Minutes
7pm

The Amazing Race
8pm

The Good Wife
9pm

The Mentalist
10pm

MONDAY

Fall:

How I Met Your Mother
8pm

*Partners
8:30
Logline: Two lifelong friends, who are both architects, form a business partnership.
Cast: Michael Urie, David Krumholtz, Sophia Bush, Brandon Routh

2 Broke Girls
9pm

Mike & Molly
9:30

Hawaii Five-O
10pm

TUESDAY

Fall:

NCIS
8pm

NCIS: Los Angeles
9pm

*Vegas
10pm
Logline: The true story of Ralph Lamb, a rodeo cowboy-turned-sheriff in Las Vegas.
Cast: Michael Chiklis, Dennis Quaid, Taylor Handley, Carrie-Anne Moss

WEDNESDAY

Fall:

Survivor
8pm

Criminal Minds
9pm

CSI
10pm

THURSDAY

Fall:

The Big Bang Theory
8pm

Two and a Half Men
8:30

Person of Interest
9pm

*Elementary
10pm
Logline: A modern take on the cases of Sherlock Holmes, with the detective now living in New York City.
Cast: Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu

FRIDAY

Fall:

CSI: NY
8pm

*Made in Jersey
9pm
Logline: A legal drama about a working-class woman who uses her street smarts to compete at a New York law firm.
Cast: Toni Trucks, Janet Montgomery, Kyle MacLachlan, Felix Solis

Blue Bloods
10pm

SATURDAY

Fall:

Crimetime Saturday
8-10pm

48 Hours Mystery
10pm

TBD mid-season series:


Friend Me
Logline: Multi-camera comedy about two 20-something best friends who move from Indiana to Los Angeles.
Cast: Tim Robinson, Parvesh Cheena

Golden Boy
Logline: About a cop’s meteoric rise from officer to detective to police commissioner.
Cast: Theo James, Chi McBride, Kevin Alejandro, Stella Maeve

The Job (reality)
Logline: Contestants vie for a job at an entertainment magazine.
Creator: Mark Burnett

Undercover Boss (returning)

 

The CW

MONDAY

Fall:

90210
8pm

Gossip Girl
9pm (fall only)

Mid-season:

*The Carrie Diaries
9pm
Logline: Based on Candice Bushnell’s books, this prequel to Sex & the City is set during the characters’ high school years.
Cast: Stefania Owen, Katie Findlay, Ellen Wong, AnnaSophia Robb, Freema Agyeman

TUESDAY

Fall:

Hart of Dixie
8pm

*Emily Owens, M.D.
9pm
Logline: A doctor hoping to leave her nerdy past behind discovers life at the hospital where she works is no different to high school.
Cast: Michael Rady, Kelly McCreary, Justin Hartley, Aja Naomi King

WEDNESDAY

Fall:

*Arrow
8pm
Logline: A modern take on the DC Comics character Green Arrow.
Cast: Katie Cassidy, Stephen Amell, David Ramsey, Susanna Thompson, Willa Holland, Colin Donnell

Supernatural
9pm

THURSDAY

Fall:

The Vampire Diaries
8pm

*Beauty and the Beast
9pm
Logline: An NYPD detective is haunted by her mother’s murder and the killer’s demise at the hands of a creature, whom she discovers is the survivor of a military experiment gone wrong.
Cast: Kristin Kreuk, Austin Basis, Nicole Gale Anderson, Nina Lisandrello, Jay Ryan, Max Brown

FRIDAY

Fall:

America's Next Top Model
9pm

Nikita
9pm

TBD mid-season series:

*Cult
Logline: A production assistant on a TV show and a blogger investigate its fans, who might be recreating crimes from the show in real life.
Cast: Matt Davis, Jessica Lucas, Alona Tal, Robert Knepper

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    Jonnybon

    Messy layout.

    May 15, 2012 at 6:54AM EST Reply to Comment
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      typical well, this is shitfix. what do you expect?

      May 15, 2012 at 8:17PM EST
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    Dave I

    Is it me or has TV gotten a lot more boring somewhere along the way?

    -Cheers

    May 15, 2012 at 9:06AM EST Reply to Comment
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      Spikes of Fury If you're referring to the way most of the loglines for the new shows sound terrible, then I agree.

      May 15, 2012 at 9:17AM EST
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      Dave I Pretty much. Most of these new shows just do not sound all that exciting. As of now I am not looking forward to any of the new shows.

      -Cheers

      May 15, 2012 at 9:48AM EST
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    Be better

    "*Nashville
    10pm
    Logline: A soap that follows the differing fortunes of two country music stars in Nashville.
    Cast: Sam Palladio, Clare Bowen, Jonathan Jackson, Powers Boothe, Hayden Panettiere, Robert Wisdom"

    No mention of Mrs. Coach? (or Eric Close)

    May 15, 2012 at 8:13PM EST Reply to Comment
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    Jimmy

    Wow....could it be any more dismal. New and well not exciting.

    May 17, 2012 at 1:40AM EST Reply to Comment
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    Jimmy

    Wow...how dismal thank god for directv.

    May 17, 2012 at 1:41AM EST Reply to Comment

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