A complete list of all the new TV shows from the five major networks for the 2013-2014 season.
#49 The Originals
Network: The CW
Time Slot: Mondays at 8pm
Cast: Joseph Morgan (The Vampire Diaries), Daniel Gillies (The Vampire Diaries), Claire Holt (The Vampire Diaries), Phoebe Tonkin (The Vampire Diaries, The Secret Circle), Charles Michael Davis (Grey’s Anatomy), Daniella Pineda, Leah Pipes, Danielle Campbell
Premise: Spin-off of The Vampire Diaries set in New Orleans and following Klaus and his family.
#48 The Tomorrow People
Network: The CW
Time Slot: Wednesdays at 9pm
Cast: Robbie Amell (1600 Penn), Luke Mitchell, Peyton List (Mad Men), Aaron Yoo, Mark Pellegrino (Lost, Supernatural), Madeleine Mantock
Premise: Young people with super powers team up as they are hunted by a group of scientists who see them as a threat.
#47 Reign
Network: The CW
Time Slot: Thursdays at 9pm
Cast: Adelaide Kane (Teen Wolf), Toby Regbo, Torrance Coombs (The Tudors), Megan Follows, Alan Van Sprang (The Tudors), Celina Sinden, Caitlin Stasey, Anna Popplewell, Jenessa Grant
Premise: In the 16th century, a teenage Mary, Queen of Scots, heads to France to be married and high drama ensues.
#46 Star-Crossed
Network: The CW
Time Slot: TBD
Cast: Aimee Teegarden (Friday Night Lights), Matt Lanter (90210), Grey Damon (The Nine Lives of Chloe King), Natalie Hall , Malese Jow (The Vampire Diaries), Titus Makin, Jr., Chelsea Gilligan, Greg Finley (The Secret Life of the American Teenager)
Premise: Ten years after aliens arrive on Earth and are separated from humanity, a group of teen aliens are integrated into a human high school where an alien boy and a human girl engage in a Romeo and Juliet-style forbidden love.
#45 The 100
Network: The CW
Time Slot: TBD
Cast: Eliza Taylor, Paige Turco (Person of Interest), Thomas McDonell, Eli Goree, Marie Avgeropoulos, Bob Morley, Kelly Hu (Arrow, The Vampire Diaries), Christopher Larkin, Devon Bostick, with Isaiah Washington (Grey’s Anatomy), Henry Ian Cusick (Lost, Scandal)
Premise: Nearly 100 years after a nuclear Armageddon on Earth, the survivors, who escaped in spaceships called Arks, send a group of juvenile delinquents back to see if the planet is habitable.
#44 We Are Men
Network: CBS
Time Slot: Mondays at 8pm
Cast: Chris Smith, Tony Shlahoub (Monk), Kal Penn (House, How I Met Your Mother), Jerry O’Connell (The Defenders), Rebecca Breeds
Premise: Four single guys live in an apartment complex together and bond over their shared failures in love.
#43 Mom
Network: CBS
Time Slot: Mondays at 9:30pm
Cast: Anna Faris (Scary Movie), Allison Janney (The West Wing), Nate Corddry (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip), French Stewart (3rd Rock from the Sun), Sadie Calvano, Blake Garrett Rosenthal), Matt Jones (Breaking Bad), Spencer Daniels
Premise: A newly sober woman raises her kids in Napa Valley with help from her critical mother.
#42 Hostages
Network: CBS
Time Slot: Mondays at 10pm
Cast: Toni Collette (United States of Tara), Dylan McDermott (American Horror Story), James Naughton, Rhys Coiro (Entourage), Billy Brown (Dexter), Sandrine Holt, Tate Donovan (Deception, Damages), Quinn Shephard, Mateus Ward
Premise: A D.C family is kidnapped by a rogue FBI agent who orders the mother (a prominent surgeon) to assassinate the President of the United States, who she is supposed to operate on.
#41 The Millers
Network: CBS
Time Slot: Thursdays at 8:30pm
Cast: Will Arnett (Arrested Development, Up All Night), Margo Martindale (Justified, The Americans), Beau Bridges (My Name Is Earl), Eve Moon, JB Smoove (Curb Your Enthusiasm)
Premise: Nathan Miller’s divorce leads his father to follow suit and divorce his long-time wife, leaving her to move in with her son.
#40 The Crazy Ones
Network: CBS
Time Slot: Thursdays at 9pm
Cast: Oscar winner Robin Williams, Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), James Wolk (Political Animals), Hamish Linklater (The New Adventures of Old Christine), Amanda Setton (The Mindy Project, One Live to Live)
Premise: The crazy boss of a high-powered ad agency works side-by-side with his focused and driven daughter in this comedy.
#39 Intelligence
Network: CBS
Time Slot: Mondays at 10pm (mid-season)
Cast: Josh Holloway (Lost), Marg Helgenberger (CSI), Meghan Ory (Once Upon a Time), Michael Rady (Emily Owens, M.D.), James Martinez, John Billingsley (Star Trek: Enterprise), PJ Byrne
Premise: A federal agent has a microchip implanted in his head that allows him to access phone records, the Internet and all electronic frequencies to fight crime.
#38 Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Network: ABC
Time Slot: Tuesdays at 8pm
Cast: Clark Gregg (The Avengers), Brett Dalton, Ming-Na Wen (ER), Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, Chloe Bennet
Premise: From Joss Whedon based on the group from The Avengers, an elite team of global law enforcement agents fight the unexplained evils in the world.
#37 The Goldbergs
Network: ABC
Time Slot: Tuesdays at 9pm
Cast: Wendi McLendon-Covey, Jeff Garlin (Curb Your Enthusiasm), George Segal (Just Shoot Me), Hayley Orrantia, Sean Giambrone, Troy Gentile
Premise: A comedy about Jewish family in the 1980s.
#36 Trophy Wife
Network: ABC
Time Slot: Tuesdays at 9:30pm
Cast: Malin Akerman (Suburgatory), Bradley Whitford (The West Wing), Marcia Gay Harden (Damages), Michaela Watkins, Natalie Morales, Ryan Scott Lee, Albert Tsai, Gianna LePera
Premise: The third wife of a man struggles to adapt to his ex-wives, kids and maternal duties.
#35 Lucky 7
Network: ABC
Time Slot: Tuesdays at 10pm
Cast: Isiah Whitlock, Jr. (The Wire), Matt Long (Private Practice), Stephen Louis Grush, Lorraine Bruce, Anastasia Phillips, Summer Bishil, Luis Antonio Ramos, Christine Evangelista
Premise: Seven gas station employees in Queens win the lottery.
#34 Back in the Game
Network: ABC
Time Slot: Wednesdays at 8:30pm
Cast: Maggie Lawson (Psych), James Caan (Las Vegas), Lenora Crichlow (Being Human), Griffin Gluck (Private Practice), Ben Koldyke (How I Met Your Mother), Kennedy Waite, J.J. Totah, Cooper Roth
Premise: An ex-softball player and single mom moves back in with her retired baseball-playing father. When she finds out her son didn’t inherit her family’s talents, she agrees to coach his Little League team of losers and rejects.
#33 Super Fun Night
Network: ABC
Time Slot: Wednesdays at 9:30pm
Cast: Rebel Wilson (Pitch Perfect), Lauren Ash, Liza Lapira (Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23), Kelen Coleman (The Newsroom), Kevin Bishop
Premise: Three female best friends spend every Friday night having fun together inside, but when one gets a promotion that requires her to be out, the gals hit the town for a super fun night.
#32 Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
Network: ABC
Time Slot: Thursdays at 8pm
Cast: Sophie Lowe, Michael Socha, Peter Gadiot, Emma Rigby, John Lithgow (3rd Rock from the Sun)
Premise: Spin-off of Once Upon a Time centered on Alice and her adventures in Wonderland.
#31 Betrayal
Network: ABC
Time Slot: Sundays at 10pm
Cast: Hannah Ware (Boss), Stuart Townsend, James Cromwell (American Horror Story), Henry Thomas (E.T.), Chris Johnson (The Vampire Diaries), Wendy Moniz, Elizabeth McLaughlin, Braeden Lemasters
Premise: A married photographer has an affair with a lawyer who is defending an accused murderer in a case being prosecuted by the woman’s husband.
#30 Killer Women
Network: ABC
Time Slot: TBD
Cast: Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Galactica), Mark Blucas (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Necessary Roughness), Marta Milans, Alex Fernandez, Michael Trucco (Battlestar Galactica)
Premise: A bad-ass woman struggles to gain acceptance as a part of the elite law enforcement agency the Texas Rangers.
#29 Mind Games
Network: ABC
Time Slot: TBD
Cast: Steve Zahn (Treme), Christian Slater (My Own Worst Enemy), Megalyn Echikunwoke (CSI: Miami), Cedric Sanders, Gregory Marcel, Wynn Everett (The Newsroom)
Premise: Two brothers (one a bipolar genius, the other an ex-con) open a business to solve people’s problems using psy6chological manipulation.
#28 Resurrection
Network: ABC
Time Slot: TBD
Cast: Omar Epps (House), Matt Craven, Devin Kelley (The Chicago Code), Frances Fisher (Eureka), Kurtwood Smith (That ’70s Show), Sam Hazeldine, Samaire Armstrong (The O.C.), Nicholas Gonzalez (Off the Map), Mark Hildreth (V), Landon Gimenez
Premise: A little boy mysteriously shows up in China more than 30 years after he disappeared from his hometown in Missouri, and he’s still the same age. When he’s brought home, the mystery of what happened to him is explored.
#27 Mixology
Network: ABC
Time Slot: TBD
Cast: Blake Lee, Andrew Santino, Kate Simses , Adam Campbell (Harper’s Island), Craig Frank, Vanessa Lengies (Glee), Alexis Carra, Sarah Bolger (Once Upon a Time), Ginger Gonzaga, Adan Canto (The Following)
Premise: The entire season of this comedy takes place during a single night in a Manhattan bar filled with single people looking for love.
#26 Sleepy Hollow
Network: FOX
Time Slot: Mondays at 9pm
Cast: Tom Mison, Nicole Beharie, Orlando Jones, Katia Winter
Premise: Retelling of the classic tale with Ichabod Crane transported 250 years to the future to prevent the destruction of the world by solving a mystery that goes back to the Founding Fathers.
#25 Dads
Network: FOX
Time Slot: Tuesdays at 8pm
Cast: Seth Green (Family Guy/i>), Giovanni Ribisi (My Name Is Earl), Martin Mull, Peter Riegert, Vanessa Lachey, Brenda Song, Tonita Castro (Go On)
Premise: From Seth MacFarlane, two successful friends have their lives turned upside-down when their obnoxious dads move in with them.
#24 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Network: FOX
Time Slot: Tuesdays at 8:30pm
Cast: Andy Samberg (Saturday Night Live), Andre Braugher (Homicide: Life on the Street), Melissa Fumero (One Lifge to Live), Terry Crews (The Newsroom), Joe Lo Truglio, Stephanie Beatriz, Chelsea Peretti
Premise: A workplace comedy set at a police precinct with a carefree detective and his new captain.
#23 Junior Masterchef
Network: FOX
Time Slot: Fridays at 8pm
Host: Gordon Ramsay
Premise: A spin-off of the successful amateur cooking competition Masterchef, this version features kid contestants.
#22 Almost Human
Network: FOX
Time Slot: Mondays at 8pm
Cast: Karl Urban (Star Trek), Michael Ealy (Common Law), Minka Kelly (Friday Night Lights), Mackenzie Crook (Game of Thrones), Lili Taylor (Six Feet Under), Michael Irby
Premise: In 2048, cops are partnered with humanoid robots. This futuristic buddy cop show centers on an out-of-control human and his slightly crazy robot partner.
#21 Enlisted
Network: FOX
Time Slot: Fridays at 9:30pm
Cast: Geoff Sults (The Finder), Chris Lowell (Veronica Mars, Private Practice), Parker Young (Suburgatory), Keith David, Angelique Cabral
Premise: Three brothers work together on a Florida Army base in this sitcom.
#20 Rake
Network: FOX
Time Slot: Thursdays at 9pm (mid-season)
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Miranda Otto, John Ortiz (Luck), Necar Zadegan (Emily Owens, M.D.), Bojana Novakovic, Tara Summers (Boston Legal), Ian Colletti
Premise: A drama about a self-destructive but brilliant defense attorney.
#19 Gang Related
Network: FOX
Time Slot: May 2014
Cast: Ramon Rodriguez (Charlie’s Angels), Terry O’Quinn (Lost), RZA, Sung Kang, Inbar Lavi (Underemployed), Shantel VanSanten (One Tree Hill), Cliff Curtis, Jay Hernandez (Nashville)
Premise: An LAPD cop who pledged his allegiance to a powerful gang earns a spot on the Gang Task Force where his loyalties to both sides of the law are tested.
#18 Surviving Jack
Network: FOX
Time Slot: TBD
Cast: Christopher Meloni (Law and Order: SVU), Connor Buckley, Claudia Lee (Hart of Dixie), Kevin Hernandez, Tyler Foden
Premise: A family comedy about a dad struggling to take control of his kids in the 1990s.
#17 Us and Them
Network: FOX
Time Slot: TBD
Cast: Jason Ritter (Parenthood), Alexis Bledel (Gilmore Girls), Dustin Ybarra, Ashlie Atkinson, Jane Kaczmarek (Malcolm in the Middle), Kurt Fuller (Psych), Kerri Kenney (Reno 911)
Premise: The long-distance romance between two young people hits complications in the forms of their friends and family.
#16 Murder Police
Network: FOX
Time Slot: TBD
Premise: An animated series about a crazy precinct of detectives.
#15 The Blacklist
Network: NBC
Time Slot: Mondays at 10pm
Cast: James Spader (Boston Legal, The Office), Megan Boone (Law and Order: Los Angeles), Diego Klattenhoff (Homeland), Harry Lennix (Dollhouse), Ryan Eggold (90210), Ilfenesh Hadera
Premise: The most-wanted criminal in the world turns himself into the FBI and agrees to help them, but he will only talk to a rookie profiler who seems to have no connection to him.
#14 Ironside
Network: NBC
Time Slot: Wednesdays at 10pm
Cast: Blair Underwood (The Event), Brent Sexton (The Killing), Pablo Schreiber (The Wire), Spencer Grammer (Greek), Beal Bledsoe (Smash), Kenneth Choi (Sons of Anarchy)
Premise: A wheelchair-bound NYPD detective leads an elite group to fight crime.
#13 Welcome to the Family
Network: NBC
Time Slot: Thursdays at 8:30pm
Cast: Mike O’Malley (Glee), Ricardo Chavira (Desperate Housewives), Mary McCormack (In Plain Sight), Justina Machado (Six Feet Under), Ella Rae Peck (Deception, Gossip Girl), Joseph Haro (Awkward), Aramis Knight
Premise: Comedy about a recent high school graduate who becomes pregnant, forcing her white family and her boyfriend’s Latino family to learn to get along.
#12 Sean Saves the World
Network: NBC
Time Slot: Thursdays at 9pm
Cast: Sean Hayes (Will and Grace), Linda Lavin (Alice), Thomas Lennon (Reno 911), Echo Kellum (Ben and Kate), Sami Isler, Lindsay Sloane
Premise: A gay divorced dad struggles to deal with work and his teenage daughter in this multi-camera sitcom.
#11 The Michael J. Fox Show
Network: NBC
Time Slot: Thursdays at 9:30pm
Cast: Michael J. Fox (Spin City, Family Ties), Betsy Brandt (Breaking Bad), Wendell Pierce (Treme, The Wire), Katie Finneran (I Hate My Teenage Daughter), Conor Romero, Juliette Goglia, Jack Gore
Premise: In this comedy, news anchor Mike Henry (Fox) returns to work after taking five years off to spend time with his family after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease.
#10 Dracula
Network: NBC
Time Slot: Fridays at 10pm
Cast:Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors), Jessica De Gouw (Arrow), Thomas Kretschman (The River), Nonso Anozie (Game of Thrones), Robert Bathurst (Downton Abbey), Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Katie McGrath, Victoria Smurfit, Ben Miles
Premise: In the late 19th century, legendary vampire Dracula heads to London posing as an American entrepreneur interested in modern science.
#9 The Family Guide
Network: NBC
Time Slot: Tuesdays at 9pm (mid-season)
Cast: J.K. Simmons (The Closer, Family Tools), Eli Baker, Ava Deluca-Verley, Lance Lim
Premise: A family comedy about divorce featuring a blind father and a young-at-heart mother.
#8 About a Boy
Network: NBC
Time Slot: Tuesdays at 9:30pm (mid-season)
Cast: David Walton (Bent), Minnie Driver (The Riches), Benjamin Stockham (1600 Penn), Al Madrigal (The Daily Show), Anjelah N. Johnson-Reyes
Premise: A man-child befriends the young boy next door in this adaptation of the Nick Hornby book and Hugh Grant movie.
#7 Crossbones
Network: NBC
Time Slot: Fridays at 10pm (mid-season)
Cast: John Malkovich
Premise: A drama about the exploits of the 18th century pirate Blackbeard.
#6 American Dream Builders
Network: NBC
Time Slot: Sunday at 8pm (mid-season)
Host: Net Berkus
Premise: A reality competition about extreme home renovations.
#5 Believe
Network: NBC
Time Slot: Sunday at 9pm (mid-season)
Cast: Jake McLaughlin (Crash), Delroy Lindo (The Chicago Code), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks), Jamie Chung (Once Upon a Time), Johnny Sequoyah, Sienna Guillory, Arian Moayed
Premise: A little girl with special powers is protected by an ex-con from people who would use her abilities for evil.
#4 Crisis
Network: NBC
Time Slot: Sundays at 10pm (mid-season)
Cast: Gillian Anderson (The X-Files), Dermot Mulroney (New Girl), Rachael Taylor (666 Park Avenue), Halston Sage (How to Rock), Maxx Schneider (How to Rock), James Lafferty (One Tree Hill), Max Martini (Revenge), Lance Gross, Stevie Lymn Jones, Joshua Erenberg, Michael Beach
Premise: A school bus filled with the kids of the most powerful people in Washington D.C. is hijacked.
#3 Chicago PD
Network: NBC
Time Slot: TBD
Cast: Jason Beghe (Chicago Fire), Jon Seda (Chicago Fire), Melissa Sagemiller (Law and Order: Los Angeles), Tania Raymonde (Lost), Scott Eastwood (Clint’s son), Mykelti Willamson (Justified), J.B. Smoove (Curb Your Enthusiasm), Laroyce Hawkins, Kelly Blatz
Premise: A spin-off of Chicago Fire centering on the police department.
#2 The Night Shift
Network: NBC
Time Slot: TBD
Cast: Jill Flint (Royal Pains), Freddy Rodriguez (Six Feet Under), Ken Leung (Lost), Brendan Ferh (Roswell), Eoin Macken, Robert Bailey, Jr., Jeananne Goosen, J.R. Lemon
Premise: A medical drama about the 7pm-7am team at a San Antonio hospital.
#1 Undateable
Network: NBC
Time Slot: TBD
Cast: Chris D’Elia (Whitney), Bianca Kajlich (Rules of Engagement), Brent Morin, Rick Glassman, Matthew Wilkes, Ron Funches
Premise: A comedy about a player who teaches a group of romantically-challenged guys how to win at the game of love.
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John watches nearly every show on TV, but he specializes in sci-fi/fantasy like The Vampire Diaries, Supernatural and True Blood. However, he can also be found writing about everything from Survivor and Glee to One Tree Hill and Smallville.
