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The Millers (CBS)
Format: Half-hour comedy
A recently divorced man’s life is complicated when his parents decide to move in with him.
Production Team: Greg Garcia
Reign (CW)
Format: One-hour drama
The tale of Mary Queen of Scots’ rise to power when she arrives in France as a 15-year-old, betrothed to Prince Francis.
Production Team: Stephanie SenGupta, Laurie McCarthy, Frank Siracusa, John Weber, Brad Siberling
Reckless (CBS) (midseason)
Format: One-hour drama
A sultry legal show set in Charleston, S.C., where a gorgeous Yankee litigator and a Southern city attorney struggle to hide their intense attraction while clashing over a police sex scandal.
Production Team: Ian Sander, Kim Moses, Dana Stevens, Corey Miller, Catherine Hardwicke
Star-Crossed (CW) (midseason)
Format: One-hour drama
Nine secret aliens are integrated into a suburban high school.
Production Team: Meredith Averill, Josh Appelbaum, Bryan Furst, Sean Furst, Daniel Gutman, Andre Nemec, Scott Rosenberg, Richard Shepard
We Are Men (CBS)
Format: Half-hour comedy
A young guy finds camaraderie living among the more experienced guys he meets in a short-term rental complex.
Production Team: Rob Greenberg, Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum
Betrayal (ABC)
Format: One-hour drama
A female photographer begins a torrid affair with a lawyer for a powerful family who turns out to be defending a murder suspect whom her husband is prosecuting.
Production Team: David Zabel, Rob Golenberg, Alon Aranya
Intelligence (CBS) (midseason)
Format: One-hour drama
Centers on U.S. Cyber Command, a unit created around one agent with a gift: a microchip implanted in his brain that offers him access the entire electromagnetic spectrum.
Production Team: Michael Seitzman, Tripp Vinson, Rene Echvarria
Killer Women (ABC) (midseason)
Format: One-hour drama
Based on Argentinean series Mujeres Asesinas, the drama revolves around the only woman in the Texas Rangers.
Production Team: Sofia Vergara, Martin Campbell, Ben Silverman, Luis Balaguer, Electus, Latin World Entertainment
Lucky 7 (ABC)
Format: One-hour drama
Seven employees of a service station in Queens find their lives changed in unexpected ways when they win the lottery.
Production Team: Steven Spielberg, Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey, David Zabel, Jason Richman
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.LD. (ABC)
Format: One-hour drama
Based on Marvel Comics’s secret intelligence organization that has appeared in countless titles.
Production Team: Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, Jeffrey Bell, Jeph Loeb
Mixology (ABC)
Format: Half-hour comedy
Set in the sexy world of New York City nightlife, the show chronicles the exploits of singles looking for love — over the course of one night.
Production Team: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore, Nina Wass, Ryan Seacrest, Adam Sher
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (ABC)
Format: One-hour drama
A spin-off of Once Upon a Time, a twist on the classic Alice in Wonderland told through the point of view of Alice.
Production Team: Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz, Zack Estrin, Steve Pearlman
Resurrection (ABC) (midseason)
Format: One-hour drama
A supernatural thriller about a world where people see their dead loved ones returning as if not a day has gone by.
Production Team: Aaron Zelman, JoAnn Alfano, Jon Liebman, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner
Trophy Wife (ABC)
Format: Half-hour comedy
A reformed party girl falls for a man with three manipulative children and two difficult ex-wives.
Production Team: Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Gene Stupnitsky, Lee Eisenberg, Malin Ackerman
Chasing Life (ABC Family)
Format: One-hour drama
April is a young, aspiring journalist at a Boston newspaper who tries to impress her boss. Just when things are looking up at work, she finds out that she has cancer.
Production Team: Aaron Kaplan, Susanna Fogel, Joni Lefkowitz
Orange is the New Black (Netflix)
Format: Hour-long dramedy
A behind-bars drama about Piper Chapman, an engaged PR executive who’s sentenced to minimum-security prison for a decade-old drug offense. Based on the bestselling novel.
Production Team: Jenji Kohan, Liz Friedman
Satisfaction (CTV Canada)
Format: Half-hour comedy
A group of friends share relationship highs and lows, life crises and personal ambitions as they navigate marriage, committed relationships and the dating scene.
Production Team: Tim McAuliffe, Michael Donovan
About a Boy (NBC) (midseason)
Format: Half-hour comedy
An adaptation of the novel and film about the relationship between an immature bachelor and the young boy who moves in next door with his crazy, single mother.
Production Team: Jason Katims, Jon Favreau, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Liza Chasin, Robert DeNiro, Jane Rosenthal
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (FOX)
Format: Half-hour comedy
Revolves around diverse group of detectives at a New York police precinct.
Production Team: Dan Goor, Mike Schur, Phil Lord, Chris Miller
Chicago PD (NBC) (midseason)
Format: One-hour drama
A spin-off of Chicago Fire following District 21 of the Chicago Police Department.
Production Team: Dick Wolf, Matt Olmstead, Michael Brandt, Derek Haas, Joe Chappelle, Peter Jankowski, Danielle Gelber
Dracula (NBC)
Format: One-hour drama
Find the title character living a double life in London as an American businessman interested in bringing modern science to Victorian society.
Production Team: Daniel Knauf, Tony Krantz, Colin Callender, Gareth Neame
The Family Guide (NBC) (midseason)
Format: Half-hour comedy
An immature single mom of two becomes closer to her blind ex-husband after their divorce, told from the point of view of the youngest child.
Production Team: DJ Nash, Jason Bateman, Jim Garavente
Ironside (NBC)
Format: One-hour drama
A remake of the 1960s series about a tough, sexy but acerbic wheelchair-bound police detective who runs a team that solves the most difficult cases in the city
Production Team: John Davis, Teri Weinberg, John Fox, Michael Caleo, Ron West, David Semel
Playing House (USA)
Format: Half-hour comedy
A single mom calls on her best friend, a single and career-focused woman, to help her raise her new baby.
Production Team: Jessica St. Clair, Lennon Parham, Scot Armstrong, Ravi Nandan
Sean Saves the World (NBC)
Format: Half-hour comedy
Centers on Sean (Hayes), a guy who must figure out how to parent his 14-year-old daughter — who just moved in — while juggling a temperamental new boss at work.
Production Team: Victor Fresco, Sean Hayes, Todd Milliner
Crossbones (NBC) (midseason)
Format: One-hour drama
The series is a fictionalization of the life of the notorious pirate Edward Teach (aka Blackbeard) in and around an island in the Bahamas.
Production Team: Georgeville Television and Parkes/MacDonald
Siberia (NBC) (midseason)
Format: One-hour drama
Over 100 years after an explained event occurred in the remote Siberian territory of Tunguska, 16 reality show contestants arrive there, unaware of its dark past, and discover that the events aren't scripted.
The Blacklist (NBC)
Format: One-hour drama
A master criminal turns himself in and offers to give up everyone he has ever worked with, but only if he can work with a newly minted FBI agent with whom he seemingly has no connection.
Production Team: Jon Bokenkamp, John Eisendrath, John Fox, John Davis
Bad Teacher (CBS)
Format: Half-hour comedy
A former trophy wife gets a job as a teacher, hoping to find a new husband in one of her students' single dads.
Production Team: Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky, Hilary Winston
The Goldbergs (ABC)
Format: Half-hour comedy
A multigenerational comedy set in the 1980s — and told by a narrator — about growing up in a loud, loving and slightly dysfunctional family.
Production Team: Adam F. Goldberg, Doug Robinson, Seth Gordon
Helix (Syfy)
Format: One-hour drama
A team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control travel to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic to investigate a possible disease outbreak, and find themselves in a life-and-death struggle that holds the key to mankind’s salvation or total annihilation.
Production Team: Ronald D. Moore, Lynda Obst, Steven Maeda
Masters of Sex (Showtime)
Format: One-hour drama
Based on the lives of pioneering sex experts Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson, who gave birth to the sexual revolution.
Production Team: Sarah Timberman, Carl Beverly, Michelle Ashford, John Madden, Judith Verno
The Michael J. Fox Show (NBC)
Format: Half-hour comedy
Inspired by Michael J. Fox’s life, Fox stars as a husband and father of three with Parkinson's disease who goes back to work as a news anchor.
Production Team: Sam Laybourne, Will Gluck, Michael J. Fox, Alex Reid
The Night Shift (NBC) (midseason)
Format: One-hour drama
An ensemble medical show following ex-Army doctors working the late shift at a San Antonio hospital.
Production team: Gabe Sachs, Jeff Judah, Pierre Morel (pilot only)
Rake (FOX) (midseason)
Format: One-hour drama
Based on an Australian series, about a brilliant but self-destructive criminal defense lawyer.
Production Team: Peter Duncan, Peter Tolan, Sam Raimi, Ian Collie, Richard Roxburgh, Michael Wimer
Showville (AMC)
Format: One-hour reality
Local performers get their chance to be big fish in a small pond when the Showville crew arrives in their small home town. Tasked with putting together a talent show in only four days, the crew choose four lucky contestants from an open call audition.
Production Team: Storyvision Entertainment
Summer Camp (USA)
Format: One-hour reality
A reality series about 16 adults from all walks of life who pack their bags and head to an idyllic lakeside retreat, where they will indulge in over-the-top competitions and eventually face off in the "Campathalon," an ultimate Olympic style event.
Production Team: Allison Grodner, Rich Meehan
Us & Them (FOX)
Format: Half-hour comedy
Adaptation of BBC series Gavin & Stacey, about a new couple trying to maintain their long-distance relationship while combining their polarizing families’ lives.
Production Team: David Rosen, Julie Gardner, James Corden, Ruth Jones, Steve Coogan, Henry Normal, Jane Tranter
Welcome to the Family (NBC)
Format: Half-hour comedy
Two families are bonded together by their teenage children who fall in love and quickly have an unplanned pregnancy.
Production Team: Mike Sikowitz, Michael Engler, Jamie Tarses
24: Live Another Day (FOX)
Format: One-hour drama
A 12-part miniseries picking up where the popular series left off.
Production Team: Bob Cochran, Joel Surnow, Howard Gordon, Brian Grazer, Kiefer Sutherland
Back in the Game (ABC)
Format: Half-hour comedy
A recently divorced single mother moves in with her estranged father, a former baseball player.
Production Team: Mark Cullen, Robb Cullen, Aaron Kaplan, John Requa, Glenn Ficarra
Crisis (NBC) (midseason)
Format: One-hour drama
An idealistic Secret Service agent finds himself at the epicenter of an international crisis when the President’s son and his schoolmates are kidnapped.
Production Team: Rand Ravich, Far Shariat, Phillip Noyce
The Crazy Ones (CBS)
Format: Half-hour comedy
A workplace comedy set in the advertising world, starring a brilliant but crazy dad and hid more practical daughter.
Production Team: David E. Kelley, Bill D'Elia, Jason Winer, Mark Teitelbaum, John Montgomery, Dean Lorey
Dads (FOX)
Format: Half-hour comedy
From Seth MacFarlane, it centers on two successful guys in their 30s whose lives are turned upside down when their nightmare dads move in with them.
Production Team: Seth MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin, Wellesley Wild
Enlisted (FOX)
Format: Half-hour comedy
Follows three very different brothers working together at a small army base in Florida.
Production Team: Kevin Biegel, Mike Royce
Friends with Better Lives (CBS) (midseason)
Format: Half-hour comedy
A group of 30-something friends who each think the other has it better.
Production Team: Dana Klein, Aaron Kaplan
Gang Related (FOX)
Format: One-hour drama
A gang member infiltrates the San Francisco Police Department’s Gang Task Force.
Production Team: Chris Morgan, Scott Rosenbaum, Brian Grazer, Francie Calfo
Murder Police (FOX)
Format: Half-hour animated comedy
Animated series about a dedicated but inept detective and his colleagues — some perverted, some corrupt, some just plain lazy — in a twisted city precinct.
Production Team: David Goodman, Jason Ruiz
Mind Games (ABC) (midseason)
Format: One-hour drama
Two brothers head a unique agency designed to attack their clients’ problems using the real science of human motivation and manipulation.
Production Team: Kyle Killen, Keith Redmon
Sleepy Hollow (FOX)
Format: One-hour drama
A modern-day supernatural thriller based on the legend of Sleepy Hollow, in which Ichabod Crane partners with a local female sheriff to solve the town’s mysteries.
Production Team: Robert Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Heather Kadin, Len Wiseman
Wayward Pines (Fox) (midseason)
Format: One-hour miniseries
Matt Dillon plays a Secret Service officer trying to unravel the mysterious disappearance of two agents.
Production Team: Chris Hodge, Donald De Line, Ashwin Rajan, M. Night Shyamalan
Witches of East End (Lifetime)
Format: One-hour drama
Centers on the adventures of a mother and two daughters — both of whom are unknowingly their family’s next generation of witches.
Production Team: Maggie Friedman, Erwin Stoff, Josh Reims
The 100 (CW) (midseason)
Format: One-hour drama
Set 97 years after a nuclear war destroyed civilization, 100 juvenile delinquents are sent back to Earth to investigate the possibility of re-colonizing the planet.
Production Team: Matthew Miller, Jason Rothenberg, Bharat Nalluri, Leslie Morgenstein, Gina Girolamo
Almost Human (FOX)
Format: One-hour drama
An action-packed buddy cop drama set in the near future, in which all LAPD cops are partnered with highly evolved human-line androids.
Production Team: J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, J.H. Wyman, Kathy Lingg, Reid Shane, Brad Anderson
Believe (NBC) (midseason)
Format: One-hour drama
An unlikely relationship develops between a young girl with unusual, emerging powers and a man sprung from prison who has been tasked with protecting her.
Production Team: Alfonso Cuaron, Mark Friedman, J. J. Abrams, Bryan Burk
Ground Floor (TBS)
Format: Half-hour comedy
The series centers on Brody, a successful and promising young money manager who crosses paths with his company’s support staff, a tight-knit group of truly happy and carefree people.
Production Team: Bill Lawrence, Jeff Ingold
Famous in 12 (CW)
Format: One-hour reality
Tracks the lives of one determined family as they move to the entertainment capital of the world — Los Angeles — and seek fame in a 12-week time frame.
Production Team: David Garfinkle, Jay Renfroe, Harvey Levin
Hostages (CBS)
Format: One-hour drama
A Washington, D.C., surgeon is thrown into a political conspiracy (and her family into a hostage situation) after being chosen to operate on the president of the United States.
Production Team: Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, Jeffrey Nachmanoff, Rick Eid, Omri Givon, Rotem Shamir, Chayim Sharir, KristieAnne Reed, Alon Aranya
Mom (CBS)
Format: Half-hour comedy
A newly sober single mom tries to pull her life back together in California’s Napa Valley.
Production Team: Chuck Lorre, Eddie Gorodetsky, Gemma Baker
The Originals (CW)
Format: One-hour drama
A spinoff of the CW's The Vampire Diaries revolving around the Original family in New Orleans.
Production Team: Julie Plec, Leslie Morgenstein, Gina Girolamo
Super Fun Night (ABC)
Format: Half-hour comedy
Revolves around three nerdy female friends and their quest to have “super fun” every Friday night.
Production Team: John Riggi, Conan O'Brien, David Kissinger, Jeff Ross, Rebel Wilson
Surviving Jack (FOX)
Format: Half-hour comedy
A story about a boy becoming a man, and a man becoming a father, in a time before coming of age was something you could Google.
Production Team: Bill Lawrence, Justin Halpern, Patrick Schumacker, Jeff Ingold
The Tomorrow People (CW)
Format: One-hour drama
Based on a U.K. series, young people across the globe represent the next stage in human evolution, with special powers to defeat the forces of evil.
Production Team: Greg Berlanti, Julie Plec, Phil Klemmer, Danny Cannon, Melissa Kellner Berman
Undateable (NBC) (midseason)
Format: Half-hour comedy
A “bromantic comedy” about a couple of friends who are terrible with women, whose lives are altered when a confident guy enters their world.
Production Team: Bill Lawrence, Adam Sztykiel, Jeff Ingold, Scott Ellis