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NCIS

This is the NCIS headline we've all been waiting for: The first episode is getting the band back together, says executive producer Steven D. Binder of the military procedural's 19th installment.

BLUE BLOODS

Is the police commissioner about to be out of commission?

WALKER

Jared Padalecki’s impressive update on the classic Chuck Norris action series rides into Season 2 with Texas Ranger Cordell Walker, having solved the murder of his wife (Genevieve Padalecki, the actor’s real-life spouse), facing a new mystery that’s just as close to home. Here, he shares intel on the case— and on a Supernatural reunion with Jensen Ackles

On Location in Mexico S.W.A.T.

A nameless stranger rolls into town and unexpectedly saves the day. It's easy to see how the 1985 Clint Eastwood Western Pale Rider inspired the drama's cinematic two-part premiere-even if gunslinger heroics are the last thing on Hondo's (Shemar Moore) mind when we catch up with him.

Scenes From a Marriage

A wrenching dissection of a rocky relationship has all the emotions

THE EQUALIZER

As last season's top new drama returns, undercover vigilante Robyn McCall (Queen Latifah) teams with the cop who once wanted to expose her. Det. Marcus Dante (Tory Kittles) asks the motorcycle-riding badass to help him catch bank robbers who killed police officers-an investigation that will lead to top levels of U.S. intelligence and politics. Showrunners Terri Edda Miller and Andrew W. Marlowe tell us more.

YOUNG SHELDON

Season 4 closed with situations that could hardly be classified as comedy: Genius Sheldon Cooper (lain Armitage) trailed after his heartbroken twin, Missy (Raegan Revord), when she decided to run away. And their parents, Mary (Zoe Perry) and George Sr. (Lance Barber), argued, driving the high school football coach to a bar, where neighbor Brenda Sparks (Melissa Peterman) was offering solace.

Lucifer

As the sinfully good Netflix procedural drops its final season, here’s what you need to know

The Witcher

Destiny calls Geralt and Ciri as Season 2 of the beastly Netflix drama gets much more intense

Leverage: Redemption

FRIDAY, OCT. 8

Magnum P.I.

SEASON PREMIERE 9/8c, CBS

Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It

Tuesday, Oct. 5, 9/8c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org)

Grey's Anatomy

SEASON PREMIERE 9/8c, ABC

DIANA'S HIDDEN STRENGTH

A new docuseries reveals an assertive, more complex People’s Princess

FAMILY BUSINESS

The Many Saints of Newark turns back the clock to show how Tony Soprano came of age

The Price Is Right 50th Anniversary Special

Thursday, Sept. 30, 9/8c, CBS

Intrusion

ORIGINAL MOVIE Every floorboard creak and unexpected noise will have you spooked long after you’ve finished watching this haunting tale of isolation and what director Adam Salky calls “the terrifying unknowability of people.”

The Good Father: The Martin MacNeill Story

MOVIE PREMIERE 8/7c, Lifetime

The Three Faces of Joe

Ever wonder what would have happened if you’d chosen a different path in life? James Wolk leads different lives in Ordinary Joe

SCI-FI TV PREVIEW

The coming months will bring a treasure trove of new movies, series and returning favorites

The Big Leap

FIFTEEN MINUTES IN, this lively, endearing but unsentimental drama about the goings-on at a reality TV show called The Big Leap will have you jumping for joy. Here’s the pitch: Amateur dancers are selected by audition, then rehearse to perform a modernized Swan Lake while also letting cameras film them offstage and at home in Detroit. (The series, shot in Chicago, is inspired by an actual 2014 U.K. reality show, Big Ballet.) The underdogs who make the cut all hunger for some kind of second chance, while savvy executive producer Nick Blackburn (Scott Foley) just wants rating gold.

ORDINARY JOE

IN EVERY EPISODE of this ultimate “what if?” series, we’ll watch earnest Joe Kimbreau (Watchmen’s James Wolk) live out the three paths he could’ve chosen when he graduated college: What would’ve happened if he’d become a nurse, a cop or a rock star? Ten years later, “The guy who’s Bono-famous and has a charcuterie platter waiting for him is going to be different from the guy who’s working a 10-hour shift and then gets a beer at the corner bar,” says Wolk.

FALL PREVIEW CSI: VEGAS Grissom and sara are the season's winning pair

Power up your remote! The new TV season shines bright with electric performances (Jeff Daniels! Jessica Chastain! Michael Keaton!) and memorable returns, starting with our favorite Sin City couple…

OUR KIND OF PEOPLE

POWER, PRIVILEGE, AND secrets from the past heat up this titillating family drama set in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, the real-life playground of the Black elite. Based on Lawrence Otis Graham’s bestseller Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class, the show stars Chicago Med’s Yaya DaCosta as Angela Vaughn, a new arrival to Martha’s Vineyard enclave— whose mother was once a maid on the island.

American Rust

MURDERS AND SMALL towns make for riveting television (see: Mare of Easttown, Broadchurch), and American Rust, based on the Philipp Meyer novel, is a worthy addition to this very specific genre. Set in fictional Buell, Pennsylvania, the nine-episode drama centers on a conflicted chief of police Del Harris (Jeff Daniels), who considers crossing morality lines after the son of the woman he loves, Grace Poe (Maura Tierney, The Affair), is linked to a homicide.

“JUST LIVE”

What’s next for Morgan? On set exploring the fate of our favorite Fear characters as we head into Season 6

WORLD BEYOND

Which of the Endlings will survive the series’ final installment?

THE NEXT GENERATION

The new Walking Dead: World Beyond spinoff introduces four sheltered Nebraska teens and the high-tech, highly suspect Civic Republic Military

THE DEAD PHENOMENON

The zombie apocalypse might have ended civilization on The Walking Dead, but it also inspired a fresh new world of undead entertainment

RICK TURNS IN HIS BADGE

Andrew Lincoln ends a nine-season run as The Walking Dead’s hardened but heroic leader. Will we survive?