• by Adam Buckman , Featured Columnist, 3 hours ago

Network TV will have a comparatively quiet fall premiere season as two of the four legacy broadcast networks will have no new shows at all when the 2026-27 season gets underway.

The two networks with no new shows on the fall schedule are ABC and Fox.

By contrast, CBS has two new dramas and one new comedy, and NBC has a new drama, a new comedy and a new reality-competition show.

Perhaps the most talked-about of the new fall shows is “Cupertino,” a CBS legal drama that addresses the power held by a heavy concentration of tech companies in Cupertino, California -- the heart of Silicon Valley.

Premiering on Thursday, October 8, at 10 p.m. Eastern, “Cupertino” has two crusading lawyers (played by Mike Colter and Rachel Keller, above photo) taking on the “tech elite,” says CBS.

CBS’s new comedy is the vampire sitcom “Eternally Yours,” featuring a family of blood-sucking suburbanites. “Eternally Yours” premieres earlier that same evening -- Thursday, October 8, at 8:30 p.m. Eastern.

Do spinoffs count as new shows? Well, sort of. If they do, then count CBS’s new “NCIS” spinoff “NCIS: New York” as a new show.

In the show, the LL Cool J character from “NCIS: Los Angeles,” Agent Sam Hanna, gets transferred to New York.

In his new location, Hanna will partner with an NYC-based agent (Scott Caan) who is described in the CBS press materials as “roguish.” “NCIS: New York” premieres on Tuesday, October 6, at 9 p.m. Eastern.

Meanwhile, NBC will have a competition-show spinoff called “The Traitors: New Blood,” premiering Thursday, Sept. 17 at 8 p.m. Eastern.

Four seasons of the original show, “The Traitors,” have already been seen on Peacock, but unlike its “New Blood spinoff, the show has never been on NBC. 

“New Blood” will also be available on Peacock. Alan Cummings hosts the original, and he also hosts the new one.

NBC’s new drama, “Line of Fire,” premieres on Monday, Sept. 21 at 10 p.m. Eastern. It’s a family drama in which the family members are involved in federal law enforcement -- the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Secret Service and the Justice Department.

In the show, the family bands together to battle a “deadly conspiracy,” says NBC. Peter Krause and Hope Davis are the show’s top stars.

NBC’s new comedy is “Newlyweds,” a show that might be interpreted as an effort on the part of NBC to attract older viewers who are already the principal audience for network television anyway.

In “Newlyweds,” premiering on Friday, Oct. 23, at 8:30 p.m. Eastern, two “older” adults get married after a “whirlwind romance,” according to NBC. 

The two are played by Tim Daly, 70, and Téa Leoni, 60, who have been married in real life since July 2025. One assumes this sitcom is based on their personal experiences as older newlyweds.

Meanwhile, the fall Fox schedule is heavy on returning games and competitions: “Celebrity Name That Tune” (Season Six) and “Celebrity Weakest Link” (Season Two) on Monday nights.

“The Floor” (Season Six) and “99 to Beat” (Season Two) on Wednesdays; and “Hell’s Kitchen” (Season 25) and “Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test” (Season Five) on Thursdays.

Tuesday nights will have Fox’s two returning medical dramas -- “Best Medicine” (Season Two) followed by “Doc” (Season Three).

Three out of four of Fox’s traditional Sunday night lineup of animated shows will be animated. The outlier is the fifth-season premiere of the live-action Joel McHale workplace comedy “Animal Control.” 

On September 27, “Animal Control” joins the return of “The Simpsons” (Season 38), “Universal Basic Guys” (Season Three) and “Grimsburg” (Season Three).

Starting with the return of “Monday Night Football” on September 14, ABC’s fall lineup feature the returns of  “Dancing With the Stars,” “20/20,” “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” “Shark Tank,” “The Wonderful World of Disney,” “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune,” “R.J. Decker,” “Scrubs,” “Abbott Elementary,” “9-1-1,” “9-1-1 Nashville” and “Grey’s Anatomy.”