Fall Network TV Preview

Fox

Gotham (Monday, Sep 18 at 8/7c)

Gotham in essence is an origin story – of both the villains and the heroes – and season three continues this trend as we learn more about the journey of Jim Gordon as he is no longer a GCPD cop but it does not mean that he or his former partner Harvey Bullock and former captain Nathaniel Barnes intend to hunt down the Indian Hill escapees and the main instigator and villain of last season, Hugo Strange.

This season’s tagline is ‘Mad City: Better to Reign in Hell’ and will see the continuation of season two’s theme of the rise of villains as Fish Mooney attempts to fight the Penguin for control of the Gotham’s underworld as well as the reiteration of other famous villains such as Edward Nygma/Riddler, Selina Kyle/Catwoman, Tabitha Galavan/Tigress, the new version of Poison Ivy and of course the ever-thorn in Jim Gordon’s side, his ex-fiancee Barbara Kean.

Season three will introduce new characters such as Jervis Tetch/Mad Hatter (Benedict Samuel), the Tweed Brothers and Valerie Vale (Jamie Chung). There have also been rumors that we might meet Selina Kyle’s mother this year. And photographs have revealed that Lee Thompson (Morena Baccarin) will be back.

The official synopsis has revealed that Gotham will be exploring the infamous criminal organization of the Court of the Owls and Bruce Wayne will find out even more secrets regarding his parents’ death.
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Scream Queens (Tuesday, Sep. 20 9/8c)

Last year Scream Queens managed to shock us and make us laugh out loud simultaneously and this year they will attempt to do that again as much of the original cast are back again with a new setting, new premise but the same old comedy horror.

This season takes place several years after the serial murders that went down at Kappa House and Dean Munsch (Jamie Lee Curtis) buys an old hospital in an attempt to fix the American healthcare system. She hires former Kappa president Zayday Williams (Keke Palmer) as well as doctors Cassidy Cascade (Taylor Lautner) and Brock Holt (John Stamos) but shocks everyone when she brings in the Chanels for some extra support (Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd and Abigail Breslin) and it is not long before the murders start up again.

Other characters that are returning for season two are Hester Ulrich (Lea Michele), Denise Hemphill (Niecy Nash) and Chad Radwell (Glen Powell) as well as great guest stars like Colton Haynes, Kirstie Alley, Jerry O’Connell and Cecily Strong.

It will be interesting to see how the genre transfers to the hospital setting and whether they can keep the momentum alive as they move into their sophomore season.

Pitch (Thursday, Sep. 22 at 9/8c)

Baseball season is nearing an end, but all the highs and lows of America’s game will continue in FOX’s new drama Pitch, premiering Thursday, September 22.

But Pitch isn’t any old story about baseball. The show stars Kylie Bunbury (Under the Dome) as Ginny Baker, who becomes the first woman to play in the major leagues, pitching for the San Diego Padres. The premise at first may seem to come out of…um, left field, but if you watch the trailer, this show will go beyond the initial first-woman-to-play-in-the-major-leagues headline to a story about perseverance, character, and breaking barriers not for the world, but for yourself. I imagine there’s going to be plenty of sentimentality nestled into this show, but it’s to be expected. The end of the trailer says this show is “a true story on the verge of happening.” Seeing as this show was made in association with the MLB and has plenty of former MLB players and umpires working on it, it’s kind of a cool way to market your show, and I’m interested in seeing how creators Dan Fogelman and Rick Singer take this.

What will you be watching?