Last week, television networks Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS, and The CW debuted trailers for their new fall 2015 lineup, so we obvs watched all of them to bring you... OUR HOT FIRST TAKES. Which shows will become our guilty pleasures? Which ones will tickle our funny bone? Need a new Shondaland fix? How do we feel about Supergirl (stay tuned for our more in-depth post about that, by the way)? Here's a quick breakdown of everything we're excited about—and embarrassed to be excited about—come fall.
We all scream for Scream Queens
DC's TV reign continues
Here's another hit, Shonda Rhimes.
Muppets!
The Most Awesomely Awful series that I will probably watch at least a few hours of: Lucifer
Procedural Crime...with a twist!
I guess no one wants to watch straight-up crime procedural shows anymore (RIP CSI). I admit this begrudgingly 'cause my favorite TV show is still Criminal Minds and I hope it stays on TV FOREVER. The short-lived and underrated—but rather conventional—Stalker just got the axe earlier this week, as well, which begs the question: What do the people want? Perhaps crime shows with a TWIST? Fall 2015 is packed with the not-quite-CSI shows. ABC's Quantico is like Criminal Minds but way sexier and way more... Hunger Games, while the movie-to-TV adaptations Minority Report (Fox) and Limitless (CBS) lean towards the sci-fi. —Kristen
The Gossip Guys are all right
That CW show with a wacky plot
A CBS show actually worth watching?!
That one actually good ABC comedy that'll probably get canceled
Everything on NBC looks like Hot Garbage™
Listen, I fuck with Greg Berlanti, but another long-game conspiracy show just sounds exhausting and the Blindspot trailer isn't seducing me into taking the journey. Meanwhile your boy Wesley Snipes lost out on being Lucious Lyon just to play faux Nick Fury in an action series with inexplicable gambling metaphors (it's set in Vegas, that's why!) Zack Morris goes to that great place in the sky where all sitcom legends go to die: a much lesser sitcom that will either die quietly or quietly run for close to a decade even though everyone you know says they hate it. Melissa George is a doctor who's nice at basketball. The largely undefined Neil Patrick Harris variety hour sounds like a mess of Emmy-hosting proportions. Oh, and we can't forget the Heroes return absolutely no one asked for, validated here with a hilariously thin and pointless trailer. PASS on everything, fam. —Frazier