THE MASKED SINGER

It’s no shock that the over-the-top competition featuring mystery celebrities in masks and elaborate costumes would go all out for Halloween.

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

FIRST SHOWN LIVE on TV as part of Ford Star Jubilee in 1955, then filmed by Robert Altman in 1988, Herman Wouk’s courtroom classic (adapted from his 1951 novel) is of special interest in its latest version as the final film directed by Oscar winner William Friedkin (The French Connection, The Exorcist).

Lessons in Chemistry

PART JULIA CHILD, part Marie Curie, with the movie-star glow of a Kim Novak, brilliant chemist Elizabeth Zott (the luminous Brie Larson) is ahead of her 1950s times.

POST-STRIKE UPDATE

THE JOKES FLEW fast and furious on Monday, October 2, from late-night hosts back at work after the 148-day writers’ strike had come to an end.

QUIZ MASTER! THE REAL AMY SCHNEIDER STORY

AFTER HER APPEARANCES in 40 Jeopardy! episodes, Tournament of Champions and Jeopardy! Masters, fans may think they know Amy Schneider.

FRASIER IS IN THE BUILDING!

Kelsey Grammer's famous psychiatrist moves back to Boston to hang out with a whole new TV family. (But there's still a bar!)

DAVID MCCALLUM

WHEN MARK HARMON first met David McCallum in 2003 while filming the backdoor pilot for NCIS (which aired on JAG), he gushed, “I can’t imagine I’m shaking the hand of Illya Kuryakin.”

Harry Wild

We're just wild about Harry...and so are viewers. They've turned this Dublin-set series-about a rambunctious retired literature professor (Jane Seymour) who solves mysteries-into a success, and its star couldn't be happier.

Bosch: Legacy

In Bosch: Legacy’s first season finale, private eye Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) was enjoying success after saving a mogul’s young heir from an assassin and solving a murder.

Upload

The sly sci-fi comedy about murdered tech bro Nathan Brown (Robbie Amell), whose consciousness was uploaded to a luxurious virtual-afterlife resort called Lakeview, is back after a year and a half for Season 3, and things are getting trickier than remembering your passwords!

Loki

Time hasn’t progressed much at all for the ancient god of mischief Loki (Tom Hiddleston) since Season 1’s cataclysmic finale cliffhanger. The cunning trickster was pushed through a time door by vengeful Loki variant/ally Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) just as the sacred timeline began splitting apart into countless branches.

Frasier

We hear the blues a-callin': Grammer returns as Dr. Frasier Crane

World on Fire

This engrossing British drama about ordinary people trying to survive World War II is back after a four-year absence.

Annika

The chief of Scotland's Marine Homicide Unit tries to keep her head above water after that big reveal in last year's finale.

Blue Bloods

WHAT HE DOES The police procedural’s consultant since Day 1—after a lengthy gig on Law & Order—is charged with ensuring Blue Bloods’ cops are depicted realistically.

SEAL Team

WHERE WE LEFT OFF Team leader Jason Hayes (David Boreanaz, below) and his patriotic, do-or-die unit were last seen on CBS back in 2021 in the fourth episode of Season 5 before the action drama moved to Paramount+. (Those four episodes will restart the whole season run before the rest play out.)

Magnum P.I.

Thomas Magnum (Jay Hernandez) and Juliet Higgins (Perdita Weeks) have bested murderous baddies and skirted numerous will-they-won’t-they cliffhangers. Now, Oahu’s top PIs are a team in all ways, but are they ready to face the ultimate test—parenthood?

Quantum Leap

Quantum Leap wouldn’t be Quantum Leap without Dr. Ben Song (Raymond Lee) jumping into other people’s bodies in various time periods. So, you guessed it, he didn’t make it home after that cliffhanger and has continued leaping. (The premiere, with Ben on a plane that crash-lands in 1978 Russia, reveals what happened.)

Survivor

It’ll be hard to top the reality hit’s previous season: Carolyn’s big personality made every episode fun, and perennially uplifting winner Yam Yam felt truly deserving.

Celebrity Name That Tune

Hit it! The musical game show hosted by 30 Rock vet Jane Krakowski swings back for a fresh season of stumping stars as they try to guess Top 40 classics and more, all for charity.

FBI True

3 THINGS TO KNOW

Special Forces: World's Toughest Test

WHAT SHE DOES As task producer for the celebrity boot-camp competition, her first to-do item is to scout out a base for the action.

The Golden Bachelor

There's no shortage of shows you love coming back, strike or no strike. We've got all the details on 60-plus titles, starting with a fresh take on a reality heavyweight

The Irrational

SO WHAT’S NEW? That’s a question being asked by many viewers, surveying a fall season of patchwork lineups on the broadcast networks. A fresh scripted series (not counting imports from other countries) is almost as rare as a camera-shy Kardashian, but NBC’s The Irrational would be worth a look in any season, with a charismatic star (Law & Order veteran Jesse L. Martin) and an intriguing premise.

The Morning Show

“WE SHOULD DO the news, not be the news,” declares Cory Ellison (Billy Crudup), the CEO and Machiavellian master of damage control at the fictional UBA network. Does he even know what show he’s on?

BOB BARKER (1923-2023)

YOU CAN’T PUT a price on personality. Bob Barker’s was beyond compare, a display of unflappable charm, graciousness and good humor no matter the circumstance.

BEST JEOPARDY! HOST: IS THE ANSWER ALEX OR KEN?

OUR TAKE ON WHO'S TOP OF THE LIST: THE CLASSIC FAVORITE OR THE CHAMP TURNED EMMY NOMINEE

GOOSEBUMPS

R.L. Stine’s iconic ’90s horror books for kids are getting a tune-up in this 10-episode series, which follows a group of five teens as they uncover maddening mysteries in their small Pacific Northwest town

ORLANDO BLOOM: TO THE EDGE

“I never feel so alive being so close to death. I’m ready to take my life to the edge,” Orlando Bloom, star of the Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean movie franchises, confesses in the first of this three-episode adventure series

BUDDY VALASTRO'S CAKE DYNASTY

Buddy Valastro wants to show the world that he’s not just about constructing impossibly extravagant desserts