The fall TV schedule has everything: firefighters, cops, lawyers. And that's just CBS. The networks have something for Mom, something for Dad and something for the college kid stealing Mom and Dad's cable login. Here are the new scripted shows announced for the 2022-23 broadcast season.
ABC
"Alaska": A recently disgraced reporter leaves her high-profile New York life behind to join a daily metro newspaper in Anchorage on a journey to find both personal and professional redemption. Hilary Swank stars.
"Avalon": Based on a short story by Michael Connelly, the series centers on detective Nicole "Nic" Searcy, who heads a small office on an island and is pulled into a career-defining mystery.
"Not Dead Yet" (midseason): Nell Stevens (Gina Rodriguez), a single self-described disaster, works to restart the career she left behind 10 years earlier. When she lands the only job she can find, writing obituaries, she starts getting life advice from an unlikely source.
"The Rookie: Feds": Simone Clark (Niecy Nash-Betts) is the oldest rookie in the FBI Academy. It is a spinoff from "The Rookie," starring Nathan Fillion.
CBS
"East New York": Regina Haywood is the newly promoted police captain of an impoverished neighborhood at the eastern edge of Brooklyn. She needs to lead a diverse group of officers, some of whom are reluctant to deploy her creative methods. Amanda Warren and Jimmy Smits co-star.