Ready your DVR for the midseason TV onslaught
The programming onslaught continues, with more new shows this winter than any of us will ever have time to watch.
Here's a curated, chronological list I've made to round up the new series that will premiere in the next few months.
Add in shows that debuted earlier this month, and you have quite a selection.
“The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore”: “Daily Show” correspondent Larry Wilmore takes over the spot vacated by “The Colbert Report.” 10:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 19, on Comedy Central
“Open Heart”: A new drama for Nickelodeon's TeenNick channel about a 16-year-old girl who comes from a family of doctors and uses the access she has as a hospital volunteer to look into her father's disappearance. 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 20, on TeenNick
“Best New Restaurant”: Hosted and judged by Tom Colicchio, this competition series features 16 restaurants competing for the title of “best new restaurant,” an editorial feature in Bon Appétit and $100,000. 9 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 21, on Bravo
“The Mistress”: Reality series. Sarah Symonds, self-proclaimed former mistress of Gordon Ramsay, intervenes in the lives of women who are mistresses. 9 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 21, on Discovery Life
“World's Worst Mom”: Reality series tries to get some high-strung moms to relax their grip on their kids. 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22, on Discovery Life
“Backstrom”: Rainn Wilson, forever remembered as “The Office's” Dwight Schrute, returns in this one-hour drama as anti-social Everett Backstrom, a demoted Portland police detective. Imagine a show in which a far less lovable Oscar the Grouch solves murders, and you start to get the idea. 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22, on Fox
“Nightwatch”: Reality series follows New Orleans emergency responders on the overnight shift. 9 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22, on A&E
“Million Dollar Food Critic”: Reality/food series. London Times restaurant critic Giles Coren, who brags that his reviews can mean a million dollars in lost/gained business to proprietors, samples meals from five U.S. restaurants and then picks one for his “million-dollar review.” 9 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22, on BBC America
“Love, Lust or Run”: Makeover expert/psychologist Stacy London (“What Not to Wear”) returns with a new fashion reality show. 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 23, on TLC
“Sons of Liberty”: A three-night, six-hour scripted miniseries set at the beginning of the American Revolution. Ben Barnes, Ryan Eggold, Michael Raymond-James and a others play our nation's hunky upstarts. 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 25, on History
“Strange Inheritance”: Docu-series explores the seldom-discussed world of people who inherited their wealth. 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 26, on Fox Business
“Fortitude”: This icy 12-part mystery thriller is set on the small Arctic Circle island village of Fortitude, where a melting glacier has revealed the perfectly preserved carcass of a prehistoric beast. That discovery may be related to Fortitude's first murder, an event that exposes the culture of a community that spends most of its year in darkness. 9 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 29, on Pivot
“Breaking Greenville”: A “comedic docu-soap” that purports to chronicle the rivalry between two local news stations in Greenville, Miss. 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 29, on truTV
“Foyle's War”: Not a new show, but this World War II-era British mystery series is moving from PBS to Acorn TV streaming with three new episodes. Streaming on Monday, Feb. 2, on Acorn TV
“Street Art Throwdown”: Competition series hosted and judged by Justin Bua pushes 10 accomplished street artists to their limits. 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3, on Oxygen
“Fresh Off the Boat”: Based on a humorous memoir by restaurateur Eddie Huang, this sitcom is set in the mid-1990s as 12-year-old Eddie's family moves to Orlando, where his father, Louis (Randall Park), has opened a country-Western-themed steakhouse. Premieres at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 4, before moving to 7 p.m. Tuesdays on ABC
“Allegiance”: This new drama series has what sounds like some envy for FX's “The Americans”: An idealistic CIA agent (Gavin Stenhouse) learns that his parents (Scott Cohen and Hope Davis) were Soviet spies. 9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, on NBC
“The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst”: This six-part docu-series by Andrew Jarecki is a seven-year investigation into the strange life of real-estate scion Robert Durst, who was acquitted of murdering a neighbor in 2001 but was also questioned in the 2000 murder of a writer who was friends with his wife, who vanished in 1982. 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8, on HBO
“Better Call Saul”: In this prequel to “Breaking Bad,” we meet James “Jimmy” Morgan McGill (Naperville's Bob Odenkirk), a desperately underemployed Albuquerque lawyer. Sad-sack Jimmy is not yet the criminally connected sleazeball who will (somehow) become the legendary Saul Goodman, but it isn't too long before Jimmy/Saul is bound and gagged and thrown to the desert ground — and “Breaking Bad” fans are home. 9 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8, and then moves to 9 p.m. Mondays on AMC
“Schitt's Creek”: This comedy series stars Eugene Levy and the great Catherine O'Hara as a rich couple who've lost their fortune and are left only with ownership of a small town. 9 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11, on Pop
“The Slap”: Limited series about a family that comes unglued after an incident at a 40th birthday party. Stars Peter Sarsgaard, Uma Thurman, Thandie Newton, Melissa George, Zachary Quinto and Thomas Sadoski. 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, on NBC
“The Book of Negroes”: A three-night miniseries based on a novel about a West African woman (Aunjanue Ellis) who is kidnapped by slave traders in the 18th century and taken to America, where she eventually begins an epic journey to secure her freedom. 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 16, on BET
“The Odd Couple”: New comedy update of the Neil Simon classic, starring Matthew Perry and Thomas Lennon. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19, on CBS
“Style By Jury”: New fashion-advice series brings in “repeat offenders” of fashion crimes, where they face judgment from a jury of their peers. 8:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20, on TLC
“Outlaw Country”: Docu-series follows small-town law enforcement in Buckner, Missouri, through the eyes of brothers Mike and Steve Cook. 9 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, on WGN America
“Good Witch”: An original series starring Catherine Bell as a do-good witch with a teenage daughter who shares her mom's abilities. 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, on Hallmark Channel
“Secrets and Lies”: In this new drama that's been “Gracepoint”-ed from a hit Australian TV series, Ryan Phillippe stars as a man who finds a boy's body in the woods and soon becomes a suspect in the death. Co-stars Juliette Lewis. 8 p.m. Sunday, March 1, on ABC
“The Last Man on Earth”: Two-episode premiere of this half-hour, post-apocalyptic comedy starring Will Forte in the title role, an average guy who appears to be the only person left. 8 p.m. Sunday, March 1, on Fox
“Battle Creek”: Russ Agnew (Dean Winters), the ambitious but dejected lead detective of the Battle Creek, Michigan, police force, keeps begging for more resources. So his commander pairs him up with FBI agent Milt Chamberlain (Josh Duhamel), a sharp-dressed Dudley Do-Right who has been reassigned from Washington. 9 p.m. Sunday, March 1, on CBS
“CSI: Cyber”: The newest series in the popular procedural franchise stars Patricia Arquette (“Medium,” “Boyhood”) as the head of the FBI's online-crime division. 9 p.m. Wednesday, March 4, on CBS
“American Crime”: In this gritty drama that ABC hopes might work as an anthology series like “True Detective,” a community is shaken and divided by the murder of a young couple. Felicity Huffman and Timothy Hutton star. 9 p.m. Thursday, March 5, on ABC
“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”: Originally meant for NBC's midseason, this Tina Fey/Robert Carlock-produced comedy now moves to a two-season deal on Netflix. Ellie Kemper stars as a woman starting her life over in New York after years living in an off-the-grid doomsday cult. Friday, March 6, on Netflix
“My Own Man”: As he's about to become a father to an infant son, filmmaker David Sampliner sets off on a quest to better understand the mysteries of manhood and masculinity. Friday, March 6, on Netflix
“Hear No Evil”: A freak accident brings the world of sound to a hearing-impaired teenager, unleashing chaos in her life. 7 p.m. Saturday, March 14, on TV One
“The Royals”: Hourlong drama series (a first for E!) stars Elizabeth Hurley as Queen Helena, a modern-day British monarch. Joan Collins plays the Queen Mum. The story centers around drama, secrets and scandal in the palace. 9 p.m. Sunday, March 15, on E!
“Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief”: Filmmaker Alex Gibney (“Taxi to the Dark Side”) continues the work of journalist Lawrence Wright's best-selling book, profiling eight former Scientologists. 8 p.m. Monday, March 16, on HBO
“One Big Happy”: Lesbian Lizzy (Elisha Cuthbert) and her straight friend Luke (Nick Zano) make good on a deal to create a baby together. Then he falls in love with a loud British woman (Kelly Brook) and marries her — but Lizzy's already pregnant. 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, on NBC
“iZombie”: Dry-witted drama series about a medical examiner (Rose McIver) who becomes a zombie, which she tries to keep secret. By nibbling on the brains of murder victims in her morgue, she keeps her desiccation at bay and is also able to “see” their final thoughts, which offer clues to how they died. 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, on The CW
“Bloodline”: A cross between a family drama and a psychological suspense thriller, this new series (from the creators of “Damages”) is set in the Florida Keys. A black-sheep son (Ben Mendelsohn) returns home, and the situation deteriorates from there. Cast includes Kyle Chandler, Sissy Spacek and Sam Shepard. Friday, March 20, on Netflix
“The Late Late Show With James Corden”: British actor Corden takes over the job vacated by Craig Ferguson. 11:35 p.m. Monday, March 23, on CBS
“Big Time in Hollywood, FL”: Series about two brothers who have delusions that they are serious filmmakers. Their parents kick them out, forcing them to fend for themselves for the first time. 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, on Comedy Central
“Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies”: This documentary series is a biographical history of cancer, based on the book by Siddhartha Mukherjee. 8 p.m. Monday, March 30, on PBS
“The Dovekeepers”: Two-night event series, based on Alice Hoffman's historical novel about the siege of the Masada in 70 A.D. 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, on CBS
“Weird Loners”: New ensemble comedy about four single people in their mid-30s who wind up sharing a townhouse in Queens. 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, on Fox
“Younger”: Sutton Foster stars as a 40-year-old woman who says she is 26 to get a job and must now pull it off. 9 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, on TV Land