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Accidentally on Purpose

A successful film critic gets pregnant after a one-night stand and decides to keep the baby and allow her fling to move in.

The Amazing Race

Survivor lovers (and winners) Ethan Zohn and Jenna Morasca will race, along with controversial mariner dad Laurence Sunderland and his son Zac, who sailed solo around the world at age 17, besting 16-year-old sister Abby, who failed her 2010 attempt to do the same.

The Big Bang Theory

Blue Bloods

Tom Selleck and Donnie Wahlberg star as Frank and Danny Reagan, a father and son duo from a lengthy bloodline of NYC cops — including Frank’s pop, his youngest boy and another son mysteriously killed in the line of duty. The show seems to want to be both a deeply felt family drama and a gritty crime hour.

Cold Case

New Faces: Bobby Cannavale, returning as Detective Eddie Saccardo Where We Left Off: After locating her long-estranged father, Philadelphia police [...]

Criminal Minds

In the season premiere, “The Longest Night,” the BAU team closes in on the serial killer as he continues his murder spree throughout Los Angeles — with Spicer’s daughter as his hostage.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

TV’s signature procedural changes leads yet again with Ted Danson taking over the reins from the departing Laurence Fishburne.

CSI: Miami

Where We Left Off: Season 9 ended in a dire cliffhanger, as Randy lured two agents into a trap, shooting [...]

CSI: NY

Where We Left Off: Mac (Sinise) cleared the last unsolved case off his desk in an episode that felt more [...]

The Defenders

Jim Belushi and Jerry O’Connell play Las Vegas defense attorneys in one of the fall’s best new dramas.

Gary Unmarried

New Faces: Keegan-Michael Key and Brooke D’Orsay Where We Left Off: They’re divorced, but that didn’t stop Gary and Allison [...]

Ghost Whisperer

New Faces: New character, Aiden Clancy, not yet cast at press time. Where We Left Off: A pregnant Melinda (Jennifer [...]

A Gifted Man

A successful, materialistic neurosurgeon begins receiving visitations from his ex-wife, who recently died, causing him to re-examine his thoughts on life and death in this thoughtful drama from executive producers Susannah Grant and Jonathan Demme.

The Good Wife

Where We Left Off: Sure, there was a bunch of legal stuff that went down, but let’s not kid ourselves. [...]

Hawaii Five-0

CBS’s classic island cop drama gets a high-octane reboot. Expect plenty of action, deeper story lines and 21st-century-style exotica.

How I Met Your Mother

In Season 7, Martin Short joins the cast replacing Dave Foley as the head of Goliath National Bank. Kal Penn will play a recurring character as a love interest for Robin (Cobie Smulders).

How to Be a Gentleman

Tough guy personal trainer Bert (Kevin Dillon) tries to teach fussy magazine columnist Andrew (David Hornsby) how to be a real man.

Let’s Make a Deal

Wayne Brady is back as host of the remake of the classic game show.

Mad Love

Four single friends who live in New York City, two who are falling in love and two who really dislike each other … well, at least for now.

Medium

The season 7 premiere finds Bridgette and Allison swapping personalities after they have the same dream about a missing homeless man.

The Mentalist

Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) is back on the trail of Red John and anyone else who would separate the locals from their lives.

Mike & Molly

A plus-sized pair — Chicago cop Mike and fourth-grade teacher Molly — find love at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting.

NCIS

Gibbs (Mark Harmon) is in a pretty tough spot — even for him — at the start of this season. Has he really sold out to the Reynosas?

NCIS: Los Angeles

Someone’s been watching Callen all his life. Is he about to find out the truth of his own background, or is he being set up for a fall?

The New Adventures of Old Christine

New Faces: Eric McCormack (Will & Grace) has a recurring role as a therapist who shares office space with Matthew, [...]

NUMB3RS

Where We Left Off: Mathematican Charlie (David Krumholtz) and his FBI agent brother, Don (Rob Morrow), rescued Charlie’s girlfriend, Amita (Navi Rawat) – who [...]

Person of Interest

A presumed-dead former CIA agent living on the streets of New York is rescued by an eccentric billionaire and recruited to prevent violent crimes.

Rules of Engagement

$#*! My Dad Says

This comedy is based on the popular Twitter feed by Justin Halpern, who tweeted quotes from his cantankerous father that could be as insightful as often as they were crude. William Shatner plays the dad, Ed Goodson.

Survivor: South Pacific

Alumni Ben “Coach” Wade and Oscar “Ozzy” Lusth return to battle 16 other castaways, including Russell Hantz’s nephew Brandon, a Miss America runner-up and a Lingerie Football League player.

The Talk

This new daily daytime talk show examines topical events and contemporary issues through the eyes of its six female co-hosts, who are all mothers — Julie Chen, executive producer and creator Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Holly Robinson Peete, Leah Remini and Marissa Jaret Winokur.

Three Rivers

Each episode of Three Rivers intertwines the lives of organ donors, organ recipients and their surgeons at a fictitious Pittsburgh [...]

‘Til Death

New Faces: Lindsey Broad takes over the role of Eddie and Joy’s daughter, Ally. Where We Left Off: High-school teacher [...]

Two and a Half Men

“Two and a Half Men” returns for Season 9, with Ashton Kutcher replacing Charlie Sheen in the cast.

2 Broke Girls

New York City waitresses Max (Kat Dennings) and Caroline (Beth Behrs) decide to save up $250,000 to open a bake shop together.

Unforgettable

Without A Trace’s Poppy Montgomery stars Carrie Wells, a flame-haired and sad-eyed former Syracuse cop whose hyperthymesia — she remembers every detail of every moment of her life — was a boon to her career on the force. But the agony of the single day she can’t recall — that of her sister’s murder — and a failed relationship with a fellow detective led Wells to bolt for the Bronx, until a murder in her apartment building reunites her with her with her ex love and reawakens memories of her sister’s demise.