New Fall Television Shows 2015

This fall is looking good. Add to these all the returning shows and I won't have time to do anything else!

This link will take you to a calendar of all fall shows:

http://www.tvguide.com/special/fall-preview/calendar/

The Bastard Executioner
(Tuesdays starting September 15th on FX)
The Bastard Executioner is supposed to be a medieval epic that deals with politics, divine intervention, secret identities, and — naturally — an executioner.

Minority Report
(Mondays starting September 21st on Fox)
Fox's Minority Report is a procedural crime drama that takes place years after the film wraps up. The show will follow a detective who teams up with a precog who still has the ability to see crimes before they occur. It's basically a typical crime series with a sci-fi twist. 

Scream Queens
(Tuesdays starting September 22nd on Fox)
Season one of Scream Queens is about a sorority that comes under attack from a masked murderer who seems to be interested in knocking all of them off. But it's an anthology show, so if this season plays well, it'll come back next year with all new characters, True Detective style.

Limitless
(Tuesdays starting September 22nd on CBS)
Limitless is a crime drama and also going to be dealing with an overarching story that seems to involve government conspiracies and maybe a mob or shadow corporation or some sort of evil entity all revolving around these genius pills.

Heroes Reborn
(Thursdays starting September 24th on NBC)
A return to Tim Kring's world in which people wake up one day to discover they have superpowers (and are now on the run after being blamed by the government for a terrorist attack). New people are developing powers, while a number of heroes from the original series are returning including space-time manipulator Hiro Nakamura and mind-reader Matt Parkman.

Supergirl
(Mondays starting October 26th on CBS)

Marvel's Jessica Jones
(Friday, November 20th on Netflix)
Daredevil, Netflix's first series in the Marvel universe, was a surprisingly well-crafted (and exceptionally blood-splattered) take on the blind vigilante. Jessica Jones is the follow-up series and follows the titular character (played by Krysten Ritter) as she transitions from superhero to private investigator.

28 New TV Shows for Summer 2015

The Whispers

Mondays at 10 p.m. on ABC
When children across Washington, D.C., all start talking with the same imaginary friend named Drill, who persuades them to play dangerous games, the FBI calls in child specialist Claire Bennigan -- whose deaf son has been speaking to Drill, unbeknownst to her -- to investigate. Meanwhile, the defense department sends Wes Lawrence to the Sahara Desert, where he encounters a strange geological phenomenon. As puzzle pieces come together, creating a frightening picture, humanity must wage a battle against unseen forces if it hopes to survive.

Tuesday, June 2

9:00 p.m. - Stitchers - ABC Family

Kirsten Clark, who has been recruited to join a covert government agency, has a special ability. Kirsten is able to be "stitched" into the minds of people who have recently died to use their memories to investigate murders. Taking advantage of Kirsten's ability is Maggie Baptiste, who leads the secret program in which Kirsten works alongside neuroscientist Cameron Goodkin, who is passionate about the work the group does. Other members of the team include socially awkward communications technician Linus Ahluwalia and Kirsten's roommate, computer science grad student Camille Engelson. When things go well, the team is able to use the "stitching" to solve mysteries that otherwise would have gone to the grave with the victims.

Thursday, June 4

10:00 p.m. - Hannibal - NBC

Friday, June 5

12:01 a.m. - Sense8 - Netflix

One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as "Sensates."
Starring:Tuppence Middleton, Brian J. Smith, Doona Bae
Creators:Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, J. Michael Straczynski
Genres: Gay & Lesbian TV Shows, TV Sci-Fi & Fantasy, TV Shows

Thursday, June 11

8 p.m. - Beauty and the Beast - The CW

Friday, June 12

12:01 a.m. - Orange Is The New Black - Netflix

8:00 p.m. - Defiance - Syfy

10:00 p.m. - Dark Matter - Syfy
The six-person crew of a derelict spaceship awakens from stasis in the farthest reaches of space. Their memories wiped clean, they have no recollection of who they are or how they got on board. The only clue to their identities is a cargo bay full of weaponry and a destination: a remote mining colony that is about to become a war zone. With no idea whose side they are on, they face a deadly decision. Will these amnesiacs turn their backs on history, or will their pasts catch up with them?

Saturday, June 13

10:00 p.m. - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - BBC America
With magic long since lost to England, two men are destined to bring it back; the reclusive Mr. Norrell and daring novice Jonathan Strange. So begins a dangerous battle between two great minds.

Friday, June 19

9:00 p.m. - Killjoys - Syfy

In the Quad, a galaxy on the brink of a bloody interplanetary class war, a fun loving trio of bounty hunters attempt to remain impartial as they chase deadly warrants.

Sunday, June 21

9:00 p.m. - BattleBots - ABC
BattleBots promises to wow viewers with next generation robots—bigger, faster and stronger than ever before. The show will focus on the design and build of each robot, the bot builder backstories, their intense pursuit of the championship and the spectacle of the event.

9:00 p.m. - The Last Ship 2-Hour Premiere - TNT

9:00 p.m. - Under The Dome - CBS

9:00 p.m. - Humans - AMC

HUMANS, a bold new eight-part drama series from AMC, Channel 4 and Kudos, is set in a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant eerily similar to its live counterpart. Written by British writing partnership Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley (Spooks, Spooks: The Greater Good), HUMANS is based on the award-winning Swedish sci-fi drama Real Humans. HUMANS, which stars William Hurt, Katherine Parkinson, Tom Goodman-Hill, Colin Morgan, Rebecca Front, Neil Maskell, and Gemma Chan.
10:00 p.m. - Falling Skies - TNT
10:00 p.m. - Ballers - HBO

When it premieres: Sunday, June 21, at 10 p.m. on HBO
Dwayne Johnson is pretty busy these days, but he's managed to squeeze in filming an entire HBO series. He plays a retired athlete who now serves as a financial adviser to professional football players. With all the beautiful people, cars, and scenery, it's basically the new Entourage.

10:30 p.m.  The Brink - HBO
Jack Black and Tim Robbins star in this oddball comedy about the government struggling to prevent a new world war.

Monday, June 29

10:00 p.m. - Teen Wolf - MTV

Tuesday, June 30

9:00 p.m. - Zoo - CBS

Zoo is a global thriller about a wave of violent animal attacks against humans across the planet. As the assaults become more cunning, coordinated and ferocious, a young renegade biologist is thrust into the race to unlock the pandemic's mystery before there's no place left for people to hide.

? p.m. - Scream - MTV

When it premieres: Tuesday, June 30, at 10 p.m. on MTV
If you love the 1996 horror hit, you're either going to savor every minute of this TV reboot or avoid it like the plague.What starts as a YouTube video going viral, soon leads to problems for the teenagers of Lakewood and serves as the catalyst for a murder that opens up a window to the town's troubled past.

10:00 p.m. - Extant - CBS

Thursday, July 9

10:00 p.m. - Dominion - Syfy

Sunday, July 12

10:00 p.m. - The Strain - FX

Friday, July 17

12:01 a.m. - BoJack Horseman - Netflix

A humanoid horse, BoJack Horseman -- lost in a sea of self-loathing and booze -- decides it's time for a comeback. Once the star of a '90s sitcom, in which he was the adoptive father of three orphaned kids (two girls and a boy). The show was the hottest thing around, then suddenly, was canceled. Now 18 years later, BoJack wants to regain his dignity. With the aid of a human sidekick and a feline ex-girlfriend who is his agent, he sets out to make it happen. But Hollywood is vastly different from those days, and getting used to stuff like Twitter may take some time. This first animated series from Netflix -- with plenty of references to sex, drugs and alcohol -- is not for the little ones.

Wednesday, July 22

9:00 p.m. - Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! - Syfy
The third movie, in the what is now a television movie franchise looks to outdo itself again! This time the "sharknado" is hitting Washington D.C. and Orlando, Florida, and bringing a bit of mayhem with it!

July 26, 2015

Continuum-SyFy

Continuum’s upcoming fourth season will be its last. And it will be rather brief.
The main heroine of Continuum is a cop from the future named Kira Cameron. During the terrorists execution in 2077, the criminals use a time portal to escape in year 2012. Kira followed them to the past, and now she must track the terrorists and get them back to their own time for the sake of justice..

Still TBA 

Fear The Walking Dead 

It's been confirmed that Fear the Walking Dead will take place during the early stages of the zombie apocalypse - that period its parent series missed, with Rick in his coma - and is set in Los Angeles, over 2,000 miles from Atlanta where The Walking Dead is set.

But while Fear will initially serve as a prequel - dealing with the "anxiety and anticipation" of an outbreak, rather than going "full-zombie" - The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman has confirmed that the two series' timelines will align at some point.

Wipeout-ABC
Wipeout looks to be returning for eighth season this coming summer. After the Summer 2014 run of lower rated episodes, producers appear to be overhauling the format for 2015. ABC is now casting for an updated version, called Wipeout Extreme.

T.V. Series Review: Daredevil

Daredevil
First episode date: April 10, 2015
Network: Netflix
Genres: Action, Science Fiction

Cast: Charlie Cox (Matt Murdock), Deborah Ann Woll (Karen Page), Elden Henson (Foggy Nelson), Vincent D'Onofrio (Wilson Fisk), Toby Leonard Moore (James Wesley) 

The first in a planned series of shows detailing the Marvel universe, "Daredevil" follows Matt Murdock, attorney by day and vigilante by night. Blinded in an accident as a child, Murdock uses his heightened senses as Daredevil, fighting crime on the streets of New York after the sun goes down. His efforts are not welcomed by powerful businessman Wilson Fisk -- aka Kingpin -- and others whose interests collide with those of Daredevil. Though Murdock's day job portrays a man who believes in the criminal justice system, his alter ego suggests otherwise, as he takes the law into his own hands to protect his Hell's Kitchen neighborhood and the surrounding communities.

Daredevil is a T.V. series created by Drew Goddard and produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Studios and shown on Nextfilx. All thirteen episodes went up at one time, practically begging to be binge watched. The show picks up sometime after the big alien invasion we saw in The Avengers. Hell's Kitchen in NY city is trying to rebuild. Lots of bad guys (Russian mob, Japanese drug lord, crooked politicians) have moved in looking to claim the area.

I haven't read the Marvel comic version of Daredevil so I went in without any expectations...well, if it has Marvel on it, I'm expecting entertainment. The show starts with Murdoch and his best friend Foggy buying an office for their law practice. Then it is off to the races as Murdoch and his scooby gang take on Mr. Fisk (villain) leaving behind a high body count. The hero/villain dynamic is well done. They both think they are doing what is best for their city. They find happiness along the way only to have it stripped from them as they make sacrifices to achieve their endgame.

Mr. Fisk

One word I can use to describe the show is dark. Dark in tone and dark as in "I can't see what's going on!" I knew the show was going to be a violent drama, but I didn't realize how far they were going with it. This would earn an R rating. There are body parts chopped off, brutal beatings, lots of blood...and no lights...seriously. Hell's Kitchen must not allow overhead lighting. I can understand the dark outside where Daredevil goes after the bad guys, but every house and office only has one desk lamp with maybe a 25 watt bulb in it. I also understand Murdoch's apartment wouldn't have lights...he's blind. But the rest of the characters aren't. I don't know of any female that would walk through an office in the dark and only turn on the desk lamp. Just saying... The trailer below is pretty much how all the episodes look. Probably 80% was filmed in low lighting.

Darkness aside, I liked the show. I didn't feel compelled to watch all the episodes in a row, but I did want to watch it. And let's be honest...Daredevil looks good. I didn't mind just seeing his jaw and mouth when he wore the black mask. That is a fine looking mouth. This brings up another thing. Why didn't any of the bad guys wonder why his mask had no eye holes? I also liked Mr. Fisk's right hand man Wesley.

Acting, writing, settings, were all good, but honestly I couldn't see most of the settings so I can't really comment on that aspect. Definitely worth watching if you like the darker side of superheroes.

4 "who is that he's beating up on" Sheep

SharonS

Book Review: THE MYTHOLOGY OF GRIMM: The Fairy Tale and Folklore Roots of the Popular TV Show by Nathan Robert Brown

The Mythology of Grimm: The Fairy Tale and Folklore Roots of the Popular TV Show

by Nathan Robert Brown

Paperback: 368 pages

Berkley Trade (September 30, 2014)

Since its debut in 2011, the hit television show Grimm on NBC has been described as “cop drama—with a twist…a dark and fantastical project about a world in which characters inspired by Grimms’ Fairy Tales exist” (The Oregonian). The show captured the hearts of fans as homicide Detective Nick Burkhardt of the Portland Police and his partner, Detective Hank Griffin, fight to keep the balance between humanity and mythological creatures of the world.

This Fall, author and mythologist, Nathan Robert Brown brings you THE MYTHOLOGY OF GRIMM: The Fairy Tale and Folklore Roots of the Popular TV Show (Berkley Trade Paperback; $16.00; September 30, 2014) to offer fans a deeper insight into the mythological and folklore roots of their favorite show. Brown takes each episode of Grimm as a launching point to talk about the fairy tale that inspired it, from The Big Bad Wolf to Sleeping Beauty, and explores the history and folkloric traditions that come into play during Nick’s incredible investigations.

The book will appeal to fans of Grimm, especially with the fourth premiering this October. But readers who are looking for an accessible guide to fairy tales and folklore will also love the wealth of interesting and little-known facts about some of the world’s best-loved stories (along with some you’ve never heard of!).

Confession! I've never seen an episode of Grimm...I know, right? But I've always wanted too because I have a love of the dark side of fairy tales. What drew me to this book was the added historical background information the author includes about all the things that appear in the TV show.

If you are a history buff or trivia pursuer you are going to love this info packed book of all things Grimm and fairy tale. First you get the history of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's lives. I've never read up on these two so it was all new to me. Along with a bit about Charles Perrault (French version of the Grimm brothers and also who we know as Mother Goose) and Joseph Jacobs (English version of the Grimm brothers).

The author then covers all the weapons used in the TV series and gives a detailed background on the actual weapons the TV versions were based on. Most of the book then focuses on the actual fairy tales used in the TV show. First there is a retelling of the fairy tale such as Little Red Riding-hood. Then you get history and information about key elements in the fairy tale and then it is compared to the TV show episode about that particular tale.

This book is information overload, but the good kind for those who love it. You don't have to watch the TV show to appreciate this book. Just the love of fairy tale history.

5 "Grimm" Sheep

SharonStogner

About the Author:
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Nathan Robert Brown is an author and mythologist from Texas. He has done extensive research in world mythology, folklore, urban legends, ancient civilizations, and world religions, and is an expert on universal themes in myth, religion, and mysticism. Nathan is also a public speaker and a pro-bono demonology consultant. He is the author of many books, including The Mythology of Supernatural: The Signs and Symbols Behind the Popular TV Show, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to World Mythology, and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Paranormal.