BLINDSPOT (NBC)

Blindspot is an action thriller, scheduled to air on September 21 (US), whose trailer leaked online. The show follows the story of a Jane Doe  (Jaimie Alexander) found naked in a bag in the middle of Time Square covered in fresh tattoos and with her memory wiped out. One of the tattoos is the name of FBI Agent Kurt Weller and soon they discover that each of the tattoos is a clue to a crime that they will have to solve. The trailer was nail-biting and the pilot thrilling. If not anything else this would be a must-watch for the fans of Lady Sif from Thor, who plays Jane Doe. Sullivan Stapleton plays Agent Kurt Weller.

NARCOS (NETFLIX)

Drugs, smuggling, sex, violence, money — this Netflix series on drug kingpin Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel looks like all the action fix you could need. If raids, random shootings and intrigue is not your thing, maybe you’d tune in just to get your Oberyn Martell fix. Yes, Pedro Pascal plays cop Javier Pena who is, we assume from what we’ve seen in the trailer, trying to bring the cartel down. Oh and he does get in a lot of sexy time too. 

THE CATCH (ABC)

The Killing’s Mireille Enos plays Alice Vaughn, an ace fraud investigator who is suspicious of everyone. But a few days before her wedding to fiance Kieran Booth she finds him gone, having taken her to the cleaners. She continues to handle other cases even as she pursues Booth. The Catch, yet another Shondaland product, will be replacing How To Get Away With Murder in the 2015-16 season. It better be good if it wants to reel in the many fans of HTGAWM. The pre-release plus? Enos looks smart and capable in the trailer. 

QUANTICO (ABC)

Which one of us will not tune into this action thriller set to premier in India on October 3 on Star World and Star World HD because our very own Piggy Chops is in the lead. She and the show look exciting. It follows a group of FBI recruits who battle their way through the training academy at Quantico, Virginia. One of them is responsible for the biggest terror attack in the US after they graduate and Priyanka Chopra is the primary suspect. She escapes before she can be taken to prison and now she has to fight to clear her name. Quantico will air every Saturday at 9pm.

COLONY (USA NETWORK)

Lost star Josh Holloway, who played Sawyer, re-unites with series creator Carlton Cuse in this thriller about an earth that has been colonised by what we think are aliens. While most of the people in the area have accepted the new scheme of things, some like Holloway’s family rebel. This one got our hopes up simply because it has many ingredients of Lost, including a hint of conspiracy. Will it recreate the glory of Lost?

HEROES REBORN (NBC)

The ordinary people with extraordinary powers from NBC’s Heroes will be back in Heroes Reborn, which takes off from season four of the original and sees gifted individuals being hunted and killed till the point where they have to go into hiding. Season one of Heroes was critically acclaimed for a reason, we hope that reason is back with the sequel. 

MINORITY REPORT (FOX)

The TV series is set in 2065, 15 years after the events of the 2002 film. The show follows Dash, who is now leading a civilian life. He still gets flashes of crimes about to happen, the unique gift that made him, his twin brother Arthur and foster sister Agatha part of the pre-crime programme that was dismantled at the end of the 2002 film. Dash uses his gift to help Detective Lara Vega in preventing crimes even as he searches for his brother. The pilot for the show, which will air on September 21 (US) and has original director Steven Spielberg as producer, was leaked online. Minority Report looks grand but we want to know how it will explain that pre-crime is good when the film was all about proving how pre-crime was bad. 

THE GRINDER (FOX)

Dean Sanderson (Rob Lowe) is a popular star in TV show ‘The Grinder’ but after the series finale he returns to his hometown, much to the agony of brother Stewart (Fred Savage), who is a real lawyer just like their father. Lowe decides that playing a lawyer on television for eight years makes him capable of practising law and he joins the family law firm. The trailer, for the show premiering on September 29, tickles the funny bone and Lowe-Savage is definitely worth a watch.

CASANOVA (AMAZON)

Diego Luna stars as Casanova, who has escaped from the Doge’s Palace and is on the run to Paris, where he immediately gets drawn into the politics of the French court. The show does not focus on the sex and debauchery that Casanova was famous for. The character’s story arch sees him as a man who hobnobbed with the biggest names of the Enlightenment era, introduced the state lottery and travelled extensively. There is sex, of course, but it is not the gratuitous kind. It looks more at women’s sexuality and the position and role of women in society during that time.

LUCIFER (FOX)

Loosely based on the DC character from Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series, the show will see Tom Ellis play the Lord of Hell. He is bored of Hell and retires from his post to open a piano bar called Lux in Los Angeles. He is, of course, immortal and can compel people to confess the truth and their deepest desires and uses his talents to help the LAPD punish criminals. The pilot was shown at San Diego Comic-Con to positive reviews, and has since been leaked online. Witty dialogues, and Ellis’s irreverent performance as the charming rogue make the show, scheduled to air in 2016, worth waiting for, we say.

Which show in the 2015-2016 season are you most excited about? Tell t2@abp.in