New Fall TV Shows ~ Best Shows 2013

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (ABC)

Created by: Joss Whedon (The Avengers) 

Producers: Whedon, Jed Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, Jeffrey Bell, Jeph Loeb

Starring: Clark Gregg, Ming-Na, Brett Dalton, Elizabeth Henstridge, Ian De Caestecker, Chloe Bennet

Description: Based on Marvel Comics’ secret intelligence organization that has appeared in countless titles, including Iron Man, Captain America and The Ultimates, since being introduced in the 1960s. The military law-enforcement agency’s moniker stands for Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistic Directorate, which also has evolved over time in the comics.

Almost Human (FOX)

Created By: J.H. Wyman (Fringe)

Producers: J.J. Abrams & Wyman

Starring: Karl Urban, Michael Elay, Lili Taylor

Description: Almost Human (working title) is an action-packed police drama set 35 years in the future, when police officers are partnered with highly evolved human-like androids. An unlikely connection is forged when a cop with an aversion to robots and a robot with unexpected emotional responses investigate cases in a brave new world.

The Blacklist (NBC)

Created by: John Eisendrath (Alias)

Producers: Eisendrath, Jon Bokenkamp, John Davis, John Fox

Starring: James Spader, Diego Klattenhoff, Harry Lennix,

Ryan Eggol, Ilfenesh Hadera

Description: The world’s most wanted criminal mysteriously turns himself in and offers to give up everyone he has ever worked with. His only condition is he will only work with a newly-minted FBI agent (Megan Boone) with whom he seemingly has no connection.

Hostages (CBS)
Created by: Jeffrey Nachmanoff (Homeland) and Rick Eid (Law & Order)

Producers: Nachmanoff, Eid, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, Omri Givon, Rotem Shamir, Chayim Sharir, Alon Aranya

Starring: Toni Collette, Dylan McDermott, Tate Donovan,Rhys Coiro, Billy Brown, Sandrine Holt, Mateus Ward, Quinn Shephard, James Naughton

Description: Hostages is a high-octane suspense drama starring Emmy Award winner Toni Collette as a premiere surgeon thrust into a chilling political conspiracy when her family is taken hostage by rogue FBI Agent Duncan Carlisle (Dylan McDermott). The show is based on a never-produced Israeli show from Aranya, Shamir and Sharir.

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (ABC)

Created by: Eddie Kitsis and Adam Horowitz (Once Upon a Time, Lost)

Producers: Kitsis, Horowitz, Steve Perlman, Zack Estrin

Starring: Sophie Lowe, Peter Gadiot, Michael Socha, Emma Rigy, John Lithgow

Description: In Victorian England, the young and beautiful Alice tells a tale of a strange new land that exists on the other side of a rabbit hole. An invisible cat, a hookah smoking caterpillar and playing cards that talk are just some of the fantastic things she’s seen during this impossible adventure. Surely this troubled girl must be insane and her doctors aim to cure her with a treatment that will make her forget everything.

The Crazy Ones (CBS)

Created by: David E. Kelley (Harry's Law, Boston Legal)

Producers: Kelley, Dean Lorey, Bill D’Elia, John Montgomery, Mark Teitelbaum, Jason Winer

Starring: Robin Williams, Sarah Michelle Gellar, James Wolk, Hamish Linklater, Amanda Setton

Description: Academy Award winner Robin Williams returns to series television in The Crazy Ones, a single-camera workplace comedy about a larger-than-life advertising genius whose unorthodox methods and unpredictable behavior would get him fired… if he weren’t the boss.