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Time is a concept that has lost all meaning in the year 2020, yet its still wild to realize that our pandemic summer is drawing to a close. Ordinarily, the fall TV season would be right around the corner, with a slew of new shows debuting across network, cable, and streaming platforms. But the movie and TV industries have ground to a near-standstill thanks to COVID-19, and a majority of U.S. shows are still not back in production.

What does all of this mean for your viewing schedule? Youll see the biggest impact on broadcast TVthose shows ore generally picked up to series in May, begin shooting over the summer and premiere in September or October. Needless to say, none of that has happened, so the network schedule ispretty thin. Cable pickings are slimmer than usual too, but HBO, Showtime, and FX all delayed some shows from the spring and summer to make sure their fall schedules wouldnt be empty. Theres also plenty of new content coming from Hulu, Amazon, and Netflix. Here are 12 new shows that should be on your radar this fall.

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1Away

In this sweeping space drama, Hilary Swank stars as Emma Green, a formidable NASA commander embarking on a dangerous and unprecedented years-long mission to Mars, leaving behind her ailing husband (The Good Wifes Josh Charles) and teenage daughter. Leaving the planet for three years admittedly sounds pretty enviable right now, but Emma has to contend with mutinous crew members, life-threatening technical disasters, and a pressure-cooker environment as the international crew members try to figure out how to coexist.

Friday, September 4.

2Woke

New Girl's Lamorne Morris stars in this semi-animated Hulu comedy as Keef, a struggling cartoonist who self-identifies as "non-controversial," i.e. he tries not to talk about race. But after a run-in with a racist police officerand after inanimate objects come to life to confront him about racial inequalityKeef's worldview begins to change. The show sees him grapple with how to "stay woke" without compromising the mainstream success that finally seems within reach.

Wednesday, September 9.

3We Are Who We Are

Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino make his small-screen debut with this HBO miniseries, which tells a coming-of-age story set on an Italian military base. Two American teenagers (Jordan Kristine Seamon and Jack Dylan Grazer) meet on the base and form a friendship that becomes deeper and more complex over the years. Between the unique setting and Guadagninos track record with sumptuous romance, this looks unmissable.

Monday, September 14.

4The Third Day

If what youre craving is unsettling psychological drama, HBO has absolutely got you covered this fall. A co-production with Sky Atlantic, this British miniseries is split into two parts telling interconnected stories: Part one stars Jude Law as a grief-stricken man whos drawn to a mysterious island, while part two stars Naomie Harris as a strong-willed woman who arrives at the same island seeking answers. In between the two parts of the season, an immersive live event will air, which promises to allow viewers to inhabit the story as it happens. This was originally planned to be a live theater event, but its unclear what itll look like in the lockdown era. No matter what, were intrigued.

Monday, September 14.

5Pen15 Season 2

Hulus critically acclaimed cringe-comedy will return for a sophomore run, with Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle reprising their roles as awkward adolescent versions of themselves. Season 2 will reportedly bring more darkness and experimentation, although it wont involve a jump to high schoolErskine and Konkle have confirmed that both their characters will still be in seventh grade when the show returns.

Friday, September 18.

6Ratched

45 years on from the seminal Jack Nicholson-starring movie One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, we're getting the origin story of its unforgettable villain. Ratched is Ryan Murphy's third Netflix outingafter The Politician and Hollywoodand stars Sarah Paulson as a young nurse at a 1940s mental institution, who becomes more and more jaded by what she sees on the job. OFOTCN fans know Nurse Ratched as a sadistic monster more interested in punishing her patients than treating them, but this show promises to explore exactly how she got to that dark place.

Friday, September 18.

7Utopia

This intriguing conspiracy thriller is adapted from a British series of the same name from 2013, and the showrunner is none other than Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl and Sharp Objects. Utopia follows a group of comic book fans who bond online over their shared obsession with a fictional comic series named Utopia. But the gang soon discovers that the series isnt quite as fictional as they thought, and is in fact the harbinger of an apocalypse that only they can prevent.

Friday, September 25.

8The Comey Rule

Given the horrifying rollercoaster American politics has taken us all on over the last four years, its surprising, in a way, that there have been relatively few scripted Trump White House projects so far. Showtimes upcoming miniseries The Comey Rule dramatizes the fraught relationship between the president (Brendan Gleeson) and former FBI director James Comey (Jeff Bridges). We all remember the big moments, like Comeys fateful decision to publicly reopen the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails, and, of course, Trumps unceremonious firing of Comey in 2017but how about the right-out-a-mob-movie story of how Trump demanded loyalty from Comey over dinner? Or Comey hiding in a curtain to avoid Trump? You couldnt write fiction better!

Sunday, September 27.

9The Good Lord Bird

Adapted from James McBride's award-winning 2013 novel of the same name, this eight-episode drama takes place shortly before the Civil War. Though based on real events, the series is told from the perspective of a fictional enslaved boy, nicknamed Onion (Joshua Caleb Johnson), who joins abolitionist John Brown (Ethan Hawke) and his army of soldiers fighting against slavery in Kansas.

Sunday, October 4.

10The Haunting of Bly Manor

Lets face it: Halloween this year is looking a little bleak, given that 99 percent of our go-to celebrations (trick-or-treating, costume parties, and, um, apple bobbing?) are off the table in these pandemic times. Thankfully, Netflix has your spooky content needs covered with this follow-up to 2018s emotional family horror series, The Haunting of Hill House. A few cast members return for Bly Manor, including Victoria Pedretti, who plays a young governess hired to take care of two newly orphaned children at a large, creepy country estate, and begins losing her grip on reality as shes plagued by apparitions. After Pedrettis heartbreaking performance as Nell in the first season, this showcase for her is sure to be intriguing.

Friday, October 9.

11The Undoing

Nicole Kidman reunites with Big Little Lies writer David E. Kelley for this miniseries, a psychological drama that looks deeply addictive based on the trailer alone. Directed by Susanne Bier, The Undoing stars Kidman as a successful therapist, Grace, whose enviable New York City life unravels in a matter of weeks. Plot specifics are being kept under wraps, but we know the unravelling involves a violent death, a missing husband (Hugh Grant), and in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible revelations.

Sunday, October 25.

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