Omar Sy returns as the Lupin aficionado Assane Diop, who spent the show’s first two seasons clearing the name of his unjustly imprisoned father. ‘ LUPIN ’ Netflix’s contemporary take on a classic French character, the turn-of-the-previous-century master thief Arsène Lupin, resurfaces more than two years after its last appearance. ‘ BARGAIN ’ The story line of this Korean series involving an organ auction, a remote location and an earthquake carries some “Squid Game” vibes. The joke is that the vain, libidinous mom and the no-nonsense daughter get mistaken for sisters, or so the mother would believe call it “Murder, She Flirted.” (CW, Oct. ‘ THE SPENCER SISTERS ’ Lea Thompson, starring in a live-action series for the first time since ABC Family’s “Switched at Birth” ended in 2017, plays a Canadian mystery writer who solves crimes with her ex-cop daughter. ‘ FOUND ’ Shanola Hampton of “Shameless” stars as a public-relations expert who looks for missing persons of color in NBC’s second new series about an unconventional crime-solving team (after “The Irrational”). With the recent revitalization of “The Simpsons,” it makes Sunday night on Fox the closest thing left to a destination on terrestrial TV. 15 already ordered), Loren Bouchard’s animated comedy remains the sweetest, truest series about family love and dysfunction. ‘ BOB’S BURGERS ’ Fourteen seasons in (with No. ‘ GEN V’ Amazon expands the world of its buzziest show, “The Boys,” with a spinoff set in a college for superheroes. In a genre that gives a lot of space to melancholia, “Frieren” is particularly wistful. ‘ FRIEREN: BEYOND JOURNEY’S END ’ This anime series begins after its heroes have completed their ultimate mission one of the group, the elf Frieren, will outlive her human companions by hundreds of years and come to regret not having known them better. Fox has ordered three seasons of the show, which if nothing else will provide ample opportunity for the inimitable Matt Berry to voice the king’s father, a debauched half-centaur, half-manticore. ‘ KRAPOPOLIS ’ Dan Harmon, creator of “Community” and “Rick and Morty,” joins Fox’s Sunday-night lineup with a comedy about a young king (Richard Ayoade) trying to foster civilization in a brightly animated ancient Greece. ‘ DEADLOCKED: HOW AMERICA SHAPED THE SUPREME COURT ’ Dawn Porter (“John Lewis: Good Trouble”) directed this four-part documentary about the modern history of the Supreme Court. Colin Woodell (“The Flight Attendant”), as the future proprietor Winston Scott, has the unenviable task of convincing us that he’s a younger version of Ian McShane. ‘ THE CONTINENTAL: FROM THE WORLD OF JOHN WICK ’ Mel Gibson headlines this three-episode extension of the John Wick universe, a prequel focused on a private hotel for assassins called the Continental. ‘ YOUNG LOVE ’ “Hair Love,” the Oscar-winning animated short film from 2019 about a Black father learning to style his daughter’s hair, has been expanded into an animated series about a Chicago family. ‘ SEX EDUCATION ’ With Moordale Secondary closed, everyone has to get used to a new school in the fourth and final season of this popular, award-winning, sex-positive soap opera. ‘ THE SUPER MODELS ’ Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington Burns are executive producers of this documentary series about their ’90s heyday, which promises to be as luxurious as the goods they modeled. Here is a roundup of strike-proof shows on fall schedules. On cable, streaming and PBS, meanwhile, with shorter seasons and more flexible scheduling, the effects are not so noticeable. Fox will still have its animation lineup (their long lead times mean more episodes were completed) CBS will repurpose and recycle (“Yellowstone,” the original British “Ghosts”) CW will offer a Canadian smorgasbord. But once again we are looking at lineups full of reality programs and game shows. The effects of the writers’ and actors’ strikes this year are a little less drastic - they took hold later in the production cycle than the pandemic did, and they only affect American series. In 2020, to be exact, when it was the pandemic that played havoc with fall network television schedules.
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