Hold on to your remote controls, fellow coach potatoes. Today and Wednesday are the busiest back-to-back days in the new fall season. First up, the two freshmen.
• SEAL Team storms in at 8 p.m. Wednesday on CBS. This is the best of several new dramas featuring elite military squads. SEAL Team features 48-year-old David Boreanaz (fresh from Bones) as intense mission leader Jason Hayes.
Hayes' A-Team of heroes includes his trusted confidant, Ray (Neil Brown Jr.); the frequently self-destructive Sonny (AJ Buckley); second-generation SEAL probationary Clay Spenser (Max Thieriot), and unofficial den mother/logistics officer Davis (Toni Trucks).
Coordinating everything is terrorist-hating CIA analyst Mandy Ellis (Jessica Pare).
There's plenty of nail-biting action in this series to go along with the glimpses of home life. Old pro Boreanaz is nicely multilayered as Hayes.
• Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders, 9 p.m. today on NBC. This is the first in a new anthology series from Dick Wolf. The eight-episode drama stars Edie Falco (The Sopranos, Nurse Jackie) as defense attorney Leslie Abramson in the 1993 nationally televised murder trial of Lyle and Erik Menendez.
RETURNING SHOWS
• Lethal Weapon, 7 p.m. today on Fox. Riggs (Clayne Crawford) has headed to Mexico to avenge his wife's murder and Murtaugh (Damon Wayans) has chased after him.
.• NCIS, 7 p.m. today on CBS. It's Season 15 (!) for TV's No. 1 drama. McGee (Sean Murray), Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) headed into the Paraguayan jungle, but only Torres made it out. Holy cliffhanger!
Maria Bello (Coyote Ugly) joins the team in episode four as a forensic psychologist, replacing Jennifer Esposito.
• Bull, 8 p.m. today on CBS. Season 2 will have more about what happens to the crew once they go home after work.
• This Is Us, 8 p.m. today on NBC. We finally find out how Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) dies.
• The Mick, 8 p.m today on Fox. What will Mickey (Kaitlin Olson) do now that the kids' fugitive parents have returned? Oh, yeah. The house burned down.
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine, 8:30 p.m. today on Fox. Jake (Andy Samberg) and Diaz (Stephanie Beatriz) were wrongly found guilty of bank robbery and are behind bars. Yikes.
• NCIS: New Orleans, 9 p.m. today on CBS. Sam (LL Cool J) avenged the death of his wife by killing terrorist Tahir Khaled. Kensi (Daniela Ruah) proposed to Deeks (Eric Christian Olsen).
• The Blacklist, 7 p.m. Wednesday on NBC. Liz (Megan Boone) has discovered that Red (James Spader) is, indeed, her father. What now?
• Empire, 7 p.m. Wednesday on Fox. Lucious (Terrence Howard) dumped his mistress, reunited with Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) and handed over operations to his son Andre (Trai Byers). But the car bomb Andre set off left Lucious with amnesia.
• Survivor, 7 p.m. Wednesday on Fox. Season 35, "Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers," is set for Fiji and features 24-year-old former Little Rock resident Cole Medders, a wilderness therapy guide.
• The Goldbergs, 7 p.m. Wednesday on ABC. Erica (Hayley Orrantia) and Lainey (AJ Michalka) graduated from high school and Beverly (Wendi McLendon-Covey) wants to go to college.
• Speechless, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday on ABC. Season 2 opens with the family not having to move again. Can they finally put down roots and become part of the community?
• Law & Order: SVU, 8 p.m. Wednesday on NBC. The fallout from Olivia's (Mariska Hargitay) court victory was a firebombing of a mosque that left five dead.
• Star, 8 p.m. Wednesday on Fox. It's chaos for the ladies in Season 2. Way too much to recap here.
• Modern Family, 8 p.m. Wednesday on ABC. Luke (Nolan Gould) and Manny (Rico Rodriguez) have graduated from high school. Life goes on. This will be Season 9, but the series has already been renewed for a 10th season.
• American Housewife, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday on ABC. In Season 2, Katie (Katy Mixon) will try to redeem herself after faking a pregnancy to get out of volunteering at school.
• Chicago P.D., 9 p.m. Wednesday on NBC. Halstead (Jesse Lee Soffer) finally decided to propose to Lindsay (Sophia Bush), but she accepted an FBI undercover job in New York. Bush has left the series, but Jon Seda (Detective Antonio Dawson) is coming back.
• Criminal Minds, 9 p.m. Wednesday on CBS. Mr. Scratch (Bodhi Elfman) lured the team to his house, where he had set a trap and caused a multiple vehicle pileup. What now?
• Designated Survivor, 9 p.m. Wednesday on ABC. Agent Hannah Wells (Maggie Q) finally took down the bad guys, but mastermind Patrick Lloyd (Terry Serpico) is still out there. What now?
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Style on 09/26/2017