
Despite all the assurances we’ve seen from networks, the fall TV schedule looks decidedly different from that of years past—particularly the more recent, “Peak TV is just getting started” years. Thanks to the production shutdowns, even the midseason dates look awfully optimistic (though, again, it’s better safe than sorry). But this month, cable, broadcast, and streaming outlets have banded together to fill in some of the programming voids with several promising series and a few Canadian transplants. It’s not exactly a Utopia, but September’s TV premieres still offer some hard science fiction courtesy of Ridley Scott, an eerie limited series starring Jude law, a dreamy new drama from Luca Guadagnino, a Jurassic World spin-off, and the Trump-Comey story that, as it turns out, couldn’t wait until after the election.