I’m old enough to remember rolling my eyes at the dad joke about cable TV: “All these channels, and there’s still nothing on!”
I don’t even know how to translate that for 2024, when we’re still in an era when there’s more TV than ever before, splintered across so many networks, services, and streaming platforms that paying for them all would be triple what a cable bill used to cost. And yet…is there anything good to watch?
My first pass at a running list for this fall TV preview clocked in at about 80 shows—and that was with me being judicious. Yet I expect that, come mid-September, you’ll catch me complaining about how there’s nothing to watch. Before that cynicism sets in, however, there’s excitement: There’s a lot coming in the next few months to be hyped about!
