1. The Gifted
Who’s in it? Stephen Moyer, Amy Acker, Sean Teale, Jamie Chung, Coby Bell, Emma Dumont, Blair Redford , Natalie Alyn Lind, and Percy Hynes White
Who created it? Matt Nix, Bryan Singer, Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg, Jeph Loeb, and Jim Chory
What’s it about? An ordinary couple discovers their children are secretly superpowered mutants. The family teams up with an underground mutant community to fight off the insidious government agents who mean to do them harm.
2. Orville
Who’s in it? Seth MacFarlane, Adrianne Palicki, Penny Johnson Jerald, Scott Grimes, Peter Macon, Halston Sage, J. Lee, Mark Jackson, and Chad Coleman
Who created it? Seth MacFarlane
What’s it about? A futuristic dramedy set aboard the Orville, a spaceship designed to explore the galaxy beyond Earth.
3. Ghosted
Who’s in it? Craig Robinson, Adam Scott, Ally Walker, and Adeel Akhtar
Who created it? Tom Gormican, Kevin Etten, and Jonathan Krisel
What’s it about? A skeptic (Robinson) and a believer (Scott) work for a clandestine government entity that investigates paranormal activity.
4. LA to Vegas
Who’s in it? Dylan McDermott, Kim Matula, Ed Weeks, Nathan Lee Graham, Olivia Macklin, and Peter Stormare
Who created it? Lon Zimmet, Steve Levitan
What’s it about? A workplace comedy about the passengers and in-flight crew members who fly, every weekend, from Burbank to Las Vegas in hopes of winning big.
Note: In mid-May every year, the five television broadcast networks — NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, and The CW — present their new shows and upcoming schedules to advertisers at events called “the upfronts.” That’s why you see an onslaught of new programming in May, as well as the cancellation of current shows. This post will be continually updated.