Fall TV: We've Got Burning Questions About NCIS' Big Move, Singing Queens, NBC's Super Announcement And More

As the broadcast networks one by one divulged their game plans for the Fall TV season, questions upon questions a-piled up in the TVLine staff's collective noggin. Now it is time to share them with you, as we do every year.

Fall Tv GridTaking a look at TVLine's world-class, always-handy Fall TV grid (at right, click to zoom), you yourself can get a refresher on what is airing when, and against what. Of course, the fall's biggest question is regarding TV's most watched drama, CBS' NCIS, and how Gibbs' team will weather their first time slot change in... ever.

We also had to wonder about NBC's decision to plug a Thursday hole, eventually, with The Blacklist instead of giving a beloved, long-MIA show's farewell run its due.

But not all of our queries are about debatable scheduling decisions. We also take issue with the title of one new show, ask if James Wolk might be feeling deja vu, and invite speculation about NBC's post-Super Bowl plan, which surely will be announced in the fall.

Review our burning Qs below, then hit the Comments with your best answers — or add fresh questions of your own!

13. A BIG LEAP OF FAITH

Is Fox simply giving The Big Leap — which will airs Monday at 9/8c — the network's second best possible lead-in, in 9-1-1? Or is part of the idea to "counterprogram," by pitting a dancing-themed dramedy against ABC's Dancing With the Stars?

But, wait: Since CBS wound up moving NCIS to Mondays at 9, Fox has to relocate The Big Leap to another night, right? (Maybe after The Masked Singer on Wednesdays, if the singing competition Alter Ego proves DOA?) What chance does the Scott Foley-led dramedy stand opposite TV's most-watched drama?

 

12. CAN NCIS SURVIVE ITS BIG MOVE?

What exactly does CBS know about NCIS' audience that it not only moved TV's most watched drama for the first time in 18 years, but put it against the male-skewing Monday Night Football?

11. KATRINA AND NO WAVES

Word of a new, Hawaii-based NCIS spinoff broke almost a month before Katrina Law was cast on the OG series. Now, since it'd have made all the sense in the world for Law to front NCIS: Hawai'i instead of simply being added to the NCIS cast, can we assume that some CBS suit fretted that to do so would be cOnFuSiNg given her recent-ish Hawaii Five-0 role?

10. WOLK CULTURE

How does Ordinary Joe star James Wolk — who 11 years ago played a bigamist on Lone Star — feel about being back on Monday nights, again playing multiple versions of one guy?

9. SHOULD NINE-NINE HAVE COPPED A FALL SPOT?

Once Law & Order: For the Defense was scrapped and the Thursday leadoff spot vacated, should NBC have considered holding Brooklyn Nine-Nine for fall, instead of double-pumping through its farewell season this summer?

8. TWO OF A KIND?

The newest FBI spinoff, FBI: International, follows the elite operatives of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's International Fly Team, who travel the world with the mission of tracking and neutralizing threats against American citizens wherever they may be.

CBS' two-and-done Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, meanwhile, followed the specialized International Division of the FBI, which was tasked with coming to the rescue of American citizens who find themselves in danger while abroad.

So... how different will FBI: International be?

7. WHAT THE...?

The lack of a "The" in front of "4400" in the title of The CW's reboot of the USA Network sci-fier is going to bug us allllllll season long, isn't it? (Did they worry someone would think The 4400 is a follow-up to The 100? Or is some Roswell, New Mexico vs. Roswell-style differentiation going on?)

6. IT'S A SMALLWOOD, AFTER ALL

Doesn't the title of Pete Holmes' CBS bowling comedy, Smallwood, sound like a Muppet Babies-style reboot of Everwood? Or does it sound even more like a Smallville/Everwood crossover series?

5. WILL CSI: VEGAS HEDGE ITS BETS?

CBS' CSI revival-of-sorts is scheduled to air Wednesdays at 10/9c. After how many weeks of Tough as Nails frittering away its Wednesday lead-in will CBS move CSI: Vegas to the plum, post-Survivor slot it should have had from go?

4. THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME

Will ABC's Queens — which is about a girl group from the '90s that takes another stab at fame — prove to be the Studio 60 to Girls5eva's 30 Rock?

3. HOW DID CBS CATCH THESE SPIRITS?

How did Ghosts — a quirky, single-camera comedy starring Rose McIver, and airing Thursdays at 9/8c — land on multi-cam loving CBS and not, say, FXX? And how fast will Ghosts swap time slots with lead-out B Positive if it proves to be incompatible with the rest of CBS' Thursday comedies?

2. IT'D BE LEGENDARY!

Was The CW tempted at all to pair Legends of Tomorrow with its Legends of the Hidden Temple revival? To make for "One Legendary Night" of TV?

1. WHAT SHOW IS NBC FEELING SUPER ABOUT?

The last two times NBC hosted the Super Bowl, it picked a current drama (The Blacklist in 2015, This Is Us' infamous Crockpot episode in 2018) to fill the plum post-game spot.

Now, the Big Game itself won't air in the fall, but NBC"s decision surely will be made in the coming months. Which lucky show do you think will get the nod?

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