The season’s best new television

Supergirl

Female ass-kickers are in for fall. Television comic book adaptations such as Agents Of SHIELD, Daredevil, Arrow, and The Flash have already been around for a while, and we’re happy another woman is joining Agent Carter in the fight for good. The show stars Melissa Benoist as the titular heroine, who happens to be Superman’s cousin. Watch it to see other characters from the DC universe drop by, and see Supergirl learn to use her powers while managing an office job and a love life. Can Supergirl lean in? Premieres 26 Oct on CBS

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The Grinder

Another Parks And Rec alum is back: Rob Lowe is Dean, an actor who played a lawyer on television. After his show ends, he moves back to his Midwestern hometown, where he helps his brother (Fred Savage) take over their father’s actual law firm. While the show has all the hallmarks of a traditional feel-good family sitcom, it manages to sneak in some satire about celebrity culture as well. Former Seinfeld star Jason Alexander rounds out the cast as the producer of Dean’s old show. Premieres Sep 29 on Fox.

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Quantico

We’d be remiss not to mention Quantico. Priyanka Chopra might not have made it in Hollywood (or the music industry) yet, but she’s taken a major step in that direction: starring in the lead role in an American network series. Chopra is one of many young, attractive recruits at an FBI training center, who work together, occasionally sleep together, and try to keep their secrets buried. The show opens in the rubble of a terrorist attack, which Chopra’s character is accused of planning. Let’s see if Quantico is good enough to make us forget that Chopra gave an interview disavowing feminists as bra-burners and saying ““I may be kicking ass, but it doesn’t mean I do it being masculine". Premieres Sep 28 on Star World

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Master Of None

Going through Parks And Recreation withdrawal? Aziz, at least, will be back on a screen near you soon: he’s the creator and star of Master Of None, a new Netflix show about Dev, a 30-year-old New Yorker learning to make adult decisions. Though the show isn’t based on Ansari’s life, it borrows elements from it – and, for added realism, his parents play Dev’s parents. Guest stars include Homeland’s Claire Danes, who Ansari called because he wanted to see her in a comedy. Premieres Nov 6 on Netflix

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London Spy

This forthcoming BBC miniseries stars your favourite handsome nerd, Ben Whishaw, as Danny, a young, reckless partier who falls in love with Alex, who happens to be a government spy. (Whishaw will also star in another English spy thriller this fall: Spectre, the latest James Bond film.) When Alex is killed, Danny enters the dangerous world of espionage to find out the truth behind his death. The show will also feature veteran actors Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling. Premiere date TBC.

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