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SEPTEMBER 1 MARKS the one-year anniversary of David Muir, 41, taking over as anchor of ABC World News Tonight. The selection of Muir, a veteran field reporter, has brought the newscast 500,000 new viewers and has tightened the race between ABC and NBC at 6:30pm. Earlier this year, World News Tonight beat NBC Nightly News in total viewers four weeks in a row for the first time in more than seven years. Muir reflects on his first year in the anchor chair. —Ileane Rudolph 1. I’m convinced that we should end each newscast with a story that offers a bit of hope. It’s my way of signaling that we’re all in this together. That might be “Made in America,” my series about small-town business victories. We often hear from profiled…

GOTHAM Season premiere, Monday, Sept. 21, 8/7c, Fox Curiosity may kill the cat, but it inspires the Bat when young Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz, far left) and his mercurial manservant, Alfred (Sean Pertwee), hit the family-skeleton jackpot while exploring the secret lair beneath the mansion. “It changes everything in Bruce’s life,” Mazouz reveals of the space the pair uncovered in last May’s finale. “It changes how he sees Alfred, the criminal side of Gotham, even how he sees his parents.” The hidden enclave will likely also surprise viewers expecting to see all sorts of gadgets and high-tech toys. “It’s definitely not the Batcave,” Mazouz cautions. “What is down there are clues to Thomas Wayne’s secret life and what he was trying to do before being killed.” —Damian Holbrook ARROW Season…

WHAT’S WORTH WATCHING Aug. 31–Sept. 13, 2015 1. Longmire Season premiere, available Thursday, Sept. 10, Netflix For some deserving shows—like this engrossing contemporary Western mystery starring Robert Taylor (left, with Lou Diamond Phillips) as a Wyoming sheriff—there is life after cancellation. As the new season opens, the lawman seeks frontier justice on the varmint responsible for his wife’s murder. 2. Faking It Season premiere, Monday, Aug. 31, 9:30/8:30c, MTV So much for liberal arts. The sexy teen-com returns with a new principal harshing the freewheeling buzz, causing complications for kinda-exes Karma (Katie Stevens, left) and Amy (Rita Volk). BTW, who’s the shirtless dude in Karma’s boudoir? 3. Craig Ferguson: Just Being Honest Thursday, Sept. 10, 10/9c, Epix Describing himself as “a creepy foreigner that used to tell dirty jokes in…

COLLEGE GAMEDAYSeason premiere, Saturday, 9am/8c, ESPN COLLEGE FOOTBALL FANS can’t wait for the first snaps of the season—partly to find out who’s taking them. “Nine of the Top 25 teams have new quarterbacks, so that brings a lot of uncertainty to the season,” says Rece Davis, essentially the new quarterback, i.e. host, for College GameDay, ESPN’s traveling studio show. “People get tired of you talking about the quarterbacks, but you don’t realize the importance unless you don’t have one.” Alabama has plenty—five competed to succeed Blake Sims—but, as of mid-August, still hadn’t settled on a starter. The Crimson Tide opens the season against Wisconsin in Arlington, Texas (Saturday, 8/7c, ABC), with GameDay set up in nearby Fort Worth. “Playing a quality team like Wisconsin right out of the gate, you’ll…

Z NATION Season premiere, Friday, 10/9c, Syfy When it comes to zombies on TV, AMC’s megahit The Walking Dead may be the elder statesman of the genre, but Z Nation is the life of the undead party. The Syfy horror series is back for Season 2, bringing more gallows humor to its otherwise gristly tale about a viral outbreak that’s transformed the majority of Americans into flesh-eaters on autopilot and the ragtag band of survivors tasked with trying to reverse humanity’s fate. “The premise of our show is that you wouldn’t make it through a situation like this without a sense of humor. You’d just curl up in a ball and die,” says executive producer Karl Schaefer. “I like to think that if there were a zombie apocalypse, you’d want…

ZOO The CBS hit roars toward its explosive finale when Jamie (Kristen Connolly) and Mitch (Billy Burke, left) get trapped in a Zimbabwe hospital overrun by animals while trying to help an injured Jackson (James Wolk) in the September 8 episode. “What you don’t see is what happened right before this,” executive producer Jeff Pinkner says, “which is Jamie and Mitch surrounded by two of nature’s most gorgeous— and deadly—creatures.” Sounds wild! GIRLFRIENDS’ GUIDE TO DIVORCE Jo (Alanna Ubach, far right) is in for a big smash. Megan Hilty joins the Bravo comedy, returning later this year, playing Southern belle Charlene, the second wife of Jo’s bigamist husband, Robert Frumpkis (Maury Sterling).“Now that Jo is divorcing Frumpkis, Charlene arrives in Los Angeles to become wife No. 1 and surrogate mother…

HEROES REBORN Series premiere, Thursday, Sept. 24, 8/7c, NBC THEY NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO SAY GOODBYE. The 13-episode supersaga Heroes Reborn, premiering September 24 on NBC, will begin five years after the conclusion of Heroes, the fantastical “Save the cheerleader, save the world!” series that started off as a critically adored phenomenon only to fizzle and end abruptly in its fourth season. For the show’s diehard fans, the cancellation and the lack of closure was maddening because, in a way, the story was only getting started: When Heroes left the air on February 8, 2010, young Claire Bennet (Hayden Panettiere) had jumped from the top of a 60-foot Ferris wheel in New York’s Central Park and revealed her amazing regenerative powers to the media. Suddenly, the entire world knew…

U.S. OPEN TENNIS Begins 1/noon c, ESPN and 6/5c, ESPN2 Shhh. Serena Williams doesn’t want to be reminded of the Grand Slam, so please refrain from talking about it around her. Now that Williams has won her first three majors in the calendar year, all that stands between her and the Holy Grail of tennis is the 2015 U.S. Open—and 127 other players. “Instead of feeling intimidated, the women will feel a real challenge to be the one to beat Serena,” says ESPN analyst Chris Evert. “It’s just going to be more incentive.” The No. 1-ranked Williams, who turns 34 next month, has already achieved her second “Serena Slam,” winning four straight majors starting with last year’s U.S. Open, where no opponent took her to three sets. The tennis ace…

Nine months after America’s favorite rowdy Scotsman left a decade-long stint hosting CBS’s The Late Late Show, Craig Ferguson is back on TV with a new stand-up special, Just Being Honest. Free from the parameters (and censors!) of network television, the comedian’s material is more devious than ever, with targets including Kenny G, Mick Jagger and prostate exams. Buckle up. —Gregory E. Miller The title of the special, Just Being Honest, refers to when people use the phrase to preface something otherwise rude. Do you use it? I occasionally find myself saying it in order to save myself after I’ve said something which is clearly offensive to the company that I’m in. If you talk as much as I do for a living—or just in your life—it’s a scattergun. At…

CSI: Series finale, Sept. 27, 9/8c, CBS THE MOST POPULAR, groundbreaking and influential whodunit in TV history has to go out with a bang, right? CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ends its 15-season run with “Immortality,” a two-hour episode about an explosive attack on the Eclipse, the posh Las Vegas casino co-owned by former CSI Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger). This news-making calamity has Catherine, now working for the FBI in Los Angeles, returning to Sin City to lead the forensics investigation. She’ll be joined by her old boss, Gil Grissom (William Petersen), who is back to help with the case because he, too, has a personal connection: One of the prime suspects is his former dominatrix love, Lady Heather (Melinda Clarke). “It’s a privilege to be able to bring real closure…

MONICA THE MEDIUM 8/7c, ABC Family College is difficult, whether you’re struggling with New Media 101 or just trying to throw an epic kegger. Now imagine doing both with a bunch of dead people gabbing in your ear. That’s the premise behind ABC Family’s reality show Monica the Medium, about Penn State junior and “Spirit Medium” Monica Ten-Kate, who started hearing the dearly departed as a teenager. When she’s not studying for exams, she’s helping the bereft communicate with their deceased loved ones. In tonight’s episode, Monica goes looking for a new job, but not every employer is thrilled with her talent. We talked to the 21-year-old about her gift and more. —Aubry D’Arminio How did you discover you were a medium? When I was in high school, my friends…

HAND OF GOD Entire season available Friday, Amazon Prime The first time we meet judge Pernell Harris, he’s naked and speaking in tongues in the middle of a public fountain. So maybe not the guy you want delivering your verdict. In Amazon’s new streaming drama Hand of God, Ron Perlman follows up six seasons on Sons of Anarchy with his most complex role yet as Harris, a powerful man who doesn’t let ethics get in his way. After his son shoots himself and ends up in a coma, Harris has visions of flowing blood and hears his son’s voice asking for vengeance on the man who raped his wife. Having recently become involved with a suspicious church, Harris believes God is speaking to him, so he decides to take justice…

THE AWESOMES Season premiere, Hulu IT’S A BIRD! It’s a plane! It’s…well, The Awesomes! A new season of the Seth Meyers–produced cartoon series about a misfit clan of superheroes takes flight on Hulu today. And Meyers and his fellow executive producer Mike Shoemaker fill us in on what to expect as the ragtag crew prevents disasters—and also accidentally creates them—in Season 3. —Oriana Schwindt The newest villain is familiar. Mr. Awesome (Steve Higgins), the now-retired founder of the Awesomes, has gone to the dark side—thanks to that botched blood transfusion between him and the dastardly Dr. Malocchio (Bill Hader) at the end of last season. (Malocchio, for the record, is now squeaky clean.) Even more troubling: The team’s current leader, Mr. Aweso me’s son, Prock (Seth Meyers), has no idea.…

CEDAR COVE Saturday, 8/7c, Hallmark Channel AS HALLMARK’S COZY drama Cedar Cove heads toward its third season finale, take-charge New Yorker Paul Watson (Colin Ferguson), the new district attorney, has shaken up the idyllic hamlet. Particularly flustered is Judge Olivia Lockhart (Andie MacDowell), who’s having problems with her boyfriend, Jack (Dylan Neal). Sci-fi stalwart (and current “Maytag Man”) Ferguson filled us in on his change from monster-killer to heartbreaker. —Ileane Rudolph Your fictional settings are usually supernaturally afflicted, like on Eureka, The Vampire Diaries and Haven. How do you enjoy hanging out in TV’s most normal town since Mayberry? I’m loving it, specifically for that reason. When you come from sci-fi, shooting is hard. You have special effects, makeup, prosthetics, you usually shoot at night. All of a sudden, I’m…

FOLLOW MICHAEL LOGAN> Twitter@TVGMLogan You owned a gourmet delivery service in Manhattan when your parents offered to help you open a restaurant where you grew up, in the low country of eastern North Carolina. But didn’t you flee that region? I was ashamed of the very thing that I now exalt in. At 14, I left home to go to boarding school and said I would never go back. I tried to hide my country accent to the point of sounding ridiculous. I was humiliated that my mom and dad were farmers. Now I find farming to be the most exciting and admirable thing. My parents are more fantastic than I will ever be. Why was A Chef’s Life so hard to get off the ground? It’s not easy doing…