This week in TV: TheMaskedSinger, 61 other broadcast premieres, Ryan Murphy's Politician
Summer is officially over: Monday marks both the first day of autumn and the kickoff to the 2019-20 TV season, and the annual onslaught of broadcast premieres — more than 60 in the week of Sept. 23 — begins anew.'s rundown of some of the coming week's highlights.
It would be next to impossible to watch everything, but let Amid all the changes to the TV landscape in the past decade, broadcast networks rolling out a boatload of shows in the first week of the new season has remained a relative constant. It works, too: At least in terms of on-air ratings, premiere week will be the high-water mark for a lot of shows., last season's top new show in adults 18-49;, which begins its record-setting 21st season.
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