Fall TV series premieres
Premieres of some TV and web series you may want to check out.
Aug 21 - "OUTpour" premiere (YouTube) Philly-based LGBTQ millennial hosts of color discuss relationships, pop culture, parenting, fitness, personal finances and social-justice issues.
Aug 31 - Comedy Lineup Part Two Netflix
Sep 14 - "BoJack Horseman" Netflix Character Todd Cruz came out as asxual last season, and his depiction has been widely praised by the ace community.
Sep 14 - "American Masters - Basquiat: Rage to Riches" PBS, check listings for time. Portrait of one of the most influential American artists of the 20th century, Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Sep 25 - "This is Us" Season 3 9pm NBC "sets the bar for normalizing LGBTQ+ characters" ~ Hypable
Sep 26 - "Modern Family" ABC 9pm Wildly popular show revolves around three different kinds of families.
Sep 27 - "Murphy Brown" CBS 9:30pm Reboot of the newsroom sitcom, updated to take on "fake news" "alternative facts," and the current poliical climate
Sep 28 - "The Cool Kids" Fox 8:30pm Leslie Jordan ("Beverly Leslie"), Vicki Lawrence, Martin Mull, David Alan Grier are friends in a retirement community.
Oct 4 - "Will and Grace" NBC 9pm Chelsea Handler joins the cast and the show's publicity describes her character as a "power lesbian."
Oct 4 - "Superstore" NBC 9pm FB: Superstore
Oct 4 - "Station 19" ABC 9pm FB: Station 19
Oct 9 - "Black Lightning" CW 9pm Anissa Pierce (a.k.a. Thunder) is the first black lesbian TV superhero FB: Black Lightning
Oct 14 - "Supergirl" Nicole Maines, first trans superhero CW 8pm
Oct 14 - "Charmed" CW 10pm Supernatural sister reboot; Melanie Diaz plays lesbian activist. FB:Charmed
Oct 16 - "The Connors" ABC 8pm This time, without Roseanne.