With the coming and going of this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards, which aired Sunday night, the fall TV season will be fully upon us.
Some productions are already all over old media and social media, such as the movie Wolfs, starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt as duelling fixers on the scene of a “high-profile crime.” That will come first to cinemas on Sept. 20, before hitting Apple TV+ on Sept. 27.
Then there is a handful of new series that look to be worth checking out for at least, but possibly not more than, one episode: Kathy Bates in a Murder She Wrote-ish remake of Matlock (Sept. 22 on Global, CBS); Zachary Quinto as a neuroscientist solving psychological mysteries in Brilliant Minds (Sept. 23 on NBC); and Joshua Jackson and Don Johnson in cruise-ship hospital drama Doctor Odyssey (Sept. 26 on CTV, ABC).
OK that last one, from Ryan Murphy, might be worth four episodes, but pace yourself. There …