By Rick Gables
CBS will premiere the 18th season of NCIS on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 8 p.m. ET/PT. On the season premiere episode, “Sturgeon Season,” Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and Fornell (Joe Spano) attempt to track down the leader of a drug ring who supplied drugs to Fornell’s daughter. Also, the team deals with the case of a missing cadaver from the NCIS autopsy room. The series also stars Sean Murray, Emily Wickersham, Wilmer Valderrama, Maria Bello, Brian Dietzen, Diona Reasonover, Rocky Carroll and David McCallum.
ABC will premiere season 3 of A Million Little Things on Thursday, Nov. 19, at 10 p.m. ET/PT. In the new season, this group of friends with ongoing challenges will once again lean on each other in ways that are both moving and aspirational. The series stars a talented ensemble cast, including David Giuntoli, Romany Malco, Allison Miller, Christina Moses, Grace Parks, among others.
On the 20th anniversary of the Gilmore Girls series premiere, The CW Network returns to Stars Hollow for the airing of its four night event, Gilmore Girls: A Year in a Life, beginning Monday, Nov. 23, at 8 p.m. ET/PT through Nov. 26. When the initial two-hour episode begins, Lorelai (Lauren Graham) still runs the Dragonfly Inn. Rory (Alexis Bledel), now 32, has experienced some success in her journalism career. Emily Gilmore (Kelly Bishop) is recently widowed and trying to figure out what to do next.
The History Channel will premiere its new non-fiction programming strand History’s Greatest Mysteries on Saturday, Nov. 14, at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Hosted and narrated by Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Laurence Fishburne, the series investigates a wide range of historically compelling topics and the mysteries that pervade each including the Titanic, Roswell, John Wilkes Booth and Sir Ernest Shackleton’s lost ice ship. Each title within the franchise will showcase fresh, new evidence and perspectives including never-before-released documents to the public, personal diaries, and DNA evidence to unearth new facts and information about these infamous and enigmatic chapters in history. The premiere episode, “The Final Hunt for D.B. Cooper,” includes 7,500 hours of investigating the D.B. Cooper mystery. Top D.B. Cooper expert, Eric Ulis, believes that he’s found the true location where Cooper landed during his daring dive.
