Premieres: Sept. 17 at 9pm ET on FOX
Spencer’s character Nurse Jackson is described as a caregiver “with a take-no-prisoners approach” to helping rule-bending teens hospitalized at the fictional Los Angeles Ocean Park Hosiptal.
Premieres: Sept. 22 at 8pm ET on FOX
Pinkett’s character Fish Mooney is a “sadistic gangster boss and nightclub owner” in this gangster drama based on the early life Batman and the villains and heroes who make Gotham City
Premieres: Sept. 25 at 10pm ET on ABC
Davis is Annalise DeWitt, a criminal defense professor who gets entangled in a murder case with four of her students in this Shonda Rhimes drama.
Premieres: Oct. 4 on Starz
This Lebron James-produced drama about a basketball player coming into his stardom—starring Teyonah Parris, Mike Epss, Tichina Arnold and more—will have us all talking, and tweeting. “Pro Money, Pro Problems!”
Premieres: Oct. 8 on FX
Bassett is back as Marie Laveau, the “Queen of the Voodoos,” in this terrifying, but utterly addictive, horror anthology.
Premieres: October 8 at 10pm ET on TVOne
Paula Jai Parker, Countess Vaughn, Golden Brooks, and Elise Neal come together to self-produce an independent film. Add in the usual mix of diva-tude, and a reality star in the form of Lisa Wu. Sounds like a great Wednesday night in.
Premieres: October 12 at 9pm ET on AMC
ESSENCE October issue cover girl Danai Gurira says her character, Michonne, yearns “for something more stable in life,” on season five. “Is she trying to move away from how much of a warrior she is? But will the world allow that?”
Premieres: December on OWN
Braxton will play legendary backup singer Darlene Love on the OWN network’s upcoming biopic, My Name is Love: The Darlene Love Story.
Premieres: October 27 at 9pm ET on VH1
The Nick Cannon-directed sequel to the 2002 Drumline movie stars Alexandra Shipp (who also plays Aaliyah in the upcoming Lifetime biopic) stars as Danielle Bolton, a Brooklyn girl who defies her parents to attend Atlanta A & T’s once-illustrious drumline.