Author: Gary Levin, USA TODAY

The most-watched network is counting on five new series, plus plenty of familiar faces, to counter the loss of “Big Bang Theory” next season.

The prestige CBS drama will join a long list of shows making planned exits in 2019-20.

The network will make few changes to its schedule, with just three new series, with more ‘Idol’ — and Tiffany Haddish — in midseason.

Fox is adding three new shows and WWE wrestling for fall, as “Empire” airs its final season. But “Last Man Standing” will wait out the fall.

Bradley Whitford, Jimmy Smits and Kal Penn will lead NBC’s only newcomer series for fall. The network leads among young adults.

The longtime ‘SNL’ actor will make a move to primetime sitcom, but keeps his ‘night’ job.

Results are in, and three shows – “Madam Secretary,” “Whiskey Cavalier” and “The Rookie” – dominated voting in USA TODAY’s survey. Will they be saved?

The CupBoardPro, invented by a New York City firefighter, found success after his death. Now it has a big new sales outlet: William Sonoma

The series will be back but at this time producers say “there are no plans” for Jussie Smollett’s Jamal Lyon to return to “Empire.”

Jason Woods, an entrepreneur from California, was a ‘want-a-preneur’ with an ill-formed pitch in Season 5. But he got a second chance in Season 10.