What’s the Best New Fall 2025 Show: ‘Boston Blue,’ ‘Sheriff Country’ & More? (POLL)
Now that we’re at least a week or so into broadcast’s fall season, TV viewers have gotten a taste of the fall 2025’s new scripted shows. And there aren’t that many — less than a handful have debuted across ABC and CBS (Fox and NBC’s scripted slate are all returning shows).
ABC’s lone new drama is 9-1-1: Nashville, expanding the world of 9-1-1, the third offering in the hit franchise. Airing after the original series on Thursdays at 9/8c, like the others, it’s an action-packed procedural about the first responders and their lives on and off the clock. But there’s the additional drama of a family saga about power — with very complicated relationships at the heart of it — and the music of Nashville. It stars Chris O’Donnell, Jessica Capshaw, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, LeAnn Rimes, Hailey Kilgore, Michael Provost, Juani Feliz, and Hunter McVey.
CBS has the other three new series of the fall: the comedy DMV and two spinoffs of popular franchises, Boston Blue and Sheriff Country.
DMV is a workplace comedy set in the place everyone dreads going to the most: the Department of Motor Vehicles. It follows the employees there (who make minimum wage) and must deal with customers who start off annoyed. Airing Mondays at 8:30/7:30c, the series stars Harriet Dyer, Tim Meadows, Tony Cavalero, Molly Kearney, Alex Tarrant, and Gigi Zumbado.
For those who already miss Blue Bloods after its 14-season run ended last year, Danny’s (Donnie Wahlberg) back and solving cases in Massachusetts in Boston Blue, in its predecessor’s time slot, Fridays at 10/9c. There’s a new family to follow (the Silvers) and the show dives further into Danny’s relationship with his son, Sean (Mika Amonsen, in a recast). The series also stars Sonequa Martin-Green, Maggie Lawson, Marcus Scribner, Gloria Reuben, and Ernie Hudson.
Kicking off Fridays on CBS is the Fire Country spinoff, Sheriff Country, following Sharon’s (Diane Farr) stepsister Mickey (Morena Baccarin) as she handles the crime in Edgewater — and her father, Wes (W. Earl Brown), is part of that world. The series also stars Matt Lauria, Michele Weaver, and Christopher Gorham.
Each series has now aired at least one episode. What’s your take on them so far? Let us know in the comments section below, and be sure to vote in our poll on which you think is the best show of the fall so far:
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911 Nashville is a black eye for the other two 911 series.
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DMV is a no
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911 Nashville is snooze worthy. Actually, the original 911 is far fetched and boring this season too.
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911 Nashville is boring. Chris O'Donnell needs to bring more personality to his character.
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Please bring back Dr odyssey. That was an amazing show
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I can't pick just one. I really like Sherrif Conntry and 911 Nashville
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Nashville has 2 things going for it: music and Blue. That's it.
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It’s also an addicting country themed soap. The tornados and firenado was impressive.
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911 is too unbelievable. Chris O'Donnell is a good actor and I thought anything he is in had to be good.😡👎. Sheriff country is right behind it. 😡
Fire country needs give Bode some balls and stop being a wimp.
Boston blue is great. Fast paced and quick wit. Will stay up to watch it.
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Big back Papa house
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Absolutely tolerable! It deserved another season!
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BRING BACK PAPA'S HOUSE!!!!!
I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS CANCELED; VERY DISAPPOINTED TO HEAR THIS . I WAS REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO ANOTHER SEASON.
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Honestly it's a very lackluster fall on broadcast. Best new series were streaming or cable... Boots, The Lowdown, Task
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Love anything Sonequa Martin-Green is in
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Send her back to Star Trek. That's all I see when she's on screen
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I love her in shows ,not a big BLUE BLOODS FAN , but I like this show .
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Boston Blue a little disappointing!
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Boston Blue checked every box in the pilot, except the ones for believable, watchable, and original.
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Shorter episodes. Shorter seasons.. Bad content. Paying more premiums just to watch. Curious to see where we go from here because entertainment is circling the drain and creators are still making megabucks. Bring bad tv snow. The ratings might skyrocket!
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None were good.
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Love 911 Nashville! Never did watch any of the other 911s.
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Definitely NOT DMV...had high hopes...miserable failure.
On a scale of 1 to 1o a MINUS LARGE NUMBER.
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Why did you have high hopes? That looked absolutely awful from the jump!
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DMV is a crazy mess. Sheriff Country is showing a lot of promise. 911 Nashville was, initially, a personal "NO", probably somewhat due to the fact that I was brought up a "city girl", and dislike anything country. Besides, it's quite boring compared to its companion series, but I'll see a few episodes to fairly judge it. Boston Blue, so far, has my interest. In fact, I have never watched its' parent show, "Blue Bloods", and I just might do so now.
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Not a fan of any of them!
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