Reality Check: Major networks announce fall premiere schedules

The major broadcast networks have announced their 2024 fall premiere schedules, giving specific dates or at least time slot confirmations for programming including some of the most high-profile reality TV shows.

NBC has set Sept. 23, at 8 p.m. for “The Voice” season 26, expanding to two weeknights on Oct. 1 at 8 p.m. The peacock network additionally announced that “America’s Got Talent” will have its season finale Sept. 24 at 9 p.m.

ABC has “Dancing with the Stars” season 33 kicking off Sept. 17, at 8 p.m., simulcasting it with its sister streaming service Disney+. “The Golden Bachelorette” series premiere follows the next day at 8 p.m. And “Shark Tank” season 16 arrives a month later, on Oct. 18 at 8 p.m. “Bachelor in Paradise” is set for sometime next year.

The previously announced returns of "American Idol" season 23 and "The Bachelor” season 29 are now confirmed for midseason. The previously announced ABC reboot of HGTV’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” still has no publicly revealed date.

CBS' two-hour season 47 premiere of “Survivor” is set for Sept. 18 at 8 p.m. The show goes into its regular 8 to 9:30 p.m. time slot the following week. The new mountaineering competition “The Summit” premieres with a “sneak peak” (pun intended) Sept. 29, then enters its regular 9 to 10:30 p.m. slot starting Oct. 9 with a rerun of the opener.

Fox in May had announced that “Hell’s Kitchen” season 23 will air Thursdays at 8 p.m., immediately followed at 9 by season 3 of “Special Forces: World's Toughest Test.” Returning later will be “Crime Scene Kitchen,” “Lego Masters,” “MasterChef” and “Next Level Chef.” Fox gave no debut date for its new survival competition series “Extracted.”

Premieres

The traditionalist Plath family of 11 in Cairo, Georgia, has become spread across the country for divorce and other reasons as season 6 of “Welcome to Plathville” gets underway Tuesday from 10 to 11:03 p.m. on TLC … Then CBS’ thrice-weekly “Big Brother” kicks off its 26th season Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday at 9 p.m. each night … MTV’s “The West Coast Hustle,” premiering Thursday with back-to-back episodes at 9 and 9:30, goes behind-the-scenes of glam life and new baby life with former "Ridiculousness" co-host Chanel West Coast, née Chelsea Chanel Dudley … Early Friday on the streaming service Netflix, season 6 of "Too Hot to Handle” continues to offer 10 attractive singles in a tropical paradise a cash prize if they can abstain from sex … and Sunday from 10:02 to 11:12 p.m., TLC’s new “Forbidden Love” follows four couples coming to terms with each other’s one major hurdle — their different religions.

Recaps

The season 21 premiere of ABC’s “The Bachelorette” saw Jenn Tran eliminate seven of her 25 suitors … and Howie Mandel hit his second Golden Buzzer this season for 14-year-old singer Reid Wilson, advancing him to the live shows.