Every day, TVLine’s What to Watch column spotlights new and returning English-language shows (and select movies) premiering or airing fresh episodes across broadcast, cable and streaming — organized below by release time and alphabetically within each slot.
Today, the success of NBC’s TV shows largely stems from its extensive procedural universes, “Law & Order” and “One Chicago” among them. But long before either of them premiered, NBC ran three different interconnected series that helped the network thrive.
