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New TV Shows Premiering This Month (March)

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Here’s what’s premiering for the month of March.


National Treasure (Hulu)

National Treasure follows Paul Finchley, an ageing, beloved comedian, a hero to TV audiences and peers alike, after he is arrested following an allegation of rape dating back to the 90s. The four-part drama follows the story from arrest through to verdict and focuses both on the investigation, and the effect of the case on Paul and his family; his wife of 40 years, Marie, and his troubled daughter, Dee. National Treasure is a story that goes behind the headlines to look at the human and emotional impact when a whole life is called into question. It explores memory, truth, age, doubt, and how well we really know ourselves and those close to us. (Premieres March 1st)




Bringing Up Ballers (Lifetime)

Since there are millions of dollars to be made by becoming an NBA player, parents are getting their children involved in the sport at increasingly younger ages, hoping they can gain the skills necessary to make it to the big time. This series follows several Chicago-area women who are entrepreneurs and mothers of young basketball stars. The feisty ladies do whatever it takes to make sure their businesses succeed, and they have the same mindset with their hoop prodigies. It's not easy to balance their businesses with their family lives and basketball, but the women are determined to make sure it all works out -- even if it means fighting with the other moms to ensure that their own kids reach the top of the ladder. (Premieres March 1st)




Chicago Justice (NBC)

Powerhouse creator Dick Wolf delivers a captivating new installment to the hit Chicago franchise. Just like their brethren in the Chicago P.D., the State's Attorney's dedicated team of prosecutors and investigators navigate heated city politics and controversy head-on, while fearlessly pursuing justice. As they take on the city's high-stakes and often media-frenzied cases, they must balance public opinion, power struggles within the system and their unwavering passion for the law.
At the center of the show is prosecutor Peter Stone (Philip Winchester), the ambitious Deputy Chief of the Special Prosecutions Bureau. Relentless in his quest for justice, it's more than a job, it's a purpose. Son of renowned New York City District Attorney Ben Stone (from Law & Order), Stone is shooting at a target that only he can see. This often puts him in direct conflict with Mark Jefferies (Carl Weathers), the Cook County State's Attorney who sees the world through a political prism. While Jefferies believes that a good prosecutor gives the jury and the public a clear, clean and digestible narrative, Stone is convinced the law isn't always best served in a sound bite. Together with their team, Stone and Jefferies strive to bring some much-needed justice to the city of Chicago. (Premieres March 1st)




Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Spike)

Time: The Kalief Browder Story is a six-part documentary series about a 16-year-old student from the Bronx who spent three years on Rikers Island without ever being convicted of a crime. (Premieres March 1st)




Time After Time (ABC)

Travel through centuries, decades and days with a young H.G. Wells in the time machine he created. Using creative elements from many of Wells's classic stories, Time After Time creates a fantasy world surrounding the events that inspired these great literary works. We look at the world of today through the eyes of yesterday while fully charged with danger and centered in thrills, satire, humor - and most of all - an epic love story. (Premieres March 5th)




The Arrangement (E!)

Struggling actress Megan Morrison lands an audition playing the female lead opposite Kyle West, one of the world's top action movie stars. After Megan's amazing audition leads to an incredible first date (and more) with Kyle, her Cinderella story takes an unexpected turn when she is presented with a contract that would change her life forever. (Premieres March 5th)




Making History (FOX)

Produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (The LEGO Movie, 21 Jump Street), and created and written by Julius “Goldy” Sharpe (Family Guy, The Grinder), the new comedy Making History follows three friends from two different centuries as they try to balance the thrill of time travel with the mundane concerns of their present-day lives. It’s a rollicking historical adventure and a contemporary comedy about love, friendship and trying to fit into an increasingly complex and impersonal world.
Dan (Adam Pally, The Mindy Project, Happy Endings), a facilities manager at a small Massachusetts college, recently discovered time travel and has been transporting himself back to the 1700s to spend time with the colonial woman for whom he’s fallen. In the present, Dan is misunderstood by all, and anxious that life is passing him by. But by claiming song lyrics, lines from movies and stand-up bits as his own in the 18th century, he’s absolutely hilarious – he gets the girl and makes friends.
But Dan’s actions in the past are messing up the present. That woman he’s dating is not just any woman. She’s Paul Revere’s daughter, Deborah (Leighton Meester, Gossip Girl), and Dan’s meddling causes her father to delay his famous ride, which may have altered the outcome of the entire American Revolution.
To set matters right, Dan enlists the help of a brilliant, polished and popular history professor at the college, Chris (Yassir Lester, Girls, Key and Peele), who’s now given the incredible opportunity to actually live the history he teaches.
Can Dan, Chris and Deborah save America as we know it? Can a woman from 1775 adapt to life in 2017? Can the three intrepid time travelers improve the past, help the helpless, fight for justice and find true love and friendship? (Premieres March 5th)




Feud: Bette and Joan (FX)

Feud: Bette and Joan, the first installment of the new FX anthology series from Ryan Murphy, tells the story of the legendary rivalry between Joan Crawford (Jessica Lange) and Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon) during their collaboration on the Academy Award-nominated thriller What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, and well after the cameras stopped rolling. The series explores how the two women endured ageism, sexism, and misogyny while struggling to hang on to success and fame in the twilight of their careers.
In addition to Academy Award winners Lange and Sarandon, the cast includes Alfred Molina as the film’s director Robert Aldrich, Stanley Tucci as studio titan Jack Warner, Judy Davis as gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, Jackie Hoffman as Crawford’s housekeeper Mamacita, and Alison Wright as Aldrich’s assistant Pauline. (Premieres March 5th)




Trial & Error (NBC)

In the spirit of true crime documentaries, this outrageous fish-out-of-water comedy centers on bright-eyed New York lawyer Josh Segal (Nicholas D'Agosto), who heads to a tiny Southern town for his first big case. His mission? To defend an eccentric "rollercizing" poetry professor (John Lithgow) accused of the bizarre murder of his beloved wife. Settling into his makeshift office behind a taxidermy shop and meeting his quirky team of local misfits, Josh suspects that winning his first big case will not be easy, especially when his client is always making himself look guilty. (Premieres March 7th)




Kicking and Screaming (FOX)

Kicking and Screaming is a new competition series that teams 10 expert survivalists with pampered partners to face the toughest challenges of their lives. From executive producer Matt Kunitz (Wipeout, Fear Factor), in association with Lionsgate Television, and hosted by Hannah Simone (New Girl), the series drops these unlikely duos into a tropical jungle in Fiji, where they must overcome dangerous animals, raging rivers, hunger and extreme weather.
While these no-nonsense survivalists are accustomed to fending for themselves, there’s one thing for which none of their previous expeditions have prepared them: their nature-phobic partners, who think “glamping” is roughing it. To win the competition, and a cash prize of $500,000, the experts will have to drag their partners, kicking & screaming, to the finish line. (Premieres March 9th)




Buddy Thunderstruck (Netflix)

Follow the outrageous, high-octane adventures of Buddy Thunderstruck, a truck-racing dog who brings guts and good times to the town of Greasepit. (Premieres March 10th)




Adam Carolla and Friends Build Stuff Live (Spike)

In his newest show, acclaimed comedian and master carpenter Adam Carolla will be building with some of his big name Hollywood friends. He’ll also be tackling your home improvement projects via social media, and making us laugh the whole way. Since the show is live, anything could happen. (Premieres March 14th)




Shrink (Seeso)

Co-created by Tim Baltz and Ted Tremper, Shrink stars Baltz as a recent medical school graduate who loses his residency and finds himself unemployed with a half million dollars of student loan debt. With his dream of becoming a “real doctor” dashed, he discovers a loophole to becoming a therapist by recording 1,920 supervised clinical hours, which he begins by soliciting unorthodox patients from Craigslist and conducts the free sessions in his parent’s garage. (Premieres March 16th)




Snatch (Crackle)

The cult classic film Snatch is now a high-stakes, high-octane Crackle Original Series. Get in on the action, gangster mentality, heists and rapid-fire dialogue that earned the original movie a shite-load of fans. (Premieres March 16th)




Julie’s Greenroom (Netflix)

Puppet kids create their own performing arts show with help from Julie Andrews in this original preschool series from the Jim Henson Company. (Premieres March 17th)




Marvel’s Iron Fist (Netflix)

Danny Rand resurfaces 15 years after being presumed dead. Now, with the power of the Iron Fist, he seeks to reclaim his past and fulfill his destiny. (Premieres March 17th)




Carters Get Rich (Sky1)

From the funny team at Roughcut TV (Trollied, Cuckoo) comes this brilliant new family comedy starring James Van Der Beek (Dawson's Creek, CSI: Cyber). Harry Carter (Rio Chambers) is 11 years old when he creates HONC, an app for geeky kids like him who struggle to talk to girls. As it fast becomes the next big thing in the social networking world, it gets snapped up by American billionaire Trent Zebriski (Van Der Beek) for 10 million, turning the working-class Carter family, including Harry's dad Tony (Rhashan Stone, Agatha Raisin), mum Liz (Kerry Godliman, Derek) and sister Ellie (Rhianna Merralls, Camping), into overnight multi-millionaires. However, their new-found wealth proves tricky for the humble Carters to handle, especially when Trent installs his bumbling advisor Oliver Campbell-Legg into their lives to help them change with their sudden fame and fortune. Rifts spark in the family as bus driver Tony struggles to keep his wife, son and daughter grounded, while they go mansion shopping, hire helicopters, buy cars, hold huge house parties and, to Tony's horror, replace his much-loved old sofa. Weaving in first loves, problems at school, life lessons and a farcical challenge to Harry's HONC inventor status, Carters Get Rich is a comedy for all the family: a warm and witty look at a modern household battling to hold onto their rags in the face of corrupting riches. (Premieres March 17th)


Cosplay Melee (Syfy)

Cosplay Melee, hosted by Yvette Nicole Brown (Community, The New Edition Story) will feature some of the world's most innovative cosplayers as they transform themselves into sensational creations inspired by pop culture and iconic science fiction institutions.
Each week four contestants will compete to create full costumes and character origin stories that will dazzle a panel of judges including world class cosplayer LeeAnna Vamp and A-list costume creator, Christian Beckman (The Hunger Games, TRON: Legacy).
When the cosplayers hit the runway, they not only have to look the part but they’ll also have to act the part too, fully embodying their characters for a complete transformation. Oh yeah and we forgot to mention - at the end of each episode, the winner will walk away with 10,000 dollars and and reign cosplay supreme.
Think Face Off with a triple dose of adrenaline. (Premieres March 21st)




The Comedy Jam (Comedy Central)

Comedians take the stage to tell a funny story about a song that means something to them, then live out their rock star fantasies by performing the song with a live band, making for a night of entertainment that'll have you dancing as hard as you're laughing. (Premieres March 22nd)




Shots Fired (FOX)

From Gina Prince-Bythewood (Beyond the Lights, The Secret Life of Bees, Love & Basketball) and Reggie Rock Bythewood (Notorious, New York Undercover, Get on the Bus), Shots Fired is a 10-hour event series that examines the dangerous aftermath of two racially charged shootings in a small Southern town, providing an explosive autopsy of our criminal justice system.
When Joshua Beck (Mack Wilds, The Wire), an African-American Sheriff’s deputy, kills an unarmed white college student, a small town in North Carolina is turned upside-down. Before the town has a chance to grapple with this tragedy, the neglected murder of an African-American teen is brought to light, opening wounds that threaten to tear the community apart.
Leading the Department of Justice’s inquiry into these shootings is seasoned investigator Ashe Akino (Sanaa Lathan, The Perfect Guy, Love and Basketball) and a young Special Prosecutor, Preston Terry (Stephan James, Race, Selma), both of whom are African-American. As they start to peel back the layers of both cases, they suspect a cover-up that may involve some of the state’s most powerful people, including fiercely political North Carolina Governor Patricia Eamons (guest star Academy, Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actress Helen Hunt, As Good As It Gets, The Sessions). She’s in a tough re-election fight, and the recent shootings in her state are making it even tougher. Meanwhile, real estate mogul and owner of a privatized prison Arlen Cox (Academy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss, The Goodbye Girl, Jaws, Madoff), is pulled into the volatile debate over policing in the town, and Lt. Calvert Breeland (Stephen Moyer, The Bastard Executioner, True Blood), a seasoned veteran in the Sheriff’s Department, gets caught in the middle of the investigation.
As Ashe and Preston navigate the media attention, public debate and social unrest that come with such volatile cases, Shots Fired tackles the racial divide from every seat in the house. (Premieres March 22nd)




Ingobernable (Netflix)

The first lady of Mexico is a woman of conviction and ideals. But when she loses faith in her husband, she'll need all her strength to uncover the truth. (Premieres March 24th)




Rebel (BET)

Rebel is an Oakland detective who's solved more homicides in the last three years than any detective on the force. Former military with a Purple Heart, she's well-respected and even a little feared. Alert, astute, intelligent and tough, she has a cutting edge style and exudes a calm intensity. However, underneath her calm beauty, there is something coiled, wired and intense. (Premieres March 28th)




Imaginary Mary (ABC)

Alice (Jenna Elfman, Dharma & Greg, Friends with Benefits, EDtv) is a fiercely independent career woman whose life is turned upside-down when she meets the love of her life—a divorced father with three kids. This triggers even more upheaval when the slightly unhinged imaginary friend she created as a child suddenly reappears to help her navigate the transition from single girl to a woman ready for a family. (Premieres March 29th)




13 Reasons Why (Netflix)

Based on the best-selling books by Jay Asher, the Netflix Original Series 13 Reasons Why follows Clay Jensen (Dylan Minnette) as he returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker—his classmate and crush—who tragically committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Will Clay be one of them? (Premieres March 31st)




Five Came Back (Netflix)

Adapted from Mark Harris’ best-selling book, “Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War,” and directed by Laurent Bouzereau, the three-part docuseries tells the extraordinary story of how Hollywood changed World War II – and how World War II changed Hollywood, through the interwoven experiences of five filmmakers who interrupted their successful careers to serve their country, risk their lives and bring the truth back to the American people: John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens. To guide viewers through the different personalities, interweaving chronologies and globe-trotting locales, the Five Came Back team turned to the voices of five modern cinematic masters: Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Guillermo Del Toro, Paul Greengrass and Lawrence Kasdan. Three-time Oscar-winner Meryl Streep provides the narration for Five Came Back. (Premieres March 31st)


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Iron Fist and that's more out of Netflix MCU inertia than any real excitement. None of the rest look like anything worthwhile. I don't think I'm gonna bother with any new new shows until American Gods and Altered Carbon, whenever those are.
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Re: New TV Shows Premiering This Month (March)

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Fued: Bette and Joan could be good, can see Lange and Sarandon murdering those parts and there are a ton of great stories for them to build a show around.

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