NPR's Fall TV Preview: 20 Shows To Watch Out For

Television is more year-round than it used to be, but fall is still a time when broadcast, cable and streaming services drop a lot of premieres. How to keep track of it all? NPR's television and pop culture team has assembled a handy list of shows to keep an eye on. Some of these aren't available for us to watch yet — but we've included shows that look promising.

So from broadcast prime time to bingeing Netflix in your jammies, here's our take on the most intriguing shows coming to you this fall:

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Amazon (Friday, Aug. 31)

TV producers often claim their shows are like movies stretched over episodes, and this one lives up to that hype. John Krasinski (NBC's shines as idealistic intelligence analyst Jack Ryan — an action hero in the making much younger than Harrison Ford's film version. Wendell Pierce also impresses as James Greer. In films, he is Ryan's paternalistic buddy, but Pierce's Greer is a prickly superior who can barely stand his subordinate's impractical morals. Together, Greer and Ryan are an appealing odd couple teamed up to track a terrorist. The effects are spectacular, while the villain—