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Watch This: 'This Is Us,' 'Will & Grace,' and 15 Other TV Shows and Movies Debuting This Week

It’s finally here, people: the return of This Is Us. Yes, NBC’s weepy hit series is back for a second season, and you should stock your house with tissues accordingly. But that isn’t the only TV show coming for your feels this week: The Will & Grace reboot and Grey’s Anatomy are premiering, plus a slew of other favorites. These are the 17 best TV shows and movies debuting over the next seven days. Clear your schedule.

Sunday, September 24

Keeping Up With the Kardashians 10-year anniversary special: Kris, Kim, Khloe, Kourtney, Kendall, and Kylie look back at their decade-long reality television empire. Expect laughs, tears, and plenty of tea. 9 P.M. EST on E!

Star Trek: Discovery: The latest addition to the Star Trek universe is finally here. This one centers on a cold war between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon T’Kuvma race and stars Sonequa Martin-Green as Michael Burnham. 8:30 P.M. EST on CBS All Access

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Monday, September 25

The Big Bang Theory: We’ve been waiting too long for you, season 11. 8 P.M. EST on CBS

Young Sheldon: Learn the origin of everyone’s favorite brainiac in this Bing Bang Theory spinoff. Of course Sheldon started high school when he was, like, 9 years old. 8:30 EST on CBS

Tuesday, September 26

This Is Us: How did Jack die? Is Kate about to become a huge pop star? Will adult Kevin have his shirt off the whole season? (Fingers crossed.) Brace your tear ducts for the return of this fan favorite. 9 P.M. EST on NBC

Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders: It was one of the most talked-about crimes in the ’90s: Erik and Lyle Menendez, two wealthy Beverly Hills kids, shot and killed their parents in cold blood. Why did they do it when their worlds seem completely picturesque? This new scripted series starring Edie Falco gets to the bottom of it. 10 P.M. EST on NBC

Wednesday, September 27

Empire: The fourth season of Fox’s musical hit begins tonight. Come for the jaw-dropping drama; stay for Cookie’s opulent looks. 8 P.M. EST on FOX

American Housewife: Its premise was questionable—a non-stick-thin woman moves to a ritzy neighborhood and feels self-conscious around the other, more petite moms—but American Housewife proved to be a warm, uplifting, and very funny comedy. Season two debuts this evening. 9:30 P.M. EST on ABC

Thursday, September 28

Grey’s Anatomy: Even after 13 seasons, there’s still plenty of intrigue surrounding Meredith Grey and company—specifically new romances (Will Jackson and Maggie hook up?) and love triangles (Megan, Nathan, and Meredith). We can’t wait. 8 P.M. EST on ABC

How to Get Away with Murder: How will the Keating Five deal with the fact Laurel’s father commissioned Wes’ death? We’re excited (and scared!) to find out. 10 P.M. EST on ABC

Great News: Tina Fey’s hilarious new comedy, featuring a side-splitting performance from Nicole Richie, is back and better than ever. 9:30 P.M. EST on NBC

Will & Grace: The two-season revival of NBC’s classic sitcom kicks off tonight. As long as it opens with a shot of Karen filling up a bathtub with boxed wine, we’re good. 9 P.M. EST on NBC

Friday, September 29

Active Shooter: America Under Fire: This searing documentary series explores the events leading up to and the aftermath of mass shootings in the United States. 9 P.M. EST on Showtime

Marvel’s Inhumans: The Inhuman Royal Family flees to Hawaii and turns back to save the world in this exciting new show from the Marvel universe. 8 P.M. EST on ABC

Flatliners: Several medical students think it’s a good idea to stop their heartbeats and experience the afterlife just for shits and giggles. You can guess what terrifying nonsense happens after that. In theaters

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Saturday, September 30

Saturday Night Live: Ryan Gosling hosts and Jay Z performs for the premiere. 11:30 P.M. EST on NBC

The Disappearance of Maura Murray: The 2004 disappearance of 21-year-old University of Massachusetts at Amherst student Maura Murray remains a mystery to this day. Oxygen investigates. 9 P.M. EST on Oxygen

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The 'Will & Grace' Revival on NBC: Everything We Know So Far

Debra Messing says she hasn’t had much to laugh about since election night, but that’s about to change soon: NBC just announced that the Will & Grace revival has already been picked up for a second season. What else do you need to know about the Emmy-winning sitcom’s return? Here, everything we know…so far.

The series will return on Thursday, September 28. You can watch Will & Grace at 9:00 P.M. ET/PT, sandwiched between The Good Place at 8:30 and Great News at 9:30 P.M. Season two will presumably air in the fall of 2018, but no official date has been set.

NBC will air a new special to commemorate the original series a week before the premiere. The network and The Paley Center for Media are collaborating on the hourlong special The Paley Center Salutes the Best of Will & Grace, scheduled to air Tuesday, September 19 at 10 P.M. ET/PT. It will feature the best moments from the show’s original eight seasons as well as new and exclusive interviews with the cast and creators. Also included is never-seen-before behind-the-scenes footage.

Legendary director Jimmy Burrows is back to direct. Burrows directed every original Will & Grace episode and will do the same for the 16-episode revival.

You might be able to stream the series soon. Currently, old episodes of Will & Grace aren’t available online (shocking, we know), but cocreator Max Mutchnick said at the Television Critics Association summer press tour that they’re working on making the show available on streaming. The most likely place would be Hulu, which works closely with Universal Television, the studio behind Will & Grace.

The comedy will address politics, sex, social issues, and pop culture. “We’ll be shining a light on what’s happening today in our culture,” Messing revealed at the TCAs. “My hope is that now we can finish the alphabet” in terms of LGBTQ issues, storylines, and characters, noting that the original series mainly covered only lesbian and gay issues.

And don’t forget relationship drama! “They’ve always been successful at life and living,” the producers told EW. “It’s relationships that Will and Grace have always had the trouble with, and they still do.”

Forget the series finale from 2006. If you don’t remember what happened when the show went off the air 11 years ago, well, don’t worry about it. “It was more or less a fantasy, a projection into the future,” note the creators. (But in case you were wondering, Grace had a daughter named Laila with husband Leo, while Will and husband Vincent were raising a son, Ben.) In the revival Will and Grace will be single, without kids, and still living in their New York City apartment. Cocreator David Kohan told EW that “if [we wrote them with] children [now], then it has to be about them being parents, ’cause presumably it would be a priority in their lives. And if it wasn’t a priority in their lives, then they’re just bad parents, right? We frankly did not want to see them being either good parents or bad parents. We wanted them to be Will and Grace.”

But Grace’s love interest, Leo, will return. Harry Connick, Jr. will be back, but it remains to be seen if he’ll be playing Grace’s ex-husband or ex-boyfriend.

We’ll find out why Will and Grace are still living together. “Circumstances bring them together again,” cocreator David Kohan reveals. “They’ve lived their lives. However healthy or unhealthy [their living situation is], that will be addressed.” Joked Debra Messing: “We don’t care about being healthy!”

It’s back in time for Jack and Karen as well. The producers also told EW that Jack will return as Will and Grace’s neighbor, and Karen will “still get her drink on and live in that mansion. Will’s and Grace’s careers (Will is a lawyer; Grace an interior designer) will be the same, and Jack the actor will be teaching his own craft called ‘Jackting.'”

Check out the trailer, below:

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Stay tuned—we’ll update this post as more information becomes available.

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