Dates and titles are subject to change, and all shows are subject to never actually making it on the air.


SEPTEMBER


WALLANDER (PBS, Sunday) Things seem to be looking up for the Swedish detective Kurt Wallander in Season 3: new house, new girlfriend. But it doesn’t take long — just a few minutes — for violence, fear and guilt to set in. Kenneth Branagh returns as Wallander in three more BBC adaptations of Henning Mankell’s novels, shown here as part of “Masterpiece Mystery!”


THE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE (Encore, Monday) Romola Garai stars as the ambitious Victorian-era prostitute Sugar in this four-part BBC adaptation of Michael Faber’s 2002 novel. The promising cast includes Shirley Henderson, Richard E. Grant and Gillian Anderson.


KATIE (Syndicated, Monday) After starring in the morning for NBC and in the evening for CBS, Katie Couric moves to the afternoon with ABC, which is distributing her new hourlong daytime chat show. (In New York it will appear on WABC, Channel 7, at 3 p.m.) Reunited with her “Today” show producer, Jeff Zucker, Ms. Couric immediately becomes the leading contender for Oprah Winfrey’s extremely lucrative former throne.


WAGNER’S DREAM (PBS, Monday) Susan Froemke directed this two-hour documentary about the making of Robert LePage’s “Ring” cycle for the Metropolitan Opera, the introduction to a week of Wagner on PBS. From Tuesday through Friday films of the Metropolitan productions of the four operas will be shown, one per night, marking PBS’s first broadcast of a full “Ring” cycle since 1990.


BOMB GIRLS (Reelz, Tuesday) Meg Tilly plays a woman who goes to work in a munitions factory during World War II in this Canadian series.


THE NEW NORMAL (NBC, Tuesday) This season’s new series from Ryan Murphy (“Nip/Tuck,” “Glee,” “American Horror Story”) is a sitcom about a male couple who want a baby and the broke single mom who’s going to have it for them. Ellen Barkin, in her first regular TV role, plays the surrogate mom’s right-wing mother.


GUYS WITH KIDS (NBC, Wednesday) Three men and three babies: Anthony Anderson, Jesse Bradford and Zach Cregger play a pair of husbands and a divorcé dealing with diapers and the other threats that caring for toddlers present to their manhood.


BOARDWALK EMPIRE (HBO, next Sunday) Having killed off one of its central characters, Michael Pitt’s Jimmy Darmody, in the Season 2 finale, HBO’s Atlantic City gangster drama will add Bobby Cannavale as an interloping mobster from Chicago to open Season 3.


THE MOB DOCTOR (Fox, Sept. 17) Jordana Spiro (“My Boys,” “Harry’s Law”) plays a brilliant surgeon — aren’t they all? — who has to moonlight patching up mobsters because of her brother’s gambling debts. The talented supporting cast includes Zach Gilford, Zeljko Ivanek and William Forsythe. Also starring: Chicago, the setting of at least three new network series, including “Revolution” and “Chicago Fire.”


REVOLUTION (NBC, Sept. 17) This futuristic series takes place after a mysterious event has knocked out all technology, or electric power, or something like that. It’s both post-apocalyptic survival story and Luddite wish fulfillment: no lights or heat but also no annoying tablets or cellphones. J. J. Abrams is a producer, but the show’s creator is Eric Kripke, the man behind “Supernatural”; the cast includes Billie Burke, Elizabeth Mitchell and Giancarlo Esposito.


DEATH AND THE CIVIL WAR (PBS, Sept. 18) Marking the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam and its more than 20,000 killed or wounded, this documentary examines the impact of the Civil War’s unthinkable death toll on the American psyche. The two-hour film was written and directed by Ric Burns based on the work of the historian Drew Gilpin Faust.


I’M CAROLYN PARKER: THE GOOD, THE MAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (PBS, Sept. 20) Jonathan Demme’s contribution to the Hurricane Katrina documentary genre is this account of a woman’s five-year effort to rebuild her house in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans and to bring life back to her community. It will be broadcast in the “P.O.V.” documentary series a week after it opens for a limited release in theaters.