Your day-by-day guide to midseason TV

Of all the resolutions you've already broken, here's hoping "clearing out room on the DVR' wasn't one of them, because television's midseason has begun in earnest.

After a couple of weeks of mighty slim pickings, TV's midseason offers everything from the farewell seasons of former sensations "American Idol" and "Downton Abbey" (already airing) to the debuts of buzzworthy titles such as HBO's "Vinyl" and Showtime's "Billions."

Two of the biggest series around, "The Walking Dead" and "Game of Thrones," return as do long-lost shows "The X-Files" and "Full House."

And, in local news, Las Vegas twins try to seduce The Bachelor, chefs compete for a job at BLT Steak at Bally's and Bishop Gorman grad Jillian Bell gets her own series.

Here's a look at some of what to expect over the next few months. And, as always, times and dates are subject to change.

Monday

Software salesman Ben Higgins is pursued by 28 women, including Las Vegas twins Emily and Haley Ferguson, on "The Bachelor" (8 p.m., ABC).

America Ferrera stars in the workplace comedy "Superstore" (8 p.m., NBC).

Eva Longoria portrays the star of a Spanish-language soap opera in the behind-the-scenes comedy "Telenovela" (8:30 p.m., NBC).

A new host, a new "temptation" theme and a new gym await the teams competing on "The Biggest Loser" (9 p.m., NBC).

Tuesday

Jess (Zooey Deschanel) and friends are back on the season premiere of "New Girl" (8 p.m., Fox).

Host Jane Lynch returns for another round of "Hollywood Game Night" (8 p.m., NBC).

The "Shark Tank" team mentors entrepreneurs on the companion series "Beyond the Tank" (10 p.m., ABC).

An elf-human hybrid, an elven princess and a human try to stop a demon army from destroying the world in the futuristic drama "The Shannara Chronicles" (10 p.m., MTV).

Brandy Norwood stars as a newly single mother in the sitcom "Zoe Ever After" (10 p.m., BET).

Wednesday

The audition rounds kick off the 15th and final season of "American Idol" (8 p.m., Fox).

Billy Gardell and Melissa McCarthy are back for the sixth, and reportedly final, season of "Mike & Molly" (8:30 p.m., CBS).

A high school sex scandal is the focus of the anthology drama "American Crime" (10 p.m., ABC).

Head back to Paddy's Pub for the 11th season of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" (10 p.m., FXX).

Josh Greenberg (Jay Baruchel) continues looking for love in the surreal comedy "Man Seeking Woman" (10:30 p.m., FXX).

JAN. 7

Celebrity trainers help contestants lose weight in "My Diet Is Better Than Yours" (8 p.m., ABC).

A Brooklyn detective (Jennifer Lopez) is forced to inform on her boss (Ray Liotta) and the rest of her department in the drama "Shades of Blue" (9 p.m., NBC).

A young woman learns she's part of a line of human-angel hybrids who hunt demons in "Shadowhunters" (9 p.m., ABC Family), based on "The Mortal Instruments" novels.

A young doctor (Maggie Lawson) is stalked by a brash, creme de menthe-loving street performer (Jane Lynch) claiming to be her guardian angel in the comedy "Angel From Hell" (9:30 p.m., CBS).

After Todd Margaret (David Cross) blew up the world at the end of season two, expect some big changes in the comedy "The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret" (10 p.m., IFC).

JAN. 10

The Gallagher clan is back to wreak more havoc on the Southside of Chicago in "Shameless" (9 p.m., Showtime).

JAN. 13

Forty-year-old Liza (Sutton Foster) is still pretending to be 26 to get ahead in the publishing industry in the comedy "Younger" (10 p.m., TV Land).

A group of awkward young educators is the focus of the sitcom "Teachers" (11 p.m., TV Land).

When a 75-year-old corrupt former sheriff is killed, he's resurrected by billionaire twins as a younger, better version of himself in the action drama "Second Chance" (9 p.m., Fox).

JAN. 14

Josh Holloway ("Lost") and Sarah Wayne Callies ("The Walking Dead") star in the alien occupation drama "Colony" (10 p.m., USA).

Catch up with the gang at TelAmeriCorp on "Workaholics" (10 p.m., Comedy Central).

When she's put under house arrest in her family's mansion, a party girl's (Bishop Gorman grad Jillian Bell) parents hire a nanny (Charlotte Newhouse) to look after her in the comedy "Idiotsitter" (10:30 p.m., Comedy Central).

JAN. 15

Head back to everyone's favorite Canadian high school with the premiere of "Degrassi: The Next Class" (12:01 a.m., Netflix).

Eighteen competitors seek to become the head chef at BLT Steak at Bally's Las Vegas on "Hell's Kitchen" (9 p.m., Fox).

Bill Maher returns for another season of "Real Time" (10 p.m., HBO).

JAN. 16

Look for an updated set and shorter episodes as, after 45 years, "Sesame Street" (9 a.m., HBO) gets a new home.

JAN. 17

Josh Radnor, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Gary Cole star in the Civil War drama "Mercy Street" (10 p.m., PBS).

A U.S. attorney (Paul Giamatti) goes after a wealthy hedge-fund king (Damian Lewis) in the drama "Billions" (10 p.m., Showtime).

JAN. 19

Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) moves to Hollywood for the second season of "Marvel's Agent Carter" (9 p.m., ABC).

JAN. 21

Time traveler Rip Hunter (Arthur Darvill) assembles a team of heroes and villains — White Canary (Caity Lotz), Atom (Brandon Routh), Firestorm (Victor Garber and Franz Drameh), Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller), Heat Wave (Dominic Purcell), Hawkman (Falk Hentschel) and Hawkgirl (Ciara Renee) — to save the world in "The Flash" spinoff "DC's Legends of Tomorrow" (8 p.m., The CW).

The refugees have returned home for the third season of "The 100" (9 p.m., The CW).

Chip Baskets (Zach Galifianakis) dreams of being a French clown, but for now he's making ends meet on the rodeo circuit, in "Baskets" (10 p.m., FX).

Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein are back to keep Portland weird in the sketch comedy "Portlandia" (10 p.m., IFC).

When his lover is killed, a young man (Ben Whishaw, "SPECTRE") is drawn into the world of espionage in "London Spy" (10 p.m., BBC America).

JAN. 22

Underachieving friends head to Belize in the dark comedy "Mad Dogs" (Amazon), starring Michael Imperioli, Billy Zane and Steve Zahn.

Make the rounds with the ridiculous doctors of "Childrens Hospital" (11 p.m., Adult Swim).

JAN. 23

Set sail on the high seas again with the pirate drama "Black Sails" (9 p.m., Starz).

One of the world's oldest stories heads to one of America's newest purveyors of scripted content with the drama "Beowulf" (10 p.m., Esquire Network).

JAN. 24

Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) reunite for the six-episode event series "The X-Files" (7 p.m., Fox).

JAN. 25

The Lord of Hell (Tom Ellis) gets bored and opens an upscale L.A. nightclub in the DC Comics adaptation "Lucifer" (9 p.m., Fox).

Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, a secret upstate New York university, is the setting for the drama "The Magicians" (9 p.m., Syfy).

A teenage girl enters a sober living facility in the drama "Recovery Road" (9 p.m., ABC Family).

Stan, Francine and the rest of the animated Smith clan are back in "American Dad" (9 p.m., TBS).

Rashida Jones stars as the titular detective in the police comedy "Angie Tribeca" (9:30 p.m., TBS).

JAN. 26

A tight-knit family fights to defend their land atop an Appalachian mountain in the drama "The Outsiders" (9 p.m., WGN America).

JAN. 28

A foul-mouthed priest (Rob Lowe), a wrongly convicted librarian (Jenna Fischer) and a white supremacist (Megan Mullally) confront the Earth's impending destruction by a comet in the comedy "You, Me and the Apocalypse" (9 p.m., NBC).

FEB. 2

The trial of the century is re-created as John Travolta and Cuba Gooding Jr. star in "The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story" (10 p.m., FX).

FEB. 5

Travel the globe with the fourth season of the newsmagazine "Vice" (11 p.m., HBO).

Lovelorn rats and gender-questioning pigeons are just a few of the stars of the adult animated comedy "Animals" (11:30 p.m., HBO).

FEB. 12

Get ready to see the world again on the 28th season of "The Amazing Race" (8 p.m., CBS).

FEB. 14

Celebrate Valentine's Day with the return of "The Walking Dead" (9 p.m., AMC).

Bobby Cannavale, Olivia Wilde and Ray Romano star in "Vinyl" (9 p.m., HBO), the '70s rock drama from Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese.

FEB. 15

A high school history teacher (James Franco) travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination in "11.22.63" (Hulu), based on the Stephen King novel.

Jimmy McGill's (Bob Odenkirk) transformation into Saul Goodman continues in the second season of "Better Call Saul" (10 p.m., AMC).

FEB. 17

It's the return of Brains vs. Brawn vs. Beauty on the 32nd season of "Survivor" (8 p.m., CBS).

Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson continue to run amok in New York on "Broad City" (10 p.m., Comedy Central).

FEB. 18

Ragnar (Travis Fimmel) returns for the fourth season of "Vikings" (10 p.m., History).

FEB. 21

Lena Dunham and Kylo Ren, err, Adam Driver are back on "Girls" (10 p.m., HBO).

The relationship comedy "Togetherness" (10:30 p.m., HBO) returns.

FEB. 26

Aspiring musician Stephanie Tanner (Jodie Sweetin) and single mom Kimmy Gibbler (Andrea Barber) help recently widowed D.J. Tanner-Fuller (Candace Cameron Bure) raise her three boys in "Fuller House" (12:01 a.m., Netflix).

FEB. 29

Christina Aguilera reclaims her swivel chair for the 10th season of "The Voice" (8 p.m., NBC).

MARCH 2

When their 16-year-old son announces he's gay, his seemingly perfect Irish Catholic parents (Martha Plimpton, Jay R. Ferguson) embark on a journey of uncomfortable honesty in the comedy "The Real O'Neals" (8:30 p.m., ABC).

"CSI: NY" alum Gary Sinise returns to TV to lead a different group of crime solvers in a different spinoff in "Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders" (10 p.m., CBS).

MARCH 3

When the presumed-dead son of a politician (Joan Allen) returns after a decade, it sets off a bigger mystery than his disappearance in the thriller "The Family" (9 p.m., ABC).

MARCH 4

Just when you thought the presidential campaigns couldn't get any weirder, Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) rejoins the race in "House of Cards" (12:01 a.m., Netflix).

MARCH 8

King Saul (Ray Winstone), the prophet Samuel and the young shepherd David are set on a collision course in the biblical drama "Of Kings and Prophets" (10 p.m., ABC).

MARCH 9

The Underground Railroad, which helped smuggle slaves to freedom, is the setting for the drama "Underground" (10 p.m., WGN America).

MARCH 21

Kick up your heels for the 22nd season of "Dancing With the Stars" (8 p.m., ABC).

MARCH 24

When her fiance (Peter Krause) disappears after stealing millions from her, a private investigator (Mireille Enos) sets out to track him down in "The Catch" (10 p.m., ABC), from executive producer Shonda Rhimes.

MARCH 30

Aaron Paul and Michelle Monaghan star in the new cult drama — as in a drama about a cult, not necessarily one that will have a cultlike following — "The Path" (Hulu).

APRIL 1

Eliza Dushku joins the cast for the final season of "Banshee" (10 p.m., Cinemax).

APRIL 3

It's 1961 at Nonnatus House in the sixth season of "Call the Midwife" (8 p.m., PBS).

APRIL 7

Oscar (Matthew Perry) and Felix (Thomas Lennon) return for the second season of "The Odd Couple" (8:30 p.m., CBS).

TO BE ANNOUNCED

"Game of Thrones" (HBO), "The Americans" (FX), "Outlander" (Starz), "Last Week Tonight With John Oliver" (HBO) and "Mr. Selfridge" (PBS)

— Contact Christopher Lawrence at clawrence@reviewjournal.com. On Twitter: @life_onthecouch.