Football will occupy two nights of the week on NBC when the fall season gets underway.

“Big Ten Saturday Night” arrives in prime-time as some of the most storied programs in college football battle for conference supremacy.

For a record 12 consecutive years, “NBC Sunday Night Football” has held the title of the number one prime-time television show, and of course, it’s back again to broadcast 20 regular-season games throughout the NFL season.

Three new series are set to premiere in the fall, two dramas and one multi-cam comedy, all of which will stream next day on Peacock along with the rest of NBC’s entertainment lineup.

In any given year, more than 600,000 people are reported missing in the U.S., and more than half that number are people of color, and the title “Found” suggests the objective of the series.

A public relations specialist, who was once herself one of those forgotten ones, and her crisis management team now make sure there is always someone looking out for the overlooked missing persons.

But unbeknown to anyone, this everyday hero is hiding a chilling secret of her own. The cast of “Found” includes Shanola Hampton, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Kelli Williams and Brett Dalton.

Based on the bestselling author Dan Ariely’s “Predictably Irrational,” the new drama series “The Irrational” involves Jesse L. Martin as a world-renowned leader in behavioral science.

Martin lends his expertise to an array of high-stakes cases involving governments, law enforcement and corporations with his unique and unexpected approach to understanding human behavior.

Starring Jon Cryer, “Extended Family” is a new comedy series about an amicable divorce where the couple, Jim and Julia, decide to continue to raise their kids at the family home while taking turns on who gets to stay with them.

Navigating the waters of divorce and child-sharing gets more complicated for Cryer’s Jim when Trey, the owner of his favorite sports team, enters the picture and wins Julia’s heart.

When you think about it, “Extended Family” has echoes of “Two and a Half Men” for Jon Cryer, in which he was an uptight divorced chiropractor, sharing custody of his son, and living at his brother’s beachfront Malibu house.

It will be interesting to see if Cryer proves to be as neurotic and anxious as he was in his role of Alan Harper living with his hedonistic brother Charlie (Charlie Sheen).

Tom Hanks will narrate an unscripted entertainment series, “The Americas,” which will also feature music by two-time Oscar winner Hans Zimmer, the German composer who scored films that include “The Lion King” and the “Pirates of the Caribbean” series.

“The Americas” is an incomparable project that will employ revolutionary filmmaking technology to showcase the wonders, secrets and fragilities of the Americas, Earth’s largest landmass and the only one to stretch between the North and South poles.

Building off the success of “America’s Got Talent: The Champions” and “America’s Got Talent: All-Stars” comes the next special edition of the world’s most successful TV franchise.

Last year, “All-Stars” was the number one new alternative series of the season in both the 18-49 demographic and total viewers. The new series so far is referred to as “Untitled America’s Got Talent Series.”

The iconic game of “Deal or No Deal” returns and is unlike anything you have ever seen before.

The new format transports audiences to the Banker’s private island where he makes the rules and there are twists behind every palm tree.

Hidden on the island are over 100 cases with millions of dollars split between them, which teams must retrieve so that they can play a game of Deal or No Deal against the Banker. The island setting results in the new version to be titled “Deal or No Deal Island.”

Only one team will survive until the very last episode, where they’ll compete to beat the Banker for the biggest prize in “Deal or No Deal” history. Howie Mandel serves as an executive producer, but the host is as of now unknown.

While CBS was bestowed the title of “America’s Most-Watched Network” for the fifteen consecutive season, NBC claims to have more shows in the top 20 than any other network in the key 18-49 demographic.

NBC asserts that it is home to the number one unscripted program “The Voice,” the number one broadcast drama “Chicago P.D.,” the top entertainment program with “Saturday Night Live,” and top new comedy with “Night Court.”

As part of NBC’s rolling development cycle, the following projects have been picked up to pilot with decisions yet to be made on series greenlights — comedies “Non-Evil Twin” and “St. Denis Medical,” and the drama “Wolf.”

You won’t have to wait until the fall for new programs. “Chicago Fire” is on hiatus during the summer, but “LA Fire & Rescue” will fill the void as a docuseries about the front lines of Los Angeles County Fire Department.

Another summer show is “Hot Wheels: Ultimate Challenge,” a car makeover competition based on one of the world’s most popular toys.

Tim Riley writes film and television reviews for Lake County News.