City Programming Highlights: Monday, Sept. to Sunday, Sept. 9September 0, 0

City welcomes Hollywood's top talent, including Academy Award winner Robin Williams, Anna Faris, and Academy Award nominee James Caan, in the series premieres of all-new comedies The Crazy Ones, Mom, and Back in the Game

Season premieres of returning hits How I Met Your Mother, 2 Broke Girls, Modern Family, Parks and Recreation, and The Middle round out City's robust comedy roster

Eagerly awaited new dramas Lucky 7 and Betrayal make their series debuts, and returning favourites Revenge, Revolution, and Nashville (new to City) are back with all-new seasons

Below is a chronological listing of detailed highlights for September 23 to 29. All programming is subject to change.

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Monday, Sept. 23:

How I Met Your Mother (s/CBS): 8 p.m. ET/PT, 9 p.m. MT, 7 p.m. CT

**Season Premiere**

**One-hour Episode**

The Locket/Coming Back

Robin (Cobie Smulders) and Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) make an unsettling family discovery while in Long Island, NY for their wedding weekend. Meanwhile, Lily (Alyson Hannigan) has a confrontation with Ted (Josh Radnor) over his long-standing attachment to Robin, and Marshall (Jason Segel) scrambles to find transportation to the wedding.

2 Broke Girls (s/CBS): 9 p.m. ET/PT, 10 p.m. MT, 8 p.m. CT

**Season Premiere**

And the Soft Opening

Business is booming at Max (Kat Dennings) and Carolines (Beth Behrs) new cupcake walk-up window after word spreads about a shocking incident involving a rock star.

Mom (s/CBS): 9:30 p.m. ET/PT, 10:30 p.m. MT, 8:30 p.m. CT

**Series Premiere**

Pilot

Christy (Anna Farris, Scary Movie) is a newly sober, single mother whose sobriety is tested when her recovering alcoholic mom, Bonnie (Allison Janney, The West Wing), comes back into the picture with a laundry list of Christy's questionable choices and mistakes. Along with her mom, Christy's ex and father to her son, Baxter (Matt Jones, Breaking Bad), is always around to stir up trouble. Still, in the face of her dysfunction, Christy tries to remain positive as she pursues her new path in life and relationship with her boyfriend Gabriel (Nate Corddry, Harry's Law) who also happens to be married, and her boss.

The Project: Guatemala: 10 p.m. ET/PT, 8 p.m. MT, 9 p.m. CT

**OLN Original Series**

**Series Premiere on City**

The Reveal

The premiere episode follows the cast as they depart for rural Guatemala. After a quick meeting with host Ray Zahab (Running the Sahara), the participants party through the night and a love connection is made. The next morning, Zahab reveals what their six-week adventure really is to build a community centre for orphaned and abandoned children in rural Guatemala and gives everyone a chance to decide on whether or not they want to stay. Later, the group attends a Mayan ceremony and set up their cozy living accommodations. Soon, fights start to break out amongst the group and the real work begins when they meet the local Guatemalan crew who will help them complete the build.

The Project Live:11 p.m. ET/PT, 9 p.m. MT, 10 p.m. CT

**Half-hour Digital After Show**

Each week, following the broadcast of The Project: Guatemala, catch the series' digital after show, The Project Live,online at OLN.ca/theproject.Co-hosted by Rachel David (Rogers Your World This Week) and Adam Wylde (KISS 92.5) the half-hour program gives fans the opportunity to interact with the host and cast about what happened on The Project: Guatemala that week.

Tuesday, Sept. 24:

Dads (s/FOX): 8 p.m. ET/PT, 9 p.m. MT, 7 p.m. CT

Heckuva Job, Brownie

Eli (Seth Green) and Warner (Giovanni Ribisi) discover the trick to getting along with their dads after David (Peter Riegert) and Crawford (Martin Mull) inadvertently consume a batch of "medicinally enhanced" baked goods intended to get Elis creative juices flowing.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine (s/FOX): 8:30 p.m. ET/PT, 9:30 p.m. MT, 7:30 p.m. CT

The Tagger

Jake (Andy Samberg) is assigned to investigate a graffiti case that he feels is beneath him, but things get complicated when he learns that the offender is the deputy commissioners son. Meanwhile, Ginas (Chelsea Peretti) psychic friend visits the precinct and reads Charles (Joe Lo Truglio).

New Girl (s/FOX): 9 p.m. ET/PT, 10 p.m. MT, 8 p.m. CT

Nerd

When Jess (Zooey Deschanel) desperately tries to fit in with a clique of "mean girl" teachers at her new school, she (mistakenly) turns to Nick (Jake Johnson) for advice on how to deal with them. Meanwhile, an office party is anything but fun for Schmidt (Max Greenfield); and Winston (Lamorne Morris) plots revenge while cat-sitting for Daisy (recurring guest star Brenda Song) whom he suspects is cheating on him.

The Mindy Project (s/FOX): 9:30 p.m. ET/PT, 10:30 p.m. MT, 8:30 p.m. CT

The Other Dr. L

As if Mindys (Mindy Kaling) long-distance relationship with Casey (Anders Holm) isnt hard enough, now she has to deal with her new nemesis, Dr. Paul Leotard (recurring guest star James Franco), taking over the office. Meanwhile, Danny (Chris Messina) discovers a new pastime in the wake of his break-up with Christina (recurring guest star Chloe Sevigny). Bill Hader (Saturday Night Live) also guest stars.

Lucky 7 (s/ABC): 10 p.m. ET/PT, 11 p.m. MT, 9 p.m. CT

**Series Premiere**

Pilot

Seven gas station employees Matt Korzak (Matt Long, Mad Men), Nicky (Stephen Louis Grush, Detroit 1-8-7), Samira Lashari (Summer Bishil, Towelhead), Denise Dibinsky (Lorraine Bruce, Eden Lake), Leanne Maxwell (Anastasia Phillips, Bomb Girls), Bob Harris (Isiah Whitlock, Jr., The Wire), and Antonio Clemente (Luis Antonio Ramos, The Ruins) in Queens have dreamed about winning the lottery together for years. When the group finally hits the jackpot, they get more than they bargained for as the money starts to create problems instead of solving them.

Wednesday, Sept. 2

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