What to Watch This Week: 'Vice Principals,' 'Jerry Before Seinfeld,' 'Gotham,' 'Transparent' And More Primetime Premieres

'Vice Principals' and more TV shows premiering this week
Walton Goggins and Danny McBride on Season 2 of "Vice Principals," premiering on HBO on September 17. Fred Norris/HBO

Can you believe it? September is already halfway over. But there's at least one thing to look forward to as the month dwindles down: More TV show premieres! A number of networks started rolling out new (and old) primetime shows over a week ago, and plenty more series are set to debut throughout the rest of the month and well into October.

So clear out your weeknight schedule and secure the remote. It's TV time.

Check out all the shows premiering on primetime this week below.

Sunday

Vice Principals on HBO: Teenagers are unruly, but not nearly as much as disorderly vice principals Gamby and Russell. The combative and hilarious administrators are back for a new school year and new season—sadly, their last—to cause more mayhem at North Jackson High. Season 2 kicks off at 10:30 p.m.

El Chapo on Univision: Airing with English subtitles in an effort to draw in a bigger audience, Season 2 of the 12-episode series will pick up following infamous drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán in the days after his escape from prison. The first episode will premiere at 10 p.m. ET.

Monday

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Dancing With the Stars on ABC: For its 25th season, fans will see celebs like former NFL wide receiver Terrell Owens and Property Brothers' Drew Scott battle it out on the dance floor. Former Los Angeles Lakers player Derek Fisher, actor-singer Jordan Fish, Frankie Muniz, Nick and Vanessa Lachey, violinist Lindsey Stirling and Paralympic swimmer Victoria Arlen will also dance their best samba in front of judges as they compete for the mirror ball. The premiere episode airs at 8 p.m.

The State on National Geographic Channel: The two-part miniseries, airing at 9 p.m. ET, gives viewers an inside look at ISIS through the stories of two U.S. natives who join the jihadi terror organization. The show was developed and directed by Peter Kosminsky, who said it aims to give people a broader understanding of the terrorist group and its origins. "ISIS and its adherents have caused pain and suffering the world over," he told Variety. "But unless we understand why some of our young men and women chose to give up the lives they were living and travel to Syria, why men and women born and brought up in our liberal democracies opt to lay down those lives in its name, how can we ever hope to combat its nihilistic creed?"

Jerry Before Seinfield on Netflix: It's Seinfield like you've never seen him before. No really, the Netflix stand-up comedy series is all about the comedian's early beginnings and rise to fame long before he ever hit the stage on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson or landed his own semifictional NBC sitcom.

The Jim Jefferies Show on Comedy Central: Just what America needs right now—Aussie funnyman Jim Jefferies giving his hot takes on the U.S. news cycle and everything else in the political realm. The show premieres at 10:30 p.m. ET.

The Little Couple on TLC: Bill Klein and his wife, Dr. Jen Arnold, are back for the 10th season of their reality TV series, along with their children, Will and Zoey. Starting at 9 p.m. ET, viewers will get to see the ins and outs of the family's everyday life, including their recent decision to uproot from their home in Houston and move to Florida.

If Loving You Is Wrong on OWN: More lies, more deceit, more heartbreak and more family drama is in store for all the characters on the Tyler Perry soap opera, which kicks off with the Season 4 premiere episode at 9 p.m.

Ellen's Show Me More Show on YouTube: There is never a thing as too much Ellen DeGeneres. Sure, fans get to see her Monday through Friday on her daytime talk show, but what about those of us who miss her 4 p.m. time slot when we're at work every day? Now we can tune into more celebrity interviews, comedy bits and games when the online show drops on DeGeneres's YouTube channel twice a week.

Wednesday

The Good Place on NBC: Staring Kristen Bell and Ted Danson, the comedy series will debut its second season following the two-hour season finale of America's Got Talent, but will air on its regular Thursday-night time slot at 8:30 p.m. a week later.

Are You the One on MTV: Yet another season (the sixth) of young lovers trying to find their match, or running with the money instead. It's the contestants' choice to decide between their perfect match or a cash prize, but only one couple will end up claiming both. The elimination series starts at 10 p.m.

Thursday

Gotham on Fox: Premiering at 8 p.m., Season 4 of the dark series, which follows the city of Gotham before Batman came to save the day, will see more of the creepy and crazy Jerome, otherwise known as the Joker (Cameron Monaghan). This season, he's getting an unlikely sidekick to aid in his menacing crimes: Oswald Cobblepot (Robin Taylor), whom we all know as The Penguin.

Transparent on Amazon: Since viewers were introduced to the Pfefferman family, they've always been on some sort of journey or another, whether in their personal lives or collectively. This season, fans will see more of the same, except this time they'll be digging deeper into their family's origins, which will result in a trip to the motherland—Israel.

Fuller House on Netflix: Fans of the original Full House never saw the inside the residence belonging to Kimmy Gibbler (Andrea Barber), D.J. Tanner's (Candace Cameron) best friend. On Season 3 of the Netflix series, that could all change when Fernando (Juan Pablo di Pace) moves out of Tanner's San Francisco home and into Kimmy's.

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