Angela Bassett

If you’re tired of seeing white guys getting all the best roles on TV, that’s about to change. As television’s new fall season kicks off this coming week, we’re about to see more Black women in major leading roles than we’ve ever seen before at one time. 

It starts on Monday when Nicole Beharie plays Lieutenant Abbie Mills, a small-town detective teamed up with an 18th century Revolutionary War veteran to take on headless horsemen and other supernatural forces who’ve invaded a

Suburban dad Andre (Anthony Anderson) is determined that his family be “not black-ish, but black.”
(Photo: Adam Taylor, ABC)

Great-ish.

As is almost always the case, there are some good shows arriving this fall. Few, however, seem special — and fewer still appear to have the potential to change the TV landscape.

Black-ish (ABC, Wednesday, 9:30 ET/PT; * * * ½ out of four) is one of those few.

A throwback to the All in the Family days when sitcoms linked saying something funny with saying some