Top television programs attract an adolescent audience

Brittany Welsch, Staff Writer

With each new year comes an abundance of television programs, and Becton students are eagerly gearing up for their favorite series to return.

After randomly selecting students, 35 percent of adolescents polled are excited for the third season of The Fosters. This popular show is about a young girl, Callie Jacobs, who is placed into a foster home with a mix of biological and adoptive foster children, who are mothered by Stef Foster and her wife Lena Adams. The winter premiere of The Fosters will play on Monday, January 19 at 8 p.m. on ABC Family.

Another popular show, The Walking Dead, will be return to television on Sunday, February 8 at 9 p.m. for its fifth season on AMC. A total of 35 percent of students said they will be tuning in for this show, which follows the story of police officer Rick Grimes helping a group of people in a world overrun by zombies.

With a 30 percent vote, How to Get Away with Murder is another Becton favorite. This newly released program is centered on a group of law students and their brilliant criminal defense professor, and how they become involved in a murder plot that is deemed to change the course of their lives. How to Get Away with Murder comes back on January 29 at 10 p.m. on ABC.

Following that, with a vote of 15 percent is Once Upon A Time. This ABC show is about a woman who moves to Storybrooke, Maine, whose inhabitants are characters from various fairy tales transported to the town by a curse. The show will return March 1 at 8 p.m. for its fourth season.

The least popular returning series is Scandal with only 10 percent of polled students tuning in to watch. Scandal follows the life of an ex-White House Communication Director, who starts her own crisis management firm to protect the public images of the nation’s elite. This season will premiere on ABC at 9 p.m. January 29.