Hear (and watch) women roar on new fall TV shows

The Good Wife, Homeland, Scandal, Nurse Jackie and, well, Girls are just a few current shows that put women front and center.

And this fall, even more women are stepping up.

As if TV programmers were in a classroom cribbing off one another's exams, a few common themes emerge. One prevalent theme: the fantasy world of comic books and sci-fi, courtesy of newcomers The Flash (CW), Gotham (Fox), Constantine (NBC) and Forever (ABC). Spies and anti-terrorism also remain big in our heebie-jeebie era, with Scorpion (CBS) as well as a couple of the shows below.