NBC’s “Ordinary Joe” is perhaps the most interesting concept among the series premiering Monday, but not the best — a distinction that falls to Fox’s “The Big Leap,” a show-within-a-show about the making of a fictional reality show and the lives of those involved that brings to mind the Lifetime drama “UnReal.”

Fox follows that up Tuesday with “Our Kind of People,” a too-familiar “Dynasty”-like serial about the super-rich, with the wrinkle being that the community is Black. The show is loosely inspired by Lawrence Otis Graham’s book “Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class,” adapted by showrunner Karin Gist working with “Empire” co-creator Lee Daniels.

“Whichever way I go, I’ll still always wonder ‘What if?'” Joe says in voiceover, a little too on the nose.

Viewers, however, don’t have to wonder, since the pilot then picks up a decade later, following three separate scenarios of how Joe’s life played out: Becoming a cop, a rock star or going into medicine.

In a way, the series (created by “Smallville” writers Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner) is three shows in one, requiring dizzying attention to detail — indeed, it’s a continuity nightmare — in the changes large and small to Joe’s journey, and the way various characters are impacted by those ripples.

“The Big Leap,” by contrast, focuses on a dancing-competition reality show that will culminate with a performance of “Swan Lake,” and the producers manipulating the real-life people grasping at this opportunity.

That includes head honcho Nick Blackburn (Scott Foley, who’s terrific), a producer who makes no bones about messing with his participants to build the most compelling program that he can. “The show is not about dancing,” he says, as he goes about invading privacy and setting up “stories” that he thinks will grab the audience.

Those tales range from Gabby (Simone Recasner), who got pregnant young and seizes on this as a way to change her life, to Julia (Teri Polo), a trapped-feeling wife and mother. “It might be my last chance to dance again, and I am taking it,” she says.

Funny, occasionally touching and pretty savvy about how the reality-TV sausage gets made, the series also bears a modest resemblance to “Smash,” which looked at the hopes and dreams of those trying to make it on Broadway. Whatever you choose to compare it to, among the major networks’ creative standouts, “Big Leap” looks like a big winner.

Finally, “Our Kind of People” constructs a serialized drama with the usual soapy trappings, starting with the newly arrived Angela Vaughn (Yaya DaCosta), the creator of a haircare line for Black women, whose late mother worked as a maid in the wealthy Martha’s Vineyard community to which she’s come.

“Our Kind of People” will surely provide a welcome dose of escapism for some, while looking at a part of the Black community that isn’t often presented. But while Daniels caught lightning in a bottle with “Empire,” as constructed the underlying dynamics of “Our Kind of People” feel like a pretty played-out tune.

“Ordinary Joe” (NBC), “The Big Leap” (Fox) and “NCIS: Hawaii” premiere Sept. 20.

“Our Kind of People” (Fox) and “FBI: International” (CBS) premiere Sept. 21.