The networks announce their new fall shows: lots of ensemble shows, supernatural, reality, and Saturday is still a black hole.
ABC, NBC, and CBS announced their new fall schedules at this week's upfronts.
ABC is premiering a lot of ensemble shows, including the Geico Caveman. October Road and Men In Trees are back; Six Degrees and What About Brian are cancelled. Lost and October will be mid season shows.
Monday: Dancing with the Stars, Sam I Am, The Bachelor
Tuesday: Cavemen, Carpoolers, Dancing with the Stars results, Boston Legal
Wednesday: Pushing Daisies, Private Practice, Dirty Sexy Money
Thursday: Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy, Big Shots
Friday: Men in Trees, Women's Murder Club, 20/20
Saturday: College Football
Sunday: American's Funniest Home Videos, Extreme Makeover Home Edition, Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters.
Sam I Am: Christina Applegate stars as an amnesia victim who realizes no one likes her.
Cavemen: It’s really happening, the Geico caveman is getting his own show.
Pushing Daisies: Stars Chi McBride, Kristin Chenoweth and Swoosie Kurtz about a man who finds out he can resurrect the dead.
Dirty Sexy Money: A legal soap starring Peter Krause about a man who takes over the family firm when his father dies. (Created by Greg Berlanti [Brothers & Sisters, Everwood]).
Big Shots: Dylan McDermott, Michael Vartan, Christopher Titus and Joshua Molina star as a group of guy friends.
Thursday night Comedy Done Right is intact.Friday Night Lights returns, reality tv is still strong, and Saturday night is still a black hole.
Monday: Deal or No Deal, Heroes, Journeyman
Tuesday: The Biggest Loser, Chuck, Law & Order: SVU
Wednesday: Deal or No Deal, Bionic Woman, Life
Thursday: My Name is Earl, 30 Rock, The Office, Scrubs, ER
Friday: Rotating Reality Block, Las Vegas, Friday Night Lights
Saturday: Dateline NBC, Drama Series encores
Sunday (Fall): Football
Sunday (Spring 2008): Dateline NBC, Law & Order, Lipstick Jungle
Journeyman: San Francisco newspaper reporter and husband/father suddenly travels through time, changing people's lives.
Chuck: A computer geek accidentally becomes a secret agent.
Bionic Woman: Update of the 80s television series.
Life: A detective is given a second chance, returning to the police force after spending years in prison for a crime he didn't commit
Lipstick Jungle: Dramedy based on the novel by Candance Bushnell about three high-powered friends who are successful and stand by each other
The return of the CSI’s, the hit Monday comedies, and some new dramas.
Monday: How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, Rules of Engagement, CSI: Maimi
Tuesday: NCIS, The Unit, Cane
Wednesday: Kid Nation, Criminal Minds, CSI:NY
Thursday: Survivor, CSI, Without a Trace
Friday: Ghost Whisperer, Moonlight, Numbers
Saturday: Crimetime Saturday, 48 Hours
Sunday: 60 Minutes, Viva Laughlin, Cold Case, Shark
New shows:
The Big Bang Theory: Two brainy best friends know a lot about quantum physics but nothing about real life. Stars Johnny Galecki and Jim Parsons.
Cane: Jimmy Smits stars in this epic drama about the external rivalries and internal power struggles of a large Cuban-American family
Moonlight: A captivating "undead" private investigator uses his acute vampire senses to help the living. From producer Joel Silver.
Viva Laughlin: A mystery drama with music about eternal optimist and freewheeling businessman Ripley Holden, whose sole ambition is to run a casino in Laughlin, Nev. Hugh Jackman produces.
Still to be announced: Fox and The CW.