Sam I Am: What Happens When You Get Into A Car Accident And Have Retrograde Amnesia? You start to rebuild your life because you just don’t remember who you are. If you’ve been mean to people, will you forgive and forget now? Samantha Newly is about to find out. Starring Married with Children As Samantha’s Christina Applegate, this series puts a new spin on the genre that started with 50 First Dates. Now we see the world from the victim, not from the outside.
Cavemen – Most of us have evolved. It took quite a while, but 100,000 years has turned most of us from cavemen to homo sapiens. Except for these guys. Meet Joel, Jamie and Nick. They are cavemen who have not yet figured out how to evolve. So they’re stuck without that huge learning gap that the rest of the world has experienced. This fast-paced comedy series is based on the hit Geico insurance commercials and looks pretty funny. It stars Bill English as Joel and Nick Kroll as… Nick.
Carpoolers – Take four common men, all of the same basic lifestyle. Everyone has dreams, hopes, fears, and their own personal demons. Put them together out of necessity in the modern suburban chaos that is the daily commute, and you have The Carpoolers. Four men trying to figure out the world as they ride up and down the carpool lane. All these boys have hidden fears that, although they are not expressed, can arise at any moment to catch them off guard, but as friends, they work to help each other; solve problems; and try to survive. Starring Fred Goss, Jerry O’Connell, Jerry Minor and Tim Peper.
Pushing Daisies – Once upon a time there was a baker. He was a typical baker, recognized throughout the town for the quality of his empanadas. He made excellent cakes. But he, too, received a gift as a child, and he uses that gift to help his friend, an IP who specializes in unsolved murder cases. How can a humble baker help solve a murder? He has the Touch. He meets Ned, a man gifted with the power to touch a dead person and bring them back to life for a short time. Using this power to help, Ned has the victims name their killers so they can be brought to justice. Starring Lee Pace, Swoosie Kurtz and Kristen Chenoworth.
Private Practice: After the huge success of Grey’s Anatomy, Shonda Rimes tries again to see if she can recreate the magic a second time. The spin-off features Dr. Addison Forbes Montgomery, who decides to leave Seattle Grace for Santa Monica to seek advice from his friends on relationships and motherhood. They have a private practice there and Addison thinks that working with them could be a way to restart his own life and continue living. With an all-star cast that includes Amy Brenneman, Tim Daly, and Taye Briggs, as well as Kate Wash playing Addison, this series looks like a worthy spin-off.
Dirty Sexy Money – It’s been a long time since we’ve seen Dynasty and Dallas in prime time. Soap operas have been relegated to afternoon series for so long that we’ve almost forgotten the thrill of watching what happens to an unusual family going through great turmoil and stress. Now, DSM is looking to become the redheaded sexy stepchild of those two legacy series. Focusing on the Darling family of New York, a family so wealthy that they are the Upper in Upper East Side. The main focus of the series is not Donald Sutherland as the beloved patriarch, nor William Baldwin as the son of the Senate bad boy: it focuses on Peter Krause, who plays Nick. Nick’s job is to be the ultimate manipulator, turning all the bad press the Darlings generate into good press, to keep the family floating on top of the river of mud they always get caught up in.
Big Shots: 4 high-powered executives, running companies, in the top management of large companies. How do they vent and express their opinions and thoughts without having to worry about someone using that information against them? They arrived at a country club and chatted together. James (Michael Vartan) was about to become the latest victim of a downsizing when a turn leads him to the corner office. Duncan (Dylan McDermott) runs a cosmetics company and can’t resist the wiles of his perennial ex-wife. Karl (Josh Malina) is the loveable one, and he flips out when his wife and his mistress become best friends. Then there’s Brody (Christopher Titus). Brody is so focused on doing his wife’s bidding that his birthday is more important than the well-being of his company.
Women’s Murder Club: Women who work in a man’s field must form a team. So that’s exactly what Lt. Lindsay Boxer (Angie Harmon) does. Although she can analyze a crime scene in minutes, she is terribly frustrated by the slow process of the male-only justice system. So she bypasses it, by assembling a team of a coroner, a reporter and an assistant district attorney, she finally has the tools to get the job done faster than she’s ever seen the system dominated before. by men.
Cashmere Mafia – 4 female executives, known as the Cashmere Mafia, work together to form a united front against the ruthless and ambitious men who dominate their workplace. Lucy Liu, Frances O’Connor, Miranda Otto and Bonnie Somerville are the Kashmiri Mafia. By discussing their problems and issues, these four Ivy League-educated women manage to keep abreast of not only their husbands who stand out, but all the ambitious women below them who are always trying to knock them down from their high positions.
Eli Stone: A high-powered corporate shark of a lawyer, Stone has been chosen to be the next visionary, literally. He begins to experience visions that change his entire perspective, from winning one for the company to helping the little guy and making the world a much better place. Johnny Lee Miller is Eli Stone, a man who has shown that while the legal system has made billions, now is the time to make a prophet.
Miss Guided: Your past always catches up with you, but can you overcome it and prove you’re better than before? Becky Freely (Judy Greer) thought her teenage years were behind her when she returns to her old high school as a counselor. But the past catches up when her rival and high school nemesis also appears in the form of Lisa, who is also in college and proves to be a thorn in Becky’s hands. This dynamic series is produced by Ashton Kutcher and directed by Todd Holland.
ABC’s Fall Calendar
MONDAY
20:00-21:30: “Dancing with the stars”
21:30-22:00: “SAT I AM”
22:00-23:00: “The bachelor”
TUESDAY
20:00-20:30: “CAVEMEN”
8:30-9 p.m.: “CARPOOLERS”
9-10 pm: “Dancing with the Stars” (results show)
10:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.: “Boston Legal”
WEDNESDAY
20:00-21:00: “Pushing daisies”
21:00-22:00: “PRIVATE PRACTICE”
22:00-23:00: “DIRTY SEXY MONEY”
THURSDAY
20:00-21:00: “Ugly Betty”
9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.: “Grey’s Anatomy”
22:00-23:00: “BIG PROCESSES”
FRIDAY
8-9 p.m.: “Men in Trees”
9-10 pm: “MURDERER WOMEN’S CLUB”
22:00-23:00: “20/20”
SATURDAY
8-11 p.m.: “Saturday Night College Football”
SUNDAY
7-8 p.m.: “America’s Funniest Home Videos”
20:00-21:00: “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”
9:00-10:00 p.m.: “Desperate Housewives”
22:00-23:00: “Brothers and sisters”
