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FALL FLASH: ABC upfront

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UPDATED --

Let ABC know what you think of its new fall shows. After presenting the 2010-11 slate to advertisers in Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon, the network's website posted "sneak peek" clips from most of the pilot episodes, and opened them up to viewer comments.

Does Michael Chiklis' superhero saga No Ordinary Family seem like a mom-and-pop-and-kids version of Heroes? Can ABC make "documentary-style drama" stick with its My Generation look at life stories told through world events of the last decade? Do we really need more cops, doctors and lawyers?

Have at it here. Click the Find Out More box in the upper photo screens to access show videos.

Download the fall grid PDF here.


ORIGINAL POST --

ABC presents its new 2010-11 prime-time slate to advertisers Tuesday afternoon, but the network's website has already posted the night-by-night grid (it's a PDF download). Read more about the shows in the press release posted here.

Get ready for that flashback feeling -- it's a stable lineup with few changes from the current schedule. And it features familiar faves like Michael Chiklis [photo above], Michael Imperioli, Dana Delany, Matthew Perry, and Dexter dead wife Julie Benz.

ABC execs have already talked to reporters, too. Read about that here.

More details/video after the official presentation . . .

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Diane Werts

Diane Werts has been glued to the tube since she can remember, growing up in a household where the TV came on first thing in the morning and stayed on till bedtime and beyond. She worked for the USA Film Festival, then for The Dallas Morning News writing about everything from Shakespeare to macrame art to rock music (and has the hearing loss to prove it). She moved to New York's Newsday to edit their glossy TV magazine, then returned to writing about television, specializing in its stranger permutations. She's a past president of the Television Critics Association.

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