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FALL FLASH: NBC's new shows

It's upfront week, and NBC kicked things off Monday morning with its presentation to advertisers.

We'll be weighing in before long -- but in the meantime, have your own look at the unusually large number of new series being added to plug the leaks sprung by last season's disastrous Jay-at-10 gamble.

NBC has cast info, videos and more at this link.

1 Comments

Mac said:

Diane, I made a comment on a Yahoo version of this info, but I'd thought I'd run it by a real pro in the TV criticism world, as well as the astute TV junkies who come by here and read about all things TV.

The Smits show is flawed at concept: A Supreme Court justice, one of the highest power positions in the country, a person who can tilt the way Americans interpret America for decades (centuries?) leaves that post where he can help ALL the people, from unborn fetus to cadaver, to do what? - take care of some poor shlub's glove box full parking tickets (assuming that is a plot for sweeps and the show is still on by November)? Even Oscar & Felix made sense, even if it didn't become an episode of Cold Case by the second show. Archie Bunker being allowed to raise another daughter after his wife dies; I was game for a few weeks and was happily surprised. Even William Shatner allowed to command a spaceship seems sensible compared to this premise.

May 19, 2010 1:13 PM

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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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