2006 ABC Fall Dramas

Brothers & Sisters
Told through the viewpoint of Kitty Walker (Calista Flockhart), a group of siblings with complicated lives takes a dramatic turn on the eve of Kitty's birthday. As the series unfolds, shocking family secrets will be uncovered along the way. The series stars: Calista Flockhart, Ron Rifkin, Balthazar Getty, Rachel Griffiths, Dave Annable, Patricia Wettig, John Pyper-Ferguson, Sarah Jane Morris and Jimmy "Jax" Pinchak.

Men in Trees
This dramedy centers on the life of best-selling author, Marin Frist (Anne Heche), who finds herself stranded in Alaska. Upon learning her fiancé has cheated on her, she cancels the wedding and while stuck in Alaska, discovers she hasn't really lived life to the fullest.
The series stars Anne Heche, James Tupper, Suleka Mathews, Derek Richardson, Emily Bergl, Abraham Benrubi, Sarah Strange, Seana Kofoed and John Amos.

The Nine
This intense drama focuses on the lives of nine strangers who are suddenly thrown together during a 52-hour bank robbery hostage situation. Sharing this ordeal forever intertwines the lives of these nine survivors. The series stars Chi McBride, Jessica Collins, Tim Daly, Kim Raver, Scott Wolf, John Billingsley, Lourdes Benedicto, Owain Yeoman and Dana Davis.

Six Degrees
We've all played the "Six degrees of Kevin Bacon" game, now is your chance to see how those six degrees can change six lives in an instant. The series is created by JJ Abrams and stars Jay Hernandez, Bridget Moynahan, Hope Davis, Campbell Scott, Dorian Missick and Erika Christensen.

2006 CBS Fall Dramas

Smith
This series revolves around a tight-knit group of criminals lead by a mysterious man named "Smith." With the FBI hot on their trail, the main character, Bobby Stevens (Ray Liotta) is determined to follow through with just a few more heists before retiring from the business in order to live a normal life with his family. The series stars Ray Liotta, Virginia Madsen, Jonny Lee Miller, Franky G. Simon Baker, Amy Smart and is produced by John Wells, the mastermind behind ER and The West Wing.

Jericho
What if you lived in a small town and suddenly the entire town is cut off from the rest of the world? When a nuclear cloud is spotted, the town of Jericho, Kansas is led to believe the worst as happened and that they may the only people alive. Complete chaos ensues and puts the entire town in danger, not from the threat of the possible nuclear explosion, but from each other. The series stars Skeet Ulrich, Gerald McRaney, Ashley Scott, Pamela Reed, Kenneth Mitchell, Lennie James, Sprague Grayden, Michael Gaston and Erik Knudsen.

Shark
A cutthroat defense attorney (James Woods) switches sides and joins the Los Angeles District Attorney's High Profile Crime Unit. His courtroom antics are legendary and at times, he goes too far, much to the chagrin of his boss, the D.A. The series stars James Woods, Jeri Ryan, Sam Page, Danielle Panabaker, Romy Rosemont and Sophina Brown.

2006 CW Fall Dramas

Runaway
After being accused of a horrendous crime, Paul Rader takes his family on the run. Not only is this family hiding from the law, they also must escape from the real murderer, who has targeted the children as his next victims. The series stars Donnie Wahlberg as Paul Rader, Leslie Hope as Lily Rader, Dustin Milligan as Henry Rader, Sarah Ramos as Hannah Rader, Nathan Gamble as Tommy Rader, Susan Floyd as Gina Bennett, Karen LeBlanc as Angela Huntley and is produced by Darren Star and Ed Zuckerman.

2006 Fox Fall Dramas

Vanished
When the beautiful wife of a Senator suddenly disappears, the hunt is on to find her....if only they knew who she really is. As the search gets deeper, the reason for Sara's disappearance may very well be a part of a much larger conspiracy. The series stars Gale Harold as Kelton, John Allen Nelson as Jeffrey, Joanne Kelly as Sara, Rebecca Gayheart as Judy, Margarita Levieva as Marcy, John Patrick Amedori as Max, Chris Egan as Ben, Robert Hoffman as Adam, Ming-Na as Lin Mei.

Standoff
Part-action/part-romance, this series follows the lives of negotiators in the FBI's Crisis Negotiation Unit (CNU). Two of the negotiators, Matt and Emily are involved romantically and happen to be one of the best teams at CNU. The two have decided to keep their relationship secret until a situation forces their private life into the public eye. Will CNU allow these two to continue working together? The series stars Ron Livingston as Matt, Rosemarie DeWitt as Emily, Michael Cudlitz as Frank, Gina Torres as Cheryl, Raquel Alessi as Lia.

Justice
This series follows a group of top-notch lawyers, each with formidable skills in their respective area of law expertice, while allowing viewers a behind-the-scenes look at how cases are tried in the media. The series stars Victor Garber as Ron, Kerr Smith as Tom, Eamonn Walker as Luther, Rebecca Mader as Alden and is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.

2006 NBC Fall Dramas

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
This much-anticipated drama from Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Shlamme focuses on the hilarious and sometimes stressful behind-the-scenes antics of a popular, late-night sketch comedy show not unlike Saturday Night Live. The large cast stars Matthew Perry, Bradley Whitford, Amanda Peet, D.L. Hughley, Timothy Busfield, Steven Weber, Evan Handler and Sarah Paulson.

Heroes
What if you woke up and realized you possessed super powers? The show follows a genetics professor who, while investigating the disappearance of his father, discovers there are people in the world who have amazing super powers. Starring in this supernatural drama are: Sendhil Ramamurthy, Milo Ventimiglia, Hayden Panettiere, Ali Larter, Leonard Roberts, Tawny Cypress, Greg Grunberg and Masi Oka.

Kidnapped
This intense drama about a wealthy family whose teenaged son has been kidnapped promises to keep viewers on the edge-of-their-seats as literally everyone becomes a suspect.
Between the FBI, the local police force and private negotiators, skeletons from the family's closet will play a major role in getting the boy back safe and sound. Starring in this thrilling drama are: Jeremy Sisto, Delroy Lindo, Dana Delany, Timothy Hutton, Mykelti Williamson, Linus Roache, Carmen Ejogo, Will Denton and Boris McGiver.

Friday Night Lights
The hit movie about a high-rated Texas high school football team comes to the small screen this season. The series stars: Kyle Chandler, Scott Porter, Taylor Kitsch, Connie Britton, Zach Gilford, Aimee Teegarden and is produced by Brian Grazer, Peter Berg, David Nevins and Jason Katims.

8/21/2006 2:52:49 PM

Why do they keep putting James Woods in front of a goddamn Camera???

Jericho looked interesting, but that little blurb makes it sound dumb.

8/21/2006 2:57:06 PM

The Nine, Six Degrees, Smith, Shark, Vanishes, and Kidnapped

8/21/2006 2:57:19 PM

For me JJ Adams can still do no wrong, so I'm looking forward to Six Degrees. Bridget Moynahan and Erika Christensen can only help.

Smith looks like it could be decent. I'll most likely give it a shot.

I am really hoping that Jericho doesn't suck. I want to like it a lot but it looks like it could go either way. Actually my guess is that I will love it but it won't get the ratings and will get canceled mid-season.

Shark - meh. James Woods can't even save this one.

Vanished doesn't look to have too much to it.

I wonder if Kerr Smith being on Justice means he won't be on E-Ring anymore. I liked his character on that.

Studio 60 - This will probably do well, but no thanks to me. Not interested.

Heroes - Could go either way as well. I'll most likely watch for Hayden Panettiere and Ali Larter.

8/21/2006 3:02:43 PM

what about that new jeffrey tambor show?

8/21/2006 3:24:42 PM

I only did the new dramas.

8/21/2006 3:36:00 PM

i'm interested in Studio 60 and the new comedy 'Til Death

8/21/2006 3:41:30 PM

i am interested in Heroes and Smith and also Shark and Justice for law school/career related reasons. Out of the 2 legal shows I think Shark will be the better of the 2.

8/21/2006 3:45:14 PM

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

8/21/2006 4:03:40 PM

Heroes

8/21/2006 4:13:19 PM

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

8/21/2006 4:16:09 PM

I heard Jericho is getting made by the producers of lost

8/21/2006 4:55:05 PM

The Wire, even though its not a new show, theres a new season

8/21/2006 5:03:22 PM

I've seen screeners of the first episodes for:

Shark - sucks, boring legal drama

Kidnapped - badass

The Nine - could be cool, nine people in a bank robbery that all meet and it's a story of how they all get connected

Vanished - seemed pretty cool, some weird drama with the senator's wife having a different name and being a slut, etc.

Friday Night Lights - couldn't watch it

8/21/2006 6:18:35 PM

Heroes could be cool but probably won't be.

I hope Friday Night Lights turns out to be good but I know it won't be.

8/21/2006 6:38:36 PM

Here's my question:

Which will be better, Studio 60 or 30 Rock?

You can't go wrong with a comedy-based Sorkin/Schlamme show, but the Fey show could come out of nowhere.

8/21/2006 7:11:39 PM

The Nine

8/21/2006 7:15:30 PM

Football.

8/21/2006 8:30:04 PM

someone needs to compile time/date of various season premiers

8/21/2006 8:42:18 PM

^AVSForum
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/printthread.php?t=440744&p=4265637

8/21/2006 11:07:15 PM

I think this one's laid out a little bit easier to read.

http://epguides.com/grid/fall.shtml

8/21/2006 11:38:59 PM

perfect

8/21/2006 11:42:54 PM

Pretty excited about Studio 60 and Heroes, as in I could see these joining my list of favorite shows.

I would probably try Nine, 6 Degrees, 30 Rock, Smith, Jericho (I take it this is the Invasion replacement?), as in I think these all have the potential to be either surprisingly good or really bad

And I was totally uninterested in Standoff until I saw that it has Ron Livingston

Most of the rest don't sound like they have a premise that could be sustained beyond 2 episodes, but since when has that stopped anyone?

8/22/2006 6:11:40 AM

NA

8/22/2006 8:52:22 AM

I think the Class on CBS will be really funny like How I Met Your Mother. I also want to see Justice cause it sort of sounds a bit like the tactics used in Runaway Jury which I found pretty interesting

8/22/2006 10:11:37 AM

None of them.

Except that I want BSG back. It's my only real TV vice.

8/22/2006 11:56:12 AM

None of the above. The only shows that I'm looking forward to for the Fall are FX shows.

Nip/Tuck rocks this shit.

8/22/2006 1:52:50 PM

I just finished watching the pilot episode of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and liked it a lot. I'll definitely be looking forward to this in the fall. It's definitely got all the cookie cutter Sorkin pieces to it, but I'll forgive that for the time being.

8/22/2006 11:36:34 PM

I was just gonna ask where all you guys are getting these shows, but then I figured out that I was searching for the wrong keywords.

Apparantly the word to search for is "preair".

8/22/2006 11:39:06 PM

The Studio 60 pilot is available on DVD from Netflix.

8/22/2006 11:40:37 PM

oh. well it's also available on the internets.

8/22/2006 11:50:32 PM

OK, I just got finished watching the pilot of Studio 60. I really liked it as well. Which kinda sucks because the last thing I need is another hour long drama that I'm hooked on. I kinda wanted to not like this show. Oh well. At least it's not scheduled in the same timeslot as anything else I watch.

8/23/2006 12:24:23 AM

lou dobbs, maybe a little anderson cooper, and lets not forget the always sexy paula zahn

8/23/2006 12:26:13 AM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060823/ap_on_en_tv/survivor

looking forward to survivor now

8/23/2006 2:25:00 PM

Quote :

"Heroes could be cool but probably won't be."

the first episode has been out for awhile, it was decent

and vanished sucked the other night


im trying to find a website that has a rundown of start dates so i can keep track

8/23/2006 2:33:49 PM

vanished was a little strange..i may watch it again to see where this goes...what night does friday night lights coem on? I'm looking forward to nip/tuck. and of course prison break and house

8/23/2006 2:38:31 PM

heroes - just for the asian dude who can control time.... everythign else sounds shitty

8/23/2006 2:40:49 PM

I just finished a marathon day of watching the pilots for this upcoming fall season. Here's what I watched and my thoughts.

The Class - A few minor chuckles, but nothing special here. Very dumb premise. Not very likable characters. Whoever compared this one to How I met your mother was way off. 4/10

Friday Night Lights - I was actually surprised how much I liked this. Even if it was a little predictable and hokey, it still laid the groundwork for what could be a fairly entertaining show, if football dramas interest you. Should have called this one "Varsity Blues - The TV show" however. 6.5/10

Heroes - I'm still not sure how this one is gonna go. Right now, it could go either way. There are several characters there that I could start to like, and the acting isn't bad. They didn't give a ton away on the first show to let you see where this one is headed, but I suspect this one will be popular. I give it a solid 7.5/10

Jericho - I really really want to love this show. Something tells me that it will be a letdown, but after watching the first episode, I still have high hopes for this one. If this one turns out to be townspeople fighting over the last of the gasoline reserves instead of a full out post-apocaplyptic scenario, I will be very disappointed. Right now I have this one at a very hopeful 8/10.

Our Thirties - Tries to hard to be Friends-post-Friends. Fails miserably. 3/10

Shark - Not very interesting. There could be something there, but James Woods is no James Spader. Boston Legal has the interesting Law Drama show on lock down, plus it's funny as hell to boot. Shark had almost no humor in the episode (of course to be fair, it's not really that type of show) but it didn't even seem to make up for it with interesting court-play. 4/10

The Angriest Man in Suburbia - This show just made me angry watching it. Perhaps because I identified with the main character too much. Normally you would think identifying with the main character would be a good thing, but when the entire premise of the show is to annoy the main character, you end up pissing off your audience as well. Another one to avoid. 3/10

The Nine - They should have called this one "Inside man - The TV show". The pilot starts off showing you the start of the story, then cuts to the end. Then spends the rest of the episode (and presumably entire season) dropping in puzzle pieces for the viewer to fill in. That might be someone's idea of a good show, but it's not really my cup of tea. It did have some decent acting in it however. I expect this show might make it a full season. 5.5/10

The Singles Table - No. 1/10

Traveler - Not a bad show, just not a great one either. The first episode has two recent Harvard grads getting set up for a terrorist attack on an art museum. It didn't seem nearly as deep or smart as other shows out there and I don't expect this one will make it very far. I wouldn't get too attached to this one. 5/10

Knights of Prosperity - An entire show dedicated to watching a bunch of low income, lower intelligence social rejects attempting to Rob Mick Jagger. Yes, you read that correctly. And yes, it's as bad as it sounds. 2/10

Runaway - A family goes on the run after the father is framed for a murder. Ho hum. There's some mild excitement there and maybe the show will develop into something more, but I wasn't too impressed with the first episode. 5.5/10

Justice - Definitely the best of the two new law dramas. Victor Garber is great, and nothing like his Alias character. Kerr Smith is not bad either. Bruckheimer knows a thing or two about making somewhat decent TV. Still miles behind Boston Legal, but I wouldn't be surprised if this one made it a few seasons. 7/10

The Black Donnellys - Originally scheduled to be on the fall schedule, this show has now been bumped back to a mid-season replacement. It's about an Irish crime family in NYC. I'll admit it's late and I've watched a lot of TV today, but this show was very hard to keep track of all the characters. Some people die, other people get hurt, there are lots of flashbacks. I'm pretty sure there were two characters with the same name. I'll most likely give this one a second chance and probably watch the next couple of episodes before completely writing it off, but as of right now I'm pretty iffy on it. 5.5/10

Raines - Couldn't find out much about this show and when or if it will air. It's got some fairly big names including Jeff Goldblum (of Independence day and Jeffgoldblumiswatchingyoupoop.com fame) and Luis Guzmán. Luis' performance wasn't up to it's normal snuff, although I'll say that was most likely due to his character and the writing as opposed to any fault of his own. Jeff Goldblum has gray hair now and can also see dead people. Yes, the promise of the show is Jeff Goldblum is a detective that can see dead people. The "kick" here is that they aren't spirits, but actually hallucinations from his own mind. So they can't actually give him clues, just help him by sorting out the facts in his head. It had a few "not-so-horrible" moments(most notably when he finds out the murder victim has a southern accent and she changes the way she talks mid-sentence) , but I wouldn't expect this one to take off (if it even makes it that far to begin with). 6/10

Kidnapped - Jeremy Sisto (Billy from Six Feet under) and Delroy Lindo make this show work. It was a little odd seeing Jeremy Sisto as a badass instead of a crazy person, but he manages to pull it off. Delroy Lindo is badass as always. Very minor spoilers ahead but since the main kidnapping of the first show doesn't get resolved in the first hour, it's tough to tell if the entire series is about rescuing one person, or if each week is a different scenario. Judging from the blurb in the first post, I assume it's about one case, and I'm not sure if that's going to be something they can stretch out for a whole season. But stranger things have happened. I give this one 7/10

Studio 60 - I already gave my opinion of this one, but I'll give it a number score here now and say...8.5/10

whew. long post. Longer day. going to bed now.

8/26/2006 2:59:04 AM

I have high hopes for Vanished because I love Gale Harold as an actor. The pilot wasn't that gripping to me, though. And I hate that fucking fade to white thing they kept doing because it hurt my eyes.

8/26/2006 8:27:19 PM

haha^^ I typed all that. what a loser.

8/28/2006 12:55:55 PM

I really want to see Studio 60. I hadnt heard about it till last night when i saw a commercial for it during the emmy award show. Im interested in Heroes as well.

8/28/2006 12:58:25 PM

I just got finished watching the first episode of Smith. I have to say it was pretty well done. Pretty good quality heist type stuff for a tv show. I wonder if they'll do a heist every episode, or just plan out and pull off 1-2 per season. Either way I'm gonna add this show to my DVR list, despite having the actress with the most annoying accent on the planet on it, Shohreh Aghdashloo. I give the show a 7/10

9/17/2006 8:09:32 PM