Loading ...2009 New Show Guide
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Here’s a guide to (almost) all the new shows coming up for 2009. What night do they air? When’s the premiere? What time? What network? Here you go!
Below the list, you’ll see a number of previews for these shows. Check ‘em out if you want!
As the season goes on, the page will be updated with the current status of shows, with cancelled shows being marked out
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All times are EST.
Cancelled and no new episodes to be aired:
Hank, The Beautiful Life: TBL
No new episodes ordered, network will run the remaining ones:
Eastwick, Trauma
Cancelled: Unsure of future episodes
Three Rivers
Show
Network
Day
Premiere
Time
Description
Accidentally on Purpose
CBS
Mon
09/21
8:30
Jenna Elfman (Dharma & Greg) is a film critic with blockbuster news — she’s pregnant from a one-night stand with a younger dude (Jon Foster, Life As We Know It). Will this waylay a budding romance with boss Grant Show? What happens next is all very Knocked Up.
The Beautiful Life: TBL
CW
Wed
9/16
9
Executive produced by Ashton Kutcher, this drama follows two young models (Sara Paxton and High School Musical’s Corbin Bleu) as they are swept up in the fashion business. There to guide them (or complicate matters) are the modeling agency’s boss (Elle MacPherson) and a model with a few years under her belt (The O.C.’s Mischa Barton).
Bored to Death
HBO
Sun
9/20
9:30
Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore, Funny People) plays Jonathan, a Brooklyn writer who deals with a bad breakup by acting out his Raymond Chandler-esque private-eye fantasy — trenchcoat and all. His casework delights a magazine-editor friend (Ted Danson) and dismays his best buddy (The Hangover’s Zach Galifianakis). Oh yeah, he’s a drinker too.
Brothers
Fox
Fri
9/8
8
Retired NFL star Michael Strahan plays… a retired NFL star who is summoned back home to visit his ailing dad (Rocky’s Carl Weathers). While there, he trades barbs with his paraplegic brother (Darryl “Chill” Mitchell) and gets duped by their mom (CCH Pounder).
The Cleveland Show
Fox
Sun
9/27
8:30
This Family Guy spin-off ships Cleveland Brown off from Quahog to sunny California. Along the way, he makes a (permanent) pit stop in his hometown, fictional Stoolbend, Va., where he rekindles a romance with his high school girlfriend. Series creator Seth Macfarlane, Mike Henry, Sanaa Lathan and Kevin Michael Richardson provide voices.
Community
NBC
Thu
9/17
9:30
The Soup’s Joel McHale stars as an ethically challenged attorney who is forced to go back to college — community college. There, he meets a ragtag bunch of misfit toys, including an understated Chevy Chase, Gillian Jacobs and Mad Men’s Alison Brie (“Hell’s bells, Trudy!”) who all yearn for some higher learning, despite their obvious deficiencies out in the real world.
Cougar Town
ABC
Wed
9/23
9:30
The title is a play on words, as it refers to both the mascot of the show’s high school and the amped-up sexuality 40-something divorcee Jules Cobb (Courteney Cox) struggles to contain. It’s not Simone de Beauvoir, but Jules’ struggles have a slightly feminist, “old ladies like doing it too” vibe that plays well off the show’s breezy-hot Florida setting. Also, it’s from Scrubs’ Bill Lawrence, so it’s very funny.
Eastwick (2)
ABC
Wed
9/23
10
The producers of this fantasy series about suburban witches, which stars Rebecca Romijn and Lindsay Price, hope the third attempt to bring John Updike’s novel to the small screen will be the charm. The big-screen version, The Witches of Eastwick, was a major success in 1987.
FlashForward
ABC
Thu
9/24
8
ABC has high hopes for this series, centered around a bizarre event that allows millions of people to briefly see flashes of the future. What do they see? What does it mean? And should people be worried if they don’t have a future? Watch to find out, we don’t know, and yes.
The Forgotten
ABC
Tue
9/22
10
This Jerry Bruckheimer-produced drama centers on a group of amateur detectives led by a former cop (Christian Slater) whose daughter has disappeared. They try to crack murder cases involving unidentified victims — the people everyone else has forgotten. Can it prove more memorable than Slater’s My Own Worst Enemy?
The Good Wife
CBS
Tue
9/22
10
Julianna Margulies is a former attorney forced back to work when her politician husband (Law & Order: CI’s Chris Noth) is imprisoned for assorted improprieties. Can she compete in the courtroom against eager-beaver younger lawyers? Will she ever let her husband back into her heart?
Glee
Fox
Wed
9/16
9
If you watched Fox’s preview this spring, you can already hum along with Glee, but fall episodes will reveal that the dark high school dramedy is about more than just singing. Mr. Shuster (Matthew Morrison) needs six more students to compete at regionals; recruiting them is where the fun starts. Jane Lynch is a dream as an iron-fisted cheerleading coach. Kristin Chenoweth, Victor Garber and rapper Eve will all guest-star.
Hank
ABC
Wed
9/30
8
ABC’s Kelsey Grammer-led comedy finds a Wall Street executive forced to reconnect with his small-town family after losing his job. Ooh, topical!
Melrose Place
CW
Tue
9/8
9
CW’s remake of the soapy ’90s melodrama features many familiar archetypes: the brooding bad boy, the nice couple, and the powerful bitch, to name three. The new show departs from its source material with a mystery storyline concerning a dead body that appears, Sunset Boulevard-style, in the apartment complex’s pool. Vets Laura Leighton and Thomas Calabro co-star.
Mercy
NBC
Wed
9/23
8
Doctor shows are old hat. This year is about nurses. (See also HawthoRNe and Nurse Jackie.) Taylor Schilling and Jaime Lee Kirchner play the nurses who actually run their hospital, and Michelle Trachtenberg is the new kid who learns the harsh realities of medicine.
The Middle
ABC
Wed
9/30
8:30
ABC, fast on its way to becoming The Quirky Network, welcomes this Patricia Heaton comedy about a mom trying to, in the words of the show’s promo, raise her family while lowering her expectations. How quirky is the show? The promo also features a polyurethane cow and Heaton dressed as a super hero.
Modern Family
ABC
Wed
9/23
9
Ed O’Neill (Married… with Children), Julie Bowen (Ed) and Jesse Tyler Ferguson (The Class) headline a top-notch cast delivering a fresh take on the multigenerational family comedy. Our favorite moment from the pilot is scored by the Lion King theme.
NCIS: Los Angeles
CBS
Tue
9/22
9
Chris O’Donnell and LL Cool J front this spin-off of the hit CBS procedural, playing Special Agents assigned to the high-tech Office of Special Projects. Academy Award winner Linda Hunt plays their “Q”/gadget master, while Rocky Carroll’s Leon Vance will appear on both NCIS shows.
Shark Tank
ABC
Tue
9/29
8
Survivor creator Mark Burnett offers this recession-ready reality show about everyday people pitching their best ideas to captains of industry. Who, it turns out, can be kind of mean.
Three Rivers
CBS
Sun
10/04
9
Alex O’Loughlin (Moonlight), Katherine Moennig (The L Word) and Daniel Henney (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) populate a team of transplant doctors. Each transplant story is told from three perspectives — those of donor, recipient, and doctors.
Trauma (1)
NBC
Mon
9/28
9
Anastasia Griffith (Damages) and Derek Luke (Antwone Fisher) are among a team of EMTs who must confront the astoundingly traumatic moments of a trauma and then quickly treat the injured, often just minutes after tragedy strikes. Much stuff blows up.
The Vampire Diaries
CW
Th
09/10
8
Brooding high school newcomer Stefan (Paul Wesley) can’t get his mind off classmate Elena (Nina Dobrev) — perhaps because the two of them were deeply in love 130 years years ago. Yeah, Stefan is a vampire, and so is his reckless bad-boy brother, Damon (Lost’s Ian Somerhalder). This one also features a special guest appearance by massive amounts of fog.
White Collar
USA
Fr
10/23
10
After finally being brought down by FBI agent Peter Burke (Tim DeKay), master criminal Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer) offers to help the Feds catch other notorious cons in order to remain a free man. Though wary at first, Burke soon learns the intuition required to nail these bad guys can’t be found on the right side of the law. Tiffani Thiessen also stars as Burke’s wife.
Human Target
Fox
Wed
Jan 20, 2010
9
Based on the popular DC Comics comic book and graphic novel, HUMAN TARGET is a full-throttle action drama centered on CHRISTOPHER CHANCE (Mark Valley, FRINGE), a unique private contractor/security guard hired to protect.
Sons
Fox
Unk
2010
?
In the tradition of “Malcolm in the Middle” and “The Bernie Mac Show,” SONS OF TUCSON is a family comedy about three brothers who hire a charming, wayward schemer to stand in as their father when their real one goes to prison.
V (2009)
ABC
Tue
Nov 3, 2009
8
V is a reimaging of the popular 80’s miniseries
Show
Network
Day
Premiere
Time
Plot
Caprica
Syfy
Fri
Jan. 22
9-10
Set almost six decades before the action in ‘Battlestar Galactica,’ the new drama will explore the creation of the Cylons, and the family sagas of the Adamas, headed by father Joseph (Esai Morales), and the Graystones, headed by father Daniel (Eric Stoltz).
Day One
NBC
Unk
March
Unk
Catherine Dent, Carly Pope and Xander Berkeley star in the drama about a group of California apartment building neighbors who band together to create a new society when they find out they’re among the only survivors of a global disaster
Happy Town
ABC
Unk
Unk
Unk
The ‘Twins Peaks’-ish drama revolves around life in Haplin, Minn., which has been a peaceful burg in the seven years following a series of unsolved kidnappings. But that’s short-lived as secrets from those crimes begin to spill out. Geoffrey Stults, Amy Acker and Sam Neill star.
Human Target
Fox
Sun
January 17
8:00-9:00
‘Keen Eddie’ star Mark Valley stars in this adaptation of the comic book series about Christopher Chance, a private security contractor who protects his clients by putting himself in their place, i.e. making himself the “human target.” Jackie Earle Haley and Chi McBride co-star.
Life UneXpected
CW
Mon
January 18
9:00-10:00
It’s one big angsty family when 15-year-old foster child Lux tries to become legally emancipated, and the judge instead grants custody of her to her long-lost ‘rents: slacker dad Baze (Kristoffer Polaha) and rocker mom Cate (Shiri Appleby), who lives with boyfriend Ryan (Kerr Smith).
Men of a Certain Age
TNT
Monday
Dec 7, 2009
10
Ray Romano’s out of the funny-guy business for this midlife-crisis drama about three college BFFs — Romano, Scott Bakula and Andre Braugher — trying to deal with being middle-aged. Romano’s Joe is a party-store owner with two kids and an ex-wife played by Penelope Ann Miller.
Miami Trauma
CBS
Unk
2010
Unk
Another Jerry Bruckheimer production, ‘Miami Trauma’ follows a group of highly skilled Miami surgeons who only work on life-threatening cases. Jeremy Northam, Richard Coyle, Lana Parilla and Omar Gooding star in the drama, which is sure to include plenty of workplace romances, too.
Parenthood
NBC
Mon
March 1
9-10
The dramedy is an adaptation of the 1989 Ron Howard flick, with Craig T. Nelson and Bonnie Bedelia as the ‘rents, and Lauren Graham, Peter Krause, Erika Christensen and Dax Shepard as their adult offspring.
Past Life
Fox
Thu
February 11th
9-10
Based on an M.J. Rose novel, the drama revolves around an ex-NYPD detective and a psychologist who team up to investigate whether or not past-life traumas are affecting people in the present. Shrink Kate is a believer, while former cop Price is skeptical about the whole karma thang.
Persons Unknown
NBC
Day
Unknown
unk
Jason Wiles and Alan Ruck star in this creepy drama in which a group of strangers wake up in the middle of a ghost town, with no memory of how they got there and no way to escape. Unrest ensues when the citizens become suspicious of each other and the clues they’re being fed on TV monitors.
Sons of Tucson
Fox
Sun
March 14
8:30-9:00
‘Reaper’ breakout Tyler Labine gets another chance to shine in this quirky family comedy in which his slacker character, Ron Snuffkin, is paid by three brothers to pose as their father when their dad is sent to prison. ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ star Justin Berfield is a producer on the show
The Marriage Ref
NBC
Sunday
March 14, 2010
8
Jerry Seinfeld is back and in the producer’s chair for a funny and revealing series about the unpredictable and hilarious institution we call marriage. In his celebrated NBC sitcom Seinfeld, Jerry and friends became household names by highlighting humorous and relatable situations surrounding single life in New York City. In Jerry’s new primetime venture, married life takes center stage as celebrities, comedians and sports stars candidly comment, judge and decide who’s right and who’s wrong in real-life disputes between real-life spouses
