Fall Schedules Revised 5-17-01

 8:00 MON ABC -- ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire''
 8:00 MON CBS -- ''The King of Queens''
 8:00 MON FOX -- ''Boston Public''
 8:00 MON NBC -- ''Weakest Link''
 8:00 MON PAX -- ''Forbidden Secrets''
 8:00 MON TWB -- ''7th Heaven''
 8:00 MON UPN -- ''The Hughleys''

 8:30 MON CBS -- ''Yes, Dear''
 8:30 MON UPN -- ''One on One''

 9:00 MON ABC -- ''Monday Night Football''
 9:00 MON CBS -- ''Everybody Loves Raymond''
 9:00 MON FOX -- ''Ally McBeal''
 9:00 MON NBC -- ''Third Watch''
 9:00 MON PAX -- ''Touched By an Angel''
 9:00 MON TWB -- ''Angel''
 9:00 MON UPN -- ''The Parkers''

 9:30 MON CBS -- ''Becker''
 9:30 MON UPN -- ''Girlfriends''

10:00 MON CBS -- ''Family Law''
10:00 MON NBC -- ''Crossing Jordan''
10:00 MON PAX -- ''Diagnosis Murder''

 8:00 TUE ABC -- ''Dharma & Greg''
 8:00 TUE CBS -- ''JAG''
 8:00 TUE FOX -- ''That '70s Show''
 8:00 TUE NBC -- ''Emeril''
 8:00 TUE PAX -- ''Doc''
 8:00 TUE TWB -- ''Gilmore Girls''
 8:00 TUE UPN -- ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''

 8:30 TUE ABC -- ''What About Joan''
 8:30 TUE FOX -- ''Undeclared''
 8:30 TUE NBC -- ''Three Sisters''

 9:00 TUE ABC -- ''Bob Patterson''
 9:00 TUE CBS -- ''The Guardian''
 9:00 TUE FOX -- ''24''
 9:00 TUE NBC -- ''Frasier''
 9:00 TUE PAX -- ''Mysterious Ways''
 9:00 TUE TWB -- ''Smallville''
 9:00 TUE UPN -- ''Roswell''

 9:30 TUE ABC -- ''Spin City''
 9:30 TUE NBC -- ''Scrubs''

10:00 TUE ABC -- ''Philly''
10:00 TUE CBS -- ''Judging Amy''
10:00 TUE NBC -- ''Dateline NBC''
10:00 TUE PAX -- ''Diagnosis Murder''

 8:00 WED ABC -- ''My Wife and Kids''
 8:00 WED CBS -- ''60 Minutes II''
 8:00 WED FOX -- ''Fox Family Comedy Wheel,'' featuring reruns of ''The Simpsons,'' ''Malcolm in the Middle'' and ''That '70s Show.''
 8:00 WED NBC -- ''Ed''
 8:00 WED PAX -- ''Candid Camera''
 8:00 WED TWB -- ''Dawson's Creek''
 8:00 WED UPN -- ''Enterprise''

 8:30 WED ABC -- ''The Dad''
 8:30 WED FOX -- ''Grounded For Life''

 9:00 WED ABC -- ''The Drew Carey Show''
 9:00 WED CBS -- ''The Amazing Race''
 9:00 WED FOX -- ''Titus''
 9:00 WED NBC -- ''The West Wing''
 9:00 WED PAX -- ''Touched By an Angel''
 9:00 WED TWB -- ''Felicity''
 9:00 WED UPN -- ''Special Unit 2''

 9:30 WED ABC -- ''The Job''
 9:30 WED FOX -- ''The Bernie Mac Show''

10:00 WED ABC -- ''20/20'' until November, ''NYPD Blue''
10:00 WED CBS -- ''Wolf Lake''
10:00 WED NBC -- ''Law and Order''
10:00 WED PAX -- ''Diagnosis Murder''

 8:00 THU ABC -- ''Whose Line is it Anyway?''
 8:00 THU CBS -- ''Survivor''
 8:00 THU FOX -- ''Family Guy''
 8:00 THU NBC -- ''Friends''
 8:00 THU PAX -- ''It's a Miracle''
 8:00 THU TWB -- ''Popstars 2''
 8:00 THU UPN -- ''WWF Smackdown!''

 8:30 THU ABC -- ''Whose Line is it Anyway?''
 8:30 THU FOX -- ''The Tick''
 8:30 THU NBC -- ''Inside Schwartz''
 8:30 THU TWB -- ''Elimidate Deluxe''

 9:00 THU ABC -- ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire''
 9:00 THU CBS -- ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation''
 9:00 THU FOX -- ''Temptation Island 2''
 9:00 THU NBC -- ''Will & Grace''
 9:00 THU PAX -- ''Touched By an Angel''
 9:00 THU TWB -- ''Charmed''

 9:30 THU NBC -- ''Just Shoot Me''

10:00 THU ABC -- ''PrimeTime Thursday''
10:00 THU CBS -- ''The Agency''
10:00 THU NBC -- ''ER''
10:00 THU PAX -- ''Diagnosis Murder''

 8:00 FRI ABC -- ''The Mole''
 8:00 FRI CBS -- ''The Ellen Show''
 8:00 FRI FOX -- ''Dark Angel''
 8:00 FRI NBC -- ''Providence''
 8:00 FRI PAX -- ''Weakest Link''
 8:00 FRI TWB -- ''Sabrina, the Teenage Witch''
 8:00 FRI UPN -- ''UPN Movie Friday''

 8:30 FRI CBS -- ''American Wreck''
 8:30 FRI TWB -- ''Maybe I'm Adopted''

 9:00 FRI ABC -- ''Thieves''
 9:00 FRI CBS -- ''That's Life''
 9:00 FRI FOX -- ''Pasadena''
 9:00 FRI NBC -- ''Dateline NBC''
 9:00 FRI PAX -- ''Pax Big Event''
 9:00 FRI TWB -- ''Deep in the Heart''

 9:30 FRI TWB -- ''Raising Dad''

10:00 FRI ABC -- ''Once and Again'' until December, ''20/20''
10:00 FRI CBS -- ''48 Hours''
10:00 FRI NBC -- ''Law and Order: Special Victims Unit''

 8:00 SAT ABC -- ''The ABC Big Picture Show''
 8:00 SAT CBS -- ''Touched By an Angel''
 8:00 SAT FOX -- ''Cops''
 8:00 SAT NBC -- ''NBC Saturday Night Movie''
 8:00 SAT PAX -- ''Ponderosa''

 8:30 SAT FOX -- ''Cops''

 9:00 SAT CBS -- ''Citizen Baines''
 9:00 SAT FOX -- ''America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back''
 9:00 SAT PAX -- ''Touched By an Angel''

10:00 SAT CBS -- ''The District''
10:00 SAT PAX -- ''Encounters With the Unexplained''

 7:00 SUN ABC -- ''The Wonderful World of Disney''
 7:00 SUN CBS -- ''60 Minutes''
 7:00 SUN FOX -- ''Futurama''
 7:00 SUN NBC -- ''Dateline NBC''
 7:00 SUN PAX -- ''Doc''
 7:00 SUN TWB -- ''Lost in the USA''

 7:30 SUN FOX -- ''King of the Hill''

 8:00 SUN CBS -- ''The Education of Max Bickford''
 8:00 SUN FOX -- ''The Simpsons''
 8:00 SUN NBC -- ''Weakest Link''
 8:00 SUN PAX -- ''Ponderosa''
 8:00 SUN TWB -- ''The Steve Harvey Show''

 8:30 SUN FOX -- ''Malcolm in the Middle''
 8:30 SUN TWB -- ''Men, Women & Dogs''

 9:00 SUN ABC -- ''Alias''
 9:00 SUN CBS -- ''CBS Sunday Movie''
 9:00 SUN FOX -- ''The X-Files''
 9:00 SUN NBC -- ''Law and Order: Criminal Intent''
 9:00 SUN PAX -- ''Mysterious Ways''
 9:00 SUN TWB -- ''Nikki''

 9:30 SUN TWB -- ''Off Centre''

10:00 SUN ABC -- ''The Practice''
10:00 SUN NBC -- ''UC: Undercover''

Buffy and Roswell, both 20th Century Television productions, will be a Tuesday-night science-fiction tandem in UPN's fall lineup. The WB had passed on renewing Roswell, but it was outbid by UPN for Buffy. UPN's other big stretch for the fall season is its new Star Trek Enterprise from Paramount Television with Scott Bakula at the helm at 8 p.m. Wednesday, followed by Special Unit Two, also from Paramount, which has had midseason exposure. Paramount also contributes Monday-night sitcom One on One at 8:30, between The Hughleys and The Parkers. WWF Smackdown comes back as UPN's Thursday-night ticket, and Friday, UPN goes to the movies.

Not coming back is Brandi vehicle Moesha. UPN considered the Jamie Fox Variety Show for Monday night, but the network decided to pass on it.

MONDAY
8 p.m. -- ''The Hughleys''
8:30 p.m. -- ''One on One''
9 p.m. -- ''The Parkers''
9:30 p.m. -- ''Girlfriends''

TUESDAY
8 p.m. -- ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''
9 p.m. -- ''Roswell''

WEDNESDAY
8 p.m. -- ''Enterprise''
9 p.m. -- ''Special Unit 2''

THURSDAY
8 p.m. -- ''WWF Smackdown!''

FRIDAY
8 p.m. -- ''UPN Movie Friday''

"Roswell" will be paired in the fall on Tuesdays with "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," which UPN acquired by outbidding the WB for renewal rights last month. Next to "Buffy," the new installment of the "Star Trek" franchise, "Star Trek: Enterprise," will be the highlight of UPN's fall schedule presentation to advertisers in New York today.

As for UPN, the network will bid farewell to "Moesha," its first successful comedy series, after six seasons. "The Hughleys" will slide down to 8 p.m. on UPN's Monday comedy block after airing at 8:30 p.m. this season.

"One on One," a newcomer from Paramount about a sportscaster and his teenage daughter, will follow at 8:30 p.m. "Moesha" spinoff "The Parkers" and "Girlfriends" stay put from 9-10 p.m.

Tuesday finds "Buffy" settling into her old 8 p.m. time slot, followed by "Roswell."

The drama "Special Unit 2," a late-season entry that has turned in a respectable performance against the WB's hit "Dawson's Creek," returns to the 8 p.m. Wednesday berth. And the new "Star Trek" will pick up where "Star Trek: Voyager" leaves off at the close of the current season in the 9 p.m. slot.

The ready-to-rumble bombast of the World Wrestling Federation's "WWF Smackdown!" is back in a two-hour dose Thursday. Friday will become UPN's movie night next season now that "Buffy" has taken up residence on Tuesday.

CBS Final Draft

MONDAY
8 p.m. -- ''The King of Queens''
8:30 p.m. -- ''Yes, Dear''
9 p.m. -- ''Everybody Loves Raymond''
9:30 p.m. -- ''Becker''
10 p.m. -- ''Family Law''

TUESDAY
8 p.m. -- ''JAG''
9 p.m. -- ''The Guardian''
10 p.m. -- ''Judging Amy''

WEDNESDAY
8 p.m. -- ''60 Minutes II''
9 p.m. -- ''The Amazing Race''
10 p.m. -- ''Wolf Lake''

THURSDAY
8 p.m. -- ''Survivor''
9 p.m. -- ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation''
10 p.m. -- ''The Agency''

FRIDAY
8 p.m. -- ''The Ellen Show''
8:30 p.m. -- ''American Wreck''
9 p.m. -- ''That's Life''
10 p.m. -- ''48 Hours''

SATURDAY
8 p.m. -- ''Touched By an Angel''
9 p.m. -- ''Citizen Baines''
10 p.m. -- ''The District''

SUNDAY
7 p.m. -- ''60 Minutes''
8 p.m. -- ''The Education of Max Bickford''
9 p.m. -- ''CBS Sunday Movie''

CBS has been fighting with ABC for season supremacy this year. With the cancellation of ''Diagnosis Murder'' and ''Nash Bridges,'' the network is making another effort to draw a younger audience. ''The Fugitive'' and ''Kate Brasher'' are among the other CBS series canceled.

The New Shows:

''The Education of Max Bickford,'' the Dreyfuss vehicle, was given the plum Sunday at 8 p.m. time slot following ''60 Minutes.'' Dreyfuss plays a college professor who is passed over for a long-overdue promotion in favor of a character played by a fellow Academy Award winner, Marcia Gay Harden.

In one of the two new comedies CBS is introducing, "The Ellen Show," Ellen DeGeneres plays a lesbian Internet executive who moves back to her small hometown. Continuing a general network trend away from sitcoms, CBS will have no comedies on five nights a week.

With ''Touched By an Angel,'' ''The District'' and a new series from ''ER'' producer John Wells on Saturdays, CBS stands in contrast with ABC and NBC, which will both air movies that night. Saturday is generally the least-watched night on television.

CBS is introducing a second reality show, ''The Amazing Race,'' that Moonves described as '''Survivor' on speed.'' The third edition of ''Survivor'' returns to the schedule in October on Thursday nights.

Two of CBS' three newsmagazines will switch nights. ''60 Minutes II'' will be moved from Tuesday to Wednesday and ''48 Hours'' switches from Thursday to Friday.

--''The Guardian,'' a drama starring Simon Baker as a young lawyer who must perform community service or risk being disbarred after being arrested for using drugs.

--''Wolf Lake,'' a science fiction drama about a pack of wolves living in human form in a Seattle suburb.

--''The Agency,'' a drama about a secret CIA unit.

--''Citizen Baines,'' the Wells-produced drama about a three-term U.S. senator who must return to his Seattle home after an unexpected loss in his bid for re-election.

--''American Wreck,'' a comedy starring Daniel Stern as a single father of two who runs the local community center.

PAX Final Draft

Pax, the struggling seventh broadcast network, is gradually working toward a goal of all-original programming in prime time. Pax now runs a mix of its own shows and reruns of ''Diagnosis Murder'' and ''Touched By an Angel.''

The network is strengthening its partnership with NBC, agreeing to air a repeat of the game show ''Weakest Link,'' as well as the new NBC series, ''Crossing Jordan,'' in January.

One of Pax's most successful shows, ''Doc,'' starring Billy Ray Cyrus, will be aired twice a week in the fall. Besides ''The Ponderosa,'' Pax is introducing one other new series, ''Forbidden Secrets,'' a ''news you can use'' pop culture series with Lee Majors as host.

MONDAY
8 p.m. -- ''Forbidden Secrets''
9 p.m. -- ''Touched By an Angel''
10 p.m. -- ''Diagnosis Murder''

TUESDAY
8 p.m. -- ''Doc''
9 p.m. -- ''Mysterious Ways''
10 p.m. -- ''Diagnosis Murder''

WEDNESDAY
8 p.m. -- ''Candid Camera''
9 p.m. -- ''Touched By an Angel''
10 p.m. -- ''Diagnosis Murder''

THURSDAY
8 p.m. -- ''It's a Miracle''
9 p.m. -- ''Touched By an Angel''
10 p.m. -- ''Diagnosis Murder''

FRIDAY
8 p.m. -- ''Weakest Link''
9 p.m. -- ''Pax Big Event''

SATURDAY
8 p.m. -- ''Ponderosa''
9 p.m. -- ''Touched By an Angel''
10 p.m. -- ''Encounters With the Unexplained''

SUNDAY
7 p.m. -- ''Doc''
8 p.m. -- ''Ponderosa''
9 p.m. -- ''Mysterious Ways''

Pax said Wednesday at its upfront presentation in New York that it has greenlighted a prequel to NBC's long-running western drama "Bonanza."

"Ponderosa," created by "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman's" Beth Sullivan and executive produced by "Bonanza" creator David Dortort, will air in "Bonanza's" old time slot at 9 p.m. Sunday. The new series will revolve around Ben Cartwright's early years as a widower raising three young sons on a ranch in the Nevada wilds.

Other new series on Pax's fall lineup are "Forbidden Secrets," a news-you-can-use reality hour hosted by Lee Majors to air at 8 p.m. Monday, and "Ed McMahon's Next Big Star," which will begin its search for new talent in August, airing in the Sunday 6 p.m. slot.

"Left Behind," a sci-fi drama based on a popular series of sci-fi novels, will bow in January in the Tuesday 9 p.m. slot. Pax also will carry a rerun of the new NBC drama "Crossing Jordan" starring Jill Hennessy as a medical examiner in the Tuesday 10 p.m. slot starting in January.

Pax, which is partly owned by NBC, is set to begin carrying reruns next month of the peacock's new quiz show "Weakest Link" at 8 p.m. Friday, providing a lead-in boost to Pax's new original movie slot.

Pax TV president and CEO Jeff Sagansky said the movies will be aimed at baby boomers looking for family-friendly entertainment on Fridays. Pax has ordered more than a dozen movies for the "Big Event," including six original films based on Mary Higgins Clark mystery novels and three titles from producers Fred Silverman, Lewis Chessler and David Perlmutter.

Among the returning series on Pax's fall slate is the drama "Mysterious Ways," which will again have a summer run on NBC before the new season premieres on Pax, and the Billy Ray Cyrus starrer "Doc."

Pax has picked up its reality series "It's a Miracle" for a fourth season, along with "Encounters With the Unexplained." Pax also has ordered more than 200 new episodes of its early evening game shows "Supermarket Sweep" and "Shop 'Til You Drop."

WB Final Draft

MONDAY
8 p.m. -- ''7th Heaven''
9 p.m. -- ''Angel''

TUESDAY
8 p.m. -- ''Gilmore Girls''
9 p.m. -- ''Smallville''

WEDNESDAY
8 p.m. -- ''Dawson's Creek''
9 p.m. -- ''Felicity''

THURSDAY
8 p.m. -- ''Popstars 2''
8:30 p.m. -- ''Elimidate Deluxe''
9 p.m. -- ''Charmed''

FRIDAY
8 p.m. -- ''Sabrina, the Teenage Witch'' (renewed for two more years...
          but when the show ends in 2003, star Melissa Joan Hart will
          be 27...but still half the age when Shannon Doherty started
          90210 in 1990!)
8:30 p.m. -- ''Maybe I'm Adopted''
9 p.m. -- ''Deep in the Heart''
9:30 p.m. -- ''Raising Dad''

SUNDAY
7 p.m. -- ''Lost in the USA''
8 p.m. -- ''The Steve Harvey Show''
8:30 p.m. -- ''Men, Women & Dogs''
9 p.m. -- ''Nikki''
9:30 p.m. -- ''Off Centre''

Buffy is long gone, Angel is sticking around, Roswell is a Tabasco-soaked memory--and all the Frog really wants is a good laugh.

Along with the new show lineups come a Superman spinoff, two new reality shows, another round of Popstars and a full-season return of Felicity, not to mention some fresh faces (Tom Welling, Reagan Dale Neis) and some familiar faces (Reba McEntire, Fred Willard, Bob Saget).

And yes, despite Buffy the Vampire Slayer's high-profile jump to UPN, the network is holding onto its spinoff, Angel, for another season.

Gone, but not entirely forgotten, is Popular, Jack & Jill, Grosse Pointe, and the sci-fi series Roswell.

There's talk that UPN may be interested in picking up the cancelled Roswell, show, but there's no official word on whether that may happen.

A brief look at the WB's new series:

Lost in the USA: Bunim-Murray Productions (of MTV's Real World and Road Rules fame) brings us another RV adventure game, this time featuring four teams who compete every week in a 48-hour scavenger hunt that could take them anywhere in the U.S. Viewers can conspire with the teams via phone and the Internet, and each week, one team is eliminated and then replaced with a new local team.

Men, Women & Dogs: Speaking of MTV, former veejay Bill Bellamy stars in this single-camera romantic comedy (Sex and the Dog Park, anyone?) about four guys whose lives are consumed by girlfriends, careers and their dogs--with much of the action happening at one of "L.A.'s happening dog parks." Ruff.

Off Centre: American Pie directors Chris and Paul Weitz hit the small screen with this buddy comedy, about two former roommates at Oxford--one of 'em neurotic, one "decadent"--who move in together in New York and examine their different outlooks on the opposite sex.

Smallville: Superman as a kid. That's the premise behind this latest Man of Steel spinoff, starring Tom Welling (Judging Amy) as a 16-year-old Clark Kent. Aside from normal teenage issues like zits and prom night, the Boy of Steel must deal with his emerging superpowers while living in his Smallville, Kansas, home. The series costars Michael Rosenbaum as Lex Luthor and Kristen Kreuk as Lana Lang.

Elimidate Deluxe: A new reality-romance series that gives one guy or girl a chance to go on a dream date in an exotic locale with four potential suitors. They're then eliminated one by one until a match is made. Is it Chains of Love without the chains? Or just more mischievous tampering with single people's self-esteem? Either way, it sounds fun.

Maybe I'm Adopted: A sitcom starring Reagan Dale Neis as a 15-year-old who thinks she's surrounded by a family of freaks. But in this case, she is: Saturday Night Live alum Julia Sweeney and Best in Show sidesplitter Fred Willard costar as her parents. Deep in the Heart: Country star Reba McEntire jumps into series television with a Southern family comedy in which she plays a Texas mom entangled in a divorce with her husband, played by Christopher Rich (Murphy Brown).

Raising Dad: Former Full House star Bob Saget is back in familiar territory, playing a dad on Friday nights in this sitcom from Jonathan Katz (Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist). Newcomer Kat Dennings plays his daughter, who also happens to be a student in his high school class. Like Gilmore Girls before it, the series was created with support from the Family Friendly Forum's script development fund.

The WB also has a slate of midseason entries: Dawson's Creek creator Kevin Williamson will return to the WB with Glory Days, starring Eddie Cahill (Friends, Felicity) as a young author whose bestseller doesn't sit too well with the folks back home. Set to replace Lost in the USA midseason is No Boundaries, an Eco-Challenge-style adventure reality show, in which contestants take a 30-day trek across rugged North American terrain.

Kate Hudson's bro, Oliver Hudson, stars in A Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star, based on the British comedy series about an aspiring rock star who lays out his goals for world domination. But viewers should tune in if for no other reason than to see John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) playing Hudson's dad.

Also returning midseason will be For Your Love, starring Holly Robinson Peete. And finally, coming in the summer will be Dead Last, a comedy thriller about a rock band that stumbles upon some magical powers.

ABC Final Draft

As for ``Blue,'' the veteran cop drama has been airing on a January-May basis the past two seasons. But ABC execs are talking to ``Blue'' exec producer Steven Bochco about ramping up production on the show earlier than in recent seasons so that the series can return in time for November sweeps -- but not in its traditional 10 p.m. Tuesday slot.

Plans now call for ABC to launch Bochco's new legal drama ''Philly,'' starring ``Blue'' alumna Kim Delaney, at 10 p.m. Tuesdays. ``Blue'' would then air at 10 p.m. Wednesdays starting in early November. ``Once & Again'' would move to 10 p.m. Fridays as part of a new lineup featuring reality game show ``The Mole'' and the new drama ``Thieves.''

New comedies include a Jim Belushi-led family vehicle and the Jason Alexander starrer ``Bob Patterson.'' In addition to ``Thieves'' and ``Philly,'' ABC has the spy caper hour ``Alias.''

Meanwhile, Seinfeld vet Jason Alexander will make his return to TV as a motivational speaker, and John Stamos will appear in a Friday night thriller competing (as fate would have it) head-to-head against fellow Full House alum Bob Saget--who's starring in his own show for the WB on Fridays.

Disappearing from ABC's schedule are The Geena Davis Show, Gideon's Crossing, Two Guys and a Girl and Norm. The network instead decided to put its faith in three promising midseason comedy replacements, What About Joan, The Job and My Wife and Kids.

But the network has made the biggest waves over its decision to yank 20/20 from Fridays at 10 p.m. (its home since 1987) in favor of giving critical fave Once and Again another shot to build on its audience. The news mag will start the season on Wednesdays at 10 p.m., but will then get pulled when NYPD Blue debuts for November sweeps. Walters and company will then sit on the bench until returning to Fridays in December.

ABC is moving Dharma & Greg to a less competitive time slot, Tuesdays at 8 p.m. And Thursday will remain unchanged (save for that "Special Edition" tag plopped at the end of Millionaire's title), with Whose Line Is It Anyway? doing double duty at 8 p.m.

Meantime, here's a brief look at ABC's new shows:

Bob Patterson: Marking his post-Seinfeld return, Alexander stars in the title role as a motivational speaker who can't figure out how to take his own advice. And he's going to need all the self-confidence he can muster: Bob will face off against Frasier on Tuesdays.

Philly: Steven Bochco brings back NYPD Blue's Kim Delaney in this law drama about a tough defense attorney in Philadelphia's City Hall. Tom Everett Scott (The $treet, That Thing You Do!) costars.

The Dad: Jim Belushi stars as a soccer dad who loves his wife (Ally McBeal's Courtney Thorne-Smith) and kids, but can't seem to get his rear-end off the couch.

Thieves: Producer Arnold Kopelson (The Fugitive) presents this spy thriller starring John Stamos and Melissa George as high-class thieves. High-tech gadgets and sexual tension ensue.

Alias: Jennifer Garner (Pearl Harbor) stars as a college student who moonlights as a special agent for the CIA, in an espionage thriller from Felicity creator J.J. Abrams.

The Wayne Brady Show: ABC will give a pre-season run to a new improv variety show from Brady, the star of Whose Line Is It Anyway? Set to debut in August, Brady and an ensemble comedy troupe will tackle skits, musical numbers and audience participation.

As for ABC's midseason slate, the network will debut its much-hyped reality series The Runner on Mondays at 9 p.m. starting in January. The fugitive-style series, from Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, will feature a "runner" vying for a $1 million prize, who must accomplish eight missions without getting "tagged" by viewers.

MONDAY
8 p.m. -- ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire''
9 p.m. -- ''Monday Night Football''

TUESDAY
8 p.m. -- ''Dharma & Greg''
8:30 p.m. -- ''What About Joan''
9 p.m. -- ''Bob Patterson''
9:30 p.m. -- ''Spin City''
10 p.m. -- ''Philly''

WEDNESDAY
8 p.m. -- ''My Wife and Kids''
8:30 p.m. -- ''The Dad''
9 p.m. -- ''The Drew Carey Show''
9:30 p.m. -- ''The Job''
10 p.m. -- ''20/20'' until November, ''NYPD Blue''

THURSDAY
8 p.m. -- ''Whose Line is it Anyway?''
8:30 p.m. -- ''Whose Line is it Anyway?''
9 p.m. -- ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire''
10 p.m. -- ''PrimeTime Thursday''

FRIDAY
8 p.m. -- ''The Mole''
9 p.m. -- ''Thieves''
10 p.m. -- ''Once and Again'' until December, ''20/20''

SATURDAY
8 p.m. -- ''The ABC Big Picture Show''

SUNDAY
7 p.m. -- ''The Wonderful World of Disney''
9 p.m. -- ''Alias''
10 p.m. -- ''The Practice''

NBC's fall lineup includes three new comedies and three new dramas.

Longshot comedy ``Emeril'' lands the lead Tuesday slot. After ''Emeril,'' ``Three Sisters'' drops to 8:30 p.m., followed by ''Frasier'' and new comedy ``Scrubs.''

NBC adds a second ``Weakest Link'' Sundays at 8 p.m. and replaces its picture with new entries ``Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' and ``Undercover.''

This year's winner of the post-''Friends'' time period derby? Laffer ``Inside Schwartz,'' which garnered strong buzz during pilot season.

Here's a snapshot of NBC's new fall series:

- ``Crossing Jordan.'' Jill Hennessy stars in this drama as a female coroner;

- ``Emeril.'' Food Network stalwart Emeril Lagasse plays himself in this comedy from Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and Harry Thomason;

- ``Scrubs.'' A comedy following a group of young doctors;

- ``Inside Schwartz.'' A comedy starring Breckin Meyer as a sports fan who's unlucky in love;

- ``Law & Order: Criminal Intent.'' Vincent D'Onofrio stars in the latest ``Law & Order'' chapter;

- ``Undercover.'' A drama about an elite unit of the Justice Dept.

MONDAY
8 p.m. -- ''Weakest Link''
9 p.m. -- ''Third Watch''
10 p.m. -- ''Crossing Jordan''

TUESDAY
8 p.m. -- ''Emeril''
8:30 p.m. -- ''Three Sisters''
9 p.m. -- ''Frasier''
9:30 p.m. -- ''Scrubs''
10 p.m. -- ''Dateline NBC''

WEDNESDAY
8 p.m. -- ''Ed''
9 p.m. -- ''The West Wing''
10 p.m. -- ''Law and Order''

THURSDAY
8 p.m. -- ''Friends''
8:30 p.m. -- ''Inside Schwartz''
9 p.m. -- ''Will & Grace''
9:30 p.m. -- ''Just Shoot Me''
10 p.m. -- ''ER''

FRIDAY
8 p.m. -- ''Providence''
9 p.m. -- ''Dateline NBC''
10 p.m. -- ''Law and Order: Special Victims Unit''

SATURDAY
8 p.m. -- ''NBC Saturday Night Movie''

SUNDAY
7 p.m. -- ''Dateline NBC''
8 p.m. -- ''Weakest Link''
9 p.m. -- ''Law and Order: Criminal Intent''
10 p.m. -- ''UC: Undercover''

Not too surprisingly, NBC has put The Weber Show, DAG and The Fighting Fitzgeralds out of their misery. In their place comes a sitcom starring Food Network chef Emeril Lagasse (of "Bam!" fame), crime dramas galore on Sundays and Mondays, and Weakest Link's Anne Robinson pulling a Regis by expanding from one to two nights.

With the XFL now a painful memory, the network will move its movie night to the Saturday slot previously occupied by the failed football league.

Thursday nights, meanwhile, will remain untouched--save for The Weber Show, which will be replaced by Inside Schwartz, a new sitcom starring Breckin Meyer (Go, Road Trip). The network no doubt hopes Schwartz will do a better job fending off CBS' Survivor when the reality spectacle returns to the schedule in October.

A brief look at NBC's new series:

Emeril: The superstar chef teams up with Designing Women executive producers Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and Harry Thomason for a sitcom taking a backstage look at Lagasse's cooking show and his life.

Law & Order: Criminal Intent: Executive producer Dick Wolf's latest L&O spinoff examines the criminal's perspective, with Vincent D'Onofrio starring as homicide investigator Robert Goren. Kathryn Erbe (of HBO's Oz) plays his partner. Crossing Jordan: Did we mention there's no escaping Law & Order? Former L&O costar Jill Hennessy returns to series television in this one-hour drama, playing a "sexy and brilliant yet irascible" Boston medical examiner who takes her old job with the Massachusetts State Coroner's Office and reunites with her ex-cop dad (Ken Howard).

UC: Undercover: Jon Seda (of Homicide fame) stars as a member of an elite Justice Department crimefighting unit that goes under cover to fight the bad guys. Boston Public's Courtney B. Vance costars as a legal eagle District Attorney.

Scrubs: Think funny ER, as Spin City executive producer Bill Lawrence presents a comedy revolving around young medical interns, starring Zach Braff, Donald Faison (Felicity, Remember the Titans) and Sarah Chalke (Roseanne).

Inside Schwartz: Taking the coveted (and downright scary) post-Friends position is this new comedy from Stephen Engel (Just Shoot Me), starring Breckin Meyer as an obsessed minor-league baseball announcer whose thoughts are taken up by conversations with sports figures and personal life play-by-play.

NBC also has a batch of midseason shows in the pipeline, including What Are You Thinking?, a sitcom from Mad About You executive producer/writer Seth Kurland and director Barnet Kellman starring Hank Azaria as a comedy writer with marital woes who uses a fantasy world (this time, not involving sports) to deal with his issues. Katey Sagal (Married...With Children), Jayne Brook (The District) and Joshua Molina (Sports Night) costar.

Leap of Faith, another comedy, comes from Sex and the City executive producer Jenny Bicks, and stars Gretchen Egolf (The Talented Mr. Ripley) as a woman who faces a pre-marriage crisis and takes off to continue searching for a man. The show also stars Lisa Edelstein (The West Wing), Regina King (Jerry Maguire) and Brian A. Green (yup, the A. is for Austin, from 90210).

Meanwhile, Julia Louis-Dreyfus' much-anticipated post-Seinfeld return to TV is set for a midseason bow. The untitled Carsey-Werner-Mandabach project stars Dreyfus as a lounge singer who lives above L.A.'s Sunset Strip, with the action taking place in real time over 22 minutes.

Fox Final Draft

Reflecting the renewed strength of its younger-skewing schedule, Fox is expected to add only two new dramas and three sitcoms to its fall 2001 schedule, according to Fox insiders and Hollywood talent agency sources.

On Thursday night, the network is going to bring back 22 fresh animated episodes of "The Family Guy" to kick off the evening, followed by previously anticipated sitcom entry "The Tick" (starring "Seinfeld's" Patrick Warburton) and a to-be-announced reality series in the closing hour.

MONDAY
8 p.m. -- ''Boston Public''
9 p.m. -- ''Ally McBeal''

TUESDAY
8 p.m. -- ''That '70s Show''
8:30 p.m. -- ''Undeclared''
9 p.m. -- ''24''

WEDNESDAY

8 p.m. -- ''Fox Family Comedy Wheel,'' featuring reruns of ''The Simpsons,''
''Malcolm in the Middle'' and ''That '70s Show.''
8:30 p.m. -- ''Grounded For Life''
9 p.m. -- ''Titus''
9:30 p.m. -- ''The Bernie Mac Show''

THURSDAY
8 p.m. -- ''Family Guy''
8:30 p.m. -- ''The Tick''
9 p.m. -- ''Temptation Island 2''

FRIDAY
8 p.m. -- ''Dark Angel''
9 p.m. -- ''Pasadena''

SATURDAY
8 p.m. -- ''Cops''
8:30 p.m. -- ''Cops''
9 p.m. -- ''America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back''

SUNDAY
7 p.m. -- ''Futurama''
7:30 p.m. -- ''King of the Hill''
8 p.m. -- ''The Simpsons''
8:30 p.m. -- ''Malcolm in the Middle''
9 p.m. -- ''The X-Files''

But it will be a Mulder-less season. Sources said "X-Files" star David Duchovny, who re-upped with the show after much behind-the-scenes drama on the eve of Fox's upfront presentation last year, will not be returning.

Fox's Sunday schedule will remain intact next season, with comedies "Futurama," "King of the Hill, " "The Simpsons" and "Malcolm in the Middle" leading into "X-Files" at 9 p.m.

Monday remains David E. Kelley drama night with "Boston Public" and "Ally McBeal," though the new 20th Century Fox TV drama "Emma Brody" will have a midseason run in the 9 p.m. slot when "Ally" would normally go into reruns.

Tuesday will lead off again with "That '70s Show," followed by the new DreamWorks sitcom "Undeclared," a college kids ensemble, and the new 20th Century Fox/Imagine Television drama "24," which has generated the strongest buzz of any drama pilot this spring.

Wednesday features a stack of sitcoms, starting off with a rotating slate of reruns of established hits: "That '70s Show," "Malcolm in the Middle," etc., followed by the second season of "Grounded for Life" at 8:30 p.m. "Titus" returns for its third season at 9 p.m., paired with 20th Century Fox/Regency TV newcomer "The Bernie Mac Show."

On Thursday, Fox is sending the animated comedy "Family Guy" and "The Tick," a holdover from last season, into the 8-9 p.m. fray against NBC's "Friends" and CBS' "Survivor." Reality series and specials will take over for Fox at 9 p.m.

Friday will open with the second season of the sci-fi drama "Dark Angel," which relocates from Tuesday, followed by the new drama "Pasadena," described as a nighttime soap with bite about the trials of a wealthy family in the media business.

Those bad boys of Saturday night, "Cops" and "America's Most Wanted," are staying on the case for Fox next season.