Here are the new comedies. I'll let you know which are any good. I got most of this info from tvguide.com.
First show we got is ALIENS IN AMERICA. This is about socially awkward High School Student (Dan Byrd) befriends Pakistani Muslim exchange student.
Next is BACK TO YOU on FOX, which will cancel it after 1 episode if it doesn't perform as usual. This stars Kelsey Grammer from FRASIER, Patricia Heaton from EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND, and Fred Willard from BEST IN SHOW. as anchormen and sportscaster for a TV news show.
THE BIG BANG THEORY is about geeky scientists who try to change their nerdy ways when a cute blonde waitress moves into the apartment across the hall.
CARPOOLERS - Four guys — a newlywed, a nebbishy guy, a lothario dentist and a selfless family man — take turns driving each other to work. “I’m really trying to do a take on modern man,” explains creator Bruce McCulloch, rather than doing a sitcom centered on traffic or gas prices. “Women will get to watch how men think and the silly things they do to try to process their lives with women.” Sure they will.
CAVEMEN - Inspired by the popular Geico Insurance commercials, three contemporary cavemen struggle to make it in the modern world. Because of their lowbrow look, the clever Cro-Magnons have to cope with being stereotyped as primitives by the Homo sapiens around them. This show's pilot was completely re-shot, which has the smell of disaster written all over it.
CHUCK is brilliant and fun. Chuck Bartowski is a computer-tech expert who unwittingly becomes a secret agent when sensitive government intel is downloaded to his brain. He becomes a target for ninja assassins and terrorists and must be placed under the watchful eye of NSA agent John Casey (Firefly's Adam Baldwin) and his knife-slinging CIA cohort Sarah Walker (Aussie Yvonne Strahovski). I hope this makes it. It's really good.
Remember BRIMSTONE? Well, here's a strikingly similar show called REAPER. A guy names Sam discovers that his parents sold his soul to Satan. Now he must capture Hell’s escapees and sending them back home. And this is supposed to be a comedy? Okay... At least I'll have BRIMSTONE to fall back on if this tanks.
And last but not least is SAMANTHA WHO? No, this isn't the Doctor's long lost Granddaughter. That was Susan. This is about a girl who wakes up from a coma with no memory. She ten discovers she was an awful human being. Wasn't this a Harrison Ford film? Stars Christina Applegate. It reminds me of a female MY NAME IS EARL as she has to right wrongs that she does not remember. "She was a cheater, an alcoholic, and said whatever was on her mind," says Applegate. Nor does she remember her wacky family, shallow best friend or sweet boyfriend (Barry Watson). Yeah. It's MY NAME IS EARL, all right.
I remember we're doing our own version of "The IT crowd", but I think that might be a midseason replacement.
-Erik
