FALL ENTREES TO WHET VIEWING APPETITE.Byline: Nancy Hewitt Daily News Staff Writer Although Fox, WB, UPN UPN User Principal Name (Microsoft Windows 2000) UPN United Paramount Network UPN Unión del Pueblo Navarro (Navarrese People Union) UPN Umgekehrte Polnische Notation and cable channels such as HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy already have introduced many of their fall offerings, the big three - ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. , CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. and NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. - begin their official fall season this week. Hoping to increase viewer audiences, actors who were staples of the 1980s, including Bill Cosby, Michael J. Fox and Rhea Perlman, are back on the tube starring in their own series. Here's a rundown on the first crop of new shows: Cosby: This sitcom based on the British show ``One Foot in the Grave'' finds Bill Cosby playing a 60-year-old airline employee who loses his job and doesn't know what to do with his free time. Phylicia Rashad plays his wife, and Madeline Kahn plays her best friend. Premieres 8 p.m. Sept. 16, CBS; regular time slot 8 p.m. Mondays Pearl: Rhea Perlman plays a loading-dock manager who decides to return to college and enrolls in a humanities class that pits her against a cocky but revered professor (Malcolm McDowell). Premieres 8:30 p.m. Sept. 16, CBS; regular time slot 8:30 p.m. Wednesdays Promised Land: In this spinoff from ``Touched by an Angel,'' Gerald McRaney loses his job and decides to take his wife (Wendy Phillips), three kids and mother (Celeste Celeste is a woman's first name. Celeste may also refer to: in Music
Premieres 8 p.m. Sept. 17, CBS; regular time slot 8 p.m. Tuesdays Life's Work: Comic Lisa Ann Walter tries her hand at balancing a law career and her marriage. Michael O'Keefe co-stars. Premieres 8:30 p.m. Sept. 17, ABC; regular time slot 8:30 p.m. Tuesdays Something So Right: Mel Harris and Jere Burns play a newlywed couple with the unenviable task of bringing two families together. Premieres 8:30 p.m. Sept. 17, NBC; regular time slot 8:30 p.m. Tuesdays Spin City: Michael J. Fox returns to TV as a fast-talking, faster-thinking deputy mayor who is charged with making his boss look like he matriculated beyond the sixth grade. Barry Bostwick and Carla Gugino co-star. Premieres 9:30 p.m. Sept. 17, ABC; regular time slot 9:30 p.m. Tuesdays Men Behaving Badly Men Behaving Badly is a British comedy, which first broadcast in 1992 on the ITV network, however moved to BBC One (and a later timeslot) from the third series onwards. It was written and created by Simon Nye. : This second new series based on a British show is about two politically incorrect bachelors who are totally clueless clue·less adj. Lacking understanding or knowledge. clueless Adjective Slang helpless or stupid Adj. 1. about women. Ron Eldard and Rob Schneider co-star. Premieres slot 9:30 p.m. Wednesdays Townies This article is about the TV show. For the slang term, see townie. Townies was a short-lived situation comedy broadcast in 1996 by ABC. It was set in Gloucester, Massachusetts and starred Molly Ringwald, Jenna Elfman, Bill Burr, Conchata Ferrell, Lauren Graham, and Ron : Molly Ringwald and her childhood friends live the single life in New England. Premieres 8:30 p.m. Sept. 18, ABC; regular time slot 8:30 p.m. Wednesdays Moloney: Peter Strauss stars in this drama that revolves around the conflicting issues facing a Los Angeles police psychiatrist who's also a cop. Cherie Lunghi and Ashley Johnson co-star. Premieres 9 p.m. Sept. 19, CBS; regular time slot 9 p.m. Thursdays The Pretender: Michael T. Weiss Michael Terry Weiss (born February 2 1962 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor. Biography Early life Weiss' father was a steel-industry executive and his mother was a homemaker. stars as a man raised by a secret corporation that used his exceptional intelligence to run simulations to solve problems. Shocked to learn that his scenarios caused deaths in the real world, he escapes and decides to use his ability to master any profession to dispense justice. Andrea Parker and Patrick Bauchau co-star. Previews 10 p.m. Sept. 19, NBC; regular time slot 9 p.m. Saturdays beginning Sept. 28 Sabrina, the Teenage Witch: Melissa Joan Hart Melissa Joan Hart (born April 18 1976) is an American actress who is best known for playing the title roles in two successful television series, Clarissa Explains It All and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. takes on the comic-book role of the 16-year-old witch who discovers she has special powers after she moves in with two spinster SPINSTER. An addition given, in legal writings, to a woman who never was married. Lovel. on Wills, 269. aunts (Beth Broderick and Caroline Rhea). Premieres 8:30 p.m. Sept. 20, ABC; regular time slot 8:30 p.m. Fridays Clueless: The hit movie of the same name is the basis of this sitcom about a smart, savvy, rich and beautiful Beverly Hills teen. Rachel Blanchard, Stacey Dash and Elisa Donovan co-star. Premieres 9 p.m. Sept. 20, ABC; regular time slot 9 p.m. Fridays Mr. and Mrs. Smith: Scott Bakula plays a covert action specialist for a company providing detection and protection services who crosses paths with a mysterious assassin/spy (Maria Bello). Roy Dotrice co-stars as their boss. Premieres 9 p.m. Sept. 20, CBS; regular time slot 9 p.m. Fridays FX: The Series: The series is based on the popular films about a master of special effects who helps a New York police New York Police may refer to:
Premieres 9 p.m. Sept. 20, UPN; regular time slot 9 p.m. Fridays Suddenly Susan: Brooke Shields plays a San Francisco magazine columnist who is looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. the right guy but isn't having much fun in her search. Premieres 9:30 p.m. Sept. 20, NBC; regular time slot 9:30 p.m. Fridays Adventures of Sinbad: This fantasy show stars Zen Gesner as the mythical hero who sails the seven seas in search of adventure. Jacqueline Collen and George Buza co-star. Premieres 3 p.m. Sept. 21, KTLA KTLA KCBS TV in Los Angeles ; regular time slot 3 p.m. Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays Big Deal: This game show is based on the classic ``Let's Make a Deal Let's Make a Deal is a television game show which originated in the United States and has since been produced in many countries throughout the world. The show was based around deals offered to members of the audience by the host. ,'' but done on a grand scale in an arena setting. Scheduled for a six-week run during the early part of the football season, it's designed so each episode can be shortened if a football game runs overtime. Mark DeCarlo is the host. Premieres 7 p.m. Sept. 21, Fox; regular time slot 7 p.m. Sundays Dark Skies: Eric Close and Megan Ward play young lovers who turn up in Washington, D.C., in 1961, and land auspicious jobs. She's an aide to first lady Jackie Kennedy, he's an aide to a congressman. Their jobs take them into startling star·tle v. star·tled, star·tling, star·tles v.tr. 1. To cause to make a quick involuntary movement or start. 2. To alarm, frighten, or surprise suddenly. See Synonyms at frighten. contact with a conspiracy involving extraterrestrial influence on human affairs. Premieres 8 p.m. Sept. 21, NBC; regular time slot 8 p.m. Saturdays Common Law: Comic Greg Giraldo plays a Harvard-trained attorney working in Manhattan, trying to juggle his white-collar job and his uptown girlfriend with his blue-collar circle of friends and family. Megyn Price and Gregory Sierra co-star. Premieres 9:30 p.m. Sept. 21, ABC; regular time slot 9:30 p.m. Saturdays Love and Marriage: Patricia Healy and Anthony Denison play the Nardinis, a blue-collar couple trying to interface with new neighbors who might have stepped out of a Martha Stewart book. Premieres 9:30 p.m. Sept. 21, Fox; regular time slot 9:30 p.m. Saturdays Profiler: Ally Walker plays a former FBI specialist who leaves the force after getting too close to a stalker, then is recalled into service to help develop a profile on a serial killer. Robert Davi co-stars. Premieres 10 p.m. Sept. 21, NBC; regular time slot 10 p.m. Saturdays CAPTION(S): 5 Photos Photo: (1--Cover--Color) Fall season's MIXED-UP menu (Mi chael J. Fox and Carla Gugino) (2) Rhea Perlman and Malcolm McDowell butt heads in ``Pearl.'' (3) Lisa Ann Walter mixes law and marriage in ``Life's Work.'' (4) Peter Strauss looks at issues facing cops and psychiatrists in ``Moloney.'' (5) Michael T. Weiss masters professions as ``The Pretender.'' |
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