Top 10: Fall TV Preview. (Girl's Life).You'll keep those peepers glued to the tube with this fall's new-show lineup. From sci-fi stuff to lots of laughs to reality shows with a twist, it's couch potato heaven. AMERICAN DREAMS This squeaky clean family drama takes you back in time--to the '60s and early '70s. Relive the days of hairspray and bad fashion as you follow 15-year-old Meg Pryer pry·er n. Variant of prier. and her BFF Roxanne, who obsess over watching and landing coveted spots on TV's American Bandstand (think TRL TRL In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Turkish Lira. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. with dancing). DO OVER Our prediction for TV's next hottie? Penn Badgley, who stars as Joel, 14, in this comedy series. A 34-year-old Joel gets into a freak accident that blasts him back to 1981. He's a grown guy trapped in his own teen bod! Hmmm, can he alter his future? DEGRASSI: THE NEXT GENERATION If you have digital cable or satellite, check out The N network for tweens. Degrassi is a drama about a class of junior high students who face everyday teen-scene issues-the presures of drugs, bullying, dating and fitting in. EIGHT SIMPLE RULES A totally clueless, overprotective o·ver·pro·tect tr.v. o·ver·pro·tect·ed, o·ver·pro·tect·ing, o·ver·pro·tects To protect too much; coddle: overprotected their children. dad is left to care for his son and two teen girls--a ditzy dit·zy adj. Variant of ditsy. ditzy or ditsy Adjective [ditzier, ditziest] or ditsier, ditsiest Slang blonde and grunge girl (Daria ripoff?) when Mom goes to work full-time. It's a fun family comedy based on the book Eight Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter. WHAT I LIKE ABOUT YOU Amanda Bynes shines as Holly, 16, who moves in with big sis Valerie (Jennie Garth) after their dad moves away for business. Holly gets herself in crazy sitches, while her uptight sis keeps her grounded. SEPTUPLETS You can't stand sharing a room with your sis, and your bratty bro stinks up the bathroom? Try having six sibs, all your age. Follow the fictional Wilde Seven at their upscale, family-run beach resort. TLC'S OPERATION JUNKYARD Goodbye, tNBC. NBC's new Saturday morning lineup is now a three-hour block of new Discovery Kids programs, combining science, nature and this reality game show. Have you seen Junkyard Wars? Same concept. Take two teams of four kids, and give them six hours to transform whatever they can scrounge scrounge v. scrounged, scroung·ing, scroung·es Slang v.tr. 1. To obtain (something) by begging or borrowing with no intention of reparation: up from a dirty junkyard into a masterpiece, like a totally raw scooter or dog-washing gadget. If the device operates, the team advances to the next trash-picking round. Gnarly (jargon) gnarly - /nar'lee/ Both obscure and hairy. "Yow! - the tuned assembler implementation of BitBlt is really gnarly!" From a similar but less specific usage in surfer slang. ! THAT'S SO RAVEN That's So Raven is an American Emmy Award-nominated[1] sitcom television series broadcast on the Disney Channel. The plot revolves around teenager Raven Baxter and her schemes to get herself, her friends, Eddie and Chelsea, and family members such as her brother Meet Raven Baxter, a normal 14-year-old girl. Well, OK, she has psychic abilities. The downside to the gift of foresight? When Raven sees bad things coming her way, she and her two friends have to try to stop her predictions from coming true, which usually gets them into heaps of trouble. BIRDS OF PREY It's a cool spin on Batman, but it's all about the girls It's All About the Girls is the debut EP by New Found Glory, released on December 20, 1997 by Fiddler Records. It is the only release with their original drummer "Taco Joe" Moreno. A re-release, featuring revised cover artwork, was issued by Fiddler on January 24, 2003. . Oracle (AKA Batgirl bat·girl n. A girl who is employed by a baseball team to look after its equipment, especially the bats. , who's confined to a wheelchair after falling prey to the evil Joker), Huntress (daughter of Batman and Cat-woman) and new girl Dinah battle evil in New Gotham with techno gadgets and sci-fi sleuthing. ENDURANCE Finally, Survivor for kids. Twenty kids are grouped in teams to test their smarts and skills against outlandish challenges. One team is eliminated each week until the champion is crowned! |
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