Canceled Shows

Accidentally on Purpose

A successful film critic gets pregnant after a one-night stand and decides to keep the baby and allow her fling to move in.

Adoption Diaries

A heartwarming and emotional journey that follows the open adoption process from birth mothers selecting the adoptive parents to the roller-coaster highs and lows of the process and final decisions.

The Beautiful Life: TBL

**UPDATE SEPTEMBER 26 — “TBL” has become the first new series to be canceled, after only two episodes. The CW will begin airing reruns of “Melrose Place” in its time slot starting September 30.

Better With You

This comedy is about a family whose members are in three different stages of their relationships — one couple dating for nine years, one couple dating for seven weeks and about to have a baby, and the parents who’ve been married for 35 years.

Bridalplasty

This dubious-sounding series brings together engaged women who are seeking complete image transformations before their big day – they want the dream wedding and the dream body to go along with it.

Brothers

A former pro football player returns to his family after losing money only to come home to a bevy of problems.

Brothers & Sisters

Where We Left Off: Robert (Rob Lowe) was killed in the multi-vehicle highway accident. Saul was diagnosed as HIV positive. [...]

Caprica

Originally slated to return in January, the second half of Caprica’s first season will now begin in October. In these episodes, revolutionary tensions rise, family power shifts and the characters grapple with the physical and emotional consequences of their questionable decisions. As the season races towards its conclusion, each episode lays the groundwork for the inevitable (and brutal) clash between the new Cylon race and its human creators.

Charlie’s Angels

What’s It All About? About as creative as this turgid update of the fun, sexy 1970s series gets is transforming [...]

Chase

With an executive-producing roster led by entertainment wunderkind Jerry Bruckheimer and stocked with other veterans of the CSI franchise, The Mentalist, Without a Trace and Lost, it’s little surprise that Chase’s weekly fugitive hunts are as gripping and well-crafted as a good action movie.

Cold Case

New Faces: Bobby Cannavale, returning as Detective Eddie Saccardo Where We Left Off: After locating her long-estranged father, Philadelphia police [...]

Crash

New Faces: Eric Roberts as a billionaire entrepreneur; Julie Warner as his ambitious right-hand woman; Dana Ashbrook as a gambler; [...]

Dallas Divas & Daughters

Cameras follow the daily lives of the socialites and debutantes living in some of Dallas’ wealthiest neighborhoods, with a focus on the mother/daughter relationship.

The Dating Guy

Season 2 of the animated comedy continues to expose the romantic, working and everyday struggles of four friends and their attempts at finding love — or lust.

Day One

Executive producer/writer Jesse Alexander (Heroes, Lost, Alias) is behind this series that tells the story of life on Earth following a global catastrophe that has devastated the world’s infrastructures. Beginning with the immediate aftermath of the cataclysmic event, an eclectic band of survivors strives to rebuild society.

The Defenders

Jim Belushi and Jerry O’Connell play Las Vegas defense attorneys in one of the fall’s best new dramas.

Detroit 1-8-7

A case-hardened detective and his green partner try to clean up the murder-strewn streets of Detroit and stay sane while doing it.

DietTribe

What to Expect: Lifetime clearly figures it has nothing to lose by sticking with a winning formula, so fitness trainer-hottie [...]

Dollhouse

Where We Left Off: After her confrontation with the rogue “doll” Alpha (Alan Tudyk), Echo (Eliza Dushku) was returned to [...]

The Duchess

The lives of the Duke and Duchess of Rutland, and their five young children, are the focus of this reality series as they manage the day-to-day running of their home, historic Belvoir.

Eastwick

At presstime, a polished-up pilot was still a work in progress, offering hope that some early, icky moments — gratuitous [...]

The Event

NBC’s The Event is not so much a whodunit as a whatisit, as a stellar ensemble cast comes together to tell the story of an embattled U.S. president, a group of clandestine prisoners, and a confused everyman who gets caught up in a deadly conspiracy.

FlashForward

This mind-bending drama shows what happens when everyone in the world blacks out for 2 minutes and 17 seconds, and gets a glimpse into their future.

The Forgotten

A group of amateur sleuths, known as The Forgotten Network, work to identify unknown murder victims in this Jerry Bruckheimer-produced drama.

Free Agents (NBC)

Alex (Hank Azaria) and Helen (Kathryn Hahn) work together at a big-time corporate PR firm. After a night of drinking ends up with them in bed together, they have to decide where their relationship goes next.

Gary Unmarried

New Faces: Keegan-Michael Key and Brooke D’Orsay Where We Left Off: They’re divorced, but that didn’t stop Gary and Allison [...]

Ghost Whisperer

New Faces: New character, Aiden Clancy, not yet cast at press time. Where We Left Off: A pregnant Melinda (Jennifer [...]

Glory Daze

“Glory Daze” follows a group of freshmen at a Midwestern university in 1986. Together they navigate life on campus, join a fraternity and learn a lot more than tuition can buy.

The Good Guys

The series is an action-packed and comedic look at what happens when a washed-up, old-school cop (Bradley Whitford, “The West Wing”) and a by-the-book, modern-day detective (Colin Hanks, “Mad Men”) try to expose the big picture of small crime.

Greek

New Faces: Kadeem Hardison as Brian, Ashleigh’s dad, and Tom Amandes as Jack, Jordan’s dad. Where We Left Off: Casey [...]

H8R

Lots of celebs get the chance to meet their biggest fans — but what about their biggest detractors (we mean, outside of securing a restraining order)? In this Mario Lopez-produced series, famous folks ambush their most vocal hater — that’s H8R to the texter generation — and try to change the anti-fan’s mind.

Hank

A high-up industry worker loses his job after a downsizing, and is forced to become the father and husband he never was.

Hellcats

“Glee” made it cool for us grown-ups to love school again, and this guilty-pleasure hour about a scrappy college cheer squad winningly morphs the cheerleaders from the villains to the champs.

Heroes

New Faces: New guest stars include Robert Knepper (Prison Break), Dawn Olivieri, Ray Park (a.k.a. Darth Maul of Star Wars), [...]

Human Target

Human Target is an unapologetic thrill ride based on the DC Comic. Mark Valley stars as Christopher Chance, a bodyguard who goes undercover to protect his exclusive clientele.

The Jay Leno Show

Jay Leno returns with an hour-long talk show featuring former Tonight Show features and segments at an earlier time slot.

Jockeys

New Faces: Garrett Gomez and Corey Nakatani What to Expect: The second season hurtles from the gate with the jockeys’ [...]

Kate Plus Eight

“Jon and Kate Plus Eight” gets a new title and new focus as it now delves deeper into Kate Gosselin’s life as a single mom raising eight kids. Jon Gosselin will continue to make less-regular appearances.

King of the Hill

After 13 seasons, Hank, Peggy, Bobby and their Texan neighbors say goodbye in a one-hour series finale on September 13.

L.A. Ink

Returning for a fourth season, Kat Von D’s life is going full throttle — she’s writing her second book and expanding her shop with a new event space next door – all while still raising eyebrows on red carpets all over the world.

Law & Order: Los Angeles

The “Law & Order” franchise moves to Los Angeles as Skeet Ulrich and Corey Stoll play the detectives, and Alfred Molina and Terrence Howard play the prosecutors.

Law & Order

Where We Left Off: “The polls open in seven hours,” Assistant District Attorney Connie Rubirosa (Alana De La Garza) said [...]

Lie to Me

The third season of “Lie to Me” sees the relationships and dynamics of The Lightman Group tested as a wedge is driven between Lightman and Foster (Williams), creating devastating consequences. Now that the Group has split from the FBI, Lightman is free to operate on the margins of the law. Meanwhile, with Lightman under pressure from his publisher to finish his book, a group of university students have been enlisted to help him focus on this project he’d rather ignore than complete.

Life UneXpected

With Baze showing up too late to stop Cate from marrying Ryan, where does the series go from here? Might we see a love triangle? This is the CW, after all.

Lone Star

A con man who has married his way into an oil dynasty complicates his life when he takes a second wife. How long can he keep up the scam?

Lopez Tonight

Comedian George Lopez moves his variety show to a new time zone for Season 2.

Lost

Lost is back for one more mind-bending season, with many favorite characters returning to finish the ride.

Medium

The season 7 premiere finds Bridgette and Allison swapping personalities after they have the same dream about a missing homeless man.

Melrose Place

What’s It All About? Did you have to watch the original Melrose to get the hang of the new one? [...]

Men of a Certain Age

Ray Romano stars as a divorced father who gave up his dreams and faces an uncertain future with his two longtime buddies.

Mercy

Veronica is a nurse with more than her share of issues since she got back from Iraq. Why do life and love have to be this complicated?

Mixed Signals

Three longtime buddies who are at different stages in their relationships with women help each other get out of jams with their significant others — usually by some kind of elaborate scheme or cover up — so they can maintain some independence.

Monk

New Faces: guest star Elizabeth Perkins Where We Left Off: In the last original episode aired, Monk (Tony Shalhoub) intervened [...]

My Generation

A film crew that documented nine high schoolers shows up a decade later to see how they’ve changed. What difference can 10 years make?

The New Adventures of Old Christine

New Faces: Eric McCormack (Will & Grace) has a recurring role as a therapist who shares office space with Matthew, [...]

Nip/Tuck

Where We Left Off: Christian (Julian McMahon), thinking he was dying, married Liz (Roma Maffia), who used to think she [...]

No Ordinary Family

In this “Incredibles”-come-to-life dramedy, papa Jim Powell is a beleaguered police sketch artist who feels ignored by his wife Stephanie, a prominent research scientist whose home-life/work-life balance could use some fine-tuning, and their two preoccupied teens. When an ill-conceived family vacation goes way off course, each Powell discovers they’ve arrived back home with an unusual souvenir — a superpower.

NUMB3RS

Where We Left Off: Mathematican Charlie (David Krumholtz) and his FBI agent brother, Don (Rob Morrow), rescued Charlie’s girlfriend, Amita (Navi Rawat) – who [...]

Outlaw

Jimmy Smits stars as Cyrus Garza, a right-wing Supreme Court justice who has an epiphany of sorts and steps down from the bench to right the wrongs of a corrupt legal profession that places personal gain over innocence and guilt.

Outsourced

American novelty company go-getter Todd has to teach his new employees after he’s reassigned to run a call center in India.

Past Life

The NYPD works with “past life” specialist Dr. Kate McGinn to uncover evidence buried in the psyche of reincarnated crime victims.

The Paul Reiser Show

It’s about what you do after you’ve gotten everything you’ve always wanted in life, then have to figure out what to do next. In this sitcom based on his real life, Reiser — who you might remember as that guy from that show — deals with just that scenario.

Perfect Couples

These three couples who are anything but perfect. There’s the carwreck couple who always seem to be throwing things or throwing themselves at one another; the know-it-alls who want to fix every relationship but their own; and the “average” couple, who are stuck in between.

The Playboy Club

1960s Chicago is the setting for this melodrama that follows the lives of people involved in the infamous Playboy Club, including an assorted group of businessmen, gangsters, and, of course, the Bunnies.

Rita Rocks

What to Expect: As season two opens, working mom Rita Clemens (Nicole Sullivan) can’t help feeling a little misty-eyed at [...]

Robin Hood

Since the death of Marian, Robin has not been the same crusader he was, though he was still trying to outwit the dastardly Sheriff’s forces. Robin’s been in a downward spiral fueled by anger and grief, and can think of nothing but revenge.

Running Wilde

Steven Wilde (Will Arnett), the son of an oil tycoon and has lived a life of excess and privilege, and Emmy Kadubic (Keri Russell), a tree-hugging do-gooder living among an isolated South American tribe, shared teenage crushes long ago. Now, Emmy decides to transform Steven from a man who is a good for nothing to a man who does good for nothing.

Sarah Palin’s Alaska

The series is a tour de force of our country’s 49th state by Alaska’s biggest fan — Sarah Palin.

School Pride

From “Curb Your Enthusiasm’s” Cheryl Hines and the makers of ABC’s feel-good hit “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” comes this series that follows efforts to revitalize run-down schools.

Sherri

A recent divorcee gets back on the dating scene while juggling being a single mother and paralegal.

$#*! My Dad Says

This comedy is based on the popular Twitter feed by Justin Halpern, who tweeted quotes from his cantankerous father that could be as insightful as often as they were crude. William Shatner plays the dad, Ed Goodson.

Sit Down, Shut Up

New episodes of the series begin airing late Saturdays/early Sundays this fall. The show didn’t get very far after its April premiere, only running four of its 13 episodes.

Smallville

Darkseid will be the main villain during the series’ 10th and final season. Expect return appearances from Brainiac, Supergirl and Hawkman.

Sons of Tucson

Three preteen brothers approach a sporting goods employee who lives in his car to pose as their deceased father to avoid foster care.

Special Ops Mission

Special forces operator Wil Willis must use his 14 years of Army Ranger and Air Force Para-Rescue experience to complete a complex series of military objectives to escape an opposition force determined to stop him.

Stargate Universe

Season 2 sees the series moving to a new night — Tuesdays. Picking up at last season’s cliffhanger finale, Col. Young and most of his military crew are being held by the Lucian Alliance, and about to be executed.

Supernanny

Where We Left Off: Jo Frost had her hands full – then again, when doesn’t she? – with four unruly [...]

Teach: Tony Danza

With his 60th birthday looming, the pro boxer turned Broadway, film and TV star decides to turn his back on entertainment (well, sort of) and tackle the toughest audience on Earth — a classroom full of dubious high-school sophomores at Philadelphia’s Northeast High School.

Terriers

Donal Logue (Grounded for Life) plays Hank Dolworth, an ex-cop and recovering alcoholic who partners with his best friend Britt (Michael Raymond-James) in their unlicensed private-eye business in this new FX drama from Shawn Ryan (The Shield).

Three Rivers

Each episode of Three Rivers intertwines the lives of organ donors, organ recipients and their surgeons at a fictitious Pittsburgh [...]

‘Til Death

New Faces: Lindsey Broad takes over the role of Eddie and Joy’s daughter, Ally. Where We Left Off: High-school teacher [...]

Tower Prep

The latest live-action Cartoon Network series is sort of “The Prisoner” for kids. Rebellious teen Ian Archer (Drew Van Acker) awakens one morning to find himself trapped at a mysterious prep school from which there is no escape.

Twist of Kate

Kate Gosselin returns to the network that brought her fame, fortune and a failed marriage. This time filmmakers follow Gosselin as she travels around the country to find out how other people juggle work, family and all the other challenges life throws at them. Here’s hoping she finds the answer!

Ugly Betty

Where We Left Off: Betty (America Ferrera) beat out Marc (Michael Urie) for a prestigious editorial promotion but lost Matt [...]

Undercovers

A creative collaboration between J.J. Abrams (Lost, Fringe) and Josh Reims (Brothers & Sisters, Felicity) creates a fractured dramedy about pair of former CIA agents turned caterers who are pulled back into covert activities when a friend from the agency turns up missing. This series may turn out to be the season’s best guilty pleasure.

V

This absorbing remake of the 1983 sci-fi miniseries begins its second season.

The Wanda Sykes Show

Comedian Wanda Sykes tries her hand at late night.

The Whole Truth

This Jerry Bruckheimer-produced legal drama examines criminal cases with an eye to getting at … the whole truth.