CBS Upfront

CBS' turn to reveal its new fall schedule.

Canceled:
Out of Practice, CBS sunday night movie, Threshold, Courting Alex, Love Monkey, Still Standing, and Yes Dear.

Renewals:
60 Minutes, Amazing Race, Close to Home, Cold Case, Criminial Minds, CSI (all 3), Ghost Whisperer, How I Met Your Mother, NCIS, Old Christine, Numbers, Survior, Two and a Half Men, The Unit and Without a Trace.

New Shows:
Jericho - Drama about a Kansas town that believes it alone in the world after a nuclear explosion. Cast includes Skeet Ulrich, Gerald McRaney, Pamela Reed and few others. Eh, could be good but me think it goes splat after about 6 episodes.

Shark - Despite shows based around the ego of ex-movie stars not lasting long, CBS is giving it a go with this drama serires for James Wood. Its about a defense attorny who switches to the prosecutor's side working for Jeri Ryan. The drama is how the office reacts to a slimy defender becoming an equally slimy prosecutor. As long as it doesn't try to be like Boston Legal, the show might stand a chance.

Smith - Ray Liotta is a career crimial stuck between the mysterious Smith and the FBI who wants to arrest them all. Amy Smart is in it so I will sample the first show but considering that the number of shows that have failed recently with criminals in the lead, I don't see this one lasting long. Besides Ray Liotta gets tiresome very quickly. 20 episodes of over acting maybe to much for the audience to handle.

3 lbs - Mid-season drama with Stanly Tucci, and few others about a brain surgeon and his mentor.

Waterfront - Mid-season drama. Stars Jpe Pantoliano, Mary Stuart Masterson and a Baldwin. Apparently about a mayor and his people. Snore.

The Class - Comedy about some purty 20-somethings who once where in the same third grade class. For reasons that will make no sense they get together for their 20th anniversay of the third grade meet and stay together. Stars some folks, but the show will be canceled in abou tthe time its takes to type all this.

Rules of Engagement - Mid-season comedy to replace the Class. Its a comedy about relationships of the married, engaged and single kind. Cast includes Kathleen Rose Perkins, Megyn Price, Patrick Warburton and Paulo Costanzo. Cast is king and not so sure about this lot with a long list of failures.

Schedule:
MONDAY
8pm: "How I Met Your Mother"
8:30pm: "The Class"
9pm: "Two and a Half Men"
9:30pm: "The New Adventures of Old Christine"
10pm: "C.S.I.: Miami"

TUESDAY
8pm: "N.C.I.S."
9pm: "The Unit"
10pm: "Smith"

WEDNESDAY
8pm: "Jericho"
9pm: "Criminal Minds"
10pm: "C.S.I.: NY"

THURSDAY
8pm: "Survivor"
9pm: "C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation"
10pm: "Shark"

FRIDAY
8pm: "Ghost Whisperer"
9pm: "Close to Home"
10pm: "Numb3rs"

SATURDAY
8pm: "Crime Time Saturday"
10pm: "48 Hours: Mystery"

SUNDAY
7pm: "60 Minutes"
8pm: "The Amazing Race"
9pm: "Cold Case"
10pm: "Without a Trace"