Fall TV Preview - Tuesday

=Tuesday=

8/7
ABC - NO ORDINARY FAMILY
CBS - NCIS
NBC - Biggest Loser Hour 1
FOX - Glee
CW - One Tree Hill

9/8
ABC - Dancing with the Stars results
CBS - NCIS: Los Angeles
NBC - Biggest Loser Hour 2
FOX - RAISING HOPE
- - - - RUNNING WILDE
CW - Life Unexpected

10/9
ABC - DETROIT 1-8-7
CBS - The Good Wife
NBC - Parenthood

New Shows:

NO ORDINARY FAMILY - Michael Chiklis (The Shield) and Julie Benz (Dexter) head a family that suddenly gain super powers. Sounds like a live-action The Incredibles. Sounds like it intends to be brighter than the now-axed Heroes.

RAISING HOPE - Blue-collar dark comedy about a 23-year-old who has a surprise baby daughter Hope left on his doorstep. Garrett Dillahunt (Terminator: TSCC) and Martha Plimpton (Goonies) are his parents, and Cloris Leachman is Grandma. Supposed to have a My Name Is Earl meets Arrested Development flavor to it.

RUNNING WILDE - Speaking of Arrested Development, Will Arnett stars as a lazy son of a millionaire who finds out his old high-school crush (Keri Russell) is single and he tries to win her over. She's an environmental activist (hopefully not to the James Lee level), so he has some work to do. Word has it they reshot the pilot after it scored lower-than-expected test scores.

DETROIT 1-8-7 - This drama about homicide cops in Detroit was going to be faux-documentary style, but they had to scrap that idea and now shoot it as a straight drama. Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos, Life on Mars) and James McDaniel (NYPD Blue) star.

My Prediction:

Tuesday's opening slot looks tough, but I can see No Ordinary Family defying odds and breaking out somehow. That'll mean either Biggest Loser or Glee has to slip. It also means the Fox sitcoms are in a high-risk/high-reward bind. Fox hasn't been able to get a sitcom to last for a while. (Til Death should have been cancelled two years before it actually was.) The Good Wife will continue to dominate, and it'll be up to Detroit and Parenthood to duke it out for second.