TV: Spring 2008 NEW Series Premieres

Each network is shelling out NEW serieses(?) that will help fill the void in your TiVo.


JANUARY
-Cashmere Mafia (ABC) - Sunday, Jan. 6th - 10:00 p.m.
A new Sex and the City-esque dramedy about four businesswomen who live in New York and juggle their love lives and their jobs. The cast consists of Lucy Lui, Frances O'Connor (Timeline), Miranda Otto (Lord of the Rings), Bonnie Somerville ("Kitchen Confidential"), Lourdes Benedicto ("The Nine"), and Tom Everett Scott ("Saved").

-Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (FOX) - Sun. Jan. 13 & Mon. 14 - 8 & 9 p.m. It tells the story of Sarah's struggle to protect her son from his destiny and to save humanity from the machines. Lena Headey (300) plays Sarah, Thomas Dekker ("Heroes") plays John, and Summer Glau (Serenity) plays the Terminator.

-Comanche Moon (CBS) - Sunday, Jan. 13th - 9:00 p.m., 15th 9pm (part 2), 16th (part 3)
It's a miniseries based on Larry McMurtry's novel about two Texas Rangers hunting three outlaws. The cast consists of: Val Kilmer, Adam Beach (Flags of our Fathers), Linda Cardinelli ("ER"), Elizabeth Banks ("Scrubs"), Keith Robinson (Dreamgirls), Karl Urban (The Bourne Supremacy), Steve Zahn (Sahara), and Ryan Merriman (Final Destination 3).

-The Captain (CBS) - Monday, Jan. 28th - 8:30 p.m.
It's a comedy about a young writer who moves into an old Hollywood apartment building filled with eccentric residents. The cast consists of Chris Klein (Just Friends), Joanna Garcia ("Reba"), Jeffrey Tambor ("Arrested Development"), and Raquel Welch.

-Eli Stone (ABC) - Thursday, Jan. 31st - 10:00 p.m.
A lawyer who has racked up bad karma with his devious ways begins to have prophetic visions. Unfortunately for him, he'll have to use them for good. Johnny Lee Miller ("Smith") is the lead, and the rest of the cast consists of: Victor Garber ("Alias"), Natasha Henstridge (Species), and Sam Jaeger (Catch and Release).


FEBRUARY
-Lipstick Jungle (NBC) - Thursday, Feb. 7 - 10:00 p.m.
Although it's very similar to "Cashmere Mafia," it's more focused on powerful businesswomen than their love lives. It stars Brooke Shields, Lindsay Price ("Pepper Dennis"), and Kim Raver ("24").

-Knight Rider (NBC) - Feb. 17th - 9pm
This is a remodel of the 80s show starring David Hasselhoff. It was about a guy named Mike Tracer who used to be an Army Ranger and a crappy race car driver, until he went into debt and people started chasing him. Thus, he was forced to join a mysterious organization and drive a suped-up talking car named K.I.T.T. Justin Bruening ("All my Children") will play Mike and K.I.T.T.'s voice will be Will Arnett ("Arrested Development").

-Quarterlife (NBC) - Feb. 18th - 9pm
NBC picked up this Myspace show about a: "Magazine editor and writer Dylan Krieger sends her friends into fits when they discover that she keeps a rather insightful video blog about them on a website called 'quarterlife.'"

-New Amsterdam (FOX) - Friday, Feb. 22nd - 9:00 p.m.
Like "Moonlight," the lead of this show is a detective with immortality. But what makes him different is that he's a New York City homicide detective and he's not a vampire. However, the fact that he's seen so much gives him an abundance of detailed knowledge to solve crimes with. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Firewall) plays the lead.


MARCH
-Unhitched [Fox] - Sunday, March 2nd - 9:30 pm
"From the creative minds of the Farrelly Brothers comes a single camera comedy, set in Boston, about a group of newly single friends learning the painful lessons of starting over in their 30s. They'd all love to get remarried, if they could just find their true loves. Jack "Gator" Gately (Craig Bierko) is a charismatic, optimistic leader who never expected to be single again. Joining Gator in bachelorhood redux is his thrice-divorced best friend Tommy (Johnny Sneed); Dr. Freddy Sahgal (24's Shaun Majumder), probably the least equipped of the group to handle this unexpected life change; and Kate (The Office's Rashida Jones), a smart, successful attorney who handled all three of the boys' divorces. She reluctantly joins the guys in negotiating the treacherous waters of dating."

-The Return of Jezebel James (FOX) - Friday, March 7th - 8:30 p.m.
Parker Posey (Broken English) contacts her estranged sister (Lauren Ambrose from "Six Feet Under") so she can get her to be her surrogate mother. Amy Sherman-Palladino (Gilmore Girls) is the creator.


APRIL
-Canterbury's Law (FOX) - Friday, April 11th - 9:00 p.m
"ER" alum Julianna Margulies plays a tougher version of Kyra Sedgwick in "The Closer"--since she lacks the southern charm or manners. She plays a defense attorney who'll stop at nothing to win her cases and deliver justice.