TV executives are preparing for the summer and fall TV seasons and signing new TV shows. Here's a list of upcoming shows to watch for. ABC From the same creator of Friends comes a comedy about sisters. Scoundrels, from Shana Goldberg-Meehan, is about two sisters in different kinds of romantic relationships. Jennifer Finnigan plays the sister in a long-term but unmarried relationship and Joanna Garcia plays the other sister, who gets pregnant and marries the baby-daddy. CBS An untitled Criminal Minds spinoff is set to be introduced during an episode of Criminal Minds this spring. Starring Michael Kelly and Forest Whitaker, the series...

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Is it just me, or was the audition round of American Idol just flat this year? The great auditions weren't all that great. The bad auditions weren't as funny as in the past. I don't know if they ran through the very best and the very worst and we're left with something in the middle or if it is just a case of "we've seen it all before". Either way, the show has left me nonplussed so far this season. I go way back with Idol.  Season 1 far back.  Justin and Kelly far back.  It's...

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Fox went to unusual lengths to premiere Human Target this week. The show will air a total of four times in eight days, with three different episodes and three distinct time slots. The unconventional roll out may leave some viewers in the dark, but the show is definitely worth checking out. Christopher Chance (played by Mark Valley) is a former bad guy who has turned to use his considerable skills for good (and profit). He’s basically a body guard, but in the same sense that Tiger Woods is a golfer. He’s the best at what he does by a long...

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We've discussed six new shows so far. What do you guys think of the first part of the list? This week, we're discussing four more shows. Cougar Town Missing Courteney Cox? No need to worry. You can watch her every Wednesday night on her newest show, Cougar Town. Cougar Town is about Jules Cobb (played by Courtney Cox), a 40-something newly divorced woman who ventures into the dating world again while living with her 17-year-old son. Together with her young assistant, Laurie (played by Busy Phillips), she reenters the dating scenes and makes up for lost time by dating younger men. Wednesday,...

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