In my ongoing look at the upcoming Fall 2006 season, here is a peek at the new ABC lineup. To my taste, it is a little hit and miss. A few of the new shows seem intriguing, while others turn me off based on the simple descriptions. Well, I shall not bore you anymore, read on!

Sunday

• 7:00: America's Funniest Home Videos (10/1). Is this still on? I was bored after a year of Bob Saget.
• 8:00: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (9/24). My mom swears by this show, but it is not to my taste. For the fans, it's back in its usual time slot.
• 9:00: Desperate Housewives (9/24). Will this show rebound from what I thought was a lackluster second season? Time will tell. I thought the first season was excellent, but felt the second lost steam pretty quickly. I did not keep up with it in the second half, so I cannot even speculate where it may be going.
• 10:00: Brothers & Sisters (9/24). This new series boasts a good-looking cast including Calista Flockhart, Sally Field, Balthazar Getty, and Ron Rifkin. It follows the drama around a family and their adult children who gather for a birthday, only to have the patriarch die. This leaves the rest of the family to deal with their issues. The cast looks good, but the description does not entice me to want to tune in.

Monday

• 8:00: Wife Swap (9/18). Um, next.
• 9:00: The Bachelor (10/2). Move along, nothing to see here.
• 10:00: What About Brian? (10/9). This series debuted last spring to decent reviews, and will be coming back this fall. The show follows three couples and Brian, a relationship drama that has a group of friends ranging from happily married, to engaged, to the solo Brian. Drama is built from Brian being enamored with his best friend's fiancee.

Tuesday

• 8:00: Dancing with the Stars (9/12). Didn't watch it last time, won't watch it this time.
• 9:00: Knights of Prosperity (10/17). I read the description of this, and I see bad show written all over it. Donal Logue stars as a late night janitor with dreams of opening a bar. To finance the dream he comes up with the idea of robbing Mick Jagger's apartment. Who thinks of this stuff?
• 9:30: Help Me Help You (9/26). A sitcom, marking the return of Ted Danson to television, about a self-help author leading group therapy for a group of messed up people. This sounds vaguely familiar, wasn't there a show like this back in the 1980s?
• 10:00: Boston Legal (9/19). Many people like the series, but I never quite warmed up to it, although I do find the idea of William Shatner as a lawyer to be quite amusing. It returns in its usual time slot.