Last week, the networks all announced their initial schedules for next season. Beginning September 2007, this is what the Tuesday grid is going to look like, at least tentatively. There is always the chance of reshuffling and other various changes to be made before the schedules actually go live.

Now rather than take a look at each of the networks, I thought it would be better to take a look at the daily grids. Better to see how the networks stack up against one another. Today is Tuesday, so let's see how it looks.

ABC leads the off the night with a pair of new sitcoms to kick off the evening, the first of which I doubt will last more than five episodes. It is Cavemen, the comedy inspired by the Geico commercials — that's right, a commercial-inspired sitcom. I have read an early report on the pilot, and it is allegedly awful. I saw a scene, and it is as bad as I imagined. It is followed up by Carpoolers, a comedy starring Fred Goss, Jerry O'Connell, Faith Ford, and a few others. It is about guys and their various flaws and their attempts to deal.

The CBS schedule starts off unchanged save for a new anchor in Cane, starring Jimmy Smits as the new head of a family who made its fortune in sugar and rum. Frankly, I don't see this lasting all that long, though I am willing to be proven wrong. It is just from the preview I saw I just did not feel hooked into the world of rum and sugar that is causing all the problems for the family.