There's an old adage that states "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." ABC's programming honchos have certainly taken that notion to heart in debuting their brand-spanking new schedule, which, while new as a whole, has very few new programs in it. Seriously, very, very few.

While I appreciate that ABC made my job really easy today in redoing the schedule, I might have been slightly more aggressive. They're only throwing two new shows onto the fall schedule with two and a half more waiting in the wings.

Here, check out the fall schedule:

	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wed.	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
7:00	America's Funniest Home Videos
7:30
8:00	Extreme Makeover: Home Edition	Dancing with the Stars	Opportunity Knocks	Pushing Daisies	Ugly Betty	Wife Swap	College Football
8:30
9:00	Desperate Housewives		DWTS: Results Show	Private Practice	Grey's Anatomy	Supernanny
9:30		Samantha Who?
10:00	Brothers & Sisters	Boston Legal	Eli Stone	Dirty Sexy Money	Life on Mars	20/20
10:30

As you can see (it's bolded), the new stuff in the fall is Opportunity Knocks and Life on Mars. Opportunity Knocks is a reality show wherein the show comes to the contestants rather than vice versa. Apparently in the show, a semi-truck pulls up to people's houses, the host pops out, knocks on the door, and the homeowner (or renter) gets to compete for fabulous prizes. The press release states that the host, J.D. Roth, asks questions to the family based on their lives and the articles found in their house.

As for Life on Mars, that's being executive produced by David E. Kelley and is based on the British show of the same name. In the series a cop from the present day is transported back to the 1970s. Is he crazy? Is he in a coma? He does his whole cop thing in 1973 and, I assume, is good at it. It stars Jason O'Mara and, if it's as good as the British version could be a nice addition to the schedule.

Mid-season replacements for ABC include a comedy Life is Goode which revolves around a family that does good things; it's animated and from Mike Judge. There's also an untitled reality show from Tyra Banks and Ashton Kutcher which is some sort of beauty pageant, and… wait for it… wait for it… wait for it… Scrubs.

Yes, you knew it and I knew it, NBC knew it (and that's why they aired the "finale" out of order), and ABC announced it. They're bringing Scrubs over to their network. I still don't quite understand, but I'm happy to have a show I enjoy regularly air for another season.

And that, as they say, is that. ABC has made changes on four nights and most of those involve time/day changes rather than new shows. Will their ratings go up? Only time (and Nielsen) will tell.