Fridays are almost as bad as Saturdays when it comes to starting new shows. But there are at couple of new ones scheduled for the last night of the workweek, as we continue our night-by-night survey of what’s coming up in the fall broadcast season.
NEW SHOWS
“Malibu County” (ABC, 8:30 p.m., Nov. 2). To many, it will seem like the worst in old fashioned sitcoms – all exasperated looks and overamplified laugh track. But this one, starring Reba McIntire as a jilted wife who moves from Tennessee to California, is unpretentious in its way. It does what it seeks to accomplish. Reba has good comic timing and Lily Tomlin is just right as her cranky mother.
“Made in Jersey” (CBS, 9 p.m., Sept.28). Another bad procedural from CBS means to borrow from “Jersey Shore,” but star Janet Montgomery, a Brit, attempts to be Jersey by bumping her hair a half inch on top and adding an American accent that doesn’t attempt the specific traits of Staten Island. It’s like a college recreation of “Working Girl,” but makes way soon enough for the usual case of the week pace of legal procedurals.
RETURNING SHOWS
“Shark Tank” (ABC, 8 p.m., returned Sept. 14), “Last Man Standing” (ABC, 8 p.m., Nov. 2), “CSI: NY” (CBS, 8 p.m., Sept. 28), “Touch” (Fox, 8 p.m., Oct. 26), “Whitney” (NBC, 8 p.m., Oct. 19), “America’s Next Top Model” (The CW, 8 p.m., ), “Community” (NBC, 8:30 p.m., Oct. 19), “Primetime: What Would You Do?” (ABC, 9 p.m., ), “Fringe” (Fox, 9 p.m., Sept. 28), “Grimm” (NBC, 9 p.m., ), “Nikita” (The CW, 9 p.m., Oct. 19), “20/20” (ABC, 10 p.m.), “Blue Bloods” (CBS, 10 p.m., Sept. 28), “Dateline” (NBC, 10 p.m. ).
Here’s the lowdown for fall shows on Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.