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Since the new 2008-2009 TV season is officially on its way, here are many of the shows featuring celebrities you love/hate/don't really care about/forgot existed that you may be watching on television this fall and/or winter!



ABC


LITERARY SUPERSTAR with Jenna Elfman (produced by Darren Star)
comedy about a book publicist who's intensely loyal to her clients and lobbies to continue working with smaller, quirkier authors


UNTITLED CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER PROJECT with Cedric the Entertainer, Jasmine McNeil, Peter Mackenzie, Regina Hall
comedy about a man who has always been the proud breadwinner for his family and has difficulty adjusting when his wife's hobby turns into a multimillion-dollar enterprise


THE UNUSUALS produced by Denis Leary
dramedy set at a new york police precinct


UNTITLED BANKS & KUTCHER PROJECT by Tyra Banks and Ashton Kutcher
reality series which features contestants competing in a beauty pageant, with an unspecified twist

CBS


MY BEST FRIEND'S GIRL with Jennie Garth, Tim Pepper, Eric Laden and Josh Cooke
comedy about two best friends who own a bike shop together whose relationship becomes complicated when one starts dating the other's ex-wife


SINGLE WHITE MILLIONAIRE with Fred Savage
multi-camera comedy about an unassuming millionaire in his thirties who is ready to settle down


CAN OPENERS with Lauren Lee Smith and Omar Gooding (produced by Denis Leary)
drama centers on a woman in her 20s as she enters a seven-year neurosurgical residency, encountering a competitive, clubby atmosphere along the way


ELEVENTH HOUR with Rufus Sewell, Marley Shelton (produced by Jerry Bruckheimer)
drama that revolves around a special science adviser to the government who, with his feisty female bodyguard in tow, saves people from the worst abuses of science


EXIT 19 with Geena Davis (& produced by Geena Davis)
drama stars davis as quirky homicide detective on the mean streets of manhattan who also is a single mom to two kids in the suburbs on long island


THE MEANT TO BE'S with Amy Smart and Ioan Gruffudd (created by Glenn Gordon Caron)
drama about a young woman who dies, but in order to "pass over," she must return to earth and help people improve their lives


THE MENTALIST with Robin Tunney, Simon Baker, Amanda Righetti, Owain Yeoman and Shaun Toub (produced by David Nutter)
drama which centers on a mentalist who uses his skills of observation to solve crimes as an independent detective working with the police


MYTHOLOGICAL X with Elizabeth Reaser and Rachel Boston
drama centers on a woman who, after learning from a psychic that she already has dated the man she's supposed to marry, revisits all her past relationships in the hopes of finding him


NY-LON with Elisha Cuthbert, Caterina Scorsone, Johnny Whitworth
drama revolves around a new york record store clerk and a london stock broker who, after a fateful encounter in london, embark on a cross-continental romance

FOX


THE PITTS with the voices of Allison Janney, Andy Milonakis, Dylan Baker and Lizzy Caplan (created by Mike Scully)
animated version of the network's short-lived 2003 comedy about the unluckiest family in the world


SPACED with Sara Rue, Will Sasso, Federico Dordei and Josh Lawson (produced by McG)
single-camera comedy revolves around a young man and woman who pose as a married couple in order to rent a cheap apartment


STARTING UNDER with Bernie Mac
multi-camera comedy centers on a larger-than-life and opinionated man, who, after a divorce, finds himself living with and working for his introverted twentysomething son


FRINGE with Joshua Jackson, Anna Torv, Blair Brown, Jasika Nicole, John Noble, Kirk Acevedo, Lance Reddick, Mark Valley (created by JJ Abrams, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman)
drama about a young female fbi agent who, forced to confront the spread of powerful and unexplained phenomena, must work with an institutionalized scientist whose life's work may be at the center of the coming storm

NBC


KATH & KIM with Molly Shannon and Selma Blair
"Kath & Kim," a series adapted from Australia's hit comedy of the same title, is a look into the minutiae of middle-class suburbia that digs deep into the daily lives of Kath, a cheerful, forty-something divorcee, and her self-absorbed daughter, Kim. It's the love and hate, push and pull, of the dysfunctional relationship only a mother and daughter could share.



MAN OF YOUR DREAMS with Michael Trucco, Constance Zimmer, Justina Machado, Christina Chang, Ronreaco Lee (produced by Conan O'Brien)
multi-camera comedy about a womanizer who uses his expertise to help romantically challenged women


KINGS with Ian McShane and Christopher Egan
contemporary soap loosely based on the story of king david, the biblical king of israel


MY WORST ENEMY with Christian Slater
drama centers on a mild-mannered suburban dad who learns that his alter ego is a spy


PLAY OR BE PLAYED with Alan Tudyk, Andrew Lincoln, Christina Vidal, Frankie Faison, Kurtwood Smith, Megan Dodds (produced by Barry Sonnenfeld)
legal drama about the unapologetic lawyers at a prestigious new york law firm who will do whatever it takes to win their high-profile cases and outmaneuver one another

THE CW


UNTITLED FASHION MAGAZINE ASSISTANT PROJECT by Tyra Banks
a new reality series in which aspiring assistants compete to become assistant editors at a fashion magazine

A&E


ALMOST produced by Will & Jada Pinkett Smith
supernatural drama at set in a roadside motel in the middle of nowhere that doubles as purgatory, where the recently deceased are given a chance to revisit episodes from their past as a way of finding closure and paying off their karmic debts before moving on


I didn't include everything (as a lot of other shows don't have ~big names~ attached to it), so go to the SOURCE and scroll down to devwatch.



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Remember, not all of the shows may be picked up, but I'm guessing the ones with the bigger stars have a better shot.