Premise

Based on the Parker Posey movie: By night, Mary has been the toast of the New York party scene.  However, after one of her parties attracts the attention of the NYPD, Mary is forced to find a real job.  With the help of her godmother, Mary soon finds employment in a rather unlikely place: the library

Familiar Faces

Christine Taylor (Marcia in the Brady Bunch movies) as Mary

Our Take

Faces tough competition from Murphy Brown as well as the movies (and ABC's powerhouse Monday Night Football)

Expect to Hear

"There is something to be said for a place filled with things bound in leather"

- Mary (on working in the library)

Premise

Margot Hines had the perfect life: a rich husband, a dream house, unlimited spending money.  Unfortunately, her husband decides that a perfect life also includes a girlfriend...On her own for the first time in her life, Margot moves in with her working-class friend George (Georgette)

Familiar Faces

Lori Petty (A League of Their Own) as Georgette, Karyn Parsons (The Fresh Prince of Bel Air) as Margot

Our Take

Faces tough competition from CBS's successful Monday night sitcom block as well as the movies (and ABC's powerhouse Monday Night Football)

Expect to Hear

"It's called 'Irony of Life'.  This painting asks the question how did the world get populated if Adam and Eve had two sons...and one killed the other one"

- George (describing one of her paintings)

Premise

From the producers of the X-Files, Millennium details the work of a mysterious organization to avert prophecized disasters scheduled to occur at the end of the century.  Enter Frank Black, a former FBI agent with the gift for apprehending serial killers.  Although Frank attempts to take his family away from the evil in the world, he finds himself drawn back into the battle as he works with the Millennium Group to save the world

Familiar Faces

Lance Henriksen (Alien) as Frank Black

Our Take

Faces tough competition from ABC's established comedy block as well as Dateline.  While this show may feel something like the X-Files, it is not the X-Files.  Accordingly, fans of the X-Files will not necessarily flock to this new show.  (After all, if other X-File type shows have failed with the benefit of an adjacent X-Files time slot, how will this show do without the benefit of the X-Files companionship)

Expect to Hear

"I'm here because I have a wife and a kid and I want them to live in a place where they can feel safe"

- Frank (on explaining his volunteering to help track down a killer)

Premise

April and Jack Nardini are lower-middle class parents trying to find time for each other and their family while working two jobs on opposite shifts in order to make ends meet

Familiar Faces

None

Our Take

Although it is facing three new shows, CBS holds an advantage having winning shows at 8pm (Dr. Quinn) and 10pm (Walker).  Furthermore, the aging Married..with Children, the show's lead-in, has moved to an untested time period

Expect to Hear

"I don't want to go any more than you guys do but we're going...We're going to eat and make pleasant conversation...and if that doesn't work out, Christopher can just wish them into the corn field like he did the last family who lived there"

- Jack (on convincing his wife that they need to have dinner with their "perfect" neighbors)