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What’s new on the networks?

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‘Opportunity ‘Gary Unmarried’

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Everything from fantasy
Premieres: 8:30 p.m. Wednesday
Knocks’

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Premieres: 8 p.m. Tuesday
P ainting contractor Gary Barnes

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tries to juggle his fragile new

T he search for the so-called typi- romance with Vanessa, a single mom,

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cal American family has this

to suspense to comedy
with the demands of his first marriage,

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show hunkered down in people’s which include ex-wife Allison — who

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front yards. Family members are had to be “The Enforcer” to Gary’s “Fun
grilled about one another. The more Dad” during their marriage — and their

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they know, the more they win. Some two kids, socially inept 14-year-old Tom

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questions shouldn’t be too tough, Jay Mohr and politically correct Louise, 11.

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such as “What is the wife’s favorite and Paula ■ Cast: Jay Mohr, Paula Marshall, Ryan
perfume?” A clip reveals a brother • Marshall

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Malgarini, Laura Marano, Jaime King
tearing apart his sister’s room for NBC ‘My Own Worst Enemy’
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her diary and heading toward a cer- Premieres: 10 p.m. Oct. 13
‘The Ex List’
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‘Kath & Kim’

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tain death.
■ Hosted by JD Roth
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C hristian Slater makes his weekly series debut

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Premieres: 8:30 p.m. Oct. 9 Premieres: 9 p.m. Oct. 3
as a man with two identities: mild-mannered
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JD Roth
family man and efficiency expert Henry Spivey,
T he hit Australian sitcom about a comically
A woman, desperate for enduring love,
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and Edward Albright, a covert operative who visits an acerbic, sagacious psychic,
dysfunctional suburban woman and her
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speaks 13 languages and is literally trained to

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daughter picks up an American accent in this who tells her she has already dated the
kill with his teeth. Each is unaware of the other man she will marry. She must reconnect
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remake. Kath Day is a 40-
until the psychological wall between them is with him within the year — or she will
something divorcee look-
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breeched, often thrusting them both into situa- never wed.
ing for a new romance,
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tions where they are ill-equipped to cope. ■ Cast: Adam Rothenberg, Alexandra
while daughter Kim is a
■ Cast: Christian Slater, Mike O’Malley, Saffron
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spoiled princess reel- Christian Slater Breckenridge, Elizabeth Reaser, Rachel
ing from her recent Burrows, Yara Martinez, Alfre Woodard Boston, Amir Talaistar (pictured at
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separation from her right)
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husband. ‘Knight Rider’
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■ Cast: Selma Blair,
Premieres: 8 p.m. Wednesday ‘The Mentalist’
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Molly Shannon, John

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Michael Higgins, Mikey Premieres: 9 p.m. Tuesday
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Day I n executive producer Doug Liman’s reinvention of the 1980s cult hit,
former Army Ranger Mike Traceur is recruited to protect the Knight
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Industries 3000, or KITT — a superintelligent computer disguised as a
C alifornia detective Patrick Jane is notorious for his flamboyant personal style, not to
mention his former career as a phony psychic, but what can you say? The guy has a
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Ford Mustang — from the ruthless bad guys who killed its inventor.
remarkable track record for solving major crimes through uncanny powers of observation.
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■ Cast: Justin Bruening, Deanna Russo, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Bruce
That doesn’t mean California Bureau of Investigation Senior Agent Teresa Lisbon, along
Davison, Yancey Arias, Paul Campbell
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with her staff, has to be thrilled to have such a loose cannon as a key member of her team.
■ Cast: Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang, Owain Yeoman, Amanda Righetti
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‘Worst Week’

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Premieres: 9:30 p.m. Monday

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H apless enter-

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‘Life on Mars’ tainment
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Premieres: 10 p.m. Oct. 9 magazine editor
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Sam Briggs is try-
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A dapted from a hit BBC show, ing desperately to

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Philip
this crime drama/fantasy Molly Winchester get his straight-
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Marley Shelton
revolves around modern-day NYPD Shannon laced future in-
and Rufus Sewell
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Detective Sam Tyler, who awakens (left) and laws, Dick and
Selma Blair ‘Crusoe’
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after a near-fatal car accident in the Angela, to see the

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year 1973, where he has to pursue Premieres: 8 p.m. Oct. 17 ‘Eleventh Hour’ bright side of his
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police work with no 21st-century Premieres: 10 p.m. Oct. 9 imminent wed- Kyle Bornheimer
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technology. And his new boss, Gene
D aniel Defoe’s classic novel spins out into a TV series in this saga of ding to their and Erinn Hayes
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Hunt, is a politically incorrect, old- a young man shipwrecked on a desert island, where his unlikely beloved daughter

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school cop who bends the rules friendship with a native named Friday helps him hold onto sanity. B iophysicist Jacob Hood, a special
science adviser to the U.S. govern- Sarah. Already having a baby on the way proba-
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when he deems it necessary — or While the current lives of these men are filled with hungry cannibals, ment, serves as a last line of defense bly doesn’t help — nor does the fact that every
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just convenient. Is Sam in a coma, wild animals and terrifying storms, flashbacks reveal Crusoe’s life in protecting those who would misuse time Sam tries to do something nice to win them
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or is something more fantastic

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with wife Susannah before he became a castaway. scientific breakthroughs for their own over, things go horribly, horribly wrong.
behind his new reality? ■ Cast: Sam Neill, Philip Winchester, Sean Bean, Anna Walton, nefarious gain. ■ Cast: Kyle Bornheimer, Erinn Hayes,
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■ Cast: Jason O’Mara, Harvey Keitel Tongayi Chirisa ■ Cast: Rufus Sewell, Marley Shelton Kurtwood Smith, Nancy Lenehan
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