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...have personal connections with them on many different levels. One of the guys in the unit was a police officer with my dad. I've known him since I was 9. One of the reasons I went to UCLA was Jackie Robinson, and Jackie Robinson was the morale officer for the 761st. There are all kinds of little connections here, and they make it a very special story...
...Quintuplets," a sitcom in which Fox tries to make good for canceling the fantastic "Andy Richter Controls the Universe" by casting Richter as the frazzled dad of 15-year-old quints...
...American Dad," an animated sitcom from "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane, about a typical suburban dad who secretly works for the CIA. It's like "Alias," but with less moony-faced romance and spies dressed up like hookers, and more talking goldfish...
...romantic comedy about a divorced couple that gets remarried. The two new dramas are even more femme-friendly. "Veronica Mars" is sort of a detective version of "The O.C." - a working-class girl living in a rich California enclave struggles to fit in, while occasionally helping her private-eye dad with investigations. (The trailer actually looked less derivative - slightly - than I make it sound.) And perhaps the X-chromosomiest of all its new offerings is "Kevin Hill," in which the sculpted Taye Diggs plays a sharky entertainment lawyer who adopts his dead cousin's baby, loses his job, and takes...
...wait, never mind - they're doing that one already. That's right, Mel Gibson is following up "The Passion" with "Savages," a new ABC sitcom about a widowed dad raising his sons alone. (Theologically speaking, I guess "The Passion" was also about a father-son relationship, so maybe it's not such a stretch.) But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Before ABC executives announced their new fall schedule at the New Amsterdam theater in New York, they first had to explain to the assembled advertisers why they should have faith ABC would deliver anyone to actually watch their commercials...