Friday
Ghost Whisperer
When: 8 p.m., CBS (premières Sept. 23)
Concept: Jennifer Love Hewitt has the ability to talk to ghosts. Based on the preview, this ability may be derived from her tight white tank-tops.
Will it be any good? Well... There's always the chance that it could be... And you never know... Really, did X-Files look that good at first? Or Gilmore Girls? And if you look at early episodes of Seinfeld, it's really not all that promising... and... okay. No, it just won't.
Likely most memorable episode: A tie: Kristin Scott Thomas stops by for some red-hot Horse Whisperer/Ghost Whisperer crossover action, involving the troubled spirit of a dead jockey. Then, later in the season, Hewitt and the gang jam out to the godfathers of modern Japanese psychedelic music when Masaki Batoh and the boys in Ghost lend their pipes to an episode involving a record-store clerk who suffocated under a pile of import CDs.
Twins
When: 8:30 p.m., WB (premières Sept. 16)
Concept: It's a veritable Hasbeenpalooza as Mark Linn-Baker, celebrity blogger Melanie Griffith, and Sara Gilbert (that girl from Roseanne whom everyone likes but who hasn't done anything in ages) join forces in this sitcom about fraternal twins who couldn't be more different! Wackiness, tomfoolery, and possibly even shenanigans ensue.
Will it be any good? Dude, that other guy from Perfect Strangers—the one without the crazy accent—is in it. Doesn't that answer the question? Look for much of the cast to reunite in a forthcoming season of The Surreal Life.
Likely most memorable episode: The wildly dissimilar fraternal twins learn that they both have identical cousins, and later discover that they laugh alike, walk alike, and at times even talk alike. It understandably causes them to lose their minds.
Three Wishes
When: 8 p.m., NBC (premières Sept. 23)
Concept: With a team of "experts" in tow, wholesome songstress Amy Grant travels cross-country through small towns, looking to make the inhabitants' inspirational dreams an even more inspiring reality. At all the neighborhood diners, chicken soup for the soul is definitely on the menu.
Will it be any good? Extreme Makeover: Home Edition would seem to have the "Trading Spaces meets Queen For A Day" gimmick locked up, but reality television is a cannibalistic business, and there's no idea so unique that it can't be ripped off wholesale. Still, do we need another show with 10 minutes of actual content surrounded by 50 minutes of self-aggrandizing speeches and redundant recaps? If you can make it past the premise without needing an insulin shot, perhaps this is the show for you. Otherwise, good God no.
Likely most memorable episode: With its ratings flagging, the show takes a saucy turn when a terminally ill 16-year-old boy asks to "make love" for the first time before he dies. After much cajoling from the producers, hunky Trading Spaces carpenter Carter Oosterhouse reluctantly obliges.
Threshold
When: 9 p.m., CBS (premières Sept. 16)
Concept: When an extraterrestrial craft lands in the middle of the ocean, officials are left to wonder whether they're dealing with the aliens from E.T. or the ones from War Of The Worlds. The plucky Carla Gugino leads a team of top-flight professionals—including an aeronautical engineer, a language and communications expert, and a covert operative—to investigate the celestial strangers and prepare for a possible invasion.
Will it be any good? The previews raise the prospect of colonization through bioengineering, which would let the aliens restructure human DNA to fall in line with their own. The chilling vision of science geeks from outer space, or CSI: Roswell?
Likely most memorable episode: Posing as an operative for Operation: Threshold, an alien seduces Gugino, beds her over a few glasses of cheap wine, and restructures her DNA while she sleeps. In the morning, she peers sleepily in the bathroom mirror and is horrified to find Abe Vigoda's face starting back at her.
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