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SUNDAY:

Martin Sheen and "The West Wing" (7 p.m., NBC, premieres Sept. 25) are moving to Sundays this season after filibustering the 8 p.m. Wednesday time slot for six Emmy Award-winning years. President Bartlet hasn't left the White House, but for all intents and purposes, this is a new show.

After the show's creative revival last season, fall brings a heated presidential election between Democratic candidate Matt Santos (Jimmy Smits) and Republican Sen. Arnold Vinick (Alan Alda) as they battle to succeed Bartlet.

But can a serious-minded political drama win the vote of viewers at 7 p.m. Sundays against popular competition like "Cold Case" and "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition"?

Sunday's other new series:

"The War at Home" (7:30 p.m., Fox, premiered Sept. 11). Dysfunction junction. Michael Rapaport ("Boston Public") and Anita Barone ("Daddio") are exasperated parents coping with a trio of exasperating teenagers in Fox's latest noisy, over-the-top adventure.

MONDAY

Henry Winkler ("Happy Days") and Stockard Channing ("The West Wing") are the old pros who head the excellent cast of "Out of Practice" (8:30 p.m., CBS, Sept. 19), a pleasantly twisted traditional sitcom about a fractious family of physicians.

Their offspring include a workaholic lesbian ER doctor (Paula Marshall, "Spin City"), a self-centered, skirt-chasing plastic surgeon (Ty Burrell, "In Good Company") and an earnest couples counselor (Christopher Gorham, "Felicity") who gets no respect because he's the only one without a medical degree.

Old-fashioned, yes, but with an engaging screwball charm.

Monday's other new series:

"Surface" (7 p.m., NBC, Sept. 19). Weird underwater science. A strange new species of sea creature suddenly begins to appear at locations all over Earth in a sci-fi adventure aimed at families and featuring former "Boston Legal" lawyer Lake Bell as a pretty, but unlikely, oceanographer.

"How I Met Your Mother" (7:30 p.m., CBS, Sept. 19). A refreshingly offbeat romantic comedy in which a father (off-screen narrator Bob Saget) tells his children how he fell in love with their mother.

The appealing young cast we meet in flashbacks is led by newcomer Josh Radnor as the lovestruck protagonist. Alyson Hannigan ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), Jason Segel ("Freaks and Geeks") and a scene-stealing Neil Patrick Harris ("Doogie Howser, M.D.") also join the merrily irreverent party.

"Kitchen Confidential" (7:30 p.m., Fox, Sept. 19). Bradley Cooper ("The Wedding Crashers") stars as a brash, misbehaving celebrity chef. Producer Darren Star ('Sex and the City") has shown that he knows how to make good comedy.

"Just Legal" (8 p.m., WB, Sept. 19). Likable Jay Baruchel ("Undeclared") is a teenage legal prodigy who ends up working with Don Johnson ("Miami Vice," "Nash Bridges"). Johnson plays the burned-out beachfront lawyer who mentors Baruchel's whiz kid in an improbable, comedy-laced courtroom drama.

"Prison Break" (8 p.m., Fox, debuted Aug. 29). A cool, unconventional suspense thriller. Heartthrob candidate Wentworth Miller ("The Human Stain") robs a bank and gets himself sentenced to the same state pen as his death row inmate brother (Dominic Purcell, "John Doe"). The crazy idea? To break them both out of prison.

TUESDAY

Geena Davis may have finally found her perfect prime-time alter ego as Mackenzie Allen, a no-nonsense politician, mother and wife who is about to become the first female president of the United States on “Commander-in-Chief” (8 p.m., ABC, Sept. 27).

The ambitious political drama, created by Rod Lurie (“The Contender”), echoes the idealistic spirit of “The West Wing” while bringing a female perspective to the Oval Office.

Tuesday’s other new series:

“Bones” (7 p.m., Fox, Sept. 13). Shake, rattle and solve crimes. Emily Deschanel (“Cold Mountain”) and David Boreanaz (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) flash bantering odd-couple chemistry in a quirkily engaging crime procedural about a forensic anthropologist (Deschanel) and an FBI investigator (Boreanaz) who team up to solve tough cases.

“My Name Is Earl” (8 p.m., NBC, Sept. 20). If future episodes match the hilarious pilot, “Earl” should win the laugh lottery behind the slacker screwball charisma of Jason Lee (“Almost Famous”). The brashly imaginative comedy channels the colorful, cockeyed spirit of “Raising Arizona.”

“Supernatural” (8 p.m., WB, Sept. 13). Frightfest. Two ruggedly handsome young brothers (Jared Padalecki of “Gilmore Girls,” Jensen Eckles of “Smallville”) hit the road in search of their missing father while also grappling with ghosts and other paranormal gremlins.

“Close to Home” (9 p.m., CBS, Oct. 4). Jennifer Finnigan (“The Bold and the Beautiful”) is a pretty blond suburban mom who also nails the crime swine as a relentless young prosecutor in a crime procedural melodrama from producer Jerry Bruckheimer (“CSI,” “Cold Case”). Some will love it, some will loathe it.

“Sex, Love & Secrets” (5 p.m., UPN, Sept. 27). Denise Richards (“Wild Things”) struts into the prime-time spotlight as the scheming diva in this mystery-laced tale about groovy young friends living in hip Silver Lake near Hollywood.

WEDNESDAY

It doesn’t take Dennis (“Easy Rider”) Hopper long to flash his scenery chewing skills in “E-Ring” (8 p.m., NBC, Sept. 21), a flashy military thriller set inside the fortress of the Pentagon.

Hopper’s an eccentric colonel who oversees the mission-impossible troubleshooter played by former “Law & Order” star Benjamin Bratt. But with the war in Iraq, a saber-rattling, high-tech military melodrama may be an iffy entertainment proposition.

Wednesday’s other new series:

“The Apprentice: Martha Stewart” (7 p.m., NBC, Sept. 21). Rehabilitated domestic diva Martha Stewart goes for the tasteful reality TV gusto with her style-conscious version of Donald Trump’s talent search.

“Freddie” (7:30 p.m., ABC, Oct. 5). Cooking up his own sitcom, Freddie Prinze Jr. (“Scooby Doo”) is a bachelor chef with his own restaurant. His single life is turned upside down when sister, sister-in-law, niece and grandmother come to live with him.

“Criminal Minds” (8 p.m., CBS, Sept. 28). Homicidal creep show. Mandy Patinkin plays the head of an elite team of FBI profilers who track America’s most psychologically twisted killers in this intense crime procedural. Special premiere 9 p.m. Sept. 22.

“Head Cases” (8 p.m., Fox, Sept. 14). Chris O’Donnell (“Scent of a Woman”) plays an attorney whose superstar career at a prestigious Los Angeles law firm backfired when his wife kicked him out of the house and he had a nervous breakdown. Adam Goldberg plays his unkempt, unpredictable outpatient buddy.

“Related” (time to be announced, WB, Oct. 5). Sisters do it for each other. Jennifer Esposito (“Crash”) heads the cast of a light family drama about four sisters coping with careers, men and each other.

“Invasion” (9 p.m., ABC, Sept. 21). Something very strange is going on in a Florida town on the edge of the Everglades, where some people just don’t seem to be themselves any more. Series creator Shaun Cassidy’s (“American Gothic”) spookily well-done paranormal thriller stars Eddie Cibrian (“Third Watch”).

THURSDAY

“The Night Stalker” (8 p.m., ABC, Sept. 22). Another member of the fall’s paranormal posse. Two veteran producers from “The X-Files” concocted this dark, scary and violent remake of a 1970s cult favorite about an obsessed reporter, Carl Kolchak (Stuart Townsend), who investigates beastly supernatural occurrences.

Thursday’s other new series:

“Reunion” (8 p.m., Fox, premiered Sept. 8). Six close friends who graduated from high school 20 years ago gather at a funeral. But one of the friends is the corpse in the casket, murdered by one of the surviving classmates. Each episode covers approximately one year of time moving from 1986 to 2006.

FRIDAY

Have you heard the one about Chris Rock and the sitcom?
The UPN dream is that everyone gets the joke with “Everybody Hates Chris” (5 p.m., UPN, Sept. 23), a sweet, rollicking family comedy that’s given the little network some big buzz.

In his own distinctively irreverent style, Rock narrates the humorous stories of his adolescent life (Tyler Williams as young Chris) growing up in Brooklyn during the early 1980s and being bused to the suburbs to attend a mostly white high school.

Friday’s other new series:

It came from outer space. And the scary, mysterious extraterrestrial craft lands in the middle of “Threshold” (8 p.m., CBS, Sept. 16), a sci-fi suspense thriller with a cool cast led by Carla Gugino (“Karen Sisco”), Charles S. Dutton (“Roc”) and Brent Spiner (“Star Trek: The Next Generation”).

“Love, Inc.” (4:30 p.m., UPN, Sept. 23). Holly Robinson Peete and Busy Philipps (“Freaks and Geeks”) star in a romantic comedy about a group of self-styled matchmakers who operate a dating service.

“Ghost Whisperer” (7 p.m., CBS, Sept. 23). Haunted honeymoon. The deceased seek Jennifer Love Hewitt’s help in contacting loved ones.

“Twins” (WB, air and start dates to be announced). Blonds dumb, brunettes smart. That’s the stereotypical essence of this sitcom from the producers of “Will & Grace.” It stars Sara Gilbert (“Roseanne”) as the twin with the high IQ and Molly Stanton (“Passions”) as the shallow, sex-bomb sister.

“Killer Instinct” (8 p.m., Fox, Sept. 23). A gruesome crime drama with Johnny Messner (“The O.C.”) and Chi McBride (“Boston Public”) as members of the San Francisco Police Department’s Deviant Crime Unit. How charming.

“Three Wishes” (8 p.m., NBC, Sept. 23). If you like the sentimental, tears-of-joy stories on “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” this may be your kind of reality show. Christian music artist Amy Grant leads a team of experts to a different small town each week to fulfill the wishes of deserving people.

“Hot Properties” (8:30 p.m., ABC, Sept. 23). Girls just wanna have real estate fun. Gail O’Grady (“American Dreams”) stars in a sitcom about women in an upscale Manhattan real-estate office.

“Inconceivable” (9 p.m., NBC, Sept. 23). Babies on board. Angie Harmon (“Law & Order”), Ming-Na (“ER”) and hunky Brit Jonathan Cake (“Empire”) head the cast of a drama about the doctors and patients of the Family Options Fertility Clinic.

SATURDAY

Nada. No new series, just CBS crime drama repeats, ABC and NBC movies, plus the never-ending exploits of Fox’s “Cops” and “America’s Most Wanted.”

Hmmm. Let’s rent a DVD.