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It’s that time again. Fall is a time for falling leaves, back to school, and of course, watching shows that will be soon be canceled. Oh sure, not ALL shows will be terminated after two, maybe three episodes, but let’s be honest for a moment. Most of the shows are going to suck. Here’s a quick look at some of the shows coming up later this month.

ABC:

Thanks for the WGA strike, ABC will only be kicking off two shows. Yeah, two shows that will disappear moments after I hit publish on this blog.

Opportunity Knocks: We’ve all seen the commercials. A semi-truck pulls up to some “unsuspecting” upper middle class home and will be placed on a game show set built on their front yard. I’m bored already.

How about this, make that truck pull up to some home in projects. Then watch the hilarity.

Show will be canceled in: 3 weeks

Life on Mars: A cop is hit by a car and is blasted to 1973. “Where’s my cell phone?”, “Where’s the recycle bin?” You get the picture.

Show will be canceled in: 5 weeks

CBS:

Who doesn’t one-hour dramas? CBS thinks YOU don’t apparently. Here’s how to entice yours truly to watch more CBS: Make the Ghost Whisperer two hours. Take out all cast members sans Jennifer Love Hewitt. Now have JLH walk around in a towel (see I Know What You Did Last Summer for details). There, I said it.

The Worst Week:

Boy meets girl. Boy must impress “conservative” parents. Boy, if that doesn’t say hilarious theme for 10 seasons, I’m not sure what does. While we’re on the subject, why is it always the conservative parents that need to be enlightened? Let’s have a show where the lefty hippies get a job? Well that sounds just as boring, I guess.

Show will be canceled in: 6 weeks

The Mentalist: Dr. House is a psychic cop.

Show will be canceled in: 4 weeks

Gary Unmarried: Hey, HEY, how about a comedy about a broken family? A recently divorced buffoon dad and bitchy wife bicker about their kids. It’s funny because it’s true! With a cast featuring Jay Mohr, Jaime King, and Ed Begley Jr, I could maybe see this show actually work.

Show will be canceled in: 3 seasons

The Ex List: At a party, Bella (Elizabeth Reaser) is told by a psychic that the guy she is going to one day marry, is somebody she knows. She then goes on to investigate every person with a penis to find her potential hubby. Think How I Met Your Mother meets poop.

Show will be canceled in: 3 weeks

Eleventh Hour: A biophysicist and “science advisor” (?) investigate crimes and utter weirdness in another sci-fi X-Files rip off.

I wish a science advisor would follow me around. I’d ask him or her challenging questions like “Hey, if I ate this pencil, how quickly would I bleed to death from a punctured organ?” or “If I cut off my left foot, could I staple it on my back? how quickly would it turn black?” I pretty much know the answers but what’s the point of having a science advisor if you can’t ask questions about self-mutilation?

Are you looking forward to any the shows coming this fall? Sound off below!

Stay tuned to a rest of the fall preview offering from NBC, Fox, CW, and Cable.

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