Show Five to Miss Five to Watch The Hartford Courant How is it possible with all the ideas pitched pilots shot and executive executive executive exec exec- meetings held that some shows make it all the way to the screen Ah the mysteries of TV New shows like these will make you feel good about turning off the set for a while Father of the Pride NBC Tuesdays is said to have cost 2 million an episode and 13 of them will definitely be made But it willbe willbe will willbe be interesting to see how many of them will actually air after the spectacularly unfunny first episode featuring cute fuzzy animals animals animals ani ani- mals talking incessantly about sex If bad ratings dont don't get it special- special interest groups should Commando Nanny The WB Fridays is the dullest sitcom of the yeas ye bout about reality show producer Mark Burnetts Burnett's personal experience as a domestic shortly after his military military military mil mil- stint At a time when networks offer fewer and fewer comedies this one looks to have been OKd in order to stay in the producers producer's good graces more than any anything ng else Hawaii NBC Wednesdays looks to have been produced while no one was looking a cutter cookie-cutter cop show spiced by modern day gristle peopled by a bunch of unprofessional Miami Vice buddy detectives roaming a different different different differ differ- ent tropical locale Kind of makes you miss Jack Lord Listen Up CBS Mondays proves its it's not any curse that keeps stars ex-stars of that show from being successful its it's dumb little projects like this one in which Jason Alexander is encouraged encouraged encouraged aged to be his most obnoxious Is there an audience for a hour half-hour of yelling Dr Vegas CBS gives a lot of actors some brief work melding the Vegas milieu with medical cases Rob Lowe is unconvincing as a doctor Joe and Tom Sizemore are walk In some scenes they app appear ar to have scripts for other shows in their hands Among the 30 new TV shows offered for your entertainment from broadcast networks this year a handful do actually stand out Set your TiVo to try these out House Fox Tuesdays is a smart compelling and rewarding look at a misanthropic medical doctor who loves medicine and really hates patients Hugh Laurie is such a good doctor though his teaching hospital wont won't think of canning canting him Kevin Hill Wednesdays shoots the old plot line of a playboy who becomes a sudden parent with humanity and warm humor Because Taye Diggs plays a lawyer theres there's also time for a courtroom scene each week Veronica Mars Tuesdays Kristen Bell is pretty intense as the title character who helps her dads dad's detective agency because she's got no social standing left at high school anyway She's tough and believable in the way that Joan of Arcadia is Lost ABC Wednesdays is so strong as a saga of plane crash survivors on a desert isle with such a rich cast it will make you forget TVs TV's many stabs at this genre through the years from Gilligan to Survivor S vor But creator JJ Abrams cant can't resist putting in a menacing mysterious force that pic picks off characters possibly to eat As great as the series looks the sound is even bet- bet ter Jack Bobby hobby m The WB minded Sundays brings the high high- nion- nion public service of the into original SS nto The To West Wing the uie realm realm of look good mg teens that populate The WB One of these brothers brother will I w become 2040 president in inS We school see how their years and their S Christine sharply Lahti drawn mother It Its It's s not about the shape Kennedys them 1 |