Oh, NBC. Chase is one of those shows that happens every fall -- it's a bland and derivative procedural, but it's ultimately innocuous and perfectly fine for a Friday night buried somewhere on CBS (where it would get huge ratings that no one could explain, but still) or on TNT or something of that ilk. But, unfortunately, NBC is hinging its Monday night 10 PM timeslot on this show. You know, I liked The Event a lot more than I thought I would, and I think it might have legs, but outside of that? When shows like Chase are taking up prime real estate like this? It just further convinces me that NBC is still in deep trouble.

Tags: Chase, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jesse Metcalfe, Kelli Giddish, The Event

NBC has revealed the fall and midseason slate of new shows that are meant to save the network, and some of them look good! But some of them... do not, we'll say. I woke up bright and early this morning to attend the red-carpet portion of the network's upfront presentation to get season finale spoilers from current NBC talent, and to ask the new stars what the hell their shows are about and, in one case, why their show is so racist. (Also, while I couldn't get an interview with Tina Fey, I did eavesdrop the hell out of all her conversations, which were all about shrimp. Just a little tidbit.) Read on for all the information I could get out of strangers in two or three questions while their publicists desperately tried to tear them away from me.

Tags: Becki Newton, Ben Rappaport, Bret Michaels, Chase, Cindy Chupack, Cole Hauser, Community, David Lyons, Desperate Housewives, Donald Trump, Gillian Jacobs, Greg Grunberg, Heroes, J.J. Abrams, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jesse Metcalfe, Kelli Giddish, Love Bites, NBC, Outsourced, Parks & Recreation, Parvish Cheena, Rizwan Manji, Sacha Dhawan, Summer Glau, The Cape, Undercovers

After only two episodes, Fox has cancelled Lone Star, making it the official first casualty of the fall 2010 season. It's a sad, but unsurprising move on Fox's part, considering the obvious fact that Lone Star -- a slow, more-intelligent-than-Glee (not that there's anything wrong with Glee) adult drama -- belonged anywhere but on network television. But let's buck up and move on to the important question: who should be next? What else is just so terrible, or so poorly scheduled, or just plain misplaced that it should be put out of its misery next? In ascending order, here are the new shows that most need to be cancelled, and the alternate networks where they could have lived long, happy, minimum-ratings-pressure lives.

Tags: Better With You, Chase, Detroit 1-8-7, My Generation, Outlaw, Outsourced, Running Wilde, The Whole Truth, Undercovers

It's a slow yet kind of hilarious day for TV news.

Tags: American Idol, Burn Notice, Chase, Happy Town, Pretty Wild, Skins, The Fashion Show, True Blood, Tyra Banks

The 2010-11 NBC upfront presentation was so long that we're not sure who'd be more bored by a detailed recap of the event, you or us. Suffice it to say that the presentation began with a clip of Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy making jokes about his brief, ill-advised marriage to Nikki Finke, getting in a dig about President Obama's citizenship and then talking about how the "more colorful" slogan might sound like a "no-mess painting kit for pre-school girls" but is really more than that. Then there was some random talk about how the network would act like a dangerous Eastern European woman in order to gain advertisers. That was the highlight... it got less interesting from there, unless you are really, really, really into football announcers, in which case it picked up somewhere in the middle, and then it just slowly spiraled downward until it finally ended and I got to see Jerry Seinfeld on the esclalor. Oh, and did I mention that aside from an awkward appearance from Jimmy Fallon and his guitar, and the football announcers, there was a dearth of talent on stage? Guess they saved them for all of the swanky after-parties. But anyway, NBC previewed a bunch of new shows for both the fall and midseason to help us get an early start on deciding what we'll want to watch - or avoid.

Tags: chase, friends with benefits, harrs law, jimmy smits, law and order los angeles, love bites, nbc, outsourced, Perfect Couples, school pride, the cape, the event, undercovers, upfronts