New TV premieres

It has been just three months since the fall season sent its raw recruits out of the trenches, over the top and into the fray, to advance the cause or be cut to ribbons -- by the very networks that had sent them out there, ironically. The new year brings in the reserves and the reinforcements, for whom similar fates await. We are, meanwhile, here once again to write their names in the record. -- Robert Lloyd, Tribune Newspapers