PHOTOS: New TV shows offer midseason relief

‘Justified’ FX “Deadwood” marshal Timothy Olyphant jumps ahead a century and change to clean up small-town Kentucky in this Elmore Leonard-derived series.

‘Louie’ FX Louis C.K., pictured, takes a second run at situation comedy, this time playing a version of himself (stand-up comic, divorced dad).

‘Treme’ HBO Having completely disassembled Baltimore, David Simon (“The Wire”) -- television’s own Dickens -- applies his sociopoliti- cal dramaturgy to post-Katrina New Orleans.

‘How to Make It in America’ HBO A kind of East Coast “Entourage,” from some of the people who bring you the West Coast “Entourage,” set in and around New York’s fashion industry.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)