ABC to Air 4 New Series, Halt 2 Others Temporarily

ABC said today that it is putting four new series on its spring schedule and taking two others off temporarily. Those two, “China Beach” and “Anything But Love,” will go on a production hiatus.

Three of the new series, including “Twin Peaks,” are one-hour shows. Each will have a two-hour premiere before the start of its regular weekly run.

“Twin Peaks,” a dark-humor series set in a small town in the Northwest, will begin in its regular Thursday time period April 12, with “The Young Riders” shifted to make room for it.

“Riders” will move to Monday on April 16, joined then by the new “Capitol News,” a one-hour series set in a newspaper in Washington. The mid-season switch will end ABC’s usual Monday movie fare this season.

“Equal Justice,” the third new one-hour series, is a drama set in the office of a big-city district attorney. It will debut in its regular Wednesday time period March 28, displacing “China Beach.”

ABC’s fourth new show, a situation comedy called “The Marshall Chronicles,” is about teen-age life. It will premiere in its regular Wednesday time period April 4, displacing “Anything But Love.”