CBS Ins and Outs

CBS have returned a record number of series for next season, but Out of Practice starring Stockard Channing and Henry Winkler is a goner ahead of its run on Channel 5 and Living. How I Met Your Mother, now on BBC2 and BBC3 will return, as will Channel 4 and Paramounts King of Queens.

New dramas include Smith with Ray Liotta as a criminal mastermind who heads a crew, plots and executes high-stakes heists, all while being married and leading a nice life with wife Virginia Madsen also stars playing Liotta's wife. Jericho follows the residents of a small Kansas town are thrown into chaos when a nuclear bomb explodes leaving them to think they might be the only people left alive. This Lost copy stars Skeet Ulrich and Gerald McRaney.

Joe Pantilano who has already flopped twice on CBS returns on Waterfront whilethe great Stanley Tucci will show up mid-season in 3lbs.

The big money will be on James Woods as Shark, an lawyer who decides to become a good guy working for the L.A. District Attorney's High Profile Crime Unit. Also back is all the CSI nonsense, Two and a Half Men, The Unit, Criminal Minds, The New Adventures of Old Christine (still without a UK home), Ghost Whisperer, Close to Home, NCIS, Num3ers, and Without a Trace