Broadcast networks covered so far:
* [ABC](http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/56908/fall-tv-preview-abc-tries-to-go-big-with-nashville-and-last-resort-go-dumb-with-the-neighbors)
* [CBS](http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/57061/fall-tv-preview-cbss-boring-super-competent-dog-learns-some-new-tricks)
* [FOX](http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/56788/fall-tv-preview-fox-beating-nbc-at-its-own-must-see-comedy-game)
* [NBC](http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/57172/fall-tv-preview-hapless-nbc-still-stumbling-around-like-a-peacock-with-its-head-cut-off)
The biggest surprise for me was their granting[^fn1] *Season Pass* status to *Made in Jersey*:
> A zippy hour about a plucky fish out of water isn’t the usual CBS fare — it’s much easier to imagine Jersey succeeding on the more femme-friendly ABC, where it would be called Very Pretty Betty and feature a lot more Snow Patrol songs. But MIJ, starring the British minnow Janet Montgomery as a blue-jeaned associate floundering at a white-collar Manhattan law firm, exhibits CBS’s trademark flair for streamlined storytelling. Case in point: Creator Dana Calvo’s spunky pilot doesn’t linger too long on bridge-and-tunnel clichés, like Montgomery’s Martina recognizing pliers as a tool for skinny jeans, not murder. Rather, it wastes little time getting down to the underappreciated business of aspirational dream-making: Aided by an affably slick boss (Kyle MacLachlan), a loyal pal in the secretarial pool (Toni Trucks), and a proud Mama Mia (Donna Murphy), Martina cracks the cases that those lacking a deep appreciation of the Southside Johnny catalog never could. Even with Stephanie March’s impossibly smug, straw-woman antagonist (“You speak fluent townie,” she huffs. Is this Midtown or Monaco?), Jersey, surprisingly, won me over.
I wanted to check it out simply because I like Janet Montgomery, but this write up makes me think the show will have some staying power.
Two other shoes I am interested in, *Elementary* and *Revolution*, both got *Incomplete* status. There is nothing new that interests me on either ABC or FOX.
[^fn1]: See what I did there?