May 20, 2009 11:35 am US/Mountain
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Julianna Margulies, Jenna Elfman, Christopher O'Donnell and LL Cool J are among the stars who have landed new series on CBS' schedule next season.
The nation's most popular network will introduce six new series, according to someone close to CBS' scheduling process who spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak about the new schedule.
The network releases its schedule Wednesday afternoon, following announcements by Fox, ABC and NBC Monday and Tuesday.
CBS will try two new medical dramas, although former "ER" star Margulies isn't involved in either of them. She'll be back in Chicago, though, home of the fictional County General hospital. She's in the cast of "The Good Wife," about a woman forced to go back to work as a lawyer when her district attorney husband is sent to prison.
One medical drama is "Miami Trauma," about a team of surgeons who try to save patients who have less than an hour to live. "Three Rivers," with Julia Ormond, is about organ donations.
CBS will spin off "NCIS," which has quietly become one of its top series over the past two years. The characters in the established series will be used to set up the story of a former Navy SEAL who works in the NCIS undercover unit in Los Angeles. O'Donnell and rapper LL Cool J are both in this series.
The network has a small but successful group of sitcoms, and will add only one next year: "Accidentally on Purpose" features Elfman in a story about a 39-year-old woman who gets pregnant from a one-night stand and decides to raise the baby alone.
CBS has also picked up a hidden-camera series, `Undercover Boss," based on a British show about a company executive who goes by disguise to work alongside his employees.
Some of the minor changes being made to the network lineup include shifting first-year hit "The Mentalist" to Thursdays and slightly shaking up its Monday comedy lineup.
"The Mentalist" is moving to Thursdays at 10:00 p.m., behind "CSI."
The sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" will shift to 9:30 p.m. on Mondays, behind "Two and a Half Men."
The new drama "Three Rivers" has landed at Sundays at 10:00 p.m. and the former NBC drama "Medium" will relocate to CBS on Fridays at 9:00 p.m.
Tuesday nights will be a double dose of "NCIS" with the spinoff "NCIS: Los Angeles," leading into the new drama "The Good Wife."
NEW 2009 FALL SCHEDULE FOR CBS:
MONDAYS 7-730P How I Met Your Mother (new time)
730-8P Accidentally On Purpose (new sitcom with Jenna Elfman)
8-830P Two and a Half Men
830-9P Big Bang Theory (new time)
9-10P CSI Miami
Rules of Engagement will be back mid-Season
TUESDAYS 7-8P NCIS
8-9P NCIS: LA (new drama with Chris O'Donnell & LL Cool J)
9-10P The Good Wife (drama with Juliana Marguiles & Chris Noth)
The Mentalist moves to Thursday, Without a Trace is cancelled
WEDNESDAYS 7-730P New Adventures of Old Christine
730-8P Gary Unmarried
8-9P Criminal Minds
9-10P CSI NY
THURSDAYS 7-8P Survivor
8-9P CSI
9-10P The Mentalist (New Day and Time)
FRIDAYS 7-8P Ghost Whisperer
8-9P Medium (New network)
9-10P Numb3rs
New Canadian series The Bridge may begin midseason
SATURDAYS 7-8P CrimeTime Saturday #1
8-9P CrimeTime Saturday #2
9-10P 48 Hours Mystery
SUNDAYS 6-7P 60 Minutes
7-8P The Amazing Race
8-9P Three Rivers (medical drama with Alex O'Loughlin of Moonlight)
9-10P Cold Case (New time)
CBS has cancelled the Unit, but it may be air on My Network TV this fall
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