Hayseed June (Dreama Walker) moves to New York City from Indiana, where her parents have put all their hopes and money into her future.

Just because you were in Bridesmaids doesn’t mean your mere presence is enough to save a predictable sitcom. Jessica St. Clair of that film stars as Jessica Black in Best Friends Forever where in the first scene she is served divorce papers while video chatting with her best friend Lennon Parham (who plays Lennon White).

NBC has been sitting on this gem of a sitcom for too long. From the executive producer of Scrubs and Spin City comes the single camera mid-season romantic comedy, Bent. Not an original premise by any stretch, Alex (Amanda Peet) is a recently divorced, tense attorney whose ex-husband is in jail.

There is nothing believable about Missing. Ashley Judd is Rebecca Winstone, erstwhile CIA agent and single mother whose son, Michael, goes missing soon after he leaves to study in Rome, Italy.

Considering alone the multiple-kingdom setting of George R. R. Martin’s epic book series, bringing it alive on a screen would be a daunting prospect. But it’s the broad cast with its rich character development that has held readers, and their stories needed to be properly told for this undertaking to resonate.

Inspector Sledge Hammer is a cop who shoots first so there’s no need to ask questions later and sleeps with his gun on the pillow next to him. He’s a reckless, sexist, trigger-happy sadist, but his tactics just may make him the best man to put away the bad guy in each half-hour episode. Running on ABC for just two seasons from 1986 to 1988, Sledge Hammer! was a spoof on the loose-cannon cop archetype that was popular enough to spawn four Dirty Harry sequels.

Losing everything and having to move back home is the premise for the nighttime soap GCB. Leslie Bibb is Amanda Vaughn, whose philandering husband is killed in a car crash after his Ponzi scheme is uncovered. Amanda returns to Dallas with her son and daughter after 18 years, and therefore returns to her wealthy, overbearing mother, played in delicious over-the-top socialite style by a helmet-haired Annie Potts.

Jason Isaacs, Harry Potter‘s Lucius Malfoy, is Detective Michael Britten in Awake. For this mid-season drama, Britten has shed his platinum-locked Death Eater look, but not the fantasy element that went with it.

Comic Book Men is a new reality series focused on a New Jersey-based comic book shop, Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash, which is owned by Kevin Smith (Clerks, etc.). Smith appears in the series via narrative interstitials of a sort, wherein he and the shop’s employees gather to record a podcast, but the show focuses on the shops three employees and a non-employee who’s perpetually hanging out at the store (and looks disturbingly like a shaggier version of Paul Giamatti). It’s better than I thought it would be.