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"   Photos, left to right: ABC, NBC, ABC  Now that all the broadcast networks have announced their 2011/2012 lineups, three of our ELLE culture editors make their picks for the most exciting new shows of the upcoming fall and mid-season schedule. Below, we welcome the new faces of situation comedy (Zooey Deschanel! Krysten Ritter!), wax nostalgic about returning stars (James Van Der Beek! Sarah Michelle Gellar!), and give you video previews of our favorite upfront showings. Rachel Rosenblit, Associate Editor Up All Night, NBC Could this even be happening? A show with Christina Applegate (a national freaking treasure) and Will Arnett (whose comic deadpan is so good it makes me cry) as new parents in a hilariously scripted show from Lorne God-Send Michaels, and co-starring Maya Rudolph, one of the funniest women on planet earth? Sign me up. Now. The New Girl, Fox Ah, Zooey Deschanel. You&amp;#039;re so quirky and charming in your flowy dresses and covetable bangs. And now, Fox has given you a pilot as a very lovable hipster in which you get to sing a lot. And the supporting cast is a group of hilarious and underrated comedy dudes (including the very funny Jake Johnson). I don&amp;#039;t know if this one has lasting power, but I&amp;#039;ll be watching. Smash, NBC The trailer of this new drama about the making of a Broadway musical about Marilyn Monroe and starring Idol runner-up Katherine McPhee, reminded me of A Chorus Line, one of my favorite musicals of all time (about young Broadway hopefuls and unbreakable spirits...sniffle), so I already have a soft spot for the show. It will feature an original Broadway-grade song every week, and has heavyweight cred with Steven Spielberg producing. Here&amp;#039;s hoping they use Anjelica Huston more than they did in the trailer.   Julie Vadnal, Assistant Editor Apartment 23, ABC There are few things I love more than a self-mocking celebrity (Matt LeBlanc on Episodes, Josh Groban on Glee, Conan O&amp;#039;Brien all the time), so James Van Der Beek more than satisfies on ABC&amp;#039;s mid-season comedy Apartment 23, which features the Dawson&amp;#039;s Creek star\u2014as himself\u2014playing the Paula Cole-sung theme song as he woos women. It&amp;#039;s a joke that could get old fast, but...wait, no, it&amp;#039;ll always be funny. The X Factor, Fox Welcome back, Simon. I&amp;#039;ve missed you. Awake, NBC Writer Kyle Killen&amp;#039;s new NBC drama Awake trails a man who lives in two separate lives: one in which his wife is dead, the other, his son\u2014but he has no idea which is reality. Sure, I have doubts about how long this concept can last\u2014Killen&amp;#039;s last effort, Lone Star, only made it two episodes before it was canceled (and I&amp;#039;m still crying over it)\u2014but this trailer is too alluring to ignore. Nojan Aminosharei, Editorial Assistant Good Christian Belles, ABC Originally titled Good Christian Bitches, a gleefully subversive melodrama, has old-school Darren Star, its creator, written all over it. After all, he did have a hand in creating the biggest bitch of them all: one Dr. Kimberly Shaw. And he&amp;#039;s assembled a cast of some seriously strong (and seriously underrated) television female talent: Leslie Bibb, who played a conniving socialite-turned-political power broker in NBC&amp;#039;s short-run Kings (yes, I know it was canceled two years ago; no, I will not stop shoehorning it into conversation); Miriam Shor, the master scene-stealer from NBC&amp;#039;s now-defunct Swingtown and HBO&amp;#039;s Mildred Pierce; Annie Potts from Designing Women (&amp;#039;nuff said); and of course, Kristen Chenowith, who I would watch taking a cutie patootie, if you know what I mean. Ringer, the CW Sarah Michelle Gellar makes her auspicious return to television in this surprisingly cerebral (it is on the CW, after all) mystery-drama, about an ex-junkie who steals her vanished twin sister&amp;#039;s identity, only to discover that the outwardly idyllic life she so coveted was all smoke and mirrors, obscuring something far more messy and sinister. The slick trailer and my undying love for Cruel Intentions have me hooked, but I&amp;#039;d tune in just to see how the show explains away the fact that nobody notices the identity swap. Persons of Interest, CBS Creator Jonah Nolan is the brilliant writer behind &amp;quot;Memento Mori,&amp;quot; the short story that inspired celebrated mindbender, Memento, which was directed by Jonah&amp;#039;s brother, Director Christopher Nolan. The two also co-wrote The Prestige and The Dark Knight, so this sci fi-procedural hybrid promises to be razor-sharp and action packed. Plus the show reunites producer J.J. Abrams with Lost`s Michael Emerson, adding extra fanboy punch. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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