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• At 8, ABC has a new Caveman, followed by new episodes of Carpoolers, Dancing with the Stars, and Boston Legal.
• CBS has a new NCIS at 8, followed by new episodes of The Unit and Cane.
• FOX has new episodes of Bones and House.
• There's a new Singing Bee on NBC at 8, then new episodes of The Biggest Loser and Law and Order: SVU.
• The CW has a new Beauty and the Geek, followed by a new episode of The Reaper.
• PBS has a new Nova at 8, then a new P.O.V.
• HBO has another installment of their miniseries The Five at 8.
• Also at 8: ESPN has two new eps of The World Series of Poker.
• At 9, Bravo has two new eps of Queer Eye.
• At 9:30, Food Network has a new Have Fork, Will travel, followed by a new Throwdown with Bobby Flay.
• At 10, FX has a new Damages.
• TLC has a new Miami Ink at 10.
• Sci-Fi has a new ECW at 10.

Check your local TV listings for more.

While the new ABC comedies Cavemen and Carpoolers didn't rule the night, they did pretty well in their series premieres last night. But then again, this might have been just viewers curious to see how Cavemen turned out and those numbers could drop a lot next week (and based on the way Cavemen turned out, that's almost a guarantee...).

When I saw the first promo for the new ABC comedy Carpoolers it was at the same time I saw the preview for the new ABC comedy Cavemen. Both took place in a car and neither of them were that funny. Since then, however, my respect for Carpoolers had grown to the point that it may be a show I may tune in to watch for the first few episodes (if ABC let's it last that long).

That was until last night. Now, I'll definitely be making sure to tune in to the show when it premieres on October 2nd thanks to a new promo that's been airing on the network and the family of Disney-owned channels. It's nothing spectacular, really. Just the four characters in the carpool driving along listening to the radio. Of course the song they're listening to is a little Phil Collins ditty called In the Air Tonight. And, the part of the song that we hear is one that is extremely famous to air drummers world round.

We TV Critics are dead on our feet now that we're in the last two days of a near-three week press tour at the Beverly Hilton, but that hasn't stopped us from getting dish from actors and producers here to hawk their fall ABC series.

On stage to promote Cashmere Mafia (a series about four women living life in New York City) creator Darren Star was asked about his other program about four women that call the Big Apple home. Star says: "There's a [film] script. It's in the form of pre-production."

The tour that never ends is, well, coming to an end.

ABC kicks off the last two days of the TV Critics press tour today with an executive session by ABC entertainment prez Stephen McPherson, followed by a look at new series Pushing Daisies, Women's Murder Club, Cavemen, Cashmere Mafia, Carpoolers, and Dirty Sexy Money.

Oliver Platt, last seen in the Showtime series Huff, will star in the ABC comedy pilot The Thick of It, about workers for a low-level congressman. The show is executive produced by Arrested Development creator Mitchell Hurwitz and based on the British comedy of the same name.

Chris Lowell (Veronica Mars) will join previously cast Tim Daly and Taye Diggs in the two-hour Grey's Anatomy episode meant to serve as a springboard to a possible Grey's Anatomy spinoff.

Steve Howey of Reba has been cast in The Beast, about a womanizing veterinarian who hates animals. Tucker Cawley, a writer and executive producer for Everybody Loves Raymond, will also write and executive produce the comedy pilot for FOX. The series is based on the British comedy Beast.

ABC has announced casting for some of the networks upcoming pilots:

Scott Wolf will play the lead in a still-untitled comedy for ABC taking place in a law firm, despite only being twelve years old. Okay, he's actually pushing forty, but seriously, the dude looks like he never ages.

Charles Esten will star in another comedy pilot for ABC called American Family. Esten will play the patriarch of a middle class family. One assumes they'll do and say comedic things.