The Safe House - Expositions

Speaking before representatives of the advertising and media communities at the New Amsterdam Theater in New York, Stuart Bloomberg and Lloyd Braun, co-chairmen, ABC Entertainment Television Group, today announced the ABC Television Network's new 2001--2002 primetime schedule. The new schedule includes the addition of five new entertainment series for the Fall -- two comedies and three dramas.

In addition they also announced one pre-season pickup, two mid-season pickups and an exciting, upcoming project, "Ocean Challenge," an epic series of undersea specials from Academy Award-winner James Cameron ("Titanic," "Terminator 2: Judgment Day") and Peabody Award-winner Jean-Michel Cousteau.

ABC's complete 22-hour fall primetime schedule, which will premiere in September, is as follows...

MONDAY:
7:00 p.m. "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" - new time period
8:00 p.m. ABC's NFL "Monday Night Football"

TUESDAY:
7:00 p.m. "Dharma & Greg" - new time period
7:30 p.m. "What About Joan" - new time period
8:00 p.m. "Bob Patterson" - new comedy series
8:30 p.m. "Spin City" - new time period
9:00 p.m. "Philly" - new drama series

WEDNESDAY:
7:00 p.m. "My Wife and Kids"
7:30 p.m. "The Dad" - new comedy series
8:00 p.m. "The Drew Carey Show"
8:30 p.m. "The Job"
9:00 p.m. "20/20" - new night (September - November) / "NYPD Blue" - new night (November)

THURSDAY:
7:00 p.m. "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"
7:30 p.m. "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"
8:00 p.m. "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Special Edition"
9:00 p.m. "PrimeTime Thursday"

FRIDAY:
7:00 p.m. "The Mole II" - new night and time period
8:00 p.m. "Thieves" - new drama series
9:00 p.m. "Once and Again" - new night / "20/20" - beginning in December

SATURDAY:
7:00 p.m. The ABC Big Picture Show

SUNDAY:
6:00 p.m. "The Wonderful World of Disney"
8:00 p.m. "Alias" - new drama series
9:00 p.m. "The Practice"

Descriptions of the five new entertainment series joining ABC's primetime schedule in the fall are (in alphabetical order):

New Series Descriptions

"Alias" (Sunday at 8:00 p.m.) - From J.J. Abrams, the creator of "Felicity," comes this thoroughly contemporary, high-octane series. Terror-filled eyes. Lungs choked with water. A pounding heartbeat. For Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner, "Pearl Harbor," "Dude, Where's My Car?"), a vivacious, athletic grad student, it's a typical day in her life at her not-so-typical after-school job: she's an agent for SD-6, a top-secret division of the CIA -- and she's being tortured. Recruited freshman year, the then shy and lonely Sydney jumped at the chance to be part of something bigger than English 101 and Calculus II. Little did she know how great she'd be at espionage or how much she'd love it. Today Sydney is no longer shy or alone. Her boyfriend has proposed, and Sydney's facing a huge dilemma: What does she want from the rest of her life, and what does she tell her boyfriend?

Revealing her secret is verboten, and if there's one rule you don't break -- this is the one. But Sydney breaks it, and suddenly her world is spun terrifyingly sideways: Her boyfriend's life is now in grave danger, and Sydney's in a fight for her own life. She discovers that her long-estranged father, Jack (Victor Garber, "Titanic," "Annie"), is also SD-6 and that the organization might be covering up a secretly nefarious plan. Plus, a terrorist is still holding Sydney's head under water, and coercing info from Sydney is like pulling teeth -- so he's about to try that too... From Touchstone Television Productions, LLC. J.J. Abrams is executive producer. Also starring Michael Vartan ("Never Been Kissed"), Bradley Cooper, Merrin Dungey, Carl Lumbly ("Cagney & Lacey"), Ron Rifkin ("L.A. Confidential") and Kevin Weisman.

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