ABC Plans 13 New Series for 2011-2012

Posted May 17, 2011 by Walt Belcher

Updated May 17, 2011 at 01:34 PM

ABC announced today that it will add 13 new shows including an update of “Charlie’s Angels” and a swinging, high flying drama “Pan Am,” set in the 1960s.

The network is keeping its current hits, too, including “Castle,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Private Practice,” “Modern Family,” “The Middle,” “Cougar Town,” “Desperate Housewives” and its reality shows - from “The Bachelor” to “Dancing With the Stars.”

Seven of the new shows ABC has ordered will premiere in the fall.

Mondays will see a return of “Dancing With the Stars” and “Castle”

Tuesdays adds “Last Man Standing” with Tim Allen as a manly man with a wife (Nancy Travis) and three daughters.
It will be followed by “Man Up” about three metrosexuals trying to become manly.

Wednesday has Jeremy Sisto starring as a single father who takes his surly teen daughter from New York to the suburbs in “Suburgatory.”  Also new at 10 p.m. is “Revenge,” a soap set in the Hamptons where Madeline Stowe plays a woman out to get even with those who have wronged her in the past.

Thursday: “Charlie’s Angels” will lead off the night followed by “Grey’s” and “Private Practice”

Friday gets “Extreme Makeover,” “Shark Tank” and “20/20.”

Saturday is reserved for repeats of stuff that aired during the rest of the week.

Sunday will start off with “Once Upon A Time,” a fantasy about a woman (Jennifer Morrison, of “House” who may be the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming. She goes back and forth between the fariy tale world and the real world. Robert Carlyle plays Rumplestiltskin; Raphael Sbarge is Jiminy Cricket.