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MollyShannon

(left) and

Selma Blair

Opportunity

KnocksPremieres: 8 p.m.Tuesday

The search for the so-called typi-cal American family has thisshow hunkered down in peoples

front yards.Family members are

grilled about one another.The more

they know, the more they win. Some

questions shouldnt be too tough,

such as What is the wifes favorite

perfume? A clip reveals a brother

tearing apart his sisters room for

her diary and heading toward a cer-

taindeath.

I Hosted by JD Roth

Life on MarsPremieres: 10 p.m. Oct.9

Adapted from a hit BBC show,this crime drama/fantasyrevolves around modern-day NYPD

Detective Sam Tyler,who awakens

after a near-fatal car accident in the

year 1973,where he has to pursue

police workwith no 21st-century

technology.And his new boss, Gene

Hunt, is a politically incorrect, old-

school cop who bends the rules

when he deems it necessary or

just convenient. Is Sam in a coma,

or is something more fantastic

behind his new reality?I Cast: Jason OMara, Harvey Keitel

Whats new on the networks?

Everything from fantasyto suspense to comedyKath & KimPremieres: 8:30 p.m. Oct.9

The hit Australian sitcom about a comicallydysfunctional suburban woman and herdaughter picks up an American accent in this

remake.K ath Day is a 40-

something divorcee look-

ing for a new romance,

while daughter Kim is a

spoiled princess reel-

ing from her recent

separation from her

husband.

I Cast: Selma Blair,

Molly Shannon, John

Michael Higgins, Mikey

Day

ABC

NBC

CBS

JD Roth

Christian Slater

CrusoePremieres: 8 p.m.Oct. 17

Daniel Defoes classic novel spins out into a TV series in this saga ofa young man shipwrecked on a desert island,where his unlikelyfriendship with a native named Friday helps him hold onto s anity.

While the current lives of these men are filled with hungry cannibals,

wild animals and terrifying storms, flashbacks reveal Crusoes life

with wife Susannah before he became a castaway.

I Cast: Sam Neill,Philip Winchester, Sean Bean,Anna Walton,Tongayi Chirisa

My Own Worst EnemyPremieres: 10 p.m.Oct. 13

C

hristian Slater makes his weekly series debut

as a man with two identities: mild-mannered

family man and efficiency expert Henry Spivey,

and Edward Albright,a covert operative who

speaks 13 languages and is literally trained to

kill with his teeth. Each is unaware of the other

until the psychological wall between them is

breeched,often thrusting them both into situa-

tions where they are ill-equipped to cope.

I Cast: Christian Slater,Mike OMalley, Saffron

Burrows,Yara Martinez, Alfre Woodard

Knight Rider Premieres: 8 p.m. Wednesday

In executive producer Doug Limans reinvention of the 1980s cult hit,former Army Ranger Mike Traceur is recruited to protect the KnightIndustries 3000, or KITT a superintelligent computer disguised as a

Ford Mustang from the ruthless bad guys who killed its inventor.

I Cast: Justin Bruening, Deanna Russo, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Bruce

Davison,Yancey Arias,Paul Campbell

The Ex LPremieres:9 p.m.

Awoman, despvisits an acerwho tells her she

man she will mar

with him within t

never wed.

I Cast: Adam Rot

Breckenridge,E li

Boston, Amir Ta

right)

The MenPremieres: 9 p.m.T

California detemention his fremarkable track

That doesnt mea

with her staff, ha

I Cast: Simon Ba

EleventhPremieres:10 p.m

B iophysicist Jscience adviment, serves as a

in protecting tho

scientific breakth

nefarious gain.I Cast: Rufus Se

Philip

Winchester Marley Shelton

and Rufus Sewe