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Sometimes, a night at the bar can feel like an entire year. That's exactly what happens in the new ABC comedy, "Mixology." Taking place on a single night and in a single bar, 10 singles drink and find love in strange ways (one seems to involve vomiting).

Tom (Blake Lee) is out on the town for the first time in 8 years after getting dumped by his fiancee. Accompanying this inept young man are his friends Cal (Craig Frank) and Bruce (Andrew Santino). Tom's first attempted conquest doesn't work out so well when he approaches Maya (Ginger Gonzaga), a somewhat brutal lawyer. Maya is out with her semi-engaged friend, Live (Kate Simses). Meanwhile, a single mom named Jessica (Alexis Carra) and her sister, Janey (Sarah Bolger, "Once Upon a Time"), are waiting for a blind date. That would be a very nervous Ron (Adam Campbell), who promptly vomits into a purse.

Behind the bar are the bubbly Kacey (Vanessa Lengies, "Glee") and the brooding Dominic (Adan Canto, "The Following"), who seem to have had some form of a relationship of their own.

Can an entire season based on a single night work out? ABC seems to be betting on it with "Mixology," airing at midseason. 

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Winning the lottery -- it's the stuff of dreams. But for seven employees at a gas station in Queens, the dream is going to become a reality. Unfortunately for "Lucky 7," there may be a little bit of a nightmare included in this new ABC drama.

The story focuses on the employees of a gas station who have been chipping into a lottery pool for months with no expectation of winning. That's too bad -- they all need the money. Matt (Matt Long) needs to find a home for his girlfriend and kids. Matt's brother Nicky (Stephen Louis Grush) is a debt-ridden ex-con. Samira (Summer Bishil) just wants to go to Juilliard. Denise (Lorraine Bruce) would have the time to fix her marriage. The manager, Bob (Isiah Whitlock, Jr.) wants to retire. Leanne (Anastasia Phillips) can help her daughter realize her dreams. And Antonio (Luis Antonio Ramos) just wants to give his family a better life.

But things get complicated quickly. Not everyone will share in the big jackpot after they win. And past crimes may come back to haunt everyone, no matter how much money they have won.

"Lucky 7" will air Tuesdays at 10pm on ABC.

ABC is beefing up its family comedy lineup with the new series "Back in the Game." The network premiered a trailer for the show during its Upfronts in New York, and the first look makes it seem like ABC has another crowd-pleasing comedy on its hands.

The series stars Maggie Lawson as a down-on-her-luck former All Star softball player who lost everything in her divorce and has to move herself and her son (Griffin Gluck) in with her opinionated father (James Caan), who she is still resentful over from their troubled relationship in her youth. She ends up deciding to coach her son and the rest of the athletically-challenged outcasts from their local Little League team, though this trailer makes it seem like that's easier said than done.

Written and executive produced by "Las Vegas'" Mark and Robb Cullen, it will be interesting to see how this show resonates with audiences. Considering the fact it's stuck in the Wednesday 8:30 p.m. timeslot between "The Middle" and "Modern Family," viewers will likely tune in for its fun comedy fare.

The concept hardly sounds like a hit: a dance contest for unknowns often doing unusual dances. Yet FOX's "So You Think You Can Dance," which launches its 10th season Tuesday and Wednesday, May 14 and 15, continues to tap into what eludes other dance shows: the purity of the art.
"There is no question they have not seen it all before," Nigel Lythgoe, executive producer and judge, tells Zap2it. "That is the joy of seeing dance develop. I do believe every season these kids get better and better. The one thing dancers have [over singers] is if you are tone-deaf, you still sound as bad as you did three or four years ago. If you are a dancer and train hard for three or four years, there is improvement."
"Everyone says, 'How are you going to tweak it?' " Lythgoe says. "The only way I would tweak it is possibly moving results to the beginning of the show and say, 'Here are the results of last week's show.' "
After the two-night premiere, the show runs only on Tuesdays.
"It is really awkward without a results show," Lythgoe says.
The purpose, though, remains the same.
"At the end of the day, we are going for the best dancers and most diverse of dancers," he says.
And it is diverse, introducing viewers to krumping, jookin', waacking, and popping and locking. "SYTYCD" alumni have gone on to Broadway ("Newsies," "Rock of Ages"), movies ("Step Up," "High School Musical") and TV ("Bunheads," the pros on "Dancing With the Stars").
For a dance contest featuring unknowns, the numbers are impressive: 30 Emmy nods with 11 wins. Lady Gaga, Christina Perri and Katy Perry made their first major TV appearances on "SYTYCD."
And, it sparked one engagement -- tWitch and Allison Holker. He returns this season, as a judge and as a dancer in the "All Stars" episode.
"Being on the show puts you in this head space where your focus is at its most extreme," says tWitch, whose real name is Stephen Boss. "You are actually so focused, you are not thinking about all of the things you can't do, rather than just how to do them and making sure you have the basics and making sure you can practice and make it better."
He's among the judges during auditions. Others are Minnie Driver, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Wayne Brady and Adam Shankman. Permanent judges are Lythgoe and Mary Murphy. Cat Deeley remains the host.
If tWitch could give advice to the dancers vying for the top prize of $250,000, he would tell them, "Be fearless. Also while it is a dance show as well, let your personality shine through, how you are relating to what is going on, because those are the things people want to see as a person. If you get the steps 100 percent perfect, that's great, but how are you feeling? They either focus on one thing or none at all. Hey, forget the camera is even there. Focus!"
Having shepherded this show over the years, and having started as a dancer who moved into choreography, Lythgoe knows every element of "SYTYCD." At the heart of it, he remains a dance fan.
"The biggest thing for me is I love the creativity of these kids," Lythgoe says. "Somehow the formally trained ones lose a little bit of their creativity because the steps have been beaten into them. With the street kids they just watch YouTube and video, and they feel the music better. And that is really important in this day and age when we are losing creativity -- that music can make you creative."

This season, ABC failed to find a drama that it could launch behind "Revenge" on Sundays at 10 p.m. and make stick, with both "666 Park Avenue" and "Red Window" tanking. In the newly-released trailer for "Betrayal," the network's fall attempt in the time slot, it's made clear that ABC hopes that by giving "Revenge" fans more of the same, they'll stick around.

"Betrayal" tells the story of Sara Hadley (Hannah Ware, "Boss") and Attorney Jack McAllister (Stuart Townsend, "Queen of the Damned"), whose chance meeting leads to an illicit love affair. The only problem? They both married, and Sara's prosecutor husband is taking on a high-profile murder case involving Jack's in-laws -- on in which Jack is lead counsel on. James Cromwell, Henry Thomas ("E.T.") and Chris J. Johnson ("The Vampire Diaries") co-star.

The trailer hits all the requisite melodramatic beats, including the nearly comical image of Sara shattering a wine bottle and slowly sliding down her kitchen wall after learning of her colliding worlds. This similarly-named soap ought to pair quite nicely with "Revenge," indeed.

Do you think ABC has another soapy hit on its hands? Or is this nothing more than a sudsy dud?

"Betrayal" premieres this fall on ABC on Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.

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Not all women are perfect. Some lack perfect bodies. Many are awkward. Most don't have a clue about what to do when faced with hot guys and night clubs. "Super Fun Night," the new ABC comedy starring Rebel Wilson ("Pitch Perfect," "Bridesmaids"), is about those women.

Wilson plays Kimmie Boublier, a young lawyer who has spent every Friday night staying in with her best friends, Helen-Alice and Marika (Liza Lapira and Lauren Ash). That all changes when the handsome and British Richard Lovell (Kevin Bishop) invites Kimmie along for a night out. Since it's a Friday night, all of the girls go out for a great night on the town.

It doesn't turn out so great, a fact that is clearly shown in the trailer for the new pilot. Instead, the awkward women descend into a chaos filled with light-up clothing, baring imperfect bodies and a whole lot of yelling. The end result doesn't look even remotely "super fun" for the characters on the show.

For those of us watching at home, however, this could be one of the most fun comedies out there in the fall. "Super Fun Night" will air Wednesdays at 9:30pm on ABC.

ABC released a 30-second teaser for "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." over the weekend. The full trailer is here now, and it is a basket of goodies for fans of both the Marvel movies and Joss Whedon.

The clip features Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) shocking a fellow S.H.I.E.L.D. agent (Brett Dalton) by revealing he's not nearly as dead as everyone thought. It features a superhero character played by "Angel" alum J. August Richards, and it's full of great Whedon dialogue. For instance, when Coulson and Dalton's Grant Ward apprehend a hacker (Chloe Bennet of "Nashville") and tell her what comes next can go one of two ways, she quips, "Let me guess -- is one of them the easy way?" Ward deadpans, "No."

One other intriguing bit from the trailer: The female agent interrogating Ward starting about the 25-second mark sounds an awful lot like Cobie Smulders, who played S.H.I.E.L.D. operative Maria Hill in "The Avengers." We never see who's speaking to Ward before Coulson enters, but Smulders did suggest a cameo was a possibility in an interview a few months ago.

"Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." also stars Ming-Na Wen, Elizabeth Henstridge and Iain de Caestecker. Whedon directed the pilot and co-wrote it with his brother Jed and Maurissa Tancharoen. The series is set to air on Tuesday nights in the fall.

Watch the trailer and let us know what you think -- will you be tuning into "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." next season?

ABC announced Tuesday (May 14) that "Once Upon a Time in Wonderland" will be leading off its Thursday night lineup come fall and with it, the network released some sneak peek photos of the "Once Upon a Time" spin-off series -- see them all in our photo gallery.

Sophie Lowe (above) stars as Alice, though a grown-up and seemingly darker version than the Disney heroine everyone is used to. According to ABC, the show starts with Alice in Victorian England, spinning tales of a land on the other side of a rabbit hole.

Everyone thinks this troubled girl is crazy and it's up to the Knave of Hearts (Michael Socha) and the White Rabbit (voiced by John Lithgow) to rescue her and take her back to Wonderland.

The series also stars Peter Gadiot as Cyrus, a genie Alice fell in love with, and Emma Rigby as the Queen of Hearts.

From these pictures, we're getting almost an "American McGee's Alice" vibe -- anyone else?

The "OUAT" spin-off will premiere in fall 2013. Watch the trailer below.

Already renewed for a second season, FOX's freshman comedy "The Mindy Project" has the rare pleasure to close out its season on Tuesday, May 14, with the assurance that it'll return next year.
But that doesn't mean that star, executive producer and writer Mindy Kaling -- who plays love-hungry 30-something OB/GYN Dr. Mindy Lahiri -- is ending at a different place than she planned.
Out on the Universal Studios back lot, around the corner from what looks like a giant courthouse and a huge, flat painted row of urban buildings, Kaling is taking a break inside a jumbled restaurant set. From the giant Buddha and pagoda lamps, it might have been a Chinese eatery.
The penultimate episode is in production, involving a frat party and two of Mindy's ex-boyfriends: cool Lutheran pastor Casey (Anders Holm, "Workaholics") and dentist Tom (Bill Hader, "Saturday Night Live"). There's even some violence, but first, it's time for a snack.
"I'm going to add more Craisins," Kaling says, referring both to her bowl of yogurt and to her love of dried cranberries. "It's all about the Craisins."

And, apparently, it's also about having a road map.
"Pickup or no pickup," she tells Zap2it, "we had the same ending plan, but also there would have been a little bit of finality if we hadn't gotten picked up. I've been thinking about the second season since the pilot, because I thought about the world and how big it was and how ambitious we were."
"The Mindy Project," inspired by Kaling's OB/GYN mother, also stars Chris Messina and Ed Weeks as Drs. Danny Castellano and Jeremy Reed, respectively, Mindy's co-workers in a medical practice. Ike Barinholtz plays nurse Morgan Tookers while, like Kaling, doing double duty as a writer and story editor.
"She had her ending in July or August," says Barinholtz. "Even though it might be some kind of cliffhanger-y end, there's some kind of emotional resolution of where those characters go to over the year -- so if we didn't come back, there would be a sense of completion."
As for the little altercation between Casey and Tom, Kaling says, "I thought it would be fun to see a minister and an orthodontist fight. It's one of the nice things, you just dream it up and say, 'Let's do it this week on the New York street on the Universal lot."
While Casey's headed off on a noble mission trip for a year, there are no plans to have him fall prey to an unfortunate overseas accident.
"I hope so," says Kaling of whether Holm's character might return next season. "I don't want to give too much away about the ending, but we talk a little bit about that at the end of the episode.
"And we are not at the point in the series where we're murdering characters yet."
Not currently on Mindy's romantic radar are her cohorts: slick, British Jeremy and divorced, tough-talking Danny.
When he's out and about, though, Weeks winds up fielding a lot of romance-oriented questions, including some from fans during a screening and panel discussion in Los Angeles.
"A lot of the questions involved Mindy and Danny," he says, "and if that's ever going to happen between them. Mindy was saying there was division in the writers room, with writers who wanted them to hook up before the end of the season and writers who don't.
"But we just read the finale, which is very exciting, and you'll have to keep your eyes peeled to see what happens. But it was great."
Prior to Messina's arrival on set, Barinholtz has a confession about him.

"I just gaze into his eyes," Barinholtz says. "They're so smoldering. I want everyone to know, especially my wife, I have not just a man-crush, but a straight-up crush. I love him."
To which Messina -- who also has a recurring role on HBO's "The Newsroom" -- later says, "Oh, that's nice. He's amazing. He's so talented."

Switching to Danny and Mindy, he says, "There are some people who want us to get together and some people who never want us to get together. I don't know. But in real life ... they're so different. They have very strong feelings, philosophies, and they have the bond of their jobs. Maybe it would actually work."
Kaling strolls up to Messina, who's standing in the middle of the street set, and gives him a hug.
"My buddy," she says. "He's often naked on the show, by design. It makes me seem like a pervert. He's so funny. Other people have discovered it, too."
"When we started doing this together," says Messina, "everybody from FOX, and rightly so, and maybe the studio, were definitely questioning my comedy ability, but Mindy saw something."
When Kaling mentions FOX originally sought Messina for a high-profile legal drama, he praises its writing.
"If you like that show so much," Kaling quips, "go back and do that pilot!"

The coven of witches for "American Horror Story's" third season keeps adding some big names -- the latest of which are Angela Bassett and Patti LuPone, announced creator Ryan Murphy on Twitter.

"Two legends are joining the cast of American Horror Story: Coven -- Oscar nominee Angela Bassett and Tony winner Patti LuPone!," Murphy tweets.

Now, we don't actually know for sure that these two ladies are playing witches, but we sure hope so. They would make excellent dark arts practitioners, we think.

The two award-winning actresses join the previously-announced new faces Kathy Bates and Gabourey Sidibe, plus returning actors as returning cast members Taissa Farmiga, Frances Conroy, Evan Peters, Lily Rabe, Sarah Paulson and Jessica Lange. We also know the witchy season will be filming, at least in part, in New Orleans.

"American Horror Story: Coven" will premiere in October on FX.

ABC Family's new "Pretty Little Liars" spin-off "Ravenswood" has cast two more female characters.

Nicole Gale Anderson has been tapped to play leading lady Miranda, a feisty foster kid who uses her wits to cover her emotional scars, reports EW. Anderson is an alum of the CW's "Beauty and the Beast."

And Deadline says Britne Oldford has been cast as Remy, a series regular who can fit in anywhere but doesn't belong to any one clique. She won't stop looking for the truth until she finds it. Oldford was previously seen on "Skins" and "American Horror Story."

These two beauties join the previously-announced Merritt Patterson, Brett Dier, Elizabeth Whitson and PLL regular Tyler Blackburn. "Ravenswood" will premiere in October as part of the annual PLL Halloween special.

"90210" may be over, but this is just the beginning for one of the show's leading men, Matt Lanter. The actor who played Liam for five years is finally moving on from Annie in order to play the lead role in The CW's new series, "Star Crossed" (formerly "Oxygen").

We got some of the scoop on this futuristic Romeo and Juliet tale when we spoke to Lanter recently. More than anything, the actor described his new project as a tale of civil rights in a near-future society. "It's a really cool pilot: Brown vs. Board of Education meets space aliens with an epic romance," he explained. "Instead of whites and blacks and race issues and civil rights issues, instead of the same issues we dealt with 50 years ago, it's now the human species and an alien species."

The parallels with the American civil rights movement are obvious in "Star Crossed," a show that focuses on a group of alien teenagers sent to integrate a human school. "The aliens are segregated right now, kind of an internment camp," said Lanter. "We pick up with seven alien kids being put into a human high school as a government program to see if the two species can be integrated and live peacefully."

This being a CW show, there does of course have to be a love story. Lanter's character of Roman falls for a human girl and the expected problems of this romance quickly follow. "You have this epic romance that's CW-worthy," Lanter promised viewers. "It's Romeo and Juliet, basically -- it's one of the greatest stories ever told, forbidden romance."

Since The CW has formerly decided to move forward with "Star Crossed," we will definitely get a chance to see this love and civil rights story for ourselves.

Keith Urban stopped by "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" Tuesday (May 14) to make a big "American Idol" announcement.

"Well, of course Randy's leaving ... and I'm here to announce today that I'm going to be replacing Randy ... bittersweet, really. I'm going to miss Randy, I gotta say. He's a beautiful part of that whole institution that is 'Idol,'" says Urban.

FOX has already said that next season, it's "likely" the "Idol" judges panel will go back to three judges -- we wonder who will be flanking Urban? Do you hope Mariah Carey or Nicki Minaj return?

However you feel about the rest of the judges, Urban has been a shining star on Season 12 and we're excited he's coming back.

He goes on to talk about the upcoming finals showdown between Candice Glover and Kree Harrison -- "It's a girl's year to win. I'm not a betting man, but I like the odds," Urban cracks.

But in all seriousness, he says it's hard to say who is going to win.

"I think Candice has a bit of the edge, just based on her powerhouse vocals of the last few performances. But Kree is an amazing singer," says Urban.

The "American Idol" finals air Wednesday and Thursday, May 15 and 16, on FOX.

FOX is going back to the past in its new comedy "Surviving Jack" -- all the way back to the early 1990s.

The coming-of-age story centering on the relationship between a teenage boy (Connor Buckley) and his aloof dad (former "Law & Order: SVU" star Christopher Meloni), the Jack of the title, is set in 1991. (It's based on a book by series co-creator Justin Halpern, who was in fact a teenager in the '90s.)

Aside from a Marky Mark song and a few jokes at the expense of a Hypercolor shirt, though, the show focuses more on the core relationship than on the setting. The show's trailer has a low-key vibe that's pretty much the opposite of the last show based on something Halpern wrote, "$#*! My Dad Says." Meloni has a very good deadpan, and Buckley conveys the frustrations of high school pretty well.

"Surviving Jack" also stars "Hart of Dixie's" Claudia Lee as Buckley's sister. You'll see Alex Kapp Horner ("The New Adventures of Old Christine") in the trailer as well, but her role is being recast.

The show is set for a midseason run on FOX in 2013-14. What do you think of the trailer?

One of the bigger changes ABC is making to its lineup for next season is paring down "Dancing With the Stars" from two nights a week to just one. The results show will now be integrated into its two-hour Monday episode.

"We want to focus it in," ABC Entertainment president Paul Lee told reporters Tuesday (May 14). "We're planning to do two seasons, and we think by taking the results show and building it into the two-hour block on Monday night, we can really build a sense of occasion to that and drive viewership to Monday night."

The network and BBC Worldwide Productions, which produces "DWTS," are still working out how the combined performance and results show will work. Lee says it's "absolutely" possible to have an audience-vote component within the show, but other changes -- including the number of celebrities competing -- may be in the offing.

(FOX's "So You Think You Can Dance" combined its performance and results shows last year, with the results of the audience vote revealed in the following week's episode.)

Eliminating a separate results show also opens up another hour in the network's schedule, which ABC is filling this season with the highly anticipated "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."

"We had very, very strong development this year, so [eliminating the Tuesday results show] allows us to put 'S.H.I.E.L.D.' in at 8 o'clock on Tuesday, which we think is a perfect place for that show," Lee says. "It's a one-two punch for us."

What do you think of ABC's decision? Will a combined performance and results show make you more likely to watch "DWTS"?

"The Mindy Project" closes out Season 1 tonight with a finale that continues the show's recent winning streak. Full of dense plotting, romantic complications and laugh out loud moments, the episode co-written by creator and star Mindy Kaling and Jeremy Bronson won't disappoint anyone who has warmed to this standout romantic comedy over the course of its first 24 episodes.

We'll have a full breakdown after the episode airs tonight, but here are five teases of what to expect from "Take Me With You."

1) Mindy and Pastor Casey (Anders Holm) try out Skype sex

After Casey dropped a bomb on Mindy last week -- he wants to move to Haiti for a year for missionary work -- Mindy is still wrestling with how OK she is with the whole idea. A disastrous attempt at Skype sex (like phone sex, but with video) doesn't exactly help.

2) Mindy's ex-boyfriend Jamie (BJ Novak) returns and so do the Deslauriers (Mark and Jay Duplass)

Complicating Mindy's big decision about whether or not to stay with Casey: She'll run into ex-boyfriend Jamie (from the show's awesome "Harry and Sally" arc) and the ever-present Brendan Deslaurier ... at Casey's going away party. But the big question is: Are any of these guys actually right for Mindy?

3) Danny, Jeremy and Mindy team up for a triplet delivery

There's a little competition brewing at the office as the three partners join forces to deliver one baby each for an expectant mother of triplets. It's a minor subplot that demonstrates both how smart the show has become about integrating workplace stories into the relationship comedy and how nimble it is at balancing multiple story threads in a single half hour.

4) We get an eyeful of Christina's artwork

Now that Danny is officially back together with his ex-wife Christina (Chloe Sevigny), the episode takes us inside the apartment they share together and the walls are covered with Christina's unique black-and-white portraits of Danny. Chris Messina is one hell of a good sport. (And awesome. And deserving of an Emmy nomination.)

5) Danny and Mindy share a moment at the party

Kaling has promised that any possible romance between Mindy and Danny will be a slow burn. But that doesn't mean that their friendship could never develop into something more. We're not revealing anything beyond that.

It's official: the Girl With the Yellow Umbrella" is in fact "How I Met Your Mother's" titular mother. Fans have been waiting eight long seasons to learn who the woman Ted Mosby settles down with is, and after countless fakeouts and teases, the Season 8 finale revealed actress Cristin Milioti is that woman.

So how did Milioti land the part of "How I Met Your Mother's" Mother? According to series co-creator Carter Bays, the show's casting director has been talking to Milioti for a while now.

"Part of what helped us is our casting director Marisa [Ross], she sort of has been talking about Cristin for two years now," Bays tells Entertainment Weekly. "It helped that she turned us onto her and then the more we got to know Cristin and see her work, the more we realized, Yeah, she's the right choice. So that definitely helped, because we didn't want to do a big casting cattle call -- we were going to make it 'come audition for Barney's cousin' or something."

While we still don't know much about the mother beyond the fact that she has a yellow umbrella, there is plenty we can share about Milioti. She is actually best known for her work on Broadway, and recently wrapped up her stint as "Girl" in the musical adaptation of "Once." The 27-year-old New Jersey native received a Tony nomination for the role.

Milioti has taken a number of small but memorable roles in TV shows like "30 Rock" and "The Sopranos." Though she only appeared in one episode of "30 Rock," Milioti left her mark as new writer Abby Flynn, a woman with a very annoying voice.

In "The Sopranos," Milioti appeared three times as Catherine Sacrimoni, the daughter of New York City mafia boss Johnny Sacrimoni." She also starred as Onya Eggertson in one episode of "The Good Wife." 

Milioti also has done work in feature films. Recently took small roles in "Sleepwalk With Me" and Martin Scorsese's upcoming feature "The Wolf of Wall Street." She also has a history of starring in commercials, as can be seen below.

Do you think Milioti is a good choice for the Mother?

ABC is bringing a big gun to the Tuesday night fight this fall, scheduling what is arguably the year's most anticipated new series -- "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." -- opposite one of TV's most watched shows, CBS stalwart "NCIS."

"We believe that 'S.H.I.E.L.D.' is particularly good at 8 because we think it's going to recruit a whole new audience coming in," ABC Entertainment Group president Paul Lee said during a conference call today (May 14) to discuss the fall schedule. "We think it has a built in audience obviously because it's associated with the amazing 'Avengers' franchise and we don't necessarily think that audience is the same as 'NCIS.' We have high hopes for that at 8 o'clock on Tuesday."

"We don't normally talk about testing but it tested so well in all four quadrants [men and women both over 25 and under 25]," Lee revealed. "Of course it's [executive produced and co-created by] Joss Whedon. He made 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.' He knows how to create not just great television but great television with relationships at the heart of it."

"Not only does ['S.H.I.E.L.D.'] have great relationships and humor but also it has the promise of the Marvel franchise," Lee continued. "It brings a sense of wonder and excitement and adventure. We think it's driven by character and it's gonna bring a wider audience to us."

Here's ABC's official summary for "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.":

Clark Gregg reprises his role of Agent Phil Coulson from Marvel's feature films, as he assembles a small, highly select group of Agents from the worldwide law-enforcement organization known as S.H.I.E.L.D. Together they investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary. Coulson's team consists of Agent Grant Ward (Brett Dalton), highly trained in combat and espionage; Agent Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen), expert pilot and martial artist; Agent Leo Fitz (Iain De Caestecker), brilliant engineer; and Agent Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge), genius bio-chemist. Joining them on their journey into mystery is new recruit and computer hacker Skye (Chloe Bennet).

"Arrested Development" Season 4 is only 12 days away from premiering on Netflix, which means that the promotion is coming fast and hard for the upcoming 15-episode season. Portia de Rossi appeared on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" to hype the show, and also unveiled a new clip from the upcoming episodes.

This clip features de Rossi's Lindsay Bluth Funke and David Cross' Tobias Funke as they try to buy a house from Ed Helms' character, James "I Don't Sell" Carr(s). Helms seems to be reprising the house salesman role from his appearance in "Arrested Development's" Season 2 premiere, "The One Where Michael Leaves."

Lindsay and Tobias don't seem to have changed much since "Arrested Development's" third season ended. Not only does Lindsay initially deny having a child, but she and her husband still have no work ethic, no home and no money for themselves. Oh how we missed the Bluths family.

During her interview with Fallon, de Rossi hedges about whether or not an "Arrested Development" movie will come after Season 4 airs on May 26. "We thought that finally we'd just have to not answer that question anymore," she says. "I hope it happens."

She also teases that the best way to watch the new season is "in any order." "They're all kind of standalone and, depending on the order you watch them in, kind of give you a different perspective. It's pretty cool," de Rossi says.

If you need help catching up on the first three seasons of "Arrested Development," check out Zap2it's "Arrested Development" Rewatch.

ABC has unveiled its fall 2013 TV schedule, picking up 13 new series plus "Toy Story of Terror," a special from Pixar starring the cast of the original movies. See the night-by-night schedule here.

The big news is that "Dancing With the Stars" will now only air on Mondays, combining the performance show and results show into one night. There is no word yet as to how exactly the voting will work.

Tuesday nights are all new, anchored by "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.", followed by comedies "The Goldbergs," a 1980s-set sitcom, and "Trophy Wife," about a reformed party girl who suddenly gains a husband, three children and his two ex wives, then drama "Lucky 7," about a group of lotto winners in Queens.

Wednesday keeps "The Middle," "Modern Family" and "Nashville" in their respective timeslots and adds single mom comedy "Back in the Game" at 8:30 p.m. and Rebel Wilson's "Super Fun Night" at 9:30 p.m.

The spin-off series "Once Upon a Time in Wonderland" will lead off Thursday nights, followed by "Grey's Anatomy" and "Scandal," while "The Neighbors" moves to Fridays, paired with "Last Man Standing."

New murder trial drama "Betrayal" will cap off Sundays, with "Once Upon a Time" and "Revenge" staying put.

The midseason schedule has not been announced yet, but new shows premiering later in 2013-14 include "Killer Women," "Mind Games," "Mixology," "Resurrection" and "The Quest" and returning shows "Suburgatory" and "The Bachelor."