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  'Philanthropist,' doing good, done well
NBC drama smartly dodges all the cliches you'd expect through good writing and acting and the right twists in the storytelling

  'NYC Prep,' as we always suspected
It's classic Bravo: A reality series based on the CW's 'Gossip Girl' that puts a camera on the lives of spoiled rich kids

  'Make It or Break It,' or perhaps neither
For ABC Family's 'Karate Kid' me-too teen drama, which rolls out the expected cliches to telegraph exactly where things are headed

  'Merlin,' just for the fun of it
New NBC series is kids' stuff, and good kids' stuff, bloodless and amusing, based very loosely on the King Arthur legend

  'HawthoRNe,' the RN's for rather not
TNT nurse drama works over the familiar themes without bringing much new. Tag this MGEFS--maybe good enough for summer.

  'Nurse Jackie,' the right prescription
Edie Falco nurses the hospital drama back to health in the title role of this Showtime series. Saint-like yet not insufferably so.

  'The Listener,' we've heard it all before
Canadian import debuting on NBC brings nothing new and lots that's old to this story of a paramedic who reads people's minds

  'The Tonight Show,' Letterman lite
Conan O'Brien needs to add considerable heft as the show's new host if he hopes to hold Leno's lead. It's a far bigger stage.

  'The Goode Family,' good enough
ABC animated series spoofs political correctness and pulls it off, without being tiresome. WWAGD rule: What would Al Gore do?

  'Mental,' walks with a noticeable limp
New Fox medical drama is largely a ripoff of 'House,' and what isn't lifted there is stitched together from standard TV cliches




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