Kelsey Grammer and family in "Hank."

Courteney Cox, Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton will headline ABC’s fall schedule, along with new spins on the 1980s miniseries “V” and the novel and movie “The Witches of Eastwick.”

ABC announced eight new series for fall and midseason in advance of a presentation to advertisers this afternoon in New York. “Scrubs” lives, along with “Castle” and “Better Off Ted.” But “Samantha Who?” was canceled, along with the previously reported “The Unusuals” and “Cupid.”
ABC’s Wednesday will be entirely new. On Thursdays, “Flash Forward,” promoted with flashes during “Lost,” takes over the 7 p.m. slot, bumping the faltering “Ugly Betty” to Friday nights after “Supernanny.”

New fall and midseason series include “Cougar Town,” “The Deep End,” “Eastwick,” “Flash Forward,” “The Forgotten,” “Hank,” “Happy Town,” “The Middle,” “Modern Family,” “Shark Tank” and “V.”

Here are descriptions of ABC’s new series:

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DRAMA
“The Deep End” — St. Louis native Norbert Leo Butz is one of the lawyers in a drama about first-year associates in a prestigious Los Angeles law firm.
“Eastwick” — Rebecca Romijn, Lindsay Price, Sara Rue and Veronica Cartwright headline a new spin on “The Witches of Eastwick.”
“Flash Forward” — A mysterious event causes the entire world to black out, giving a glimpse into the near future, in the series promoted during flashes in “Lost.” David S. Goyer (”The Dark Knight”) and Brannon Braga (”Star Trek: Enterprise”) adapt Robert J. Sawyer’s novel, with stars including Joseph Fiennes, John Cho, Courtney B. Vance and Peyton List.
“The Forgotten” — Amateurs work cases involving unidentfied victims in a crime drama from Jerry Bruckheimer. Stars include Reiko Aylesworth.
“Happy Town” — Years after unsolved kidnappings, crime strikes a small Minnesota town again.
“V” — The 1980s miniseries about an alien race is revisited, with Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliet on “Lost”), Scott Wolf (”Party of Five”) Morris Chestnut and Lourdes Benedicto.

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COMEDY
“Cougar Town” — Courteney Cox stars as a recently divorced single mother and is also executive producer (with husband David Arquette); Bill Lawrence (”Scrubs”) wrote and directed. Christa Miller (Lawrence’s wife), Busy Phillips, Dan Byrd, Josh Hopkins and Ian Gomez also star.
“Hank” — Kelsey Grammer plays a businessman who finds himself out of work and almost broke, with a wife (Mmelinda McGraw) and kids he hardly knows.
“The Middle” — Patricia Heaton is a wife and mother of three in a comedy about “raising a family and lowering your expectations.” Neil Flynn (Janitor on “Scrubs”) plays her husband.
“Modern Family” — “Shot from the perspective of an unseen documentary filmmaker, this comedy takes a modern look at the complications that come with being a family in 2009.” Ed O’Neill, Sofie Vergara, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Julie Bowen star.

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“Shark Tank” — Mark Burnett gives budding entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.
“Shark Tank” will premiere over the summer following the special 10th anniversary primetime return of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire,” and will then move to Tuesday nights at 8 p.m. Shows picked up but not listed on the schedule will debut later in the 2009-10 season.

Here is ABC’s fall lineup:
SUNDAY
6 p.m. “America’s Funniest Home Videos”
7 p.m. “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”
8 p.m. “Desperate Housewives”
9 p.m. “Brothers & Sisters”
MONDAY
7 p.m. “Dancing with the Stars”
9 p.m. “Castle”
TUESDAY
7 p.m. “Shark Tank”*
8 p.m. “Dancing with the Stars the Results Show”
9 p.m. “The Forgotten”*
WEDNESDAY
7 p.m. “Hank”*
7:30 p.m. “The Middle”*
8 p.m. “Modern Family”*
8:30 p.m. “Cougar Town”*
9 p.m. “Eastwick”*
THURSDAY
7 p.m. “Flash Forward”*
8 p.m. “Grey’s Anatomy”
9 p.m. “Private Practice”
FRIDAY
7 p.m. “Supernanny”
8 p.m. “Ugly Betty”
9 p.m. “20/20”
SATURDAY
7 p.m. “Saturday Night College Football”
“The Bachelor” will air Monday nights after the run of “Dancing with the Stars.” “Scrubs” and “Better Off Ted” will air Tuesdays in the slot vacated by the “Dancing” results show.
“Shark Tank” will premiere over the summer following the special 10th anniversary primetime return of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire,” and will then move to Tuesday nights at 8 p.m. Shows picked up but not listed on the schedule will debut later in the 2009-10 season.