CBS: More Drama, More Acronyms

CBS is taking its love of acronyms one step further this fall, giving the letter treatment to a new Los Angeles cop series (which, incidentally stands for Robbery and Homicide Division) while spinning off a new Miami version of its monster hit CSI.

All told, the second-place Eye network introduced five new dramas and two new comedies to its fall lineup Wednesday, with the hopes of using its established performers to draw viewers to the rookie shows.

To do so, CBS has moved Becker to Sundays to give the coveted, post-Everybody Loves Raymond timeslot to Still Standing, a new comedy starring Jami Gertz and The Full Monty's Mark Addy as a blue-collar Chicago couple. And The Agency has been booted to Saturdays (yes, CBS actually scheduled shows on Saturdays again) to make room on Thursdays for the new FBI missing-persons drama Without a Trace, following CSI.

Among the shows making the sophomore cut: The Agency, The Amazing Race and The Guardian are all returning next season, while The Education of Max Bickford and First Monday were voted off the Eye-Land. Baby Bob also was left off the fall schedule, but the network says it will bring back the talking tyke for midseason.

Among other changeups, CBS' news magazine 48 Hours has now turned into 48 Hours Investigates, switching its focus to more true-crime stories and whodunit-style reporting. (No word on why they didn't just rename it CSI: 48 Hours.)

Here's a glimpse of the new shows:

CSI: Miami: For those of you who missed the crossover episode last Thursday, former NYPD Blue star David Caruso leads a new cast in a new location, but with fewer dead strippers and much of the same scientific detective work you've come to expect from CSI.
Presidio Med: While ABC has filled its Wednesday 10 p.m. slot with a medical drama based in San Francisco costarring one of the guys from The Mummy, CBS is breaking ground by introducing...a medical drama based in San Francisco costarring one of the guys from The Mummy. This one, from John Wells and Lydia Woodward, stars Blythe Danner, Dana Delany and The Mummy's Oded Fehr as a team of doctors in the Bay Area.
Without a Trace: Anthony LaPaglia and Enrique Murciano will take on ER with this drama from the creators of CSI about the missing-persons unit in the FBI.
Hack: David Morse and former Homicide: Life on the Street star Andre Braugher team up for this cop drama, starring Morse as an ex-police officer-turned-cabbie who moonlights as a crime fighter. Braugher plays his former partner.
RHD/LA: Tom Sizemore stars in yet another cop drama, this one executive produced by director Michael Mann and revolving around the LAPD's Robbery and Homicide Division.
Still Standing: Gertz and Addy star in this comedy about a couple trying to raise three kids and keep each other sane after 15 years of marriage. This one comes from the folks who brought you Yes, Dear.
Bram and Alice: Alfred Molina and Traylor Howard star in this comedy about a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and his devoted fan who find out they are actually father and daughter.
For midseason, CBS has given marching orders to Queens Supreme, produced by Julia Roberts and starring Oliver Platt, Annabella Sciorra and Robert Loggia in a "seriocomic drama" based at the Queens County courthouse in New York.

The following is a night-by-night look at the network's fall schedule:

MONDAY: The King of Queens; Yes, Dear; Everybody Loves Raymond; Still Standing; CSI: Miami
TUESDAY: JAG; The Guardian; Judging Amy
WEDNESDAY: 60 Minutes II; The Amazing Race; Presidio Med
THURSDAY: Survivor; CSI; Without a Trace
FRIDAY: 48 Hours Investigates; Hack; RHD/LA
SATURDAY: Touched By an Angel; The District; The Agency
SUNDAY: 60 Minutes; Bram and Alice; Becker; CBS Sunday Movie