For a network that slid from atop the ratings heap to number four, it's no surprise that the plan for next season is to shake things up.

NBC, the erstwhile Must-See-TV champ that has yet to recover from the loss of comedy stalwarts Friends and Frasier, is doing that very thing for next season's schedule, which was unveiled to the media and advertisers Monday in New York as the network kicked off the annual TV Upfront Week.

Three new comedies, three new dramas and two new reality series will jump into the mix; Martha Stewart is in, while crime drama king Dick Wolf gets one of his shows axed; and even Emmy-winning White House drama The West Wing is giving up its Wednesday night home in the hopes of a network ratings rebound.

"NBC viewers will see fresh talent and bold, original concepts in our new series next year," says NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly. "We're eager to be number one again, and this freshman class, combined with NBC's powerful core schedule and recent successes like Medium, The Biggest Loser and The Office, represent a major step toward getting there."

Among NBC's most highly touted new series: The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, with the domestic diva starring in a spinoff of Donald Trump's reality hit, and the sitcom My Name Is Earl, starring Chasing Amy's Jason Lee as a small-time crook who, upon winning the lottery, decides to change his evil ways and make amends with those he's wronged.

Missing from the network's roster of returning shows: American Dreams, Revelations, The Contender, Committed, Medical Investigation and, in a bit of a shocker, ?ber-producer Wolf's fourth Law & Order series, Trial by Jury.

Wolf told Daily Variety that he was "extremely upset and disappointed" about the diss. "I find the decision inexplicable and frankly, inconceivable," he said. Coincidentally, the new show that takes over Trial by Jury's Friday at 10 p.m. time slot on NBC's schedule: Inconceivable, a drama set inside a fertility clinic and starring ER's Ming-Na.

A rundown of NBC's other new series: Fathom: Lake Bell, whose character was dropped from the star-heavy cast of ABC's Boston Legal earlier this season, stars in this Lost-ish drama about scientists investigating some mysterious creatures who live in the sea.
E-Ring: Another ?ber-producer, CSI series guru Jerry Bruckheimer (who produces four of the top 20 shows of the season), is behind this military drama set at the Pentagon. Big-screen legend Dennis Hopper and Law & Order alum Benjamin Bratt costar.
Three Wishes: A new reality series obviously inspired by the success of ABC's Extreme Makeover stars Grammy winner Amy Grant, who travels around the country granting wishes to small-town residents. Like Makeover, expect many tears and many shirtless shots, since Trading Spaces carpenter Carter Oosterhouse is Three Wishes' hunky handyman.
Four Kings (midseason): Emmy-winning Will & Grace creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick are behind this comedy about four childhood friends (yes, think Friends), who move in together when one of them inherits a swanky New York apartment from his grandmother. Seth Green stars.
Thick and Thin (midseason): Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video produces this sitcom about a formerly overweight woman (The Practice's Jessica Capshaw, aka Steven Spielberg's stepdaughter) who has to deal with the new way people treat her when she loses all the weight.

Meanwhile, Tuesday night hospital sitcom Scrubs and Monday night gross-out reality series Fear Factor are MIA from the fall lineup, but NBC plans to add them back to the schedule later in the season.

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

MONDAY: Fathom; Las Vegas; Medium

TUESDAY: The Biggest Loser; My Name Is Earl; The Office; Law & Order: SVU

WEDNESDAY: The Apprentice: Martha Stewart; E-Ring; Law & Order

THURSDAY: Joey; Will & Grace; The Apprentice; ER

FRIDAY: Three Wishes; Dateline NBC; Inconceivable

SATURDAY: NBC Saturday Night Movie

SUNDAY: Dateline NBC; The West Wing; Law & Order: Criminal Intent; Crossing Jordan