The network that mastered the art of the cut-and-dried procedural—and boasts a stronghold on the over-60 demographic—is infusing some much-needed edge into its fall lineup.

CBS unveiled its new fall schedule during the network's upfront presentation Wednesday, adding six new series to its prime-time offerings and giving the boot to three lagging airwave veterans.

The Eye blew up the once promising postnuclear serial Jericho, which started off strong in the fall but lost viewers after a long midseason hiatus. Also deep-sixed: The Class and Close to Home.

The network is instead banking on some new blood, include a series that's already generating buzz: the musical murder mystery Viva Laughlin. The show, based on the BBC's cult hit Viva Blackpool, is produced by Hugh Jackman. No stranger to the song-and-dance routine, the X-Man is set to serve as the show's executive producer and will also occasionally star in the hourlong series about a Nevada gambler who enlists the help of an old enemy (Jackman) to buy a Laughlin casino.

But don't expect a sanitized Deadwood—in this show, the machinations of the plot are punctuated by characters occasionally bursting into a blaze of lip-synching glory. The show, considered eccentric even by British TV standards, also features Lloyd Owen as the singing star and ER's Madchen Amick.

Also making the fall cut is Cane, a drama starring prime-time stalwarts Hector Elizondo and Jimmy Smits as the patriarch and adopted son, respectively, of a large Cuban-American family. The clan runs a highly profitable sugar and rum business in south Florida and is faced with the wrenching decision to either sell out to a competitor or hold on to their family business. Rita Moreno also stars.

The final new drama entry in the fall lineup is Moonlight. Yes, it's another procedural, but with a very un-CBS twist: The series chronicles the day-to-day goings-on of an investigator...a vampire investigator.

Produced by big-screen mastermind Joel Silver, Moonlight revolves around a supernatural private eye who uses his vampire senses to solve crimes and help, rather than drink dry, humans, all while dealing with the problematic intricacies—particularly relationship-wise—of being undead. The show is set to premiere on Friday nights after the complementary Ghost Whisperer.

CBS has also picked up another drama that's earmarked for a midseason debut.

Swingtown, set in 1970s suburbia, follows a couple who moves to a Chicago neighborhood and quickly finds out that a partner-swapping swing culture is thriving among the neighbors. Jack Davenport, who stars in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy and who honed his TV acting chops on the BBC's version of the wildly popular Coupling, stars as one-half of the newcomer couple, along with Deadwood's Molly Parker. Melrose Place alum Grant Show also stars.

Swingtown is the only serial to make the CBS lineup, but the show has yet to receive a solid premiere date. Due to its subject matter, it is likely waiting for a later, 10 p.m. time slot to open up and will then run uninterrupted through the end of the season.

Joining Swingtown as midseason entries will be The Amazing Race and The New Adventures of Old Christine. The latter had been considered on the bubble for renewal and apparently just squeaked onto the roster, receiving just a 13-episode pickup as opposed to the usual 22.

The sole new comedy on the CBS slate is The Big Bang Theory, not so coincidentally from Two and a Half Men exec producer Chuck Lorre. The series stars Roseanne alum Johnny Galecki and Judging Amy's Jim Parsons as two brainy best friends who can wax scientific for hours but can't seem to manage when it comes to the opposite sex, particularly their new neighbor, 8 Simple Rules' Kaley Cuoco.

The show, the network's great comic hope, has been granted the Monday at 8:30 slot, where it will be nestled between returning series How I Met Your Mother and, of course, Two and a Half Men. Rules of Engagement will also return to round out the two-hour comedy block, which CBS is looking to sell to advertisers as its youth-oriented comedy showcase.

Rounding out the network's new orders is the reality show Kid Nation and the summer game show Power of 10.

Drew Carey hosts the latter program, which allows contestants to answer a series of five increasingly difficult and lucrative questions for the chance to win $10 million. Like Family Feud before it, the American public has first been surveyed and it's the results of the survey, not any factual answer, that the contestants must match. Sample questions include "What percentage of married Americans said they were virgins the day they got married?" and "What percentage of Americans believe they are smarter than the president?"

Kid Nation, meanwhile, is an hourlong reality series that gives 40 kids ages 8 to 15 exactly 40 days to transform a 19th-century ghost town into a working, livable, government-run town without parents or any adult figures. The show is already being referred to as Lord of the Flies TV.

But while the network giveth, it also taketh away.

To make room for the new programming, CBS shuffled around some of its holdovers, with Without a Trace making the move to the highly competitive 10 p.m. Thursday time slot opposite NBC's ER and ABC's new Michael Vartan drama Big Shots, which earlier this week won the coveted post-Grey's Anatomy time slot.

Here's a rundown of CBS' 2007-08 fall schedule, with new shows in bold.

Monday:  How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, Rules of Engagement, CSI: Miami

Tuesday:  NCIS, The Unit, Cane

Wednesday:  Kid Nation, Criminal Minds, CSI: NY

Thursday:  Survivor, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Without a Trace

Friday:  Ghost Whisperer, Moonlight, Numb3rs

Saturday:  Crimetime Saturday, 48 Hours: Mystery

Sunday:  60 Minutes, Viva Laughlin, Cold Case, Shark

For the latest from the network upfronts, check out TV columnist Kristin Veitch's dispatches in Watch with Kristin.