A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

MY NAME IS ABC, AND I LIKE TO DANCE: After kind of boring schedule announcements from NBC and Fox, ABC's fall schedule is interesting because of just how much shakeup there is. 4 nights have new shows on them, and ABC's been quite aggressive in purging reality filler from its schedule (Wipeout is nowhere to be found). Of particular note:

• Replacing failed drama No Ordinary Family in the leadoff spot on Tuesdays are a pair of male-driven sitcoms--Last Man Standing and Man Up, neither of which sound terribly interesting in concept, but have good creative teams (folks from 30 Rock and Better Off Ted).
• Wednesday remains a comedy block, and Happy Endings gets the plum slot out of Modern Family (Abed will be unhappy, since Cougar Town is held for midseason), with a glossy Gossip Girl style soap called Revenge in the 10 PM Wednesday slot where ABC has struggled for years, which doesn't seem to be the best fit, but who knows?
  
• Rather than ceding Thursday at 8 to CBS's comedies and Idol, ABC's trying to make a big move by putting Charlie's Angels there. It's an interesting move, since it'll have appeal to both viewers who watch CBS' procedural lineup later in the night and viewers who watch ABC's female-driven dramas later.
• With stalwarts Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and Brothers & Sisters off the schedule (though Makeover will return at midseason), Desperate Housewives is surrounded by a pair of new shows--fairy tale drama Once Upon A Time at 8 and Pan Am, ABC's Mad Men clone, at 10.
• Midseason is interesting, as ABC's holding a lot, including buzzy soap Good Christian Belles (which I'd bet fills for Desperate Housewives rather than having repeats), horror drama The River, Shonda's DC-set drama Scandal, and Apartment 23, a sitcom featuring Krysten Ritter as a party girl and "James Van Der Beek as James Van Der Beek" (allegedly in a NPH in Harold & Kumar kind of way).