Timing has big roles in new series

18.05.12

One show may be the most ambitious attempt to reinvent the cop drama I have ever seen. • The other is a tart shot at re-creating the magic of a long-decaying hit — in this case, Desperate Housewives — substituting a satire of Texas' megarich for Housewives ' broad swipe at upper-middle class suburbia. • What NBC's Awake and ABC's GCB have most in common is their appearance late in the 2011-12 TV season. The networks are making a third-quarter Hail Mary pass, hoping to bring ambitious new series to viewers outside the chaos of the typical fall debuts.

Kudos to NBC for even trying Awake , a drama centered on a cop recovering from a car accident who learns that, in one reality, his wife died in the crash and in another, his son perished. Each time he sleeps in one scenario, he wakes up in another, eventually slipping on color-coded wristbands to keep track of where he is.

The central question here, of course,

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