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"The Mob Doctor": Think the appellation sounds like a "Saturday Night Live" parody? Try the pilot. Jordana Spiro plays Grace Devlin, declared by addition appearance as "a adventurous South Side babe who became a big burghal doctor." Yes, the chat is that bad. Grace is a Chicago doctor who's adherent to her patients, bucks authority, aeroembolism the rules and does extracurricular casework for the bounded mob. (Her brother got in abysmal on contributed debts, and a gal's gotta do what a gal's gotta do.) It's declared to be a abrasive drama, but there are scenes in the pilot so doubtful they're funnier than some of this fall's new
comedies (see below). Spiro's plucky, all right, but the appearance needs emergency autograph help, stat! (Premieres 9 p.m., Sept. 17, Fox/12)

"Ben and Kate": Kate (Dakota Johnson, whose looks may admonish you of her parents, Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson) is a accomplished distinct mom. Her brother, Ben (Nat Faxon), is her adverse -- decumbent to alarming into boondocks unannounced, with crazy requests ("do you accept a buck trap?"), and no credible antecedent of income. He's meant to be affably arbitrary but instead comes off as an awkward child. By the end of the pilot, I was acclaim for him to leave boondocks again. He doesn't. Darn. (8:30 p.m., Sept. 25, Fox/12)

"The Neighbors": If you've been missing the Coneheads, you're in luck. The blow of us are ashore with addition weird-aliens-in-suburbia comedy, a brand that didn't absolutely charge addition entry. Lenny Venito and Jami Gertz are a sitcom-style couple, with sitcom-style kids, who move into a apartment development alone busy by aliens. It's declared to be amusing that the aliens name themselves afterwards pro athletes like Larry Bird and Jackie Joyner-Kersee. It isn't. (9:30 p.m., Sept. 26, ABC/2)

"Animal Practice": You apperceive your show's got problems back the best absorbing appearance is a monkey. The pilot for this ball is absolute mangy, with Justin Kirk ("Weeds") miscast as a cynic veterinarian, and a acknowledging casting that is aggravating way too hard. Crystal, the capuchin monkey who plays "Dr. Rizzo," is a humdinger, though. (8 p.m., Sept. 26, NBC/8)

"Guys With Kids": News alert! Men are parents, too! And some of them accomplish it a point to absorb time with their children! Isn't that wild? The alone absorbing bend to this acute ball is the actuality that it's co-created by Jimmy Fallon, who usually has bigger ball instincts.