TCA: After Boring Panels, Three New ABC Shows We're Still Excited to See

ABC dealt us some pretty boring panels at the TCAs yesterday, but three shows emerged as titillating newcomers for the fall season. Ready yourself for Matthew Perry's best chance yet at a post-Studio 60 comeback.

Mr. Sunshine

Matthew Perry's soundbites at the TCAs enlivened an otherwise languid day of diplomacy. ("The reason that my character has only thought about himself is I knew somebody for whom that was the case for a long time. I'm much nicer now.") Still, his new sports-arena-management comedy speaks for itself: Mr. Sunshine gives Allison Janney a chance to convulse with neuroticism, Perry the opportunity to add downtrodden angst to his familiar cynicism, and lets television try out an office comedy with Glee's scope and color palette.

No Ordinary Family

"Superhero family caper." You get it, but you sort of don't: Michael Chiklis fronts this adventure series, and as the show's creators noted, it focuses on a superhuman family that uses its powers to protect itself and not necessarily the world. The Spider-Man franchise and The Incredibles would often draw a parallel between superhero qualities and everyday mortal strengths, but this could be the first show to bring Man of Steel feats into a 7th Heaven environment.

My Generation

This dramatic mockumentary follows a group of 10 people who graduated from high school in 2000, and revisits them in their current 2010 lives. The cast is confident in the show's potential, Julian Morris is a dashing young lead, and it may give us the touching documentary edge we've missed from ABC since the much-mourned series Once and Again.