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[Raph's Girl]

WB Network's official site, thewb.com, has plot synopsis of their new fall shows:

Soo... we have:

The Bedford Diaries:
The Bedford Diaries explores contemporary New York City-based college life through the unique prism of a provocative Human Behavior and Sexuality class. Controversial and charismatic Professor Macklin, Matthew Modine (Any Given Sunday, Married to the Mob), will challenge and inspire the show's youthful ensemble of students as they explore their identities, relationships and sexuality in the most exciting city in the world.

Among our students is the smart and attractive Sara (Tiffany Dupont, Cheaper by the Dozen). She has everything going for her until her brother Owen (Penn Badgely) walks into class. It's one thing to share in class, but she hadn't planned on sharing her private life with her sibling. Owen's new class partner is Natalie "the jumper" (Corri English, 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story). Two years ago she had a change of heart mid-dive off the Student Union building. Now physically recovered, she has to face the rumor mill and her ex, Richard (Milo Ventimiglia, Gilmore Girls). He was the quintessential Park Avenue bad boy up until the moment his girlfriend jumped. Now a semi-changed man, he's majoring in Journalism, attending class and editing 'The Bedford Clarion.' In stark contrast is working-class Lee (Ernest Waddell, As the World Turns), who has a noble heart, an artistic soul, a girlfriend and a fascination with Zoe (Victoria Cartagena, Baby Fat). Zoe talks a fast, flirty and kinky game, but despite her brash veneer, she's got a secret.

Raph's Girl note: Booooring....

Modern Men:
Tim, Kyle and Doug are childhood friends that are at different stages in their lives as far as women are concerned. Tim has luck in the dating world yet has trouble achieving an emotional connection, Doug can't move on from his ex-wife, and Kyle is the womanizing bachelor. However, they realize that in today's day and age it takes a lot more to keep a woman happy and satisfied than it used to. Today's women are career minded, self-sufficient, and don't need a man for support - they are looking for more and the guys are trying to keep up.

What can they do to make themselves more viable candidates? Learn Chinese, become incredible chefs, write poetry? And with role models like Tim's loveable but thrice-married dad, Tug (George Wendt), how exactly will they learn these skills? It looks like they're going to need professional help - in the form of notorious life coach Dr. Stangel (Wendy Malick). In each episode we will see how these guys take her beneficial-yet-biting advice and apply it to their everyday situations.

Raph's Girl Note: I'll see it...but only cuz George Wendt is in it... Norm!!

Pepper Dennis:
This just in: Feature actress and supermodel Rebecca Romijn stars as Pepper Dennis, an ambitious reporter with her sights set on anchoring Chicago's top-rated evening news. The only thing is, she's focused so much energy on her career she's forgotten how to have a social life. What little life Pepper has left is about to get a lot more complicated when her spoiled, needy, recently separated sister (Brooke Burns) moves in. To make matters awful, the hot guy she woke up with, Charlie Bishop (Josh Hopkins, Ally McBeal, The Perfect Storm) just snatched her dream job. She should despise him, right? But he's smart, handsome, funny, good in bed, available and interested... hmmm, will they or won't they? Stay tuned - film at 11.

Raph's Girl note: I'll at least see the pilot ep...

Just Legal:
Mondays at 9pm
Jerry Bruckheimer, TV's most accomplished procedural storyteller, has teamed with the co-executive producer of Boston Legal and The Practice, Jonathan Shapiro, to create a compelling new legal drama for The WB.

Skip Ross (Jay Baruchel, Million Dollar Baby) is a brilliant legal prodigy who passed the bar at 18, but because of his youth, can't get hired by any serious law firm in Los Angeles. Grant Cooper (Don Johnson) is a down-on-his-luck, ambulance chaser who makes his living pleading out bottom-feeder cases. When the two form an unlikely partnership, the naïve Skip gains wisdom and much-needed street smarts from Cooper, and Cooper begins to remember the idealism and passion that once made him a successful trial lawyer.

Raph's Girl note: So he's what??? The Doogie Houser of the legal field???

Supernatural: Tuesdays at 9pm

Gilmore Girls' breakout star Jared Padalecki and Smallville's Jensen Ackles are Sam and Dean Winchester; two young brothers bound by tragedy and blood to a dangerous, "other-worldly" mission. Crisscrossing the country in their '69 Chevy Impala, they carry on their missing father's quest to seek out and silence the supernatural forces responsible for their mother's murder twenty years ago.

Raph's Girl note: Umm...

Related: Wednesdays at 9pm

Ann, Ginnie, Marjee and Rose are a bundle of contradictions. Best friends one minute. Bitter enemies the next. Tell each other everything. Keep lots of secrets. For these four young women, life in New York City is a rich banquet to share together. But when you add in jobs, boyfriends, exes, husbands, pregnancies and parents, there's not much room for dessert.

A delightful ensemble drama starring Laura San Giacomo (Just Shoot Me), Jennifer Esposito (Spin City), Lizzy Caplan (Mean Girls), and Laura Breckenridge, Related is a poignant reminder that life can be a little easier when you've got family to share it with. (Or to drive you crazy.)

Raph's Girl note: I'll see the pilot.... Laura San Giacomo is one of my fave actresses...

Twins: Fridays at 8:30pm

Mitchee (Sara Gilbert) has the intelligence and the determination of a successful businesswoman. Her twin, Farrah (Molly Stanton), is a stunningly "perfect" lingerie model. These very different women are about to inherit their parents' undergarment business - popular for form-fitting inventions like "the buttpucker." "Opposites conflict, I mean attract" must be the mantra in this family as the girls are true reflections of their parents. Mom is a breathtaking beauty (Melanie Griffith) and Dad is well, smart (Mark Linn-Baker). And while that combination has led to a lasting partnership for them, the clashing sisters have been less successful. With the Twins in charge, this business - and this family - are going to need a lot of, um, support.

Raph's Girl note: WOW!! I haven't seen Sara Gilbert in anything since Roseanne!!

Misconceptions:
Jane Leeves (Frasier) is Amanda Watson - smart, sophisticated, and a little out of touch with her 13 year-old daughter, Hopper. Amanda was ready to buy Hopper an iPod for her birthday and was shocked to find out that all she really wanted was to meet her biological father. Why wouldn't she? He sounds amazing. Hopper and Horace, Amanda's best friend (French Stewart, 3rd Rock from the Sun), have heard for years how this mystery guy is Ivy League-educated, well bred, handsome, incredibly athletic, and a successful doctor. The only problem is, Amanda doesn't actually know him. She only knows him as #431 from The Ivy League Sperm Bank and the profile that she had been given.

When Amanda finally tracks him down, she is mortified to find out that her "ideal donor" is not the Olympic medalist nor Yale-educated surgeon that she was expecting. Apparently our superhero father needed a little cash out of junior college and lied about his identity. Meet Eddie DiCaprio, a man of his own charm, yet too scattered and immature for Amanda's taste. He has had seven different jobs in one year, he drinks beer during the day, and his idea of dressing up is wearing a baseball cap and any shirt he can quickly grab off of his floor. In her eyes, Eddie is incapable of taking care of himself, let alone Hopper. However, when Hopper falls head over heals for her fun-loving dad, Amanda is forced to allow him to be part of their lives. Is it possible that sparks may fly?

Raph's Girl Note: Who the shell names their kid Hopper?!