And we’ve come to the end of upfront week (terribly sad, yes) - here’s the Fox fall schedule, and helpfully, their midseason one as well. Expect the new J.J. Abrams-produced show, “Fringe,” to get some buzz. If we’re lucky, Fox might cancel it early so nerds can complain about them incessantly on the Internet! Moving “Bones” to Fridays in January seems like a weird move, but we’ll see. The new Joss Whedon project, “Dollhouse,” starring Eliza Dushku, will take the slot of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” starting in January (apparently, “T:TSCC” is getting another short episode order). “24″ is back in January as well (after what will be nearly two years off the air), and they’ll close the gap with a “prequel” of the new season in November.

Here’s what we got:

MONDAY
7 p.m. - Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
8 p.m. - Prison Break

TUESDAY
7 p.m. - House
8 p.m. - Fringe (new)

WEDNESDAY
7 p.m. - Bones
8 p.m. - ‘Til Death
8:30 p.m. - Do Not Disturb (new)

THURSDAY
7 p.m. - The Moment of Truth
8 p.m. - Kitchen Nightmares

FRIDAY
7 p.m. - Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
8 p.m. - Don’t Forget the Lyrics!

SATURDAY
7 p.m. - Cops
7:30 p.m. - Cops
8 p.m. - America’s Most Wanted: America Fights Back
11 p.m. - MADtv
Midnight - Talkshow with Spike Feresten

SUNDAY
6 p.m. - The OT (NFL post-game)
7 p.m. - The Simpsons
7:30 p.m. - King of the Hill
8 p.m. - Family Guy
8:30 p.m. - American Dad

Midseason schedule behind the cut!

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We already knew that “Shark” and “Moonlight” were gone, so there’s not much news here. Add that to the fact that, “How I Met Your Mother” aside, CBS is a pretty boring network, I’m not sure what to say. There’s even only a couple of time slot changes. Well, here we go - whee!

M: The Big Bang Theory, How I Met You Mother, Two and a Half Men, Worst Week (new), CSI: Miami
T: NCIS, The Mentalist (new), Without a Trace
W: The New Adventures of Old Christine, Project Gary (new), Criminal Minds, CSI: NY
Th: Survivor, CSI, Eleventh Hour (new)
F: Ghost Whisperer, The Ex List (new), Numb3rs
S: Repeats, repeats, 48 Hours Mystery
Su: 60 Minutes, The Amazing Race, Cold Case, The Unit

“Without a Trace” is off Sundays, and “The Unit” is on Sundays. Amazing! I don’t see “The New Adventures of Old Christine,” which was a bubble show on the verge of cancellation, succeeding anchoring Wednesdays like that, but we’ll see.

The full press release, with detailed descriptions of the new shows (none of which stick out to me, other than possibly “The Ex List,” executive produced by “Veronica Mars” co-exec producer Diane Ruggiero), is here.

Their presentation isn’t for a few more hours, but Kristin from E! has the rumored schedule right now, which makes sense given the renewals/cancellations/pickups we know about. They’re making “Gossip Girl” the focus of their lineup, with shows like the new “90210,” “Stylista” and “Surviving the Filthy Rich” meant to ripoff, er, court the same young/fashionable/wealthy demographic of “GG” (at least the characters of “GG” fit that description. I myself am a fan and only one of those three things).

M - Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill (how does this keep getting renewed?)
T - 90210, Surviving the Filthy Rich
W - ANTM, Stylista
Th - Smallville/Reaper, Supernatural
F - Everybody Hates Chris, The Game, ANTM repeat

Sundays are being farmed out to “Media Rights Capital,” which will produce two new comedies and two new dramas from “top producers and creative talent,” whatever that may mean. It’s basically paid programming, but instead of infomercials, comedies and dramas. Or maybe it’s comedies and dramas about infomercials - a gritty crime procedural starring the Magic Bullet! A sitcom with the Bowflex total home gym as the wacky neighbor!

This is final confirmation of what we knew yesterday - that “Aliens in America” is gone, and apparently, so is the long-running “Girlfriends.” “Smallville” will probably end early (going into its eighth season, and with cast members leaving in droves, it’s not surprising), letting “Reaper” takeover that slot in midseason.

UPDATE - yep, this is the schedule. The Futon Critic has the deets.

And it looks like this:

MONDAY:
7 p.m. “Dancing with the Stars”
8:30 p.m. “Samantha Who?”
9 p.m. “Boston Legal”

TUESDAY:
7 p.m. “Opportunity Knocks”
8 p.m. “Dancing with the Stars the Results Show”
9 p.m. “Eli Stone”

WEDNESDAY:
7 p.m. “Pushing Daisies”
8 p.m. “Private Practice”
9 p.m. “Dirty Sexy Money”

THURSDAY:
7 p.m. “Ugly Betty”
8 p.m. “Grey’s Anatomy”
9 p.m. “Life on Mars”

FRIDAY:
7 p.m. “Wife Swap”
8 p.m. “Supernanny”
9 p.m. “20/20″

SATURDAY:
7 p.m. “Saturday Night College Football”

SUNDAY:
6 p.m. “America’s Funniest Home Videos”
7 p.m. “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”
8 p.m. “Desperate Housewives”
9 p.m. “Brothers & Sisters”

Given all the info that’s already leaked, no real surprises here. Only two new scripted shows in the fall - “Opportunity Knocks,” which is an Ashton Kutcher-produced reality show, and “Life on Mars,” a remake of an acclaimed BBC series executive produced by David E. Kelley (and showrun by the folks behind “October Road”). Sundays remain exactly the same, again. “Lost” is back in January, again.

Of note is that there is only ONE comedy on the fall lineup, which has to be something of a first. Apparently, “Scrubs” (now officially-officially confirmed to be going to ABC) is headed for midseason (things are so much better on ABC!), as is a new Mike Judge cartoon (”The Goode Family”), and inexplicably, the eighth season of “According to Jim.”

Today was NBC’s upfront, but since they already announced their schedule a month ago, there’s not a ton of news, other than the first official announcement of what everyone’s known for months - that Jimmy Fallon is taking over “Late Night” when Conan O’Brien moves up an hour (and swaps coasts) in his 2009 “Tonight Show” takeover. More on that later. There’s also a new Ryan Seacrest-produced reality show about momma’s boys, but the last said about that the better, probably.

ABC’s “Boston Legal,” which was considered a bubble show, is coming back for a fifth season, though Watch with Kristin says it’ll have a “significantly scaled down cast.” Considering the show has radical cast changes every season - last year they lost Rene Auberjonis, Mark Valley and Julie Bowen - it remains to be seen exactly what impact this might have. As long as there’s James Spader and William Shatner (and to a lesser extent, Candice Bergen, and I’d be bummed if John Larroquette left), the show should be fine.

Jennie Garth will be back playing Kelly Taylor on the “90210″ spinoff/revival/sequel/whathaveyou, playing, you guessed it, a guidance counselor at West Beverly. Tori Spelling might join the cast, too. They can’t both be guidance counselors, can they?

“The Unit” will be back on CBS in the fall, and, as noted here earlier, so will “How I Met Your Mother.”

“Moonlight,” which is truly awful, is currently the Schrodinger’s Cat of crappy vampire dramas - it’s not on the fall CBS schedule, but it hasn’t been officially canceled yet, either. There’s a chance it could be “Jericho”-ed but I wouldn’t count on it (plus, is being “Jericho”-ed such a good thing? Getting your show saved to get a truncated second season that many fans saw as a disappointment?).

In heartening news, ABC renewed “Eli Stone,” a series that had a good run this spring and a lot of potential for the future.

More news from upfront week - as predicted, “Miss Guided” has officially been yanked, according to the Los Angeles Times Show Tracker blog. This news comes before ABC’s upfront presentation tomorrow morning in New York City, and after E!’s Watch with Kristin got our hopes up this morning, saying the comedy was “likely to be picked up.”

“Miss Guided” was a good show in a very weak current sitcom climate, due in large part to the cast, especially Judy Greer and Chris Parnell, and it also seemed like a perfect show to pair with “Scrubs,” which Zach Braff confirmed on his MySpace blog is going to ABC (which everyone already knew, but oddly enough, was subsequently deleted). With “Miss Guided” dismissed, and Braff’s comments that “Scrubs” is going to end in “the fall,” it seems that ABC might roll out the episodes two at a time, especially since they’ll be wrapped early (they’re filming the final season right now).

In happier news, “Reaper” has been renewed, albeit as a midseason replacement and only for 13 episodes. I watched the first couple episodes and then lost interest, but friends have been telling me it’s only gotten better, so hopefully they’ll be copious repeats over the summer to catch up on.

“Aliens in America” getting the boot, while not surprising (it had terrible ratings, zero promotion, and the biggest star was Scott Patterson, aka Luke from “Gilmore Girls”), is a huge bummer. The show was great (edging past “Gossip Girl” as my favorite new show of the admittedly weak ‘07-’08 season), and if you never saw it (which is most people), you missed out on a show that had one of the best balances of “genuinely funny” and “sweet and touching” (an extremely tough mix in the post-”Seinfeld” world) that I’ve seen. I saw someone say it was “crude” and “preachy,” and while that might technically be accurate, it did an excellent job of both of those things, as odd as that might sound. The lead kids were great and “Caroline in the City” vet Amy Pietz was surprisingly hilarious as the mom. Hopefully there will be a DVD set out soon, which everyone should buy (and then watch, natch).

“Back to You” wasn’t necessarily up my alley, but Kelsey Grammer is obviously a treat and this was a likable show in the old school sitcom mold, which is rare these days (as most of the few current shows in the old school sitcom mold, “How I Met Your Mother” excepted, suck big time). It was not anything I’d enthusiastically recommend, but there’s definitely other things I’d rather see go.