Given the people involved in FOX's new animated comedy "Sit Down, Shut Up," it's a show I very much want to like. The show's first two episodes, however, make that kind of hard to do.

Having covered local government for a couple of small newspapers, I can say pretty categorically that there is hardly an unlikelier subject for a television comedy. So the fact that NBC's new show "Parks and Recreation," about a local government functionary in Indiana, is even a little bit funny is a minor miracle.

Neither ABC's "The Unusuals" nor NBC's "Southland" is going to reinvent the cop-show genre, and neither one is likely to be a game-changer for their respective networks. But both shows are well-produced and -acted, and they're both decent enough ways to spend an hour.

Bob Saget may be the luckiest man in television right now. His new sitcom, "Surviving Suburbia," will premiere Monday on ABC following "Dancing with the Stars" -- which is about as big an upgrade as a show that was originally destined for Sunday nights on The CW can get.

It's anybody's guess at the moment whether ABC's new version of "Cupid," which comes 10 seasons after the first version lasted less than a full season, will work better in the ratings this time. But on a purely creative level, at least, it works.