Blue Collar blech...

Yuck. From tv.com:

Blue Collar Comedy veteran will star as a no-nonsense family therapist.

TBS has ordered eight episodes of The Bill Engvall Show, in which the Blue Collar Comedy veteran plays a no-nonsense family therapist whose own family could use some counseling.

Nancy Travis plays his wife, who is trying to make sure their three children turn out all right. TBS will premiere the comedy in the summer. Engvall -- famed for his Blue Collar Comedy projects with Jeff Foxworthy, Ron White and Larry the Cable Guy -- wrote the series with Michael Leeson.

Bill Engvall follows TBS's first original scripted comedy series, My Boys and 10 Items or Less, which bowed in November. The promising launch of the two shows -- My Boys has already been picked up for additional episodes -- encouraged TBS brass to step up their efforts in the field.

I know some people like the Blue Collar guys. I certainly haven't had time for their kind of comedy since high school. Engvall may be the most tolerable of the group, but I'm still really tired of them getting such exposure... still, it's not like it's a real show -- it's first run on TBS. Plus, who calls anything "no-nonsense" anymore?

Here's a more useful character, also from tv.com:

Former NYPD Blue actor moves to South Florida for family drama.

Jimmy Smits has signed on to star in an untitled CBS drama series about a powerful Latin American family of rum merchants in south Florida. The former star of NYPD Blue and The West Wing will also executive-produce the project, which was previously known as Los Duques.

He will play Alex Vega, an outsider who has been given control of Duque Rum by the Duques' ailing patriarch. Landing Smits is a major coup for CBS, which, along with the other broadcast networks, has been trying for years to woo Smits to do a pilot. CBS came close in 2002 with the pilot for CSI: Miami, which went to Smits' NYPD Blue predecessor David Caruso.

Full story for that one here. Would have liked to see him be president for a few years, but West Wing was certainly past its prime.