The latest installment in the 15-year-old "Stargate" franchise follows a group of soldiers and civilians stranded in a spaceship far from home -- which is to say that it smells a little (not necessarily in a bad way) of "Battlestar Galactica" and "Star Trek: Voyager." Robert Carlyle ("The Full Monty") and Lou Diamond Phillips are on board.
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Sunday, Oct. 4
Three Rivers
(CBS, 9 p.m.)
The title of this drama about a transplant hospital refers to Pittsburgh, city of the Allegheny, the Monongahela and the Ohio, but also to the confluence of donor, doctor and recipient. I've seen only a brief preview, which was marred by hoary genre dialogue ("How long before I can play ball?"). But Alfre Woodard is in it, and I trust her.
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Monday, Oct. 5
Sherri
(Lifetime, 7 p.m.; regular time, Tuesdays, 10 p.m.)
Sherri Shepherd, from "The View" and "30 Rock," gets her own sitcom as a paralegal/actress/mother back in the dating pool after a divorce. (See also: "Cougar Town.")
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Friday, Oct. 23
White Collar
(USA, 10 p.m.)
Not for the first time will a handsome and talented criminal cross back from the dark side to use his talents for good, or else I've completely misunderstood the point of "It Takes a Thief," "To Catch a Thief" and TNT's "Leverage," just for starters. Matt Bomer (Bryce in "Chuck") is the felonious polymath who partners with a starchy FBI agent (Tim DeKay). Tiffani Thiessen (not forever Amber, apparently) is Mrs. FBI agent, Diahann Carroll the woman who takes Bomer into her mansion home.
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Tuesday, Nov. 3
V
(ABC, 8 p.m.)
I suppose I should issue a spoiler alert here, but even if this effects-laden series about space lizards who put on human skin -- the better to trap and enslave us with -- hadn't already been made 25 years ago, any schoolchild or moderately intelligent robot knows not to trust aliens bearing gifts. (Amusingly, these bring the gift of "universal healthcare.") Elizabeth Mitchell, blown up at the end of "Lost" last year, lands here as an FBI agent.
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Monday, Dec. 7
Men of a Certain Age
(TNT, 10 p.m.)
The cast is more exciting than the premise in this story of middle-aged friends on the verge of a nervous breakdown, a sports car purchase, a more flattering haircut, but the cast is definitely interesting: Ray Romano (the power behind the project, and one of its writers), Andre Braugher and Scott Bakula, measuring unrealized dreams against a contracting future.
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