Grey's Anatomy spinoff one of 11 new shows on ABC fall lineup

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 | 11:30 AM ET

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A Grey's Anatomy spinoff, to be called Private Practice, will join a lineup of 11 new shows on ABC's fall schedule.

A pilot for Private Practice, aired earlier this month as an extended two-hour Grey's Anatomy special, attracted 21 million U.S. viewers, the U.S. network said Tuesday.

Kate Walsh, who plays Dr. Addison Shepard on Grey's Anatomy, will move to Los Angeles in the spinoff series Private Practice.
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The spinoff features a favourite character, Dr. Addison Shepard, played by Kate Walsh, leaving Seattle to work in Los Angeles.

ABC announced seven new dramas Tuesday as it unveiled a revamped fall season in New York.

In addition to Private Practice, the dramas are:

• Pushing Daisies: about a boy who can bring back the dead by touching them.
• Dirty Sexy Money: a prime-time soap opera about a wealthy New York family in the satirical tradition of Desperate Housewives.
• Big Shots: about the trials and tribulations of four female executives.
• Cashmere Mafia: about the love lives of a group of New York women, starring Lucy Liu.
• Women's Murder Club: a crime drama starring Angie Harmon formerly of Law and Order as an investigator.
• Eli Stone: About a lawyer, played by Jonny Lee Miller, who may be crazy or a prophet.

Among the shows cancelled are George Lopez, Help Me Help You and Knights of Prosperity. According to Jim also does not appear on the schedule.

Lopez, the first Latino to lead a television series successfully, lashed out at the network on Tuesday.

"TV just became really, really white again," he said. His show, which lasted five seasons, chronicled his life, from his sad childhood growing up with an abusive grandmother to his alcoholism and kidney transplant.

ABC renewed contracts for Brothers & Sisters, Men in Trees, Lost, Dancing with the Stars and hit shows Ugly Betty, Boston Legal and Desperate Housewives.

It also has four new sitcoms, including Cavemen, based on the cavemen from the Geico commercials in the U.S.

Sam I Am is a comedy starring Christina Applegate as a woman who loses her memory in an accident, then decides she doesn't like the person she was.

The network is introducing a buddy comedy called Carpoolers and Miss/Guided with Judy Greer as a woman who returns to her old high school to work as a guidance counsellor.