Last week we talked about what ABC had lined up for the world of US programming, well now NBC are making their announcement. Such is the way of these things. According to Variety, NBC are focusing on escapism this season. Their rationale is that with the American economy in the toilet people are going to be happier watching fantastical TV... well until the repo men turn up to take that 32 inch flatscreen. Hey ho. Anyway all that is by the by.

 As expected NBC was happy with the performance of the Knight Rider TV Movie that they recently broadcast and a season has been commissioned. Amongst the other remakes that NBC has green-lit is a new high octane version of Robinson Crusoe (two guys trapped alone on a desert island... high octane? this one I have got to see) and Aussie comedy Kath and Kim. Selma Blair and Molly Shannon are both signed up and we expect that if they put even the slightest foot wrong they will never again be welcome down-under.

 Also on the cards, Fear Itself, a horror/thriller series about a woman who inherits a haunted farm house; Kings starring Ian McShane; Barry Sonnenfeld's legal drama Blue Blood; Conan O'Brien's comedy Man of Your Dreams and Steven Weber (Studio 60) vehicle Zip.

NBC have two other cards up their sleeve as well. They have bought Canadian supernatural hospital drama The Listener about a paramedic who discovers he has telepathic powers. And they are looking smug with a new project, My Own Worst Enemy, a story about a suburban family man who has a secret life as a spy, particularly since Christian Slater signed to the show.

How much of these make it to US screens and then to UK screens, well that is anyone's guess... we wait with baited breath