Alex O'Loughlin and Scott Caan in "Hawaii Five-0"
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Alex O'Loughlin and Scott Caan star in Hawaii Five-0, one of CBS's new fall shows.

It is once again time for the Television Critics Association press tour, when we hear from the networks, both broadcast and cable, about their new shows — which, surprisingly enough, are all apparently going to be completely wonderful and unqualified successes. (More about the fundamentals of press tour here.)

Today, CBS kicks things off as it introduces its new shows and also presents a panel on The Big Bang Theory — the show I like very much that's moving to Thursdays to try to kill Community, the show I love.

Among CBS's new shows are Mike & Molly, a comedy about a couple that meets at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting (starring Melissa "Sookie, No, Not The Vampire One, the Gilmore Girls One" McCarthy); The Defenders, a lawyer show starring Jerry O'Connell and Jim Belushi; the Hawaii Five-0 reboot, starring Alex O'Loughlin (of Moonlight, Three Rivers and CBS's unflagging conviction that he will be a star one day); Blue Bloods, a family cop drama with Tom Selleck and Donnie Wahlberg; and Bleep My Dad Says, starring William Shatner as a profanity-laden Twitter feed. (Seriously, if CBS thinks I'm pecking out dollar-sign number-sign asterisk exclamation-point every time I type that title, they can forget it.)

In a relatively late addition, CBS will also be presenting its new daytime talk show starring Julie Chen, Sara Gilbert, Leah Remini, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Sharon Osbourne, and Holly Robinson Peete. This is what will get the spot being vacated by As The World Turns, and the hook is that the panel is made up of six women, and they're all moms. Since women without children have been specifically excluded from the panel as part of the premise of the show, I'm assuming we are not expected to watch it. Maybe I should ask that question! Of course, I'd have to consider in the name of fairness whether I would be likely to watch it anyway.

I'll be checking in about all these things as the day wears on, but as always, the fastest source of quick updates is Twitter. (If you follow us, you already know which one of these pilots I found surprisingly good, compared to what I expected.) Wish me luck. If you have any questions while I'm gone, I'm sure you can find six moms to help you.