“Brothers and Sisters” is done after five seasons and “V” is done after two. Freshmen "No Ordinary Family," "Detroit 1-8-7," "Off The Map," "Better With Your" and "Mr. Sunshine" are dunzo as well.
The new “Charlie’s Angels” starring Minka Kelly is now officially on the ABC calendar. Fun fact: Carlton Cuse tried to bring “Angels” back to ABC seven years ago; when ABC failed to greenlight it, he soon after signed on to run “Lost.”
Speaking of “Lost,” ABC also just greenlit to series “Once Upon A Time,” from longtime “Lost” writer-producers (and “Tron Legacy” screenwriters) Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz about a New England town called Storybrooke that’s secretly populated by fairy tale characters. It stars Raphael Sbarge as Jiminy Cricket, Robert Carlyle as Rumplestiltskin, Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White and Jennifer Morrison as Snow’s bounty-hunter daughter Emma.
ABC also just took to series:
* “Scandal,” yet another dramedy from Shonda Rhimes (“Grey’s Anatomy,” “Private Practice,” “Off The Map”),
* “The River,” a Leslie Hope/Bruce Greenwood hourlong from Michael Green (“Heroes,” “Kings”) about a family that encounters the supernatural as it searches for a lost TV nature host along the Amazon,
* “Pan Am,” a Christina Ricci-Kelli Garner period hourlong from the creator of “Crimnal Minds: Suspect Behavior” about stewardesses in 1963,
* “Good Christian Belles,” a Leslie Bibb hourlong from “First Wives Club” screenwriter Robert Harling which sounds a lot like a Texas Desperate Housewives,
* “Revenge,” an Emily VanCamp hourlong from writer-producer Mike Kelley (“Swingtown,” “The Beautiful Life: TBL”) which sounds a little like a Hamptons Desperate Housewives.
Ironically, there's no word on "Hallalujah," the pilot from "Desperate Housewives" creator Marc Cherry.
ABC announces its fall slate Tuesday.
