Ah, out with the old, in with the new. The television season is dead, long live the next television season. And to prepare for it, I’m going to review new shows as the pilots become available.

LAX; NBC, Monday Nights 10:00 pm

Will someone please stop giving Heather Locklear television shows?

This show opens with the suicide of Emmit Champion, director of California International Airport (we assume with the renaming from HUB that this will be changed to LAX) committing suicide by standing in front of a landing 747. And by the end of this hour, you’ll envy his early exit. Two folks are up to take his place; Harley Random (Locklear), the plucky (yeah, I know she’s long past plucky, but she hasn’t figured it out yet) Airfield Chief, and Roger (Blair Underwood, City of Angels who’s character doesn’t seem to have a definitive last name yet), the Terminal Manager. Of course the decision will be a political one, and of course these two will battle for the job, and of course they will end up co-operating the airport, if not co-operating with each other.
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