ABC will continue to work toward ratings supremacy this coming fall with no less than eleven brand-new shows. Will any one of them match the Desperate Housewives phenomenon? ABC certainly hopes so. The eleven new shows will bring some once-familiar faces back to the small screen, including Christina Applegate (of Jessie and Married With Children fame) and Lucy Liu (Charlie’s Angels movie star who got her start on Ally McBeal). But how many of these newcomers will make it to a second season on ABC? That probably all depends on how popular the existing ABC ratings-grabbers stay when faced with new network competition. How do these new fall shows stack up?

Pushing Daises will feature Lee Pace as a man of mystery and magic. He can bring back the dead with a single touch, but he can never touch the one woman he truly loves. ABC’s Pushing Daises will feature detective-style story lines and plots, while Dirty, Sexy Money showcases Peter Krause as the topflight lawyer for a famous (and wealthy) family. Another lawyer show will come to ABC, this one named Eli Stone and focusing on a lawyer who considers becoming a prophet. I swear, that’s what the show is about.

The network will also unveil Women’s Murder Club, which tells the tale of a group of novice crime solvers. Lucy Liu will head up the cast of Cashmere Mafia, which sounds like another bad Bravo reality show but is really a businessy drama from Darren Star.

Michael Vartan and Dylan McDermott, two romantic-comedy movie hunks, will set ladies’ hearts fluttering on Big Shots, a drama about high-powered men. Carpoolers takes the opposite tack with comedy and features four men doing their daily commute. Who comes up with these show ideas? Who knows – but for some reason, ABC is totally on board.

Other new shows include Miss Guided, a show about a woman who returns to her own former High School to offer counseling to students, and Sam I Am, a series that stars Christina Applegate. In a plot frighteningly similar to a former Harrison Ford movie, Applegate’s character will awaken from a bout with amnesia to discover that she was a terrible person in the past. Completing the new show line-up is Cavemen, a series based on the popular Geico commercials that feature Neanderthal Men living in today’s modern world.