Heroes welcome? We shall see...

0 Comments | USA TODAY, September, 2007 | by Robert Bianco

It'll take a host of heroes to save this season.

As happy as the networks may be to put a disastrous summer behind them, they face a fall that may not be much brighter with a new crop of shows that is their least interesting and inspired in years. Though even the worst season has its highlights (a category led by our top choice for 2007, ABC's enchanting Pushing Daisies), looking over the schedule as a whole, you may be tempted to tell the networks to scrap this lineup and repeat last year's slate instead.

Of course, you might also think that's exactly what the networks did, or attempted to do, by taking last year's complex serials and dumbing them down.

In place of dark, thoughtful serials such as The Nine, you'll find a multitude of series...