CBS reveals fall changes

CBS reveals fall changes

NEW YORK — CBS will bring two comedies to its schedule on Wednesday nights in the fall, spreading jokes to a second night after confining its sitcoms to Mondays the past few years. Emmy winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ “The New Adventures of Old Christine” and a new sitcom that stars Jay Mohr as a recently divorced painter and Paula Marshall as his ex-wife will be shown Wednesdays, CBS said in announcing its new schedule Wednesday. CBS canceled the drama “Shark” and the gothic thriller “Moonlight.” The network will move “Without a Trace” to Tuesday and “The Unit” to Sunday. CBS renewed “How I Met Your Mother.” The second new comedy, “Worst Week,” is a single-camera show about a bungling magazine editor.

The network will add three dramas in the fall. “Eleventh Hour” won the Thursday 10 p.m. time slot behind “CSI.” It’s about a brilliant biophysicist who helps investigate scientific crises. “The Ex List” is about a woman told by a fortune teller that she must marry within a year or be single forever. Simon Baker stars in “The Mentalist,” a former celebrity psychic who becomes a detective.

Today’s birthdays

Counterculture icon Wavy Gravy is 72. Singer Trini Lopez is 71. Actress-singer Lainie Kazan is 68. Actor Chazz Palminteri is 56. Actor David Krumholtz (“Numb3rs”) is 30. Actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler (“The Sopranos”) is 27.