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Don't Bother Me, I'm Watching ... Fall's Hottest TV Shows

The day is done, the kids are asleep and we've just plopped onto the couch. These are the shows we can't wait to see! (15 Photos)

Melissa Silverstein on Sep 2, 2009 at 10:00AM

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Don't Bother Me, I'm Watching ... Fall's Hottest TV Shows

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Cougar Town

Network: ABC
Age: Adult
Premieres: Sept. 23 at 9:30 p.m.

If you can just get past the offensive title, Cougar Town reminds us one of the reasons why Friends was such a success for a decade -- Courteney Cox. In her new sitcom she plays Jules, a newly divorced woman awkwardly getting back into the dating scene. The show smartly illuminates the double standard when men and women date younger people. The newly divorced male neighbor across the street (Josh Hopkins) is a stud, yet Jules is seen as robbing the cradle when she dates a younger man. Cox is joined by Busy Phillips as Laurie, her coworker who pushes her back into the dating scene, and Christa Miller as Ellie, her bitter neighbor who doesn't want anything to change. To top it off she constantly embarrasses her 16-year-old son Travis (Dan Byrd) with her lack of boundaries when he horrifyingly discovers that kids are stealing his mom's real-estate posters because she's hot.