What Happened to Boy Meets Girl?

By Melissa August, Ann Marie Bonardi, Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Daren Fonda, Benjamin Nugent, Julie Rawe, Victoria Rainert

This spring network executives faced the daunting challenge of choosing new shows from more than 130 pilots. How tough was it? Based on the following descriptions of pilots on offer, see if you can find the five shows picked up for next fall:

CHANNEL EVENING

MYST

1. Thirtysomething woman ditches her old life and goes back to school (with HEATHER PAIGE KENT, 1)

2. Newspaper columnist-professor and his students solve mysteries (with OLIVER PLATT, 2)

BOWL

3. Small-town man buys bowling alley and chases girl of his high school dreams

KIDS

4. Woman hits rock bottom and rebuilds life with kids (with BRETT BUTLER, 3)

5. Young woman shares "odd couple" relationship with her talking dog (with ANDY RICHTER, 4)

MONY

6. Naive Oklahoma girl assists bad-boy real estate mogul (with KRISTIN CHENOWETH, 5)

7. Divorced father and kids move in with gay college friend (with JOHN GOODMAN, 6)

COPS

8. Cop's partner disappears into world of vampires and government-conspiracy theories

ROCK

9. High school boy reassesses life after girlfriend gets serious

10. Struggling rock band discovers amulet that lets it help the dead

LASV

11. Vegas show girl and pro wrestler enjoy married life

12. Man's cutthroat adventures in window-treatment business

13. Animated family deals with aftermath of Armageddon, in an RV

TABS

14. Young tabloid reporter discovers the "trash" his paper prints is all true

SOAP

15. Behind-the-scenes soap opera of fictitious soap opera (with Al Santos and Irene Molloy)

Answers: 1. That's Life (CBS) 2. Deadline (NBC) 7. Don't Ask (Fox) 11. Nikki (WB) 15. Grosse Pointe (WB)

Note: pilot descriptions courtesy of Variety