Whole lotta shakin' up going on at WB

The WB network plans to shake things up for fall, moving four established shows to new nights and introducing plans for three new dramas and one new comedy.

Fran Drescher's Living With Fran will return but Steve Harvey's Big Time will not. Jack & Bobby won't be back, either.

Perhaps the network's boldest decision is to move Smallville and Everwood to Thursdays. (Thursdays at 7 is shaping up as the most competitive time slot for fall, with contenders Alias, Joey, The O.C., Survivor and now Smallville.) WB Entertainment chief David Janollari also will move Blue Collar TV from Thursday to Sunday.

The new shows include:

• Just Legal, in which Don Johnson (Nash Bridges, Miami Vice) combines forces with Jay Baruchel (Undeclared) in a lawyer drama with comedic touches.
• Supernatural, a drama about two brothers (Jared Padalecki of Gilmore Girls and Jensen Ackles of Smallville) who travel the back roads of America in their '67 Chevy, huntin' down evil.
• Related, about four sisters who can be friends one minute, enemies the next. This one comes with the pedigree of Friends producer Martha Kaufman. Casting is incomplete but so far includes Jennifer Esposito, Lizzy Caplan and Laura Breckenridge.
• Twins, a brains vs. beauty comedy about twin sisters (Sara Gilbert and Molly Stanton).

WB LINEUP

• Monday
7 p.m. 7th Heaven
8 p.m. Just Legal (new)
• Tuesday
7 p.m. Gilmore Girls
8 p.m. Supernatural (new)

• Wednesday
7 p.m. One Tree Hill (new night)
8 p.m. Related (new)

• Thursday
7 p.m. Smallville (new night)
8 p.m. Everwood (new night)

• Friday
7 p.m. What I Like About You
7:30 p.m. Twins (new)
8 p.m. Reba
8:30 p.m. Living With Fran

• Sunday
6 p.m. Reba (rerun)
6:30 p.m. Reba (rerun)
7 p.m. Charmed
8 p.m. Blue Collar TV (new night)
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