ABC Announces New Premiere Dates

LOS ANGELES, December 3:
Three new dramas are joining ABC's schedule: Castle, Cupid and The Unusuals.

Premiering on March 9 at
10 p.m., Castle centers on a famous
mystery novelist who is bored with his own success. He learns that a real-world
copycat killer has started staging murder scenes depicted in his novels and he
steps in to help find the killer. The series stars Nathan Fillion (Desperate Housewives) and Stana Katic (The Spirit), as well as Susan
Sullivan (Dharma and Greg) and Molly
Quinn (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story).

Cupid,
making its debut on March 24 at 10 p.m., is a romantic dramedy about a
larger-than-life character who may or may not be the Roman god of love. He is
under the care of a psychiatrist who is also dedicated to helping lonely hearts
find their soul mates. Cupid stars
Bobby Cannavale, Sarah Paulson, Rick Gomex and Camille Guaty.

Making its series premiere
on April 8 at 10 p.m. is The Unusuals.
The series stars Amber Tamblyn (The
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) as a detective who is working in a
homicide division that is filled with dirty secrets. Starring alongside Tamblyn
are Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau, Josh Close,
Monique Gabriela Curnen and Kai Lennox.

Meanwhile, ABC News's Primetime: What Would You Do? returns on
January 6 at 10 p.m. The program sets up scenarios to look at
how ordinary people actually do in the face of everyday dilemmas that test
their character and values.

—By Kristin Brzoznowski