Nancy Travis

The producers, not the stars, are the big names in the new fall series that will be announced by CBS today. That is also the story at ABC, which rolled out its fall -primetime lineup yesterday in New York.CBS will add three new dramas and three sitcoms to a schedule that finished second overall in viewership this year but had the oldest audience. Producers for its new dramas include Glenn Gordon Caron, of "Moonlighting," and Paul Haggis, of the critically acclaimed but quickly canceled "EZ Streets."

Citing the influence of the recent Million Man March, urban radio station WXYV-FM (102.9) says it will no longer play songs with lyrics that are derogatory to women, and is asking listeners to offer their opinions on the policy."

Is prime-time America ready for Montel Williams as a hard-boiled high school science teacher who hangs pupils out the classroom window when they misbehave?CBS thinks so and announced yesterday that Williams, a Baltimore native, will star in "Matt Waters," an hour-long drama on its new fall schedule. The show is one of five new dramas and six new sitcoms CBS will add in September in an attempt to slow one of the worst ratings collapses in recent network history.CBS Entertainment President Peter Tortorici yesterday labeled his new schedule "young, bold and far-reaching."

The four major broadcast networks are raising the curtain on the fall season. Here is TV critic David Zurawik's guide to where and when to find your old favorites and new prospects on ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC. Nightly schedules include the times shows will appear and the dates of their season premieres. Times and dates are subject to chance.SUNDAY* "Brotherly Love." 7 p.m., NBC. Joey Lawrence, Matthew Lawrence, Andrew Lawrence and Melinda Culea. Sitcom set in a car repair garage and starring the Lawrence brothers.

For a guy whose year included being dumped from his co-starring role in the TV sitcom "Almost Perfect," Kevin Kilner sounds pretty upbeat about 1996. He even refuses to complain about the fate of his character, Los Angeles Assistant District Attorney Mike Ryan, who was written out of the show in September's season premiere."

If you thought last year was bad, wait until you see the network television season that officially starts the week of Sept. 19.While it's true that quality sitcoms were in short supply last year, at least there was "Will & Grace" on NBC and "Sports Night" on ABC. There isn't one sitcom this season worth keeping."

Here are highlights from the long list of movies that are hoping to win big this summer. As always, some will change their release dates or drop out of the game altogether.May 19A Little Princess: From "Secret Garden" author Frances Hodgson Burnett, another tale of a plucky young British girl uprooted from her home in India and deposited in a grim place, this time a strict New York boarding school.Die Hard With a Vengeance: Bruce Willis' third attempt to stop the destruction of a large space pits unlucky detective John McClane against a mad bomber terrorizing Manhattan.

One of the biggest demographic shifts in the history of network television is about to take place, and many baby-boomer viewers are not going to know what hit them.Twenty-five years of feeling important when they watched prime-time network television -- because most of the shows were about people like them -- will be coming to an end for boomers as the new television season begins this month.There are still going to be series for fortysomethings in the new season -- such shows as "Murphy Brown," which heads into its last year on CBS, and Steven Bochco's new "Murder One" on ABC. But the dominant theme this fall is youth.