A rundown of what is/isn’t/might be popping up on the 2009-10 primetime schedule at ABC during this week’s Upfront presentation …

ABC (Upfront presentation: Tuesday, May 19)
Returning series: America’s Funniest Home Videos, The Bachelor, Better Off Ted, Brothers & Sisters, Castle, Dancing with the Stars, Desperate Housewives, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Grey’s Anatomy, Lost, Private Practice, Scrubs, Supernanny, True Beauty, Ugly Betty, Wife Swap
On the bubble series: Surviving Suburbia
New series:

– Cougar Town (Comedy)
Plot: The dating adventures of a newly-single mom and her teen son
It stars: Courteney Cox, Busy Philipps, Brian Van Holt, Christa Miller, Josh Hopkins and Ian Gomez, created by Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence
It’s like: Janice Dickinson‘s life

– The Deep End (Dramedy)
Plot: Newbie attorneys at a prestigious law firm
It stars: Billy Zane and Tina Majorino
It’s like: Scrubs or Grey’s Anatomy in a law firm

– Eastwick (Drama)
Plot: Three witches come into their powers when a mysterious fellow arrives in town
It stars: Rebecca Romijn, Lindsay Price, Matt Dallas and Sara Rue
It’s like: The John Updike novel and big-screen movie The Witches of Eastwick, on which it’s based

– Flash Forward (Drama)
Plot: Sci-fi-ish story about what happens when the world blacks out for two minutes and everyone has visions of the future
It stars: Joseph Fiennes, Sonya Walger, John Cho and Courtney Vance
It’s like: Every show that has employed the unfortunately ubiquitous time travel gimmick on TV recently (i.e. the network hopes it’ll catch on just as Lost unrolls its final season)

– The Forgotten (Drama)
Plot: Amateur detectives dedicate themselves to solving the murders of unidentified victims
It stars: Reiko Aylesworth, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer
It’s like: Encyclopedia Brown became a do-gooder adult

– Hank (Comedy)
Plot: A hotshot Wall Streeter who has to return to his hometown and reconnect with his family
It stars: Kelsey Grammer
It’s like: Frasier, if his shrink biz had gone belly up

– Happy Town (Drama)
Plot: Investigating a murder in a quirky small town
It stars: Geoff Stults, Lauren German, Dean Winters, Amy Acker, Sam Neill and Jay Paulson
It’s like: Twin Peaks

– The Middle (Comedy)
Plot: About a Midwestern mom
It stars: Patricia Heaton
It’s like: Everybody Loves Raymond in Ohio

– Modern Family (Comedy)
Plot: A dysfunctional fam, led by patriarch Jay (Ed O’Neill), is profiled in this mockumentary
It stars: O’Neill, Julie Bowen and Jesse Tyler Ferguson
It’s like: In my TV fantasies, The Office-meets-Arrested Development

– V (Drama)
Plot: A remake of the ’80s alien invasion series
It stars: Scott Wolf, Elizabeth Mitchell, Morris Chestnut
It’s like: The ’80s alien invasion series

Other potential new series:
– Empire State (Drama)
Plot: A New York blue collar family and wealthy family clash over their offsprings’ romance
It stars: Beau Garrett, Mike Vogel, Michael Nouri, David Morse, Tammy Blanchard and Kathleen Quinlan
It’s like: Romeo & Juliet. Ish

– Inside the Box (Drama)
Plot: From Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes, follows a female producer at a Washington news bureau
It stars: Kim Raver, Martin Henderson and Jennifer Finnigan
It’s like: Meredith Grey stole Murphy Brown’s job?

– The Law (Comedy)
Plot: The lives of LAPD reserve officers, who are cops only on the weekends
It stars: Donald Faison, Cedric the Entertainer and John Amos
It’s like: Your dad moonlighting as a weekend cop? Hilarity could ensue

– Romantically Challenged (Comedy)
Plot: A slacker and commitment-phobe falls for a single mom
It stars: Alyssa Milano and Eric Christian Olsen
It’s like: The Ashton and Demi Story?