At the start of every television season, there’s a sense of hope among the four major networks that they will produce at least one new hit. For the most part, this usually happens since they throw so much stuff at the wall that something just has to stick. While TV fanatics like myself will also try to be optimistic about a new season, we have to face the fact that about 90 percent (give or take) of the new shows are going to fail miserably.

Some shows get cut almost instantly. If no one watches the pilot, the networks will just decide the hell with it and cut it right away. Other shows get a couple of weeks before they get cut. Some shows even get to live their entire freshman season before getting cut. Still, more shows make it to midseason because the networks just don’t have anything better to put in the timeslot.

Now that the 2014-2015 season is getting into full gear as three of the four networks use the NFL as launching pads, it’s time to be a pessimist. Let’s look at the shows that aren’t going to make the cut on ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC.

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10. ABC’s Forever finds Ioan Gruffudd - Mr. Fantastic from 20th Century Fox’s first Fantastic Four movies - as a New York doctor who lives forever! (Hence the title.) The network is using Dancing with the Stars as the lead-in, because after two hours of watching has-beens try to dance, we are all itching to watch a has-been superhero actor in a medical drama! Whoopee!

It premiers on Sept. 22. After that, it will move to Tuesdays at 10 p.m. after Agents of SHIELD.

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9. Eventually, ABC will find something to plug in the 9:30 p.m. slot after Modern Family, but black-ish isn’t going to be it. The premise actually sounds hilarious. Eric Anderson stars in this series about a black family in a mostly white neighborhood. He’s a bit distressed over the fact that his son has embraced the culture. Laurence Fishburne plays Anderson’s father.

I’m actually interested in seeing how this show turns out, but I have a feeling too many people are used to leaving ABC on Wednesday nights after Family.

Premiers on Sept. 24.

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8. There’s been little buzz for Manhattan Love Story, another ABC comedy, which is plugged in on Tuesday nights after another new comedy, Selfie. It starts on Sept. 30 and will probably have ABC wishing it didn’t hold The Goldbergs back.

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7. Moving on to CBS, the eye network has very few new shows premiering in the fall, but one is Scorpion, yet another crime drama. The show focuses on a government team fighting digital crime. CBS also has CSI: Cyber, so I’m not sure why the network bothered with two digital crime dramas. Cyber is being held back for mid-season, but if it replaces Scorpion, will anyone know the difference?

Premiers on Sept. 22.

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6. Yes, because right after an hour of insane crimes on Criminal Minds, we all want to go to bed after watching Stalker. This crime drama focuses on stalking cases (seriously, what else did you think it was about?).

Premiers on Oct. 1.

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5. Fox already kicked off its season with the Survivor knock-off Utopia. The show got off to a sad start in the ratings, since it aired opposite Sunday Night Football. During the season, the show will take up slots on Tuesday and Friday.

My guess is that even if the ratings stink, Fox might just air the show anyway. Gotham will make the network look good on Mondays, so bosses there might just decide to ride-out Utopia and cut it after its first season.

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4. Sadly, there’s four shows on NBC that I think will be axed during the season, starting with State of Affairs. Yes, the show, starring Katherine Heigl as a CIA attache to the President (hmm... sounds like some other show on another network with Kerry Washington...), won the coveted post-The Voice slot to start its season. However, it doesn’t start until November, after The Voice’s most popular audition phase.

Heigl has been out of the spotlight for awhile, considering her last few movies have flopped. She needs this show to be a hit, but unless it gets off to a great start in the ratings, that won’t happen.

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3. The Mysteries of Laura just doesn’t sound like an idea that’s going to light a fire. Debra Messing, whose last show was Smash, stars as a tough New York cop, who’s also a single mom with two kids. It’s a cute concept and it would be cool if it worked out, but cop shows with female leads who aren’t played by Mariska Hargitay have a hard time.

Starts on Sept. 24.

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2. It would be stupid to think that CBS’ Bad Teacher can tell us how well Bad Judge, headlined by Kate Walsh, will do. After all, CBS held Bad Teacher to the end of last season, then dumped it on Saturdays during the summer. Still, this comedy just doesn’t look that appealing. Plus, it’s on Thursdays and CBS has Thursday night football so.... you can see where this is going.

Starts on Oct. 2.

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1. Oh, this kills me. I really, really want this lovely show to work. Desperately. Ben Feldman from Mad Men and the lovely Cristin Milioti from How I Met Your Mother are a couple of destiny. The pilot is already online and it just looked surprisingly wonderful. But no one watches NBC and it’s on right after Bad Judge. Recipe for disaster, sadly.

Starts on Oct. 2.