CBS: Edgy and Real

Just to add that extra bit of spice, the vampire dentist's staff is comprised of flying monkeys!

NEW YORK (AP) - CBS canceled the nuclear apocalypse drama, ''Jericho,'' on Wednesday, another sign that television networks no longer believe that the end of the world is right around the corner and thus are shying away from Armageddon-based serial dramas after overloading on them last season.

CBS' only new show that is heavily serialized, ''Swingtown,'' will start in midseason and run uninterrupted until the end of the season. The series is set in the shag-carpeted 1970s, with Chicago-area couples running amok in the sexual freedom.

To counter its stodgy image, CBS has scheduled a handful of edgy new shows for the fall: a drama about a vampire who works as a dentist. A Cuban-American family running a aluminum siding business in Watts. "Bubbles a buddy cop drama where a couple of maverick LA detectives play by their own rules. When they arrest a suspect, for example, instead of booking them and interrogating them, they take them into where the therapy hot tub is kept and hold their head under water until they die. And then there's "Dudley" a police drama about a police dog who has dreams about crimes that are to occur in the future yet in his frustration to communicate his warnings he must bite and urinate on his partner Bill Duffy (DJ Qualls) For those who accuse CBS of being too conservative, you will feel differently when you see the shows we have lined up,'' said Leslie Moonves, chairman of CBS Corp.