Anne Robinson, you're the weakest link. Goodbye! NBC pulled the Weakest Link from its weekly lineup for fall, as the network added only five new shows. No changes were made on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.

        Weakest Link, the quiz show that aired twice weekly (Sunday, Monday) last fall, will exhaust all original episodes this summer. A daytime half-hour syndicated version has aired since January.

NBC FALL LINEUP

• Sunday: 7, Dateline NBC; 8, American Dreams; 9, Law & Order: Criminal Intent; 10, Boomtown.   • Monday:8, Fear Factor; 9, Third Watch; 10, Crossing Jordan   • Tuesday:8, Just Shoot Me; 8:30, In-Laws; 9, Frasier; 9:30, Hidden Hills; 10, Dateline NBC   • Wednesday: 8, Ed; 9, The West Wing; 10, Law & Order   • Thursday: 8, Friends; 8:30, Scrubs; 9, Will & Grace; 9:30, Good Morning, Miami; 10, ER   • Friday: 8, Providence; 9, Dateline NBC; 10, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit   • Saturday: 8, movie

        “We would have liked for it to be stronger in prime time,” says Jeff Zucker, NBC Entertainment president. “There is a possibility it could appear on the prime-time schedule at midseason.”

        Fear Factor, the TV stunt show that aired at 8 p.m. Monday since January, stays in that slot this fall.

        Again NBC has tinkered with its Thursday “Must See TV” lineup, in preparation for the last season for Friends and the first without Anthony Edwards for ER.

        Freshman sensation Scrubs moves from Tuesday to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, following Friends. Good Morning, Miami, a TV news satire, will debut at 9:30 p.m.

        Just Shoot Me moves from Thursday to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, as NBC starts that night with another new series, In-Laws. A year ago, the same strategy failed with Emeril at 8 p.m. Tuesday.

        Julia Louis-Dreyfus' Watching Ellie will be back at midseason — without the 30-minute clock on each episode. “There's no question it can be improved,” Mr. Zucker says.

        Tristate native Vicki Lewis was not as lucky. NBC canceled her Three Sisters, along with The Colin Quinn Show; Imagine That; Leap of Faith; Inside Schwartz; UC: Undercover and Emeril.

        The new comedies:

        • In-Laws (8 p.m. Tuesday): Newlyweds (Elon Gold from Clerks and Bonnie Somerville from Grosse Pointe, Friends) move in with her parents (Jean Smart from Designing Women and Dennis Farina from Buddy Faro, Get Shorty).

        • Hidden Hills (9:30 p.m. Tuesday): Dondre T. Whitfield (Between Brothers) stars as the husband in one of two couples in NBC's sitcom about the ""wild, sexy and funny side” of suburbia, which sounds similar to his short-lived 1998 Living in Captivity Fox comedy. Tamara Taylor (Party of Five) plays his wife, while Justin Louis (Trinity) and Paula Marshall (Snoops, Cupid) play the other couple.

        • Good Morning, Miami (9:30 p.m. Thursday): Jere Burns (Dear John) stars as the nervous TV station manager who hires a hot-shot producer (Mark Feuerstein, The West Wing) to fix his low-rated morning show. Co-stars include Suzanne Pleshette (The Bob Newhart Show) and Tessie Santiago (The Way She Moves).

        The dramas:

        • American Dreams (8 p.m. Sunday): Set in Philadelphia in the 1960s, a teen-age girl (Brittany Snow, Guiding Light) defies her mother (Gail O'Grady, NYPD Blue) to dance on Dick Clark's American Bandstand. Joey Lawrence (Blossom), Tom Verica (Providence) and Will Estes (7th Heaven) also star in the series produced by Mr. Clark.

        • Boomtown (10 p.m. Sunday): Think of this as Third Watch in Los Angeles. This ensemble drama weaves together the stories of four police officers (Donnie Wahlberg, Mykelti Williamson, Gary Basaraba, Jason Gedrick); a paramedic (Lana Parrilla); the district attorney (Neal McDonough) and a newspaper reporter (Nina Garbiras).

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