Which new female-centric sitcom will take off?

New Girl, 2 Broke Girls and Whitney represent a small portion of this year's fall TV trend of comedies about women -- some journalists speculate that the networks are chasing the success of the summer blockbuster Bridesmaids, which revealed that women can actually be funny. These three sitcoms star women -- Zooey Deschanel, Kat Dennings and Whitney Cummings, respectively -- and were created by women, with Whitney Cummings responsible for those last two. Up All Night is more family-centric than female-centric, but its main focus is on Christina Applegate as a working mother. Two more similar shows will pop up midseason: Chelsea Handler's Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, will star Laura Prepon and draw from Handler's book of the same name. Krysten Ritter will star in a ABC sitcom titled Apartment 23 (originally called Don't Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23) about a recently unemployed barista and a street-smart con artist. Let's get to those when the time comes -- for now, which of these pilots seem most promising?

Eleanor Brown