It is with tears that we bid farewell to many of our favorite TV shows, with joy we hear some are returning and with nervous anticipation we await the arrival of the networks newly acquired shows.

Portrait Magazine gives you the inside scoop on what’s leaving, what’s returning and what’s coming:

We'll be bidding farewell to:

We'll be bidding farewell to the loved sitcom '8 Simple Rules'

8 Simple Rules
8 Simple Rules has been floundering ever since the death of it’s beloved star John Ritter. The family sitcom leaves ABC’s schedule after 3 seasons. The show starred Kate Segal, Kaley Cuoco, James Garner and David Spade.

Summerland
The show about a successful fashion designer who must adopt her sisters 3 children after her death has been eliminated from the WB’s schedule after two seasons. The show starred Lori Loughlin and Jesse McCartney.

Jack and Bobby
This show was critically acclaimed but received low ratings in it’s first season, it followd the lives of two brothers, one of whom will someday be the next president on the US.

My Wife and Kids
The family sitcom has been running since 2001 and succeeded the 100 episode mark then ran out of steam.

American Dreams
Family Drama set in the 60’s. Probably ruffled some feathers with its anti war message regarding Vietnam (think Iraq). The show starred former Portrait Magazine cover girl Brittany snow.

Star Trek Enterprise
The most recent installment in the Star Trek series a prequel to the original ‘Star Trek’ never quite had the sparkle of it’s predecessors and was cancelled after 3 season.

Judging Amy
The family drama focused on three generations of women living together in Hartford, Connecticut started in 1999.

Joan Of Arcadia
A Family drama about a teenager who talks to God was critically acclaimed hit show in its first season failed to keep it’s audience in it’s second.

Returning to our screens wil be:

7th Heaven
I’m sure I’m not the only one who doesn’t understand this decision, As far I’m concerned the show lost it’s sparkle back in it’s fifth season and now with pretty much half the original cast gone they’re bringing it back for a tenth season?

Fans can breath easy, What I like about you is returning

What I like about you
There was concern among fans the show wouldn’t return for a fourth season after receiving minimal ratings but it just managed to squeeze in under the radar. This will most likely be the last season as star Amanda Bynes wishes to pursue other career options after the fourth season.

Jake In Progress
Critics were surprised by the decision to renew Jake in Progress after it received minimal ratings. The show stars former Full House star John Stamos.

Also Returning:
Less Than Perfect
The O.C.
Everwood
Smallville
Two And A Half Men
CSI
Alias
Without a Trace
One Tree Hill
Gilmore Girls
Lost
Desperate Housewives
George Lopez Show
Arrested Developement

Coming to our TV screens soon:

Gilmore Girl's Dean, Jared Padelecki stars in 'Supernatural'

• SUPERNATURAL (WB): Jared Padalecki (Gilmore Girls) and Jensen Ackles are brothers who travel the country checking out weird paranormal phenomena.

• JUST LEGAL (WB): Young Jay Baruchel ("Undeclared") and macho vet Don Johnson star as an attorney odd couple in the new legal procedural from producer Jerry Bruckheimer ("CSI").

• RELATED (WB): Laura San Giacomo ("Just Shoot Me") and Jennifer Esposito ("Spin City") head the cast in Marta Kaufman's ("Friends") romantic drama about four sisters living and working in New York. Sounds rather similar to ‘What I like about you’ methinks.

• TWINS (WB): Sara Gilbert ("Roseanne") and Molly Stanton ("Passions") star in a sitcom from the producers of "Will & Grace." It traces the odd sibling lives of fraternal twin sisters who have zilch in common.

• Bones (Fox): This crime drama, which Fox describes as "darkly amusing," features Emily Deschanel as a forensic anthropologist with a knack for reading clues on skeletal remains. She puts that ability to use for law enforcement.

• The Gate (working title) (Fox): Another crime drama, this one is set in the San Francisco Police Department's deviant-crime unit. Detectives Hale (Johnny Messner) and Lyford (Marguerite Moreau) investigate bizarre crimes.

• Head Cases (Fox): Chris O'Donnell and Adam Goldberg star in this legal drama with comedic elements. O'Donnell plays Jason Payne, a former superstar lawyer who has recently suffered a nervous breakdown. Desperate to rebuild his career, he teams up with Shultz (Goldberg), a temperamental lawyer who represents underdog clients.

• Kitchen Confidential (Fox): Bradley Cooper plays a down-and-out chef getting a fresh start at a top New York restaurant in this comedy, which is based on the best-selling memoir of renowned chef Anthony Bourdain.

• Prison Break(Fox): This drama will spend the entire season telling the story - in real time, a la 24 - of a planned prison break in a maximum-security penitentiary. Wentworth Miller plays Michael Scofield, a structural engineer who gets incarcerated deliberately so he can spring his brother Lincoln (Dominic Purcell).

• Reunion(Fox): This drama follows a group of friends over the course of 20 years, with each episode set in a different year between 1986 and 2005 and providing clues to the murder of one of the friends. The cast includes Charlotte native Chyler Leigh.

• The War at Home(Fox): Michael Rapaport and Anita Barone star in this situation comedy about parents trying to raise three rambunctious teenagers. Characters reveal their thoughts in a "confessional space" between scenes

• Everybody Hates Chris (UPN): This single-camera comedy is based on the youth of comedian Chris Rock, who serves as the show's narrator. Tyler Williams plays teenage Chris.

• Love, Inc. (UPN): In a plot reminiscent of the recent film Hitch and TV series Miss Match, Shannen Doherty plays a woman who is a full-service "dating consultant."

• Sex, Lies & Secrets (UPN): Denise Richards and Eric Balfour head the cast of this ensemble drama about a group of friends in a small, hip neighborhood on the outskirts of Hollywood.

• GHOST WHISPERER (CBS) is about a woman (Jennifer Love Hewitt) who communicates with the dead, based on the writings of psychic James van Praagh.

• THRESHOLD (CBS) tracks the discovery of alien life on earth, and stars Charles Dutton, Carla Gugino and the man who was Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Brent Spiner.

• EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT MEN (CBS) stars Jenna Elfman, who was Dharma in Dharma and Greg.

• COMMANDER IN CHIEF (ABC): The highest profile new series stars Geena Davis as the first woman to become American president.

• INVASION (ABC): A show about the mysterious happenings which follow a hurricane in Florida; considered to be a ‘Lost’ copycat.

• THE NIGHT STALKER (ABC): Updated version of the 70’s show that starred Darren McGavin in a supernatural crime drama called The Night Stalker, which many of those who worked on The X-Files cited as an inspiration. Now, Frank Spotnik, who produced those adventures of Mulder and Scully, returns with an updated version of The Night Stalker.

• THE EVIDENCE (ABC): Kate McLachlan stars in a more straight-forward crime drama called The Evidence (co-starring Martin Landau and Mad-TV alumnus Orlando Jones).

• CRUMBS (ABC): Sees the return of Wonder Years star Fred Savage in a sitcom where he plays one of two brothers attempting to keep the family business afloat after his parents divorce.

• HOT PROPERTIES (ABC): A comedy about four women who run a real estate agency.

• SONS AND DAUGHTERS (ABC): A show that attempts to combine a typical sitcom with elements of improv.

• Freddie Prinze Jr. also stars in a sitcom about a single guy living in a houseful of women.

• Bedford Diaries (midseason) (WB): Oz mastermind Tom Fontana created this drama about students at a liberal arts college in New York. Matthew Modine is the professor of a sexuality course, and WB It Boy, Gilmore Girls' Milo Ventimiglia, is one of the students.