With another crop of shows wrapping up this week, the big U.S. networks are already starting to talk about their plans for the fall. Entertainment Weekly's Inside TV blog has a look at what viewers can expect (http://bit.ly/10KbcPd). ABC in particular is shaking things up with eight new shows. Its Tuesday night lineup is entirely made up of new titles: the comic-inspired "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," comedies "The Goldbergs" and "Trophy Wife," and the Steven Spielberg executive-produced drama "Lucky 7," about a group of gas station employees who win the lottery.

Bill Brioux rounds up the Canadians who will be seen in U.S. shows this fall (http://bit.ly/14xl1mE) including Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Tricia Helfer and Brendan Fehr.

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Season finales this week include the Fox animated comedies "The Cleveland Show," "The Simpsons" and "Family Guy," reality competitions "Celebrity Apprentice" and "Dancing With the Stars," "Rules of Engagement," "Mike & Molly," "Hawaii Five-0," "Modern Family," "Criminal Minds," "Law & Order: SVU," "Nashville," and "Saturday Night Live."

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In about a month's time we'll see the new Stephen King mini-series "Under the Dome," and producers are building hype with a new extended trailer (http://bit.ly/11KpG7Z). The concept: residents in a small American town are stunned to find themselves sealed off from the outside world when a giant dome-like barrier suddenly surrounds them. There's no getting out and no one can get in. The special effects are top notch and the mini-series looks like it has potential, especially since there won't be much else on during the summer months.

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It's now off the air for good but people are still talking about the series finale of "The Office."

NPR's Monkey See blog wistfully counts down the show's top 10 episodes (http://n.pr/14xxt63), including Steve Carell's last stand as Michael Scott (until the finale, anyway).

On The Onion, they call "The Office" "the greatest television series about the American dream" (http://avc.lu/109tIUo).

"The series finale ended with the usual hugs and tears, but it also returned to what had always been its heart — to have true fulfillment, you sometimes have to give other things up, but having true fulfillment is a goal worth constantly striving toward," writes Todd VanDerWerff. "In its own way, the series embodied the tarnished but still potent allure of the American dream."

The Hollywood Reporter's Tim Goodman, on the other hand, called it "a not exactly fond farewell to 'The Office'" (http://bit.ly/16rgaYN), arguing the show got stale and deserved to go.

"During its run, 'The Office' demanded so much from its viewers — that we suffer through the character evolutions as it tried to find its way; that we wait out the average streaks; that we juggle inconsistency with excellence — that the truly glorious, hilarious batches that sometimes popped up were simply not enough. I wanted 'The Office' to be better than it was. For me, that's its legacy. That's how I'll remember it."

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