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"No Tomorrow" (Tuesday, 8 p.m., CW/Ch. 30) is a romantic comedy in which one half of the couple is, well, peculiar. And the other half is pretty boring.

Evie (Tori Anderson) is an uptight young woman with a dull job, a dull boyfriend and no prospects of anything different. But then she meets Xavier (Joshua Sasse, "Galavant"), who is determined to live each day to the fullest.

That's because he's convinced that, in eight months and 12 days, the world is going to be destroyed by an asteroid.

"I think there are certainly plenty of apocalyptic doom kind of shows," said executive producer Corinne Brinkerhoff. "And we wanted an apocalyptic joy kind of show."

Yeah, that's weird.

Although we're assured that Xavier isn't crazy. Sasse warned that viewers should "veer away" from thinking that Xavier is "a lunatic," because, for him, the impending asteroid is "an empirical truth."

Also weird. And, potentially, rather limiting if he's correct. Which we all know he won't be. If the show lasts that long.

"We're going to have a lot of fun sort of teasing the audience and keeping them guessing as to his level of sanity," said executive producer Maggie Friedman.

Yeah, it doesn't seem like that much fun.

Despite clawing so desperately throughout the pilot episode to achieve quirkiness, "No Tomorrow" could work. It all depends on whether the show can develop chemistery between Xavier and Evie — between Sasse and Anderson.

It doesn't quite work in the premiere, but chemistry can develop. Whether it does or not only a few more episodes will reveal.