NBC has "Sunday Night Football." On CBS, there's "Amazing Race," "Cold Case" and "The Unit." ABC runs "Extreme Makover: Home Edition," "Desperate Housewives" and "Brothers and Sisters," and Fox has its animation marathon.

Even HBO makes a night of it with high-profile series like "True Blood" and "Entourage."

What's left for the CW to do?

The fourth-place network is launching two new scripted series on Oct. 5, and though one is especially light and frothy against other Sunday-night fare, they are decent alternatives to the usual network offerings. Both air on KUCW Channel 30.

"Valentine," 7 p.m. » This airy-but-modern-take on "The Love Boat" or "Love, American Style" may be far from the best show on television, but it is one of the most surprising.

That is, it didn't suck.

I expected "Valentine," about a family of Greek gods who come to Earth to help wayward singles find love, was going to be one of the worst shows on the new fall schedule, so the fact it's even bearable seems like an accomplishment.

English actress Jaime Murray plays Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, who has been sent to Earth and renamed Grace Valentine. Her job - along with her son Danny (Kristoffer Polaha), Hercules (Robert Baker) and daughter Phoebe ("American Mall's" Autumn Reeser) - is to hook up soulmates who need that extra push.

Because they're thousands of years old and out of touch, Grace hires a romance novelist, Kate (Christine Lakin), for help.

In the pilot, the family works on putting a street entertainer and his best friend together, and the second episode involves hooking up an Indian woman and a lab technician.

It's an interesting and mostly fun premise that is well cast, even if the comedy sometimes fall flat.

"Easy Money," 8 p.m. » The best way to describe this one-hour "family" drama is "Six Feet Under" in a payday-loan shop.

Morgan Buffkin (Jeff Hefner) runs the family business, Prestige Payday Loans. His mother, Bobette ("Roseanne's" Laurie Metcalf), is the matriarch of a family that is at times as dysfunctional as the Fisher family in "Six Feet" or the Soprano family.

The series, with its family dynamics and intrigue, has a lot of dramatic potential. The setup involves some surprising twists in the first episode, which I won't spoil here. And if the writers stick to it, the premise can have a lot of depth and chances for strong relationships between Morgan and his mother, as well as with his siblings.

On the surface, "Easy Money" doesn't seem like the kind of dramatic backdrop that could drive a series. But with lots of money at stake, violent competitors and plenty of family mishaps, the setting could prove fruitful.

The pilot got off on the right foot. I hope this is one loan business that can really pay off.