And the television network will focus on airing original programs during the rerun-plagued summer months, Fox Entertainment President Peter Roth told the semiannual Television Critics Association meeting. "We can't announce any specifics yet, but we will make an investment towards providing original series fare", Roth said. "The numbers of series and specifics will be announced sometime shortly."

He also said "Martin" producers are deciding how to explain the absence of Tisha Campbell, who left the show and named series star Martin Lawrence -- her TV husband -- in a sexual harassment lawsuit. Lawrence has denied the allegations. The Feb. 13 episode will be the first without Campbell's character Gina. The hour-long episode set on a cruise ship includes former "Love Boat" crew members Ted Lange, Bernie Kopell, Lauren Tewes and Jill Whelan.

"In the case of the Love Boat episode, she simply missed the boat", Roth said, adding he could not comment on Campbell's lawsuit. He said Fox is happy with "Martin", in its fifth season, and was confident the show could go on without Campbell.

Spelling's new soap, tentatively titled "Pacific Palisades" after the real-life upper-crust Los Angeles shoreline neighborhood, premieres April 9. It will move into the 9 p.m. Wednesday slot now filled by "Party of Five", which will end its 24-episode run then. The only cast member announced is Erika Eleniak of "Baywatch", who will play a shrewd real estate agent. The soap centers on "young couples on the fast track to fame and fortune, romance and heartache, and scandal and ruin", a press release said. If "Palisades" does well in a scheduled six-week run, Fox will run new episodes in the summer.

Meanwhile, the network set launches sometime in March for "Lawless", a one-hour action series starring former football star Brian Bosworth, and "Strange Truth", a reality series produced by Dick Clark that explores unexplained phenomena. Previously announced shows getting tryouts before the season is up include "Pauly" starring Pauly Shore and "Secret Agent Guy", with Judge Reinhold.

Fox will also continue describing its network as "Non-Stop Fox", the motto it launched for November sweeps. "If it's not broken, don't fix it", explained David Hill, president of Fox Television.