NEWS & NOTES

CBS' YOUNG GUNS
Nine new series — four comedies and five dramas — with a total of 18 child actors will join the CBS prime-time lineup next fall in an overhaul that entertainment-division president Jeff Sagansky hopes will bring younger viewers to the network.

What's new: Monday nights will begin with Uncle Buck, an adaptation of the 1989 John Candy movie; Kevin Meaney will play an irrepressible lout who has to take care of his late brother's kids. CBS will try to create a male Roseanne with Lenny (Wednesdays, 8 p.m.), starring comedian Lenny Clarke as a blue-collar wise guy with a wife and three daughters. WIOU (Wednesdays, 10 p.m.) portrays life at a local TV station; John Shea, Mariette Hartley, and Dick Van Patten head the large cast. The Flash, an hour-long action drama about the world's fastest superhero, will try to outrace The Cosby Show Thursdays at 8 p.m. The Hammersmiths (Thursdays, 9 p.m.) will enter Twin Peaks territory — the Pacific Northwest — for a somewhat more conventional glimpse at the lives of an extended family. Evening Shade (Fridays, 8 p.m.) brings Burt Reynolds to TV comedy as a high school football coach in a small Arkansas town. The Equalizer's Edward Woodward returns to crime-solving in Over My Dead Body(Fridays, 9 p.m.). Also coming back to CBS is Gregory Harrison (Trapper John, M.D.), who will play a widower raising four children in Four Alarm Family (Saturdays, 8 p.m.). And in The Green Machine(Saturdays, 9 p.m.), Gil Gerard leads an elite ecological task force.

What's different: Major Dad will move to Mondays at 8:30 p.m., with plans to de-emphasize the military. Face to Face with Connie Chung gets a new time slot (Mondays, 10 p.m.) and a new focus on celebrities. Doctor, Doctor returns Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m., Bagdad Cafe moves to Fridays at 8:30 p.m., and The Hogan Family jumps from NBC to CBS Saturdays at 8:30 p.m. Finally, Dallas' J.R. Ewing gets a fresh nemesis: All My Children's Susan Lucci.

What's gone: Unlikely to be seen again: Tour of Duty, Max Monroe: Loose Cannon, City, His & Hers, Sydney, Normal Life, Falcon Crest, Newhart, The Bradys, and The Famous Teddy Z. Paradise may stay in production, and Wiseguy will return at midseason, but Vinnie Terranova (Ken Wahl) will depart by the fourth episode, to be replaced by an OCB agent played by Steven Bauer.

FOX: NEW NIGHTS, MANY SURPRISES
As Fox's schedule expands to five nights, The Simpsons will go up against The Cosby Show, the network's old dramas will disappear, and Thursday and Friday series will be added in a major revamping of the Fox lineup.

What's new: Ten new series — the most Fox has ever added at one time — will make ( their debuts next fall. D.E.A. (Fridays, 9 p.m.) will follow America's drug wars in a new storytelling format that incorporates scripted scenes and documentary footage — but, Fox emphasizes, it's fiction. Fox Video Hour (Saturdays, 8 p.m.) will feature two half-hour ''reality'' series of comical footage, home videos, and practical jokes. The shows haven't yet been chosen, but one may be the current series Totally Hidden Video. American Chronicles (Saturdays, 9:30 p.m.) is the latest offering from Twin Peaks teammates David Lynch and Mark Frost — a documentary series offering a skewed perspective on famous people, famous places, and big events, narrated by Richard Dreyfuss. True Colors (Sundays, 7 p.m.) provides a comic look at an interracial family; it will be followed at 7:30 by Parker Lewis Can't Lose, starring Corin Nemic as the world's coolest high school student. Late Night with David Letterman's Chris Elliott will play a 30-year-old paper boy who still lives with his parents in the appropriately titled Get A Life!(Sundays, 8:30 p.m.). Sundays at 9:30, Good Grief will attempt to find comedy in the shared plight of two brothers who run a mortuary, and at 10, Against the Law will star Michael O'Keefe as a trial lawyer who doesn't go by the book. Babes (Thursdays, 8:30 p.m.) looks in on three oversized sisters sharing an undersized New York apartment, and the drama Class of Beverly Hills (Thursdays, 9 p.m.) follows two Midwestern teenagers as they try to adjust to life on the West Coast. Fox is also adding a weekly movie night, Mondays from 8 to 10 p.m.