Now that premiere week is over, it’s a good time to see how some of the more promising first-year series are faring since their debuts.</p><p><strong>“NCIS: Los Angeles”</strong> — CBS garnered its biggest Tuesday audiences of premiere week since 1994 thanks to the combo of “NCIS” and its new spinoff, set rather improbably at an airy Spanish mission. There was a lot of mindless action in the pilot episode, and one wonders if anybody can really get anything done using that CNN-style video wall back at headquarters. Still, the show’s fate will turn on the chemistry among its team members, and there was simply too much head-knockin’ and too little head-talkin’ in the premiere for anyone to gel. This much we know: Putting 4-foot-whatever Linda Hunt in the mix was a stroke of casting genius. I’d watch “Grey’s Anatomy” if she were standing in the hospital wearing those Truman Capote glasses. Heck, I would even watch “90210” … oh wait. Nothing can get me to watch “90210.”</p><p><strong>“FlashForward” </strong>— This ABC show debuted to huge numbers on Thursday, then beat most of its competition when the premiere was repeated on Friday. For those of you who somehow missed it, the premise of “FlashForward” is that the whole world blacks out for two minutes and 17 seconds — except for Congress, which quickly passes a healthcare plan and reinstates the Fairness Doctrine. Seriously, though, the show feels like a work in progress, and I’ll be interested to see if it will keep trying to be a landlocked version of “Lost.” This cast does not feel up to the task for that, not yet.</p><p><strong>“Community” </strong>— If Joel McHale wanted a star vehicle, he’s got it, but it’s out of alignment. To be sure, there are scenes of LOL greatness in this show — “Señor Chang’s” psychotic address to Spanish class in last week’s episode ranks right up there with Sam Kinison’s rant in “Back to School” — but those are offset by some shakier scenes, mostly involving Chevy Chase. Someone needs to get his character an A.A. degree and tell him hasta luego.</p><p><strong>“The Cleveland Show”</strong> — At first glance this “Family Guy” spinoff seems to have a lot of Quahog in it, even though ex-Griffin neighbor Cleveland Brown has relocated to Stoolbend, Va. But I think this is going to turn out to be a somewhat more heartwarming version of the original, with Cleveland newly remarried and his male neighbors seemingly happy to have him as their buddy-of-color. Ratings for the show’s debut Sunday were through the roof, which suggests that fans can’t get enough product from the cartoon factory of Seth MacFarlane (who, oddly, has found time to play a minor part on “FlashForward”).</p><p><strong>“The Jay Leno Show”</strong> — Hard to explain the vitriol pouring down on NBC’s 9 p.m. star — did these people not watch the last 10 years of “The Tonight Show”? It’s the same show, except that Leno shares more time with his roving band of comedy contributors, from D.L. Hughley to guitar-picking Nick Thune. The critics may be angry that Leno is succeeding with a product they consider cut-rate (even with its settled-down ratings, his show is expected to make at least a quarter-billion in profit for NBC). But anger is out of place in Lenoland. Just look at Rush Limbaugh’s recent appearance on the show: He came off as bitter and self-obsessed during the interview, but when Leno took him out to the race course for his weekly “Green Car Challenge,” we saw the fun side of El Rushbo. </p><p><strong>“Glee”</strong> — I knew Fox had a winner when, after “Glee’s” one-shot preview in the spring, several readers asked if it was coming back in the fall. It has, just as viewers are showing signs of crime procedural fatigue. “Glee’s” timing seems perfect, right down to the “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” tribute video. And it’s minted a breakout star in Jane Lynch as the hilariously insufferable cheerleading coach who’s not afraid to tell it like it is (“Not everyone has the walnuts to be pro-littering!” to quote just one of her many gems).