ONE'S THE TYPE of cop show that's been done to death, while the other three are new and different twists on legal and medical dramas.

All are new offerings in a summer television season that's largely been saved by cable networks as broadcast TV parcels out relatively little new programming

Perhaps the most interesting is USA's "Suits," a lawyer show that tries a different twist. It stars an interesting and refreshingly low-key Patrick J. Adams as Mike Ross, a brilliant young man who remembers everything he ever reads.

He was headed toward a bright future, got tossed out of college for a stupid decision and made money for years by taking tests for people too lazy to study.

To win a bet, he studied for and passed the bar exam, never having set foot in a law school. A strange twist that involves drugs and a friend using him in a jam propels him into an interview for a legal assistant job at a big firm.

Tired of milquetoast law grads, type-A partner Harvey Specter (a smart Gabriel Macht) discovers the charade but hires Ross anyway. He recognizes the genius most others have missed.

From there, it becomes the somewhat typical legal drama, but always from the vantage point of this person who may know many of the nuts and bolts of the law, but precious little about actually being a lawyer.

His naive but good heart contrasts with the sometimes cold one of his boss to make for a unique creative tension--at least in the opening episode.

'NECESSARY ROUGHNESS'

There are aspects of this other new show on USA that require a little forgiveness--some psycho-babble, results that come amazingly quick and football that doesn't seem but so real.

But all that said, actress Callie Thorn, so well-known for playing a deranged girlfriend on "Rescue Me," pulls you in as a psychotherapist whose comfortable suburban life has been turned upside down by a messy divorce.

In a way that makes sense, she ends up meeting someone at a pro football team in New York who suggests her services to treat a combative and troubled wide receiver who suddenly can't catch.