Comfy sitcom format faces a retooling
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Networks hope to rejuvenate the genre by experimenting with new formats and unconventional storylines.
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With the traditional first half of the television season completed, network schedulers have had to improvise as never before.
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At first glance, the new TV season looks less than heroic.
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By David Zurawik, The Baltimore Sun  Sep. 18--After years of offering a glut of mean-spirited reality fare and formulaic sitcoms, network executives are going for drama this fall.
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Looking for a fresh new  comedy with three-dimensional characters and laugh-out-loud  jokes? You won't find it in "Happy Hour," a sitcom based on a  group of unsatisfied and occasionally pathetic  twentysomethings.
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The new âBionic Womanâ promises to be very different from the rose-colored, lunchbox-friendly 1970s television series from which it takes its name.
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UPN is adding "Cuts" to its midseason schedule.
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For a new television network, the CW sure has plenty of returning shows. Remember the cute kids and their minister dad from the WB's 7th Heaven? It's right where it used to be on Monday night.
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LOS ANGELES  - An animated series is redrawing the lines of television mega-deals.
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The names of the characters have also changed.
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The Sunday editions of Emmerdale and Coronation Street are to move as part of ITV1's revamped schedule.
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Imagine Larry Davidâs HBOâs series, âCurb Your Enthusiasm,â without the bile. Thatâs the tone of âI Want Someone to Eat Cheese With.â
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The different directions of Fox networkâs âHouseâ and âPrison Breakâ demonstrate some of the difficulties that television producers face as a successful series begins to age.
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Your weekly dose of television gupshup.
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NBC Universalâs move to a year-round schedule of staggered program debuts could alter an American cultural cycle that dates back to the days of radio.
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Innocent by todayâs standards, the humor of âLove American Styleâ is typical of a show that titillated in its day but now plays like a mildly randy glimpse of a more promiscuous, less cynical era.
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Move over granny. Knitting's image in the United States as a pastime for the blue-rinse set is being recast, as it gains cachet with a younger crowd drawn by celebrity knitters and the emergence of "knit cafes."