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Fall TV pilots feature familiar faces. old formulas — and a few projects that may just soar

07/04/2009 07:49 PM

The nation’s television critics have spent a generation — or two, if you count the DVD and VCR as representing separate epochs — watching pilots, those first episodes of the shows that broadcast network executives have convinced themselves will be welcomed with open arms by a grateful public next season.

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