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On the heels of a 2012-13 broadcast television season in which the networks have failed to deliver a runaway hit, the Big Four and the CW are digging deep. But as is so often the case, the creative capital on display in this development season doesn’t seem to reflect the megadollars being spent in the pursuit of the Next Big Thing.

At last count, the English-language nets had ordered 104 scripted pilots, up 17 percent from last spring’s 89, at an estimated cost of around $2 million per comedy and $5.5

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