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For all the talk about binge viewing, the most crucial period of TV time suckage doesn’t involve Johnny Lunchbox sawing through three seasons of Breaking Bad on Netflix. As part of the annual ritual that determines the fall broadcast lineup, network poobahs last week began hunkering down in front of their 60-inch flat screens, poring over dozens of pilots in the mix for the 2013-14 season.
While only network personnel and a few hundred lucky (?) civilians will ever watch the bulk of these pilots (of 104 scripted efforts ordered by the five English-language nets, perhaps a third will ever see the light of day), the executive suites and conference rooms of Los Angeles cannot contain the early buzz.
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