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 LOS ANGELES (AP) - In one of the more spectacular examples of TV networks following a trend straight off a cliff, more than a half-dozen densely plotted new serial dramas failed this season.
Not since the flood of misbegotten "Friends" knockoffs of the 1990s or the turn-of-the-century "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" game-show frenzy has broadcast television been so betrayed by a genre.
As networks shape their fall 2007 schedules, the canceled ghosts of serialized "Day Break," "Vanished," "Kidnapped" and others are hovering. But they have company: the winning spirit of "Heroes," the high-concept freshman serial that made good.
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