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· More like NBC is a sitcom about five disparate types who hang out together after meeting at a wedding, where they've been put at "The Singles Table." Like "Four Kings," if it had been guys and chicks. And funny.

Drama-wise, NBC spread sunshine and light, picking up virtually every pilot it made:

· Imagine eccentric Jeff Goldblum playing an eccentric but brilliant cop who sees dead people who help him solve crimes, and you have NBC's new "Raines."

· "Heroes," about average Joes who discover they have superpowers.

· "Friday Night Lights," based on the Billy Bob Thornton flick of the same name, only this time starring Kyle Chandler as the coach of a small-town high school football team.

· "The Black Donnellys," about Irish brothers involved with the mob in New York's Hell's Kitchen.

· The serialized drama "Kidnapped," starring Jeremy Sisto as a private kidnapping/retrieval expert. Each season -- assuming the show lasts more than one -- "Kidnapped" will follow his efforts to rescue a different kidnapping victim. First up: a teenage son of a rich New York couple, played by Timothy Hutton and Dana Delany.

· And Aaron Sorkin's much-ballyhooed "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," looking behind the scenes at a long-running sketch comedy series.

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