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Everything You Need to Know About the Upfronts

Advertisers walk out on Jay Leno, Fox execs confess financial difficulties (but renew the hardly watched Dollhouse for fear of angering its tiny cult following), and ABC places its bet on comedy: new, unheard-of comedy—and lots of it. Kim Masters reports from this week's television upfronts.

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