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'House' helps rewrite TV categories


May 22, 2007 Sitcoms are dead. Not that I'm actually buying into this death thing. They've shoveled dirt onto the lifeless carcass of TV comedy before, most memorably in the early 1980s until a series called "The Cosby Show" suddenly appeared, drew a 50 share out of the gate and effectively put an end to exaggerated rumors of the form's demise.

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