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CBS Executives Are Bullish on Comedy

New sitcom "How to Be a Gentleman" will face Fox’s "The X Factor," but network executives say the Simon Cowell singing competition show was not something they “could run away from.”

CBS will bow two new series Thursdays this fall into the teeth of Simon Cowell’s The X Factor, which will air Wednesdays and Thursdays this fall.