For perennial winner CBS, its freshmen are about firming up its reliable brand (multi-camera, Chuck Lorre, polite sprinkling of race and fart jokes) while attempting to expand its reach into single-cam star vehicles. Fox, after being … I've mocked Lorre's factory-model approach to joke construction in the past — though not the lucrative results — but the Mom pilot makes a strong case for it: This thing is a sleek and gleaming sports car right out of the garage. Faris kills from … …

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Fall TV preview, the new comedies – Grantland