Show Business: Arts Gratia Arfis

TV's candidates for the fall

The Oscars are more glamorous, but in Hollywood there is another spring competition that is just as closely watched: the contest that determines which of the TV pilots will be chosen by the networks for their fall schedules. Right now executives on both coasts are looking at exactly 100 candidates, and from that number perhaps 20 will be chosen. What does next season hold in store? Jocks, cops, flicks and garbage.

According to a survey by Dancer Fitzgerald Sample, Inc., a Manhattan ad agency, just about every sport except...

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