Not All Ready for Prime Time

'99 FALL SEASON

The networks are busy promoting their new fall lineups, but there are plenty of rookie shows they'd prefer to forget. Play TV executive: guess which of the following shows were chosen to air and which never made it past the pilot stage.

1 Freaks and Geeks: Features "a smallish but hyper geek," "a friendly but slightly dangerous freak" and "a tall freak who dreams of stardom as a rock-'n'-roll drummer"

2 The Expendables: A buddy comedy about indestructible, human-looking robots who team up to be crime fighters

3 Now and Again: An updated Six Million Dollar Man, about a middle-age insurance...

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