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Is 'Take Two' just 'Castle' redux, or modern-day Nick and Nora Charles fun?

"Take Two," which premiered Thursday on ABC, is a likable new series from Terri Edda Miller and Andrew W. Marlowe, late of that network's "Castle," which Marlowe created and for which Miller wrote and produced. Briefly put, it is "Castle" on Opposites Day.

Each series is about a crime-fighting pro reluctantly teamed with an enthusiastic goofball amateur. But where "Castle" concerned a male mystery writer solving crimes with a female NYPD detective, "Take Two" is about an actress, who has played a cop on TV, working alongside an L.A. private eye. (Oddly,

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