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The network comedy is not dead yet

he latest comedy to join ABC’s prime-time lineup tells what is, in many ways, a familiar story. Like and both incarnations of before it, follows a woman starting over after a big breakup. Journalist Nell Serrano, played by star Gina Rodriguez, introduces herself by way of a headline: LOCAL WOMAN, 37, RUINS OWN LIFE. Fresh off a five-year stint in London that ended in a broken engagement, she’s back home in California, with a fussy roommate and a job writing obituaries for the local

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