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...work for any of these shows," says J.J. Abrams, creator of Felicity (Wednesday, 9 p.m. E.T.). "There was definitely a glut." The college comedy-drama, much praised in its debut year, has struggled as a sophomore, prompting the risible and vaguely sexist criticism that the ratings dived because star Keri Russell cut her flowing, curly hair. (Would that Billy's dye job had done the same for Ally McBeal.) "It's something that a girl of that age, having gone through serious changes, would realistically do," says Abrams, who blames the drop-off on the cutting of a narrative strand...
...someone to blame. Usually the head writers take the fall, but this season the WB is pointing its finger at the coiffeur. While conceding that college drama Felicity got off to a "rocky start creatively" last fall, network executives suggested it could have been series star KERI RUSSELL's drastic haircut that did the real ratings damage. According to entertainment president Susanne Daniels, when Russell lopped off her much- ogled tresses earlier this season as part of a story line that had her breaking up with her boyfriend, she provoked a reaction so "overwhelmingly negative" that audiences stopped tuning...