Word: shoah
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Though TV sitcoms already have an incredibly fast-paced, joke-every-3-sec. tempo, in the future that will seem to have an almost Shoah-like pace. One possibility is that story lines will be junked altogether to get straight to the laugh--since, as any sitcom producer will tell you, the same seven plots have merely been recycled endlessly since the beginning of television. Realizing that likable characters are the key to a TV comedy's success, the networks will establish new characters in 2- to 3-min. "mini-coms." Then, after viewer response is gauged via an Internet...