1.   Recently the longrunning TV drama series has been losing viewers, and scriptwriters have tried to pep it up by introducing some new characters.

2.   No, not the Aussie soap but a seven-part drama series about Brenda a fortysomething housewife and mother of four children.

3.   And, yes, talk of a television drama series based on the lives of two DNA experts.

4.   As expected, NBC scrapped its long-standing Sunday night movie franchise in favor of two new drama series.

5.   Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, defense experts on DNA, are developing a television drama series for CBS based on their lives, according to CBS producers.

6.   Beyond adding five new drama series and two new comedies, CBS will once again rely on reality shows.

7.   Braugher, honored by the critics last weekend as best actor in a drama series, was ignored by the Emmy nominators.

8.   All along, she had offers for other drama series, but she always declined.

9.   But the idea that it could lose the Emmy as top drama series is as infuriating as it is absurd.

10.   Drama series about a young woman struggling to run a boarding school founded by her late husband.