61.   Based on the pilot episodes, CBS is launching one stinker, one so-so police drama and five qualitatively promising new series.

62.   Before the end of March, about two dozen new series will be given trials.

63.   Because of insufficient financing, he had pretty much abandoned a plan to film a new series about American poetry.

64.   Because the network could afford only a limited number of new series, it decided to confine them to Friday and Saturday nights.

65.   Blachly hopes the new series will lend legitimacy to cabaret as an art form.

66.   Bochco has two new shows in the fall, one finishing out an old deal with ABC and the other opening a new series development stint with CBS.

67.   Better legal stories and a dash of humor have added punch to this new series, too.

68.   Both new series presumably could burn through characters like so many chunks of charcoal.

69.   --- Lonely Planet Publications, which has been known for its guidebooks, has begun a new series of literary books called Lonely Planet Journeys.

70.   A few new series seem to be establishing themselves as helpful additions, if not yet outright hits.