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Does it seem like old times to you?

It does to Arts and Entertainment Editor Bob Sokolsky as he looks at the current TV season and wonders where all the ingenuity went.

That, he notes, doesn't mean everything is bad. Some of it, he points out, is ranging from fair to pretty good. But can anyone jump from that to excellence?

At this point he doubts it in spite of a few bits of quality from standbys like "House" and the erratic remake of "The Prisoner."

And, Sokolsky adds, that is the core of the matter. Because even the new shows are not new.