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Arts and Entertainment Editor Bob Sokolsky is looking ahead to next season and is wondering what will happen to a popular sitcom that is about to lose one of its stars.

But no, he explains, not THAT star. This one is Steve Carell, the key figure on “The Office,” one of the major shows on the NBC schedule.

Sokolsky wonders how the series will do without him, also how Carell will do with the series.

And he cites numerous examples to fit the positive and negative sides of that question.

For the moment, though, the only thing that remains firm is the fact that a popular series is going to have to cope with a new look.