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NEW YORK -- NBC says it is renewing its cult favorite "Chuck" for another season and has ordered four more new series for the upcoming season. The fourth-place network has been aggressively rebuilding. Even before NBC officially announces its new fall schedule on Monday, the network has publicly committed to 11 new scripted series.
The new series announced Friday includes one comedy that sounds something like one of its classics. "Friends With Benefits" is about a group of friends in their 20s as they navigate the dating world.
New NBC dramas include "The Cape," about a framed cop who turns into a comic-book superhero. Jimmy Smits will star in "Outlaw," about a Supreme Court justice who quits the job to work as a lawyer representing the "little guy."
"Harry's Law" stars Kathy Bates as a disillusioned lawyer who starts a new practice with a young man out of a rundown shoe store.
