Bolstered by a strong summer and sensing opportunity in a scheduling landscape turned on its head with the move of Jay Leno to primetime (and the subsequent subtraction of a number of drama series), many cable programmers are taking more shots in the fall than they have in previous years.rnAmong those are some even within Leno's own company.rn"Obviously we hope [Leno] is a huge success for NBC," says NBCU Cable Entertainment President Bonnie Hammer, who oversees USA Network and Syfy. "But from a competitive point of view, it doesn't hurt for drama to have another place on the schedule where there is one less competitor in that genre."
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