Six female showrunners on why TV just keeps getting better.

The man in this photo is writing the fourth season. He swears.

The return of the sitcom laugh track.

Every year, thousands of ideas are pitched to the four big networks. This season, they bought the 429 scripts listed below. The ones that are highlighted became pilots. And this week, we’ll find out which lucky few have earned slots on the air.

DVRs, downloads, Hulu: How networks are scrambling to count viewers who don’t watch when everyone else does.