Comedy pilots reflect recession

February 19, 2009 A Wall Street executive loses his job and has to reconnect with his small-town family. Networks are looking at recession-friendly ideas for their new half-hours, with many projects embracing characters in crisis and avoiding office settings. Fox's "Two Dollar Beer" is about a blue-collar couple in Detroit who "deal with the reality of their long-standing roots in this community slowly becoming less relevant as the rest of the world passes them by."

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