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There was a sitcom on for a short time in the 70s titled Lotsa Luck. It starred Dom Deluise as a single guy who lived with his overbearing mother. I remember it being the funniest thing in the world, but I was around 8 or 9 years old at the time so if I were to see it today I'm sure I'd realize that I was wrong. But I do know that I went around saying "lotsa luck!" to people for several months after the show premiered.

Deluise died last night in Los Angeles. He was 75.

• TV Land has a Third Rock from the Sun marathon all night.
• At 8, Food Network has Easter Unwrapped.
• Nickelodeon has a new iCarly at 8, followed by new episodes of True Jackson, VIP and The Naked Brothers Band.
• At 8:30, FOX has a new Cops, then a new America's Most Wanted.
• At 9, CNBC has a new Suze Orman Show.
• Lifetime has the movie Nora Roberts' Tribute at 9.
• Sci-Fi has the movie Thor: Hammer of the Gods at 9.
• Also at 9: Hallmark has the movie Love Finds a Home.
• At 10, BBC America has a new Graham Norton Show.
• At 11, FOX has a new Mad TV.
• At 11:30, NBC has a new Saturday Night Live, with Zac Efron.
• At 1AM, Cartoon Network has a new Bleach.

Check your local TV listings for more.

If there were any doubts that the new Cavemen series was going to be a drama, this news should put them to rest...

According to The Hollywood Reporter, comedy veterans Bill Martin and Mike Schiff have been signed to run the new show, based on the extremely funny GEICO ads. They have a pretty good pedigree; they created Grounded for Life and were the show-runners for Third Rock From the Sun. They're also responsible for The Singles Table, a show NBC picked up for mid-season but has yet to air.

It seems like a good matchup, since Third Rock was also about a group that was trying to make their way in a strange environment. They've already made some small changes to the pilot script; the pilot itself starts shooting today, according to the article.

[via Pop Candy]

Syndicated reruns have been a part of TV since the days of Lucy and Ricky, but what stations actually buy and air in key time slots always seems to change from year to year. Since I was a kid, another twenty-plus years of series have entered the pipeline, giving syndicators and channels a lot more inventory to chose from. And when those stations spend buckets of money on a Seinfeld or Raymond package, they end up running the show two or three times a day in order to turn a profit.  Pair that with first-run "netlet" shows, and there's little time to run repeats of shows -- all-time favorites as well as recent series -- that used to be on the air all the time. Nick at Nite, TV Land, and TBS have helped in this department, but most other channels are too busy showing Law & Order reruns to bother with anything else.

Here are five series that used to be on in reruns all the time, but I don't  seem to see them anymore: