He made the comments after revealing on Twitter his sitcom, Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, had been cancelled midway through its second series.

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Sitcoms are still bustling, even if several high-profile fall launches (Fox's freshman "The Mindy Project, " ABC's pairing of returning comedies "Happy Endings" and "Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23") haven't broken through.

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When the first series of Apartment 23 began last April, the pilot episode was watched by 6.91 million people, while the rest of the season drew audiences of between 4.73 million and 6.43 million.

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Syracuse police say junior defensive end Markus Pierce-Brewster and junior defensive tackle Davon Walls were charged with felony burglary and misdemeanor petit larceny in connection with the burglary of an apartment Feb. 23.

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But his 23-year-old brother, Simon(ph), ended up in a cramped apartment with two other Lost Boys.

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Crilley, a 23-year-old TWA flight attendant, was found raped and strangled inside her Upper East Side apartment in June 1971, the Manhattan District Attorney's office said in a news release at the time of the indictment in January 2011.

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