No show gets a chance to find itself these days. Debut as a hit or you’re gone off the schedule. “Forget about “finding an audience” — there just isn’t time. If you’re not doing Friends numbers right out of the box, you’re not going to last long enough to accumulate the episodes for a decent DVD retrospective release. Used to be, 100 episodes was the magic number to shoot for, to accommodate five-night-a-week strip syndication. Now, you’re lucky to get through “the front nine” of a typically 23-episode network season.”