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With the 2001-2002 TV season officially over, it's time to kick back, take a minute to reflect... then immediately start obsessing over the 2002-2003 TV season. The networks have already announced their new fall schedules, so it's time to read the prime-time tea leaves and see what trends emerge.

CBS: Crime Busters Station Bouyed by the ratings surge of such law-and-order shows as ''CSI'' and ''The Guardian,'' the Eye network has ordered up a squad room full of crime dramas. The most likely to succeed is ''CSI Miami'' (Mondays, 10-11 p.m.), a spinoff that was launched on a recent episode of TV's No. 1 drama. The top-rank cast includes David Caruso, Emily Procter (''The West Wing''), and Khandi Alexander (''NewsRadio''). Also intriguing is ''Without a Trace'' (CBS, Thursdays, 10-11 p.m.), a missing-persons procedural headlined by the always-captivating Anthony LaPaglia (''Lantana''). Another pair of riveting actors, David Morse (''St. Elsewhere'') and Andre Braugher (''Homicide: Life on the Street''), costar in the taxi-themed mystery ''Hack'' (CBS, Fridays, 9-10 p.m.). Finally, ''Miami Vice'' and ''Crime Story'' mastermind Michael Mann returns to TV with ''RHD/LA'' (CBS, Fridays, 10-11 p.m.), starring Tom Sizemore (''Heat'') as a member of the Robbery Homicide Division, Los Angeles -- hence the acronym.

Flashback Draft ''That '80s Show'' proved about as popular as New Coke, but that hasn't stopped producers from setting two new shows in the Dukakis Decade: ''Do Over'' (The WB, Thursdays, 8:30-9 p.m.) and ''That Was Then'' (ABC, Fridays, 9-10 p.m.). The twist: Both are about 21st-century guys who are magically transported back to their high school years. What's next -- multiple body-switching movies?


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