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Newsday (Melville, NY)
NOV-06
Newsday, Melville, N.Y., Glued To The Tube column: With quality shows like 'Ugly Betty' and 'Heroes,' the networks actually got it right.(Column)
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Newsday, Melville, N.Y., Glued To The Tube column: With quality shows like 'Ugly Betty' and 'Heroes,' the networks actually got it right.(Column)
Publication: Newsday (Melville, NY) Publication Date: 29-NOV-06 |
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COPYRIGHT 2006 Newsday
Byline: Diane Werts
Nov. 29--People say it so much, it must be true. Critics don't like anything. They'd rather hate stuff than see it be good. Well, if that were true, folks like me should be mighty miserable right now.
But I'm gellin' like Magellan. Because this fall, tube viewers are living in the land of plenty. This new TV season has been plenty good. Probably even -- see how critics actually love TV? -- great.
If anything, network prime time has been too ambitious this fall, and whoever thought I'd live to write that? I cut my TV teeth on the era that gave us "Manimal" and "The A-Team," which today may sound like kitsch heaven but was actually a steady diet of empty calories that porked out our favorite medium. Two decades later, those once-lazy networks have studiously hard-worked themselves into a lean, mean quality machine the movies can only dream...
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