By A Twist Of Fate Rather Than

The Once Inviolate Frame Within Which Programs Or Commercials Were Displayed On Television - Always Separately - Has Been Violated To A Pulp. Program Content Is Seen Increasingly As A Mere Backdrop On Which Ads Are Posted Like Billboards On A Fence.

A Fellow With The Inventiveness Of Albert Einstein But With The Attention Span Of Daffy Duck.

In The 500-channel Universe, Which May, Of Course, Contain Many More Channels Than 500, The Fun Never Stops - Fun At Such A Fever Pitch As To Sometimes Seem Threatening, Numbing, Even Agonizing.

The Perils Of Credit And Debt, Especially Perilous In The Computer Age, Have Long Been Acknowledged In Pop Culture, But Very Infrequently By Tv.

Gimmicks Come And Go; The Cop Show Seems One Genre That Will Never Leave - Not As Long As People Like To Sit At Home In The Suburbs And See What Awful Things Go On In The Cities.