If The Networks Can Get Audiences To

No Matter How Much Programming Improves, However, Media Savants Tend To See The Medium Living Out Numbered Days. It's Feared That The Internet Will Do To Tv What Tv Did To The Movies In The 1950s. But Instead Of Panicking, The Networks Are Finding Ways To Co-opt The Web.

Obviously Neither 'american Idol' Nor 'dancing With The Stars' Is A Variety Show In The Classic Sense, But The Way They Incorporate Elements Of Drama, Comedy And Suspense Is Moderately Ingenious.

If The Networks Can Get Audiences To Tolerate Pop-up Promos By The Dozens, Maybe They'll Start Selling Pop-up Commercials, Too.

Jimmy Kimmel Still Comes Across Like A Guy Who Crashed A Party And Got Caught At It, Yet Adamantly Refuses To Leave.

Television's Escapist Programming Naturally Continues To Endorse Living Beyond One's Means As The Time-tested American Way And Rarely Depicts Families Or Individuals Wracked By The Pressures And Miseries That Come With Excess.