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...ABC sitcom, Emily's Reasons Why Not, HEATHER GRAHAM plays a self-help book editor who fails to absorb the soundest relationship advice. Unlike her character, Graham has picked up a few nuggets after dating actors like Ed Burns and Heath Ledger. "If he says, 'I'm not emotionally available right now,'" says the Boogie Nights star, "listen." Somehow we think men are a bit more available when you're Rollergirl...
...crazy. Luckily, Crumbs wanted to hire me because, after eight years in journalism, I could be had cheap. This still didn't work out well for them. Which is why I'm trying to make it up by plugging the show. It premieres this Thursday! 9:30 p.m. E.T.! ABC! Jane Curtin! Fred Savage! William Devane! Tell your friends with Nielsen boxes...
Past TV executives would have had an unmixed reaction to Daniel: Are you nuts? Outside 700 Club territory, religion on TV has usually been soft-pedaled or protested. In 1997-98, ABC's button-pushing Nothing Sacred, about a rebellious young priest, was quickly canceled. Touched by an Angel was only vaguely spiritual. The God who spoke to Joan of Arcadia was carefully nondenominational. The WB's genial 7th Heaven, about a minister and his family, has been the network's highest-rated show for most of its 10-season run but has never got the hype of edgier shows...
...Dancing With the Stars (ABC). There are incidents that cause a man to look about him and says, "I do not know the country I am living in anymore." For some, it takes an election, or an assassination, or a disturbing social change. For me, it was a dance contest, with chintzy production values and worse dancing, which inexplicably became the number one show of the summer and -- explicably but unfortunately -- returns next month...
...ABC Chickens Out. The network pulled its summer reality show Welcome to the Neighborhood, because critics complained that its premise -- a group of families compete to win a house on an insular, mainly white suburban cul-de-sac -- was offensive. Problem was, the complainers never saw the show. If they had, they'd have seen a thought-provoking, quality reality series that not only raised prejudices but actually caused its participants to confront and learn about them. Our reality -- that Americans often live in self-segregated neighborhoods -- is offensive. This smothered-in-the-cradle reality show...