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...each episode; a pro-cop attitude; and little mushy stuff about characters' personal lives. For busy viewers, the label is a godsend: decisions, decisions...ah, hell, I'll just open a can of Jerry Orbach! But now Wolf is launching an ambitious new brand: a remake for ABC of Dragnet (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.), the 50-plus-year-old cop show that inspired L&O's "Just the facts, ma'am" sensibility...
Last fall, network TV finally broke the bulls___ barrier: ABC's NYPD Blue got network permission to use the standard vulgarity for cattle feces. And a remarkable thing happened--or rather, didn't. Local affiliates were not deluged with angry calls. ABC did not lose millions of dollars of advertising. The move practically begged for the eternal question, "Has TV gone too far?" Instead, millions of viewers quietly concluded that, no, TV had gone just the right amount...
...genre must evolve to survive. And Fuller knows it. "In England the bubble's already about to burst," he says, even as he oversees Pop Idol's second British series, a global rollout in China, Norway and other countries, and a set of new reality-TV shows planned with ABC and Fox. His solution is for the format to devour itself. "The clever thing," he says, "is to take it and parody...
...electorate does not share Bush's impatience, and has misgivings about going to war without UN backing. Most polls find that an overwhelming majority of Americans would back a UN-authorized war, fewer than 40 percent would support the U.S. acting without UN backing. And a new Washington Post-ABC poll also found that, like the Europeans, seven out of ten Americans would give the UN inspectors months more to probe for prohibited weapons in Iraq before moving to military action. So, if the administration is inclined to press ahead without UN backing, British support would be important in helping...
...ABC Tune in to ABC World News Tonight, on Monday, Jan. 13, at 6:30 p.m. E.T., for a related story on the link between depression and osteoporosis