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...Northwestern University and then did improv work with Chicago's Second City troupe--a pursuit, he says, not unrelated to his childhood addiction to role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. He also developed a news habit. As a young actor, he would stay up until 4 a.m. watching ABC's late-night news after gigs. All that went into the smarmy, self-satisfied correspondent he created for The Daily Show, which he joined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The American Bald Ego | 11/6/2005 | See Source »

...Best Reason to Get Nostalgic About the Old Rabbit Ears It used to be just CBS, NBC and ABC. Now giant telephone companies are joining with huge cable operators to form megaconglomerates that promise hundreds of channels, your every wish fulfilled at the touch of a button. Meanwhile, what channel is the Chiefs game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST SHOW BUSINESS OF 1993 | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...NYPD Blue (ABC) Here's the happiest: at a time when serious dramas have virtually disappeared from prime time and new shows seem doomed unless they get surefire time slots, Steven Bochco returned to form with a fierce, unfashionably hard-edged police drama -- and scored a surprise hit. Stars David Caruso and Dennis Franz provide solid character groundwork that has eclipsed the well-publicized (and very occasional) glimpses of nudity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST TELEVISION OF 1993 | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...Wild Palms (ABC) Granted, Oliver Stone and Bruce Wagner's futuristic mini-series eventually ran out of gas in the plot department. Still, the ride was bracing -- full of unnerving images, a richly imagined vision of the technofuture, and a paranoid atmosphere more convincing than anything Stone managed in JFK. No other mini- series all season offered half as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST TELEVISION OF 1993 | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...Lost, ABC Wednesdays, 9 p.m. People have been complaining about the lack of answers with this show. These wimps were obviously not in on “The X-Files” craze. After nine years of conspiracies, a cigarette-smoking man who wouldn’t die, and more sexual tension that Brangelina, I think we can all handle a few unanswered questions on “Lost.” That said, it would be nice if the writers threw us something. At this point, I’d settle for a tiny crust of a clue...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TV Watch: Lost | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

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