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The success is especially gratifying for Lost creator J.J. Abrams, whose ABC drama Alias has a cult following but has never hit big, allegedly because its twisty espionage plot is too hard to follow. "If you have three CSIs and three Law & Orders on the air, people will start to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Counter-Procedural: Attack of the Killer Serials | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

But in TV, art follows business, and CSI--and its descendants, like CBS's Bruckheimer-produced Without a Trace and Cold Case-- are above all damn fine business. The shows follow the procedural format pioneered by Dragnet 50 years ago: crime stories, completely wrapped up in one episode, with minimal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Crimetime Lineup | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

Desperate Housewives is the kind of show many TV execs believed wouldn't work on a network today. It's satiric. Unlike CSI, it has a complicated serial plot. (The guy-gal thing again; networks run scared from shows that ask for a commitment.) And it's a show with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fury of Women Scorned | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

Desperate Housewives is the kind of show many TV execs believed wouldn't work on a network today. It's satiric. Unlike CSI, it has a complicated serial plot. (The guy-gal thing again; networks run scared from shows that ask for a commitment.) And it's a show with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fury of Women Scorned | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

“It’s like the TV show Alias mixed with the play Copenhagen mixed with Marat/Sade,” he says with a laugh.

Author: By Nina M. Catalano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Director | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

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