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One reason: the networks tried creativity last year and got burned. Critics touted Fox's form-breaking CIA serial 24 as last fall's runaway hit, and it was--among critics. The networks took other risks--Alias, Scrubs--but not a single new show became a breakout hit. So broadcast...
Alias: Jennifer Garner
These are all reasons to be happy - and there were plenty more. Kiefer Sutherland ("24") and Jennifer Garner ("Alias") got deserved nominations for showing us that acting does make a difference, even in action thrillers. (If you ever read a "24" script and then watch what Kiefer's stone-cold...
The impeccably acted "Six Feet Under" got nominations not just for its traditonal leading-man and -woman types (Peter Krause and Rachel Griffiths) but for its two real standouts, Michael C. Hall and Frances Conroy; the two of them take the kind of repressed characters that creator Alan Ball made...
Ironically, it was a network cop show, Steven Bochco's Hill Street Blues, that introduced serial "story arcs" into genre drama. But networks have retreated to the pre-Bochco era of "procedural" cop shows, in which character comes second to plot. The cops may have perfunctory personal stories, but you...