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...Fallujah Nov. 22, 2004 ----------------- Four More Years Nov. 15, 2004 ----------------- The Joy Of Sox Nov. 8, 2004 ----------------- The Morning After Nov. 1, 2004 ----------------- The God Gene Oct. 25, 2004 ----------------- The Vote Battle Oct. 18, 2004 ----------------- Visions of Tomorrow Oct. 11, 2004 ----------------- The Tragedy of Sudan Oct. 4, 2004 ----------------- CBS Controversy Sept. 27, 2004 ----------------- America's Border Sept. 20, 2004 ----------------- Struggle Within Islam Sept. 13, 2004 ----------------- World of George Bush Sept...
...made up the last sentence to make the paragraph more believable. Everyone expects a little overpromising at the annual "upfronts," the expensive stage shows at which networks show trailers from their fall debuts and literally put on a song-and-dance for advertisers. At Carnegie Hall, CBS hired the Broadway cast of Chicago to disparage the competition to the tune of All That Jazz: "ABC is out of gas/while NBC eats horse's a__" (a reference to the horse-rectum-eating challenge on Fear Factor). They're called upfronts because they're designed to entice advertisers to pay billions...
...again, so were last fall's. "Quality"? The jury's still out: the networks show only clip reels to the press at upfronts, so it's as if the Cannes Film Festival consisted entirely of movie trailers. But "original"? There's the first belly laugh of the new season. CBS had the two biggest new dramas last year with CSI: Miami and Without a Trace; so it announced three more crime dramas, plus two other dramas with cops as major characters. The WB, which hit big with a young, hot Superman on Smallville, offers a young, hot King...
...encouraging trend, several new shows have black or Latino leads, at a time when the medium is still lacking in them. And not every scripted show looked like a snooze. CBS is offering Joan of Arcadia, about a teenage girl who talks to God; in NBC's Miss Match, Alicia Silverstone is a divorce lawyer and matchmaker. UPN's The Mullets--about a pair of hard-rockin' idiot brothers with the eponymous short-in-front-long-in-back haircuts--got the biggest laughs of the upfronts for the title alone. And Fox had, hands down, the most intriguing series ideas...
This time, though, PGA player Vijay Singh teed off on Sorenstam, saying "I hope she misses the cut"--that is, gets knocked out halfway through the four-round tournament. Although Singh begged for a mulligan, insisting he was misunderstood, it was music to USA and CBS, which will be adding extra coverage to follow Sorenstam, Tiger-like, in what until then had been just another golf tournament. And Singh might be expressing the anxiety the gentlemen may feel when, come Sunday, some of them could be in the running for the First PGA Pro to Get His Butt Kicked...