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...Survivor - now in its 20th season - mainstreamed the idea for older viewers. The Jersey Shore-ites have never known a world in which hooking up drunk in a house paid for by a Viacom network was not an option. This year in the coveted post-Super Bowl time slot, CBS showcased not a new drama or sitcom but its reality series Undercover Boss. (The premiere attracted 38.6 million viewers, the most for a post-Super Bowl show since Survivor: The Australian Outback in 2001.) In March, Jerry Seinfeld returns to NBC - as producer of the reality show The Marriage...
...most important, that you can find something interesting in the lives of people other than celebrities, lawyers and doctors. In CBS's new Undercover Boss, executives go incognito to work in entry-level jobs in their companies. In the premiere, Larry O'Donnell, president and COO of Waste Management, picks up litter and cleans toilets. He learns that a woman driving a garbage route has to pee in a coffee can to keep on schedule; trash sorters are docked two minutes' pay for every minute they're late from their half-hour lunch. He's horrified; he's humbled...
Whether bitter or sweetened, the tea is winning admirers. According to the latest CBS News/New York Times poll, roughly 1 in 5 adult Americans identifies with the Tea Party movement, which scored its first major victory last month when Republican Scott Brown won the Massachusetts Senate seat long held by the late Democrat Ted Kennedy. Brown's promises to bolster U.S. defenses against terrorists and block Obama's health care reforms gave him a blinding Tea Party aura, the glow of which sent fear through the Administration and fried the circuits of Congress. But you can no more trace that...
...South Korea. A thinly veiled allegory for the Vietnam War, the show pioneered the “dramedy” genre. Its producers were famously among the first to fight against the use of a laugh track. “M*A*S*H” ran on CBS for eleven years, outlasting the Korean War itself by eight years. And given the obstacles faced, it really should’ve been awful...
...with terrorism suspects. They dislike civilian trials for those suspects - 57% want the Christmas Day suspect tried in a military court, vs. 42% for a civilian trial, according to the CNN poll. And 55% want Guantánamo to stay open, while 32% want it closed, according to a CBS poll. A surprising 51% of people surveyed in January said it was necessary to give up some civil liberties to make the country safer from terrorism...