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...already showing The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and had just bought a police thriller called Z Cars. And, although some critics cheered the ruling, it seemed unlikely that ITV's replacements would be much of an improvement. Most British commercial TV shows are faithful adherents of the mindless U.S. format, and the audiences seem to like them that way. "At 8 p.m. I do not welcome heavy discussion programs, political investigations or information about how to have a baby," wrote Evening News Columnist Beverly Johns. "Supper is over and I want to sit with my coffee and be amused...
...network was not only gambling on soap opera in prime time but also doubling the stakes with another innovation-running the untested show two nights a week. But the network reasoned that 1) audiences could be hooked as easily in the evening as in the afternoon by the serial format, and 2) that the U.S., newly caught up in the "romantic escapism" of Ian Fleming, might be similarly ripe for the "realistic escapism" of Grace Metalious. Realism, of course, turned out to be a euphemism for a concentration of sexual adventurism such as no network had ever risked before...
High Infidelity draws and quarters the subject of extramarital dalliance, figuratively shaking the bedclothes to uncover four zesty episodes of an Italian comedy distinguished now for lively direction, now for superior performances. Its format is a series of irregular triangles edged with homosexuality, fetishism, jealousy and greed...
...Yearbook, at long last, has been weaned. In past years, the people at 52 Dunster Street clung as compulsively to a dull, comprehensive, list-everything format as to a mother's breast. Annually, the editors let the Yearbook organize them, instead of exerting a creative influence, and the end-product portrayed the Ivy League College of University Hall brochures instead of the Harvard that any senior knows...
...least, a hop; and the direction is distinctly ahead). Confronted with the perennial dilemma-cover many things superficially, or fewer things well-cover editors have opted for selective excellence. Unfortunately the standard is still elusive; execution and content are only occasionally memorable. But the general change in format, the attempt to write longer, more thoughtful, more critical essays on selected topics is, without doubt, an important and much-needed innovation...