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...tried to buy, in 1955, for $25,000; RCA, which outbid him by $20,000, got a quick and lasting return on its investment). And somewhere beyond the sea, Edith Piaf would translate "Black Denim Trousers," which L&S wrote for The Cheers (featuring future Broadway "Cabaret" star and game-show host Burt Convy) into "L?Homme ? Moto." When they created some of these numbers, L&S (both born in 1933) were still barely old enough to vote...
...most successful interactive TV offerings are the least interactive. Game-show play-along sites - like the one for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire - are merely improvements on the age-old practice of yelling answers at the screen. And they work. The least fruitful type is the kind that comes to mind when hearing the phrase "interactive TV": collaborative, choose-your-own-ending stories, which are becoming more widespread than ever. The season finale of ABC's eminently forgettable Two Guys and a Girl allowed viewers to vote online among four possible endings. (I searched in vain for the options...
...Brother" and coming up with one phenomenon and one dud. The rest of television spent the summer boning up, and since then "The Mole" came and quietly went, "Temptation Island" drew viewers but scared away advertisers, "The Weakest Link" took "Survivor"-style ruthlessness into the lavish confines of the game-show studio, and "Boot Camp" proved that slavish imitation of a business model can still pay off in this business...
...bulletin appeared, but not the one Jordan and his staff expected. Instead, viewers were treated to a little guerrilla TV: two rumpled "rebel" journalists reporting their version of the proceedings from TNT. This was quickly replaced by the adventures of Vinnie the Alligator, a children's program, and game-show reruns...
...Reality-show hosts are half devil, half angel, tempter and comforter. (Think Jeff Probst offering starving Survivors extra vittles in exchange for their tent.) Not so Anne Robinson of The Weakest Link (NBC, Mondays, 8 p.m. E.T.), a British import game show with a Survivor twist: players vote each other off. The dour, sarcastic host dismisses losers with a curt "You are the weakest link. Goodbye." (Thanks to NBC's weeks-long ad blitz, it may be the first TV catchphrase Americans have got sick of before its show even aired). But there's an integrity to her evil-Regis...