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Lately, however, Comedy Central has moved beyond lame one-liners and developed a series of signature hits. Among them: Bill Maher's irreverent roundtable Politically Incorrect (whose ratings have climbed 40% in the past year); Mystery Science Theater 3000, the perennially inventive spoof of bad old movies; and the endlessly rerun cult favorite from Britain, Absolutely Fabulous. Riding such successes, Comedy Central has tripled its subscriber count, to 36 million households, and today it reaches a higher proportion of affluent, educated, 18-to-49-year-old viewers than any other network on broadcast or cable...
Comedy Central's latest find is Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.S.T.). The animated sitcom debuted with six episodes last summer and became the channel's second highest-rated show (behind Politically Incorrect). Now it has returned for a 13-week run, providing an imaginative departure from the sea of indistinguishable sitcoms on the networks this fall...
...MIKE WALLACE in print, don't go anywhere near his turf. The gruff correspondent has been incensed by comments about himself and 60 Minutes in a new memoir by former White House flack MARLIN FITZWATER. Last week he learned that Fitzwater was preparing to tape an episode of Politically Incorrect in a leased cbs studio. After haranguing Fitzwater on the phone, Wallace turned up in person and, generously sprinkling his speech with obscenities, demanded a public apology. Fitzwater refused. And after Wallace finally left, Fitzwater left too, saying he was too flustered to go on with the show...
...idealism and practicality. "The Spaceship Earth" depicts all humans as stewards of a fragile planet, implicitly teaching tolerance and social responsibility. "The Fallen Angel" encourages critical thinking by stressing that error is inevitable, that blind dogma is dangerous and that much of what students learn in school is incorrect in "the American Experiment," he claims that having a government based on democracy and continuous argument is cause for patriotism. Yet, he cautions, we must remember that though "no shame need endure forever no accomplishment merits excessive pride." Finally, "The Word Weavers/The World Makers" focuses on humans unique facility with language...
Despite the politically incorrect Native American motif of the 91st World Series--the Tomahawk Chop of the Braves vs. Chief Wahoo of the Cleveland Indians--the first Fall Classic in two years should turn on a lot of people. It's North vs. South, the best in the American League vs. the best in the National, a team starved for a world championship because it hasn't been in the Series too often vs. a team starved for the title because it has been in the Series all too often. But the most intriguing matchup of all is the most...