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...Court, are set at the Supreme Court; Fox's 24, CBS's The Agency and ABC's Alias, in the once maligned CIA. Fox's The American Embassy follows cute young diplomats in London. Dramas like Fox's Boston Public and CBS's The Guardian and JAG spotlight public school teachers, family-law workers and the military, respectively. In the works for next season: dramas about the Senate and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The possibilities are endless. The Mint! USPS Blue! CSI, meet...
...takes most shows a while to find their rhythm. But First Monday (CBS, Fridays, 9 p.m. E.T.), a new Supreme Court drama, immediately settles into a groove of pregnant pause followed by cliche. The makers of JAG are not masters of subtlety, and while that might be fine for a show about a military court, the Supreme Court requires a bit more nuance. Yet First Monday has a Chief Justice (James Garner) who begins each session by making all nine Justices put a hand in the middle, football-huddle style, and yell, "Let's go make history." The cases--about...
...prevailing standards the CBS military drama JAG (Tuesdays, 8 p.m. E.T.) was about the least-cool hit show on TV. It lauded the men and women of the Judge Advocate General corps, who investigate, prosecute and defend cases affecting military conduct. The twist was--well, that there was no twist. On JAG, the government really was good, save for a few bad apples. There were no systemic conspiracies. It was made with the cooperation of the Navy and the Marines. Its heroes, Lieut. Commander Harmon (Harm) Rabb Jr. (David James Elliott) and Lieut. Colonel Sarah (Mac) MacKenzie (Catherine Bell), were...
...other words, watching JAG was like signing up for a permanent hitch in the Square Force. But now, suddenly, American flags are stitched into the logos of news broadcasts and the nation is abuzz about, of all things, the military justice system. As creator and executive producer Don Bellisario likes to say, "JAG didn't find its patriotism on Sept. 11." But America's renewed national pride has evidently found JAG. Ratings for the show, once known for appealing mainly to older viewers steeped in old-timey values, are up 39% this fall among 18-to-49-year-olds...
They didn't always. Bellisario (Magnum, P.I.; Quantum Leap) conceived the drama as "Top Gun meets A Few Good Men" and sold it to NBC, where it debuted in 1995. But in 1995-96, its first season on the network of Seinfeldian cool, JAG finished 77th in the ratings. nbc wanted more shootouts and hardware; Bellisario wanted to retain the legal drama. The show was headed for a dishonorable discharge when Moonves, seeing a good fit for his network's older audience, snapped it up, rolling gunslinging action and courtroom drama into one star-spangled package...