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STONECIPHER: At first Airbus dismissed the 787 as a copy of one of their planes. Then they said they would improve that plane. But now Airbus knows that a medium-size, efficient new airplane like the 787 is where there will be a big market. So they had to respond to us. We just want them to respond without the benefit of launch...
...Medium (NBC, Mondays, 10 p.m. E.T.), starring Patricia Arquette as the fictionalized DuBois, debuted last month with more than 16 million viewers. Given her vocation, DuBois might have seen the show's success coming, but TV history suggested the series didn't stand a ghost of a chance. (Hey, she started it!) Since the launches of Twin Peaks and The X-Files, the network schedules have been littered with failed attempts at spooky, paranormal series: Millennium, The Others, Miracles, Wolf Lake and more. (The exceptions, like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Joan of Arcadia and HBO's Carnivale, have been cult...
Noxon is right: the closest thing reality TV has given us to a female Antichrist is Paris Hilton. But a supernatural angle can also offer new twists on played-out drama formats. For Caron, an admitted skeptic about psychics, the attraction of Medium was writing about a woman whose gift separates her from other people--as opposed to producing TV's umpteenth cop series. "There are more than enough crime shows, and I had no interest in being the next one," says Caron...
That's just as well, because Medium is not a very good crime show. Its grisly murder tales out of the CSI playbook are average at best. Medium distinguishes itself as a character study: Allison is still learning to trust her own abilities and handle the responsibility they impose, and Arquette portrays her with a refreshing mundanity. "Allison's not a cop," Arquette says. "She's a housewife. It's that conflict that interests me: trying to be a good mother while at the same time dealing with the dead guy sitting at the kitchen table." The contrast plays...
...Despite Medium's quick success, there are a few catches to doing spooky on TV. Compared with movies, a continuing series has limits both on special effects and plot options. As Noxon puts it, "You have a lot of characters who you can't kill off." And there's a fine line between the supernatural and religion, a subject that truly horrifies controversy-averse programmers...