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...laugh--since, as any sitcom producer will tell you, the same seven plots have merely been recycled endlessly since the beginning of television. Realizing that likable characters are the key to a TV comedy's success, the networks will establish new characters in 2- to 3-min. "mini-coms." Then, after viewer response is gauged via an Internet hookup, those favorites will appear on the air regularly, in 5- or 6-sec. bursts, much like the network promos we now see. You know the ones: Ross from Friends dancing in a bubble held by Rachel, then getting "popped...
...wear tight shirts and have smaller people beside me. All the people around me were the size of Mini...
...reach this goal, Mazur relied on the concept of peer instruction, a philosophy of teaching large groups of students he has developed over the past decade at Harvard. Rather than just having the professor lecture, peer instruction actively involves students by breaking up brief "mini-lectures" with multiple-choice questions on the topics just covered...
...more money and a bigger gamble," Harper concedes. The network has, however, retained series rights. "We just hope it's a terrifically successful movie for the network, and then we can evaluate where we go from there," says Susan Lyne, ABC's executive vice president for motion pictures and mini-series...
...They shriek because we look rather official with our mini-recorders...