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Indeed, far too many contemporary sitcoms have veered away from the Mary Tyler Moore Show's example of mining workplace humor simply from well-limned, quasi-believable characters. NewsRadio has been a smart exception to the recent rule, and so too is Spin City (ABC, Tuesdays 9:30 p.m. EDT), one of the most energetically promoted new shows of the fall season...
...NEWSRADIO (NBC) At last a sophisticated sitcom about people who actually work rather than sit around all day chatting over coffee. With Phil Hartman as a self-centered radio newscaster, Dave Foley as a straitlaced news director and Andy Dick as a wired producer, the show carries on smartly in the Mary Tyler Moore tradition...
...after all, to draw a comparison with TV's pre-cable Bronze Age. A list of indispensable current series, besides those already mentioned, would include the mighty, acerbic Roseanne, still potent after seven-plus seasons; newer shows now hitting their stride, like Mad About You, The X-Files, Friends, NewsRadio and the wonderful Homicide, more vivid and biting than its more illustrious rival NYPD Blue. Among the season's new shows, American Gothic, Ned and Stacey and The Bonnie Hunt Show are all odd and worth watching before they get canceled...