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...ready for less naturalism and more supernaturalism. Fox recently debuted Point Pleasant (Thursdays, 9 p.m. E.T.), a self-serious horror soap in which a young woman in a New Jersey resort town turns out to be the daughter of Satan. Says Pleasant executive producer and Buffy alumna Marti Noxon: The networks are discovering that "there are certain things that you can't do in reality shows...
...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...
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...
Perhaps the most belligerent militia is the Militia of Montana, with headquarters in the Cabinet Mountains near Noxon. "This is probably where the war is going to begin, right here in Montana," a member who refused to be identified told the bbc last year. "We've got a lot more bullets than they...
This week the nation mourned the passing of former President Richard M. Noxon. Though one might expect celebration is Cambridge, even here the flags are flying at half-staff. Yet Nixon was not the type to depart from the earth without leaving controversy and even a bit of mystery in his wake...