Word: sitcoms
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Some products respond to consumers' needs; others, like Sony's airboard, seek to create them. Like sending e-mails from the pool, or curling up in bed with your favorite sitcom. This futuristic gadget combines the functions of a television, a dvd player and the Internet into a portable tablet the size of a place mat. If it catches on, it could change the concept of being digital at home...
...switch to CNBC, then leave for a meeting. When I come back, the set is tuned to a rerun of Jesse, the thankfully canceled Christina Applegate sitcom. It's like walking into your office and finding your sixth-grade class bully waiting to beat you up again...
...Girl allowed viewers to vote online among four possible endings. (I searched in vain for the options to cancel the series, burn all videotapes or watch Disney honcho Michael Eisner commit ritual suicide in shame for having aired it.) Meanwhile, the creator of Dharma and Greg is developing a sitcom for Fox called Nathan's Choice, in which the hero faces a dilemma halfway through the show, the audience votes on his "choice" online and the second half of the show is based on the winning vote...
...myth that TV would be better if it only responded more to its audience's wishes. The problem with too much TV is that it delivers exactly what the audience thinks it wants. Whereas great shows spring on the public something it never would have asked for: a sitcom making fun of the Korean War (M*A*S*H), a show about a Cuban band leader and his wife in the white-bread '50s (I Love Lucy) or a farce about the selfish exploits of four whiny New Yorkers (Seinfeld...
...voting in season two to the contestants. The lesson: I don't want you programming my TV and, trust me, you don't want me programming yours. I can't even control my own. Just now TiVo is telling me I want to watch a rerun of the '80s sitcom Growing Pains, and frankly I'm too exhausted to argue. If you need me, I'll be multitasking with a bag of potato chips...