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DURING ITS 54 WEEKS ON THE air, the WB netlet has produced the sort of programming that requires viewers to suspend disbelief far too strenuously. The sitcom Kirk, for example, asks us to accept that Kirk Cameron could be a Greenwich Village illustrator raising three children and dating a doctor who looks like Elle MacPherson. More demanding still is Simon, a sitcom about a dim-witted TV executive that seems to be set in some parallel universe where grown men take baths in front of their friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: GARDEN OF GOOD AND TRASHY | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

ARRESTED. QUEEN LATIFAH, 25, anti-violence rapper and a star of the sitcom Living Single; for alleged gun and marijuana possession; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 12, 1996 | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

...somehow you missed the event, you felt seriously deprived. At a time when the civil rights movement was just beginning, seeing blacks on the tube made us feel more like a part of America. We wanted them to be there even if it meant settling for a demeaning sitcom like Amos 'n' Andy. Anything was better than nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEAVY BREATHING: WAITING TO EXHALE | 1/15/1996 | See Source »

...love scene between her and Wesley Snipes could have energized this clunker, but his semi-platonic cameo made him seem more like a guest star on a sitcom than a leading man. What on earth is the point of getting the girl if you don't even kiss...

Author: By Marian Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Waiting for a Good Movie? Don't Hold Your Breath | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of 1995: TELEVISION | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

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