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...there's a common thread to these disparate works, it's their intimacy. Jericho, for instance, gives us doomsday as soap opera. The postapocalyptic tales of the cold war--On the Beach, A Canticle for Leibowitz, The Day After, Threads--were books and movies that had conclusions; a TV series is open-ended, like life. Jericho doles out its horror in doses--flickering TV images of ruined cities, radiation victims dead by a lake--and softens it with soap-opera B-plots. The survivors have affairs and family fights; teenagers flirt and throw parties. Chicago may be burning, but somewhere...
...safely inside the envelope. Which means this year's fall lineup practically looks like a "Nick at Nite" schedule, filled with time-machine journeys to TV formats past: Bette Midler doing a Jack Benny?style sitcom (debuting Oct. 11) about herself, Aaron Spelling doing an '80s-style prime-time soap, CBS giving us the second remake of "The Fugitive," and the WB giving us "Hype," a "revolutionary" sketch-comedy show that looks, well, pretty much life every other sketch-comedy show to debut in the last 15 years. (And that's not even counting all the wrestling...
...Titans (NBC, 8 p.m.) Produced by trash-TV king Aaron Spelling, starring Yasmine Bleeth (yes, this may be the first network series named after its costar's breasts), Victoria Principal and Jack Wagner, this Beverly Hills family-saga soap is as good as you'd expect it to be, and worse. True, Aaron Spelling has proven before that you'll never go broke telling the American public that rich people are miserable. (Though Spelling seems pretty well contented himself, so go figure.) But at least his latest successful stand at the soap genre, "Melrose Place," did it in an original...
...wrote the show for Alec Baldwin. What's your favorite Alec Baldwin SNL moment? The one where he's a soap actor and they're pronouncing all the medical terms wrong. "I'm glad to tell you that your tumor is benig...
It’s a profound misunderstanding of the modern world. The people now look up to the “chorus line of soap stars and homosexuals” that mourned gracefully at the funeral. As Elizabeth finally changes, she truly understands Shakespeare’s line, quoted at the beginning of the film, “uneasy lies the head that wears a crown...