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...present-day soaps like “Dawson’s Creek” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Despite the teen drama’s many permutations in the last dozen years, culminating in its recent ubiquity on the WB, it’s a shame that the genre has never successfully looked beyond beautiful, affluent and white subjects. But without “90210,” teen dramas would never have a place in prime time—even if the actors are still much older than their characters...
...created the bon-vivant skunk Pepe Le Pew, the beep-beep Road Runner and his perennially flummoxed pursuer Wile E. Coyote. They devised brilliant one-offs such as One Froggy Evening, a lovely parable of exploitation (whose singing star, Michigan J. Frog, later became the character logo for the WB network), and the sublime Feed the Kitty, about a bulldog's desperate attempts to protect a kitten prone to domestic disaster. Put that on your short list of cartoons to cherish...
...mass-market TV 10, 20 or 30 years ago, when white and black Americans alike would expend a few brain cells following the high jinks of Fred Sanford, the Fresh Prince and Steve Urkel. But in the mid-'90s, as the new "netlets" UPN and the WB added African-American sitcoms to draw an audience eager to see people on TV who looked like them, the big networks went even whiter. White folks watch Friends, and black folks watch Steve Harvey, so held the new wisdom, and never their channel surfing shall meet. (In 1996 the melanin-poor Seinfeld ranked...
...Williamson's ideas just sound like money. The man who created Dawson's Creek and wrote the movies Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer has the ability to think like a teenager and a marketing executive at the same time. His concept for Glory Days (the WB, Wednesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.) is flawless: if the only reason Murder, She Wrote isn't still on the air is that its viewers brought in only Depend commercials, then make a Murder, She Wrote for teens. The lead character here is dark but likable young mystery novelist Mike Dolan (Eddie...
...ONCE MORE, WITH FEELING," BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (UPN) You could apply the title of this audacious musical episode to the whole season of Buffy, which survived an acrimonious move from the WB to return smarter, funnier and dramatically richer than ever. Who'd have thought creator Joss Whedon (who taught himself piano to write the episode's surprisingly tuneful score, as well as the nimble lyrics) studied his Sondheim along with his sarcophagi...