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If the networks can get audiences to tolerate pop-up promos by the dozens, maybe they'll start selling pop-up commercials, too.
Author: Tom Shales - American WriterStart , Get , Selling , Tolerate
ABC's intelligently hilarious sitcom 'Modern Family' depicts a gay-male marriage in which both partners are refreshingly dimensional, believable human beings. The writers dare to make them flawed and thus fully delineated, but they're not flawed in the silly, stereotypical ways that once dominated such portrayals.
Author: Tom Shales - American WriterFamily , Marriage , Dare , Silly
In the 500-channel universe, which may, of course, contain many more channels than 500, the fun never stops - fun at such a fever pitch as to sometimes seem threatening, numbing, even agonizing.
Author: Tom Shales - American WriterSometimes , Never , Fun , Universe
Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new amalgamated mush, just as the line between commercials and programs has been trashed.
Author: Tom Shales - American WriterNew , Reality , Some , Together
The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a pulp. Program content is seen increasingly as a mere backdrop on which ads are posted like billboards on a fence.
Author: Tom Shales - American WriterAlways , Like , Frame , Television
Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.
Author: Tom Shales - American WriterPeople , Never , Home , Long
'Dragnet' (the 1951 original, transferred nearly intact from radio) served as a veritable template for all cop shows to come.
Author: Tom Shales - American WriterCome , Radio , Original , Cop
Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort.
Author: Tom Shales - American WriterPeople , Never , Long , Television
Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did. The Romans had gladiators and Christian-hungry lions and that sort of thing. We have MTV.
Author: Tom Shales - American WriterTime , Long , Long Time , Civilization
By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.
Author: Tom Shales - American WriterAnything , Last , Interview , Fate
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