After spending much of the past decade trying to push the envelope creatively, network development executives are headed back to basics with their fall 2009 pilot rosters. Having been burned one too many times by shows that garnered critical acclaim but low Nielsen numbers—from “Arrested Development...
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The Insider’s love affair with television developed relatively late in life. For four Air Force brats who spent three formative years in Germany, English-language TV was often unavailable. And it would be years before a sense of irony would develop to make hearing Tonto address the Lone Ranger with ...
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