{"id":320,"date":"2000-03-15T12:33:23","date_gmt":"2000-03-15T17:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=320"},"modified":"2008-07-01T12:35:27","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T17:35:27","slug":"nets-do-some-good-save-these-4-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2000\/03\/nets-do-some-good-save-these-4-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets: Do some good! Save these 4 Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Chaz for sending this in<\/p>\n

From: New York Daily News<\/p>\n

Nets, Do Some Good:
\nSave These Four Shows<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ratings, demographics, lead-ins, promotability, projects in development . . . phooey. Networks can trump up all the excuses they like. The fact remains that good TV shows \ufffd like good novels, good plays, good movies and good songs \ufffd are rarities. They deserve to be protected and preserved, not abused, misused, neglected and canceled.<\/p>\n

It’s even smart business. Good shows – we’re talking about weekly series here – are the very things that make network programming different from the low-budget, ripoff, copy-cat, rerun stuff that fills most of the time on most of the outlets of our supposedly glorious multi-channel universe.<\/p>\n

The following four series currently hang suspended between renewal and cancellation. Three have been consistently good with flashes of greatness; one is flat-out excellent. All have earned the right to survive:<\/p>\n[…]\n“ROSWELL.”<\/strong>
\nWhat better hook for exploring the alienation of youth than . . . aliens! Undetectable among the student population at Roswell High School in Roswell, N.M., supposed site of a 1950s UFO crash, are a few teenagers who are actually space aliens with unusual empathetic and healing powers.<\/p>\n

Each episode, Wednesdays at 9, usually includes a couple of special effects, but the real dramatic force of the show derives from the friendships \ufffd and romantic entanglements \ufffd among the alien kids and a few human teenagers who have learned their secret<\/p>\n[…]<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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