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The Morning After: Franchise Players

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NBC Universal is a good-news / bad-news story where TV is concerned: the broadcast network has a big name but low ratings, but it has a number of successful cable channels that pay the freight, The natural question is: how could you take a kind of show that has worked well for its cable …

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Big Love Watch: The Fugitives

Before you read this post, switch off that rerun of The Fugitive and watch last night’s Big Love.

“This is just so incredibly effed up.” —Ben Henrickson

Language, young man! It still startles me at times when I realize that Big Love is an adult HBO drama almost entirely without swearing. If you can gauge the seriousness of the …