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...More than 23 million of you, a phenomenal audience for summer-rerun season, watched last week as CBS's castaways reaffirmed our faith in human nature by kicking off the lawyer rather than the crotchety old guy. The first week the Pulau Tiga-based game show aired, ABC scheduled the virtually unbeatable Who Wants to Be a Millionaire against it. Survivor won in almost every audience category. The second week, Survivor won hands down. By the third week--when Regis Philbin, monochrome outfit in tatters, slunk away to lick his wounds, leaving Two Guys and a Girl and Norm...
Tune in to ABC at the start of the Republican and Democratic national conventions on July 31 and August 14, and you'll see grown men smashing heads and dragging each other to the ground. No, it's not the Reform party - it's Monday Night Football! The Alphabet Network has decided to go with two preseason games rather than the traditional prime-time coverage of democracy's twin infomercials, consigning the political action to halftime...
...promises it will behave. It has been a strong defender of "open access" in the past. But its promises are not binding, its slowness in allowing other instant-messaging services onto its platform is troubling, and last month's squabble over access to ABC on Time Warner's network is positively chilling. These are not signs that the principle that built the Internet thrives...
Vicious competition dominated television last week. After ABC added an extra night of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire to counter CBS's Survivor, Americans had to choose between watching real people withstand Regis Philbin's questions and watching real people withstand adverse conditions and 15 other disagreeable castaways. Add to that ESPN's broadcast of the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee, and the carnage of human ego was inescapable...
...habits and, because they watch more TV than young'uns, are better reached with ads on cheaper programs.) Last week CBS's gross, engrossing adventure game show Survivor (Wednesdays, 8 p.m. E.T.) was a phenom for many reasons: it had America buzzing, and it took a piece out of ABC's hit Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. But, above all, it showed that the generation gap is alive and well, in society...