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...Free TV is in the public interest, and yet laws are facilitating audience growth for cable." But regulation is the networks' trade-off for free access to broadcast spectrums worth billions of dollars. So the new network schedules seek to lure guys within those constraints. There are cop shows and action shows, series set in casinos and boxing rings. Fox is relying on male-oriented sitcoms like Method & Red, with hip-hop stars Method Man and Redman. NBC unveiled Summer Olympics promos that made swimming and gymnastics look like X Games events, and its midseason sitcom The Men's Room...
...leads (Karen Sisco, Miss Match). But casting men doesn't automatically mean attracting men. Clubhouse is a mostly male sports story, but it's also a coming-of-age tale that looks several notches too sentimental for the Punk'd generation. Likewise with NBC's action-and-bikini-heavy cop show Hawaii. Guys these days are used to video games in which they can orchestrate their own car chases, crashes and shoot-outs, with the violence--and even sex--rendered with cinematic accuracy. To them, even a slick action show in its safe-for-network version may seem as dated...
...says. Then he offers his card, which lists his railfan-club affiliations. He estimates that he has given out 500 cards since 9/11. Usually, the matter is quickly resolved. "I have a little A.C.L.U. in me," he admits. "So I say, 'Why can't I stay?' But the cop is the one with...
YOUR FATHER'S FELLOW TRANSIT COP HAD NEVER TALKED ABOUT HIS WAR EXPERIENCE WITH YOU OR YOUR FATHER...
...Jury," which beats "Law & Order: Trial by Jury" to the voir dire by going inside the deliberations on a different highly charge case every week. From Tom Fontana and Barry Levinson, whose cop shows ("Homicide," "The Beat") tend to be more cerebral - and less popular - than the "L&O" franchise...