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Time to sound a warning
San Francisco Examiner - November 29, 1999
By TIM GOODMAN
EXAMINER COLUMNIST
With all the thanks being given these days, spare a little for the state of television, will ya?
We're in a kind of creative boom economy on television. There are riches all around us. It's the kind of environment in which, even if you decide to give up on "Once and Again" just for
the week, you find that time-slot mate and fevered competitor, "Judging Amy," delivered a wonderful Thanksgiving episode that was superb enough to make you think, "Perhaps
I'm watching the wrong show." Or, at the very least, "I need to figure out this VCR."
It's enough to make you as giddy and angelically naive as Jennifer Love Hewitt. Everywhere you turn, there's something of interest. Every night. Often in the same time slot. An embarrassment of
riches. Boy, life is good.
Except that if you look a little closer, you can tell that the TV networks are not feeling comfortable with success, that they are tampering in the worst kind of ways and that, cynically, you
could say a major blunder across the board is taking shape...
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