MIKE
DURRETT
SHOW
Today's Episode:
New Fall Television Comedies
Dateline: 09/26/98
I don't know about you; but ever since I got my Internet connection, I've snubbed television. I've lost interest in it. The computer fills my mind. TV filled my time.
Now, I have a better outlet for those 30 hours per week I used to spend sprawled in front of the big eye. Only occasionally will I slap a movie into the VCR or watch an event show. My life has changed. I've changed.
I no longer give a flip whether Jimmy Smits leaves another top series to fail in movies big time again.
I don't get goose pimply discerning if Brooke Shields' comic skills are more versatile than the Budweiser frog (the one in the middle).
I don't care if Kids Say the Darndest Things. I don't care if Kids Wear the Darndest Things. Nor do I care if Kids Eat the Darndest Things.
Darndest?
DARNDEST?
Why are we worried about Y2K for heaven's sake? Let's do like television. Let's all freeze in 1961.
Looking at my darndest desk calendar, I noticed it's officially autumn and that means the networks are busy unrolling their newest failures. Why they keep putting on bombs, I'll never know. If they only put on the hits, they'd save a bunch of time and money.
Of course, they never ask me.
Since virtually anyone reading this article has Net access, I suspect you may not care about the latest TV shows either. The real action today is at your fingertips. Your keyboard can write or select much more engaging, customized entertainments from the Web, fulfilling your exact and demanding specifications.
And there's no annoying canned laugh track.
However, in case you still couch potato in front of that old-fashioned, prehistoric TV device -- and that's fine -- here are some links to help sort through the major networks' 20 debuting prime time comedies.
Meanwhile, I'm emailing CBS to change the title of one of their shows to Everybody Loves Raymond Except Mike, Who Used to, but Now Prefers to Feed His Imagination Online.
Say, I wonder. Does Ray Romano have a Web site? I'll go look. See ya...
--NEW PRIME TIME COMEDIES-- |
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In closing, let me direct you to TeeVee, a favorite Internet discovery. The writers of this non-stop lampoon of television, The Vidiots, get together each year and predict the first cancellation of the fall season. Their snarly handicapping and selection processes are a refreshing pleasure to behold. Enjoy the current series of columns collectively named "Dead Pool '98."
P.S. I found Ray Romano's bio.
About Your Guide: Mike Durrett's earliest TV memories are of Mickey's Mouseketeer Cubby, and "Hot Diggity Dog." His earliest computer memories are of Cubby (Mikey's mouse), and the hot, dig it, Wienermobile.
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