• Washington script doctors

    How the government rewrote an episode of the WB's "Smart Guy."
  • Prime-time propaganda

    How the White House secretly hooked network TV on its anti-drug message: A Salon special report.
  • Letters to the editor

    More sympathy for parents with disabled children Plus: What about pro wrestling's contribution to television?; Why did Susan Brownmiller vote for a "rapist" -- twice?
  • Sharps & Flats

    "The Sopranos" features the best songs on TV. How come none of them made it to the soundtrack?
  • Twenty ways the '90s changed television

    From "Twin Peaks" to "The X-Files" to "The Simpsons" (O.J. included), TV broke ground and rules in the last decade of the century.
  • Hold the phone

    Robert Tercek and PacketVideo think media convergence is headed for your cell phone.
  • Media circus

    After a tense moment in our underwear, Jasmine, Allison and I crowd around for April's talk show debut.
  • Breaking up is hard to do

    "Buffy" hits a creative funk, but its spinoff "Angel" is in the groove.
  • The music man

    MTVi's Nicholas Butterworth says he wants the audience to do the programming.
  • Nielsens Top 10

    Prime-time ratings compiled by Nielsen Media Research for last week.
  • Tuned in to TV

    Wink CEO and confessed TVaholic Maggie Wilderotter is not interested in interactive TV that pushes couch potatoes onto the Web.
  • For the love of the game show

    ABC's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" hits the jackpot; Fox's "Greed" is not good.
  • I want to be a millionaire!

    In which our hero aces the telephone test, hears an actual voice recording of Regis, qualifies as a contestant and prepares to make his fortune.
  • Patti Smith

    A punk icon in jeans and leather jacket, she added ecstasy and spiritual exaltation to the poet-songwriter equation.
  • ... but I play one on TV

    President Martin Sheen takes the Oval Office on "The West Wing"; Dr. Alan Alda operates again on "ER."
  • Beyond the fringe

    Louis Theroux, host of "Weird Weekends," talks about cutting across cultural margins, straight into the worlds of porn stars and roller-skating survivalists.
  • Busted!

    Melodramatic and ill-conceived, "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" is so bad, it's a crime.
  • Harsh realms

    Fox's "Harsh Realm" sends a soldier into virtual hell, while CBS's "Now and Again" builds the new bionic man.
  • City of Angel

    Buffy's guilt-ridden vampire squeeze lives by night in L.A. Also: "My So-Called Life" meets "The X-Files" in WB's new teen drama "Roswell"
  • Letters to the Editor

    If children are cursing, blame the parents; battle of the sexes on "Family Law"; since when is Jeeves an Internet character?
  • Sharps & flats

    "Saturday Night Live" has 24 years of the best acts in rock 'n' roll on tape. Too bad none of that made it onto a new two-CD compilation.
  • The Web's newest talking head

    What's Sam Donaldson up to with his thrice-weekly webcasts? Something very much like an old TV newscast.
  • D-I-V-O-R-C-E TV

    Three new dramas look on the bright side of life in Splitsville.
  • In with the out crowd

    NBC's affectionate "Freaks and Geeks" lets high school nobodys have their day.
  • Kelleyvision

    The creator of "Ally McBeal" and "The Practice" owns prime time. How many cat fights, dwarf lawyers and middlebrow sermons can we take?
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