• Nielsens Top 10

    Prime-time ratings compiled by Nielsen Media Research for last week.
    November 24, 1999

  • Tuned in to TV

    Wink CEO and confessed TVaholic Maggie Wilderotter is not interested in interactive TV that pushes couch potatoes onto the Web.
    By Janelle Brown November 22, 1999

  • For the love of the game show

    ABC's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" hits the jackpot; Fox's "Greed" is not good.
    By Joyce Millman November 16, 1999

  • 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.
    By Steven Scott Smith November 12, 1999

  • Patti Smith

    A punk icon in jeans and leather jacket, she added ecstasy and spiritual exaltation to the poet-songwriter equation.
    By Greg Villepique November 9, 1999

  • ... but I play one on TV

    President Martin Sheen takes the Oval Office on "The West Wing"; Dr. Alan Alda operates again on "ER."
    By Joyce Millman November 1, 1999

  • 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.
    By Cynthia Joyce October 22, 1999

  • Busted!

    Melodramatic and ill-conceived, "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" is so bad, it's a crime.
    By Joyce Millman October 18, 1999

  • Harsh realms

    Fox's "Harsh Realm" sends a soldier into virtual hell, while CBS's "Now and Again" builds the new bionic man.
    By Joyce Millman October 8, 1999

  • 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"
    By Joyce Millman October 4, 1999

  • 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?
    Letters to the Editor October 1, 1999

  • 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.
    By Robert Wilonsky September 29, 1999

  • 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.
    By Mark Gimein September 28, 1999

  • D-I-V-O-R-C-E TV

    Three new dramas look on the bright side of life in Splitsville.
    By Joyce Millman September 27, 1999

  • In with the out crowd

    NBC's affectionate "Freaks and Geeks" lets high school nobodys have their day.
    By Joyce Millman September 24, 1999

  • Kelleyvision

    The creator of "Ally McBeal" and "The Practice" owns prime time. How many cat fights, dwarf lawyers and middlebrow sermons can we take?
    By Joyce Millman September 20, 1999

  • An uncivil "Action"

    Fox's raunchy, risky movie industry sitcom opens big -- and it just might have legs
    By Joyce Millman September 13, 1999

  • How to empower a couch potato

    Can ReplayTV really revolutionize television watching? Well, it can do neat stuff like rewind live broadcasts.
    By Mark Gimein September 3, 1999

  • With conservatives like these, who needs liberals?

    By signing on to the war on Hollywood, the right has embraced another bad idea from the left.
    By David Horowitz August 30, 1999

  • Let us now give "Thanks" some praise

    It's no Arthur Miller masterpiece, but TV's silly, subversive "Thanks" just might be "The Crucible's" sitcom equivalent.
    By Sarah Vowell August 25, 1999

  • The adventures of Sir Peter Ustinov

    The actor, novelist, playwright and director talks about what it was like to follow in Mark Twain's footsteps -- literally.
    By Daniel Mangin August 24, 1999

  • The color of money

    Of course there are blacks on TV. You just have to pay to see them.
    By Joyce Millman August 23, 1999

  • TV can be a good parent

    The American Academy of Pediatrics says television watching is harmful to babies and toddlers. This mama says: I don't think so.
    By Ariel Gore August 16, 1999

  • Porn-lite and bland biography

    MTV can't get enough sex, while VH1 keeps strip-mining rock history.
    By Joyce Millman August 10, 1999

  • Nudity for all!

    Too hot? Lose the swimsuit, say several venerable publications. Plus: Reform Party madness, TV racial quotas and a ridiculous theory on recent violence.
    By Jenn Shreve August 6, 1999
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