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  • Methadone for "Buffy" addicts

    Martyred vampire Spike is back (sort of!) on the new season of "Angel," which has recaptured at least some of the Buffyverse's magic.
  • I'm a TV viewer -- get me out of here!

    Watching faux-celebrities marinate in the Australian rain forest for 15 painful hours proves that even in the alternate universe of reality TV, less is more.
  • Holy Batbabes!

    In the WB's bizarrely entertaining "Birds of Prey," Batman has skipped town -- but his illegitimate daughter and a reshaped Batgirl are kickin' butt in New Gotham.
  • Don't call it a comeback

    How TV networks turned around their lily-white lineups -- and why that still isn't enough.
  • The parent trap

    Who says there aren't any adults on the WB? "Gilmore Girls" and "7th Heaven" give the Frog's viewers two sides of tadpole-raising.
  • Subway love

    Gone is the stench of urine. Into its void rushes a whiff of pheromones.
  • Please, sir, may I have a mother?

    Despite the WB's reputation as the teen-sex network, shows like "Dawson's Creek" and "Roswell" owe their appeal more to the damaged-family yearnings of a Brontk or Dickens novel than to sheer skin.
  • 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.
  • 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"
  • Finale thoughts

    The best and worst of TV's season-ending episodes.
  • "Buffy" fans distribute postponed finale online

    Network's decision irks the faithful, who take to their Web sites and "tape trees" to get their "Vampire Slayer" fix.
  • TV to over-49s: You haven't dropped dead yet?

    Hey, Gramps! Want more TV shows aimed at you? Then stop watching them.
  • The WB's Big Daddy condescension

    Another "Buffy" episode postponed. Are the paranoia demons running loose?
  • Hand job

    A TV-addicted stoner loses his hand to evil temptation in the lame thriller "Idle Hands."

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