Obviously Neither 'american Idol' Nor 'dancing With

Gimmicks Come And Go; The Cop Show Seems One Genre That Will Never Leave - Not As Long As People Like To Sit At Home In The Suburbs And See What Awful Things Go On In The Cities.

By A Twist Of Fate Rather Than Anything Approaching Journalistic Enterprise, I Did The Last Major Interview With Johnny Carson.

You Don't Hear Tv Cops Griping Because They Have To Enforce Some Draconian Law That Shouldn't Be On The Books In The First Place, Or Lamenting Vindictive Excesses In Sentencing. Hollywood, Supposedly A Frothing Cauldron Of Liberalism, Has Always Been Conservative On Crime.

If The Networks Can Get Audiences To Tolerate Pop-up Promos By The Dozens, Maybe They'll Start Selling Pop-up Commercials, Too.

People Of A Certain Age Look Back On The Mayberry Of 'the Andy Griffith Show' And Become Almost As Homesick For That Simple Fictional Hamlet As They Do For Their Own Home Towns.