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lynn-liccardo's picture
Jun.14.2010
your mother’s soap opera lives on…
at night. And the news is mostly good. Last year around this time, I wrote about how disappointed I was that the CW cancelled Privileged, a show ostensibly about the filthy rich, but with storytelling grounded in “in honest portrayals of the emotional complexity that drives human relationships” So...
lynn-liccardo's picture
Mar.30.2009
you have to appreciate the irony…
Really, you do. In a 1972 New Yorker piece titled, "Afternoon Television: Unhappiness Enough and Time," Renata Adler noted that Guiding Light had been "one of the most watched programs in daytime television. No more. The Doctors was just a better-written, better-acted epic of despair...