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SPOTLIGHT


…Good Riddance! There have always been shows that, upon hearing


by david vera Few people watched as much TV as I


did when I was a kid. But after becom- ing a professional student and losing all my free time, I’m lucky if I can catch a late-night infomercial before pass- ing out. Luckily, I have a dependable network of friends who keep me in the loop. And let me tell you, I hear about dozens more LGBT themes and bal- anced gay character portrayals in one day than I ever saw during my years of TV haze growing up. Things seem to be looking up for our future. But first, let’s look to the past.


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their premise, one gets the impulse to ask, “…Really?” In the past 10 years, the free-for-all of reality programming has invited even more deluded clowns to showcase their monotony. Case in point: Sarah Palin’s Alaska. One would think that in order to be broadcasted on TLC (The Learning Channel), a show’s primary requisite would be to offer viewers something to LEARN. With episode titles like “Just For The Halibut,” are we surprised the show died in January after only nine mind-numbing episodes (almost as fast as her presidential candidacy)? No. Are we disappointed that she didn’t canoe the Bering Strait just to demonstrate how “dangerously” close Russia is? A little…only because we know the silly Canuck might actually have done so to build credibility. I must admit, the original idea of [Jon &] Kate Plus 8 sounded somewhat fascinating to me on a medical level. But as soon as the world was dragged through the nauseating dirt of their divorce—and Jon was dropped from the show’s title and placed on the $#it-list of every woman in the country—all our “TV-rections” went limp. Don’t get me wrong, single parenting is a life-changer… unless you’re enjoying royalties from reruns and book


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