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Salon.com October 9, 2002 Eric Boehlert	"Live From New York" by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller A new book about "Saturday Night Live" dishes the backstage dirt on sex, drugs and fistfights, but lacks the guts to ask if the show still matters.
Salon.com October 3, 2002 Carina Chocano	Giddyup, spaceman Buffy's creator gallops into outer space with "Firefly," taking the connection between sci-fi and westerns a little too literally.
Salon.com September 30, 2002 Carina Chocano	Family, work and literary vampirism This week's new TV sitcoms offer two dismal duds -- and a sly, bittersweet comedy about a dissipated writer who hits on his own daughter.
PC World September 26, 2002 Michelle Madigan	Digital TV Could Bring Unpleasant Surprises Consumers could face built-in copy controls, obsolete equipment, and new expenses when digital broadcast becomes standard.
Salon.com September 26, 2002 Carina Chocano	Same old mish-"MAS*H"! Stat! On "MDs" and "Presidio Med," rogue, renegade and maverick doctors search for a cure for HMOs.
Salon.com September 25, 2002 Damien Cave	"The Money Shot" by Laura Grindstaff The producers of daytime TV talk shows must woo wife beaters, drug addicts and other scum as guests. Their reward? Being treated like bottom-feeding slime by a public that laps it up.
Sports Illustrated September 24, 2002 Rick Reilly	Split Personalities John Madden is prime time now -- Monday nights, magazine covers, video game boxes and, who knows what's next, the $5 bill? But what about the guy who helped nail up his star? The guy who put his own light in a shoebox for 21 years so Madden's could blaze? It just isn't right.
Salon.com September 23, 2002 Carina Chocano	Play it again, scam Crimes shown backward, heroes sent back to high school, and yet another trip to the '60s. This week's lame new TV shows prove a trip down Memory Lane can be a snooze.
Salon.com September 18, 2002 Eric Olsen	Slaves of celebrity Kelly Clarkson has a golden future, right? Maybe so. But the "American Idol" winner and her fellow finalists had to sign virtually their entire careers away to the show's producers for one shot at stardom.
Salon.com September 17, 2002 Carina Chocano	Sympathy for the misanthrope It would be easy to feel sorry for "Curb Your Enthusiasm's" Larry David -- if only he wasn't so damn unlikable.
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