ARE THE BAD REVIEWS FOR CURRENT TV FAIR? “Maybe the techy methodology needs some time to kick in and work properly, so it might be unfair to judge them the way we would an ordinary TV show, where great effort would be put into making the debut show very strong. But they made the decision to draw attention to themselves before they started and they got the publicity they sought. They could have started small and built up their reputation slowly, but they wheeled out Al Gore, so they asked for it.”

Meanwhile, here’s someone who’s sticking up for F/X’s Over There.