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Strange Tv

NPR

Published April 22, 1996 at 11:00 PM EDT

Linda talks to Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly's Critic-At-Large to discuss a current trend on television that could be called "Strange TV," featuring such programs as a New Age Hercules in ancient Greece, gangster vampires in San Francisco, and an amoral businessman backstabbing his way to the top.

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