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Date Posted: 08:26:49 10/03/06 Tue
Author: Islandgirl
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Trends I'm liking in TV this season

This season there has been a slight upswing in two areas that I've kvetched about in the past on TV shows, so I thought I'd take a moment to acknowledge them:
1.) They have finally broken out of the mold of having shows set only in East Coast/West Coast/Las Vegas/Chicago locales. "Jericho" is set in Kansas. "Friday Night Lights" is set in Texas as are at least some of the segments of "Heroes." While it still seems like at least half of all TV shows are set in either New York City or the Washington D.C. area, with about 40 percent of ther rest in California, this is at least a small step in the right direction.
2.) There are more married characters on TV, especially among middle-aged men. The coach in "Friday Night Lights" is married. So are both the FBI agent and the victim's father in "Kidnapped." The stereotypical thing would have been to make these men widowers or divorced guys -- so that they could fit in with all the unmarried, middle-aged guys on the various "CSI" shows or "NCIS" or "Cold Case" or whatever -- but giving them wives adds realism to these shows, since the majority of men in this age group *are* married.

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