| Vol XXXIV No. 72 |
Wednesday, January 24, 2001 |
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The girls of "Popstars" take on the O-Town boys from "Making the Band"
Katie Malmquist
Scene Writer
 In an age of pop super-stardom and reality-based TV, network television's recent attempts to cash in on both phenomena should not come as a surprise. ABC's "Making the Band," whose first season kicked off last spring, and the WB's "Popstars," which ... [more]
Back to reality — pop culture rules in television's new wave
Exotic settings and heated competition push "Temptation Island," "Survivor: Australia" ahead of ABC's "The Mole"
Matt Killen
Scene Writer
The summer of 2000 brought a new genre to American television known as "reality TV." The success of "Survivor" and, to a lesser extent, "Big Brother" opened the flood gates for a wave of new reality shows. Networks scrambled to emulate ... [more]
Sleigh bells' ring tarnished by stresses of school
Jacqueline Browder
In Vogue
Sleigh bells ring — were you listening? Probably not. With the rotten weather, frenzied exam schedule, packing, pulling anything remotely electrical out of the wall and praying to everything holy that you make your connecting flights, the holiday spirit was lost ... [more]
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