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'Event' television has lost its luster
Published 3/4/2008 at Variety.com
Brian Lowry: Oscar's nosedive brings TV specials to light -- The silliness associated with awards season now officially extends through the annual postmortems, from those pouncing on disappointing ratings to advocate that the Oscars be transformed into "American Gladiators" to apologists insisting 32 million viewers is still fabulous despite a 20% dive to record-low levels.
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