Published 12/31/2008
at Variety.com
Weekly Smoke and Mirrors: Variety suggests new nonscripted fare -- Movies and popcorn. Baseball and hot dogs. Kath & Kim. Some things are just made for each other. And so it is this TV season, with a biz bleeding advertisers and the industries that long to blurb unable to get a handout until regime change in Washington.
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