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Article: FOX'S 'SHORE' UNLIKELY SURVIVOR.(Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- August 4, 2004
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Byline: Dusty Saunders, Rocky Mountain News
After many years of watching hundreds of awful TV series, I still wondered: How did Fox's North Shore get on the air?
In case you haven't seen it (how fortunate), North Shore is a silly sex-and-sand saga set on scenic surf. The plot, as thin as a broken bamboo stick, deals with physically attractive but woefully stupid young adults working in a plush Hawaiian resort hotel where women's navels and men's muscles flash on the screen with predictable regularity.
So how did North Shore, aired on Monday night, get on the schedule? Maybe Fox worked out a deal with the Hawaii Tourist Bureau; the sunset scenes ...