Article: The Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm column: a little light refreshment about a wily agent cut loose.(Column)

Byline: Jonathan Storm

Jun. 27--Looking for something new and different on TV? It's not Burn Notice.

Looking for some summertime fun? It is Burn Notice, premiering at 10 p.m. tomorrow on cable's USA.

It combines the lively silliness from scores of shows that have gone before: The Rockford Files, MacGyver, Moonlighting, The Equalizer, Miami Vice, even Everybody Loves Raymond. Yeah, that's only six, but it's summer, and nobody should expect extensive research on a piece of fluff like this.

Do-it-yourselfers can add all the shows that used a little behind-the-scenes narration, and on-screen captions to identify new characters, and ...

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