Article: E!'s `The Anna Nicole Show' lacks any redeeming value.(Arts and Lifestyle)

What makes a mind-numbing, soul-depleting, heart-draining, crummy TV show? Just watch "The Anna Nicole Show" on cable's E! Entertainment Television.

"The Anna Nicole Show" has no redeeming value - not even good trashy values. Before watching it for the first time, I thought if it was well-produced, the reality series might hold some vampy, campy appeal. After enduring it for the second time Sunday (it airs Sunday nights at 10), I decided E!, which used to be one of my favorite cable channels, has sunk to a new level of depravity. The cable channel can trade its good name for ill-gotten gains. In its premiere airing, "The Anna Nicole Show" was the highest-rated ...

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