Transcript: Strange Television Appears To Set Trend

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NPR All Things Considered
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April 23, 1996
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Linda Wertheimer talks with Ken Tucker, critic-at-large for "Entertainment Weekly" about the current trend in television shows that could be called strange TV, such as a New Age Hercules and gangster vampires.

ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: This is All Things Considered. I'm Robert Siegel.

LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host: And I'm Linda Wertheimer.

Ken Tucker is critic-at-large for Entertainment Weekly magazine. We have asked him to spend some time thinking about two new trends which we have observed, which are enjoying some success. Perhaps the most successful is something I describe as `stupid ancient history, ' notably Hercules, The Legendary Journeys, ...

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