Section B·Page 4
The University Daily Kansan
Monday, September 18, 2000
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1 Garden tools
2 Critic Roger
3 Puppet Lewis
4 Long, long time
5 Two-choice
quizzes
6 Irish county
7 Remsen and
Levin
1 ACROSS
1 Change a timer
6 Brick oven
10 Le Pew of cartoons
14 Loathe
15 New York waterway
17 Actor Reeves
18 Predatory
19 Make a mistake
20 Dumbo's wings?
22 Sierra__ Mountains
23 Cook in a wok
24 Lost traction
27 Ridge Boys
28 Watchful and alert
29 Dog's warning
32 Vacillate
35 Night before
37 Actor McKellen
38 Inquire
40 Brown shade
41 Illuminated
42 Roy's Dale
43 Clamorous
44 Taking on as one's own
47 Dos Passos trilogy
48 Marine shockers
49 Swift-running bird
53 Wound marks
54 Affirm positively
56 "Norma ___
58 Judge
59 Playwright Clifford
63 Assaults
64 Baseball teams
66 She sheep
68 Pricey stones
7 V-formation flock
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8 Rim of a cup
10 Twinging device
11 Public march
12 Jack of talk-
shows
13 French she
14 Rallying
15 Noah's vessel
16 Horizontal lineup
17 Turns around
18 Pre-Easter season
19 Yet to be paid
19 Himalayan bigfoot
20 Tanguy and Gabor
21 Withhold
22 monster
23 Sudden attack
24 Not taken in by
25 Connery and O'Casey
26 Wicked
27 Paddle
28 Dangers
Solutions to Friday's crossword
47 Function
49 Hot boxes
50 Peace goddess
51 Actress Phoebe
52 "Demian" author
53 Vault
54 Bird's crop
55 Competent
56 Part of a molecule
57 Obvious toupee
58 Learn like a monkey?
59 Con out
Networks looking overseas to catch new show ideas
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The British are coming — to the fall TV schedule. And so are the Dutch, the Swedes, the Australians and the Japanese.
For anyone who hasn't been keeping up, several network hits of the past year were imported from foreign countries. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, the show that saved ABC, came from England, and Survivor on CBS got its start in Sweden.
There's more on the way. Millionaire continues and Survivor II is scheduled for January. Meanwhile, several new shows were hatched overseas. NBC bought Chains of Love from the Dutch creator of Big Brother, where one person will be chained to four others of the opposite sex. ABC is developing two group task-type shows, The Mole from Belgium and Jailbreak from Britain.
So what gives? For years, "foreign programming" meant the subversive, overeducated humor of Monty Python or such starchy dramas as *Masterpiece Theatre* with the even starchier Alistair Cooke.
Now, after years of exporting heaps of lowbrow popular culture to the rest of the world, the United States has turned the tables, becoming a voracious consumer of noo programming produced on foreign shores.
"The one thing we were really good at, after we lost the auto and electronics industries, was really stupid entertainment ideas," said Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University. "When the British crossed the Atlantic with Millionaire, what a sad day that was. We may even lose our supremacy."
The irony, of course, is that the two monster successes brought in from overseas were originally developed here. Quiz shows like Millionaire go back to the '50s, and MTV helped pioneer reality television eight years ago with The Real World.
Then again, the United States is just one of many countries importing successful TV formats. After being launched in Britain in 1998, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is now shown in 31 countries. The CBS version of Big Brother is one of the few around the world to have flopped.
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