No soap opera has so engrossingly captured the wondrous banality of the human condition.

Max Headroom, if overly exposed, could end up as just another Muppet Nothing would be more distressing than to witness a brilliant parody of TV turn into a TV cliche.

Titanic clashes in this video courtroom are likely to swirl around botched paint jobs, unshoveled sidewalks, defective toasters, aggressive guard dogs and every conceivable, and sometimes inconceivable, mishap involving a dry cleaner.

[They favor] flashy packages of bite-size stories that are to serious journalism what McNuggets are to a full-course dinner.

He was both [television's] first celebrity and its most persistent conscience.

[In the article, they note that Waters' music recalls the lush, hyper-Romantic sound of opera composers like Puccini.] [He is] definitely an inspiration, ... After all, his opera 'Tosca' takes place in a police state.