He was a class act and a reassuring person delivering the news. You felt like he knew what he was talking about.

The contrast between Jack Paar and Johnny Carson was marked.

As a network abandons a niche, somebody else will come in who's very hungry and at the back of the pack to try to fill that niche. I'd predict that there will be more cultural channels bubbling up.

High culture has never had much of a place on American television.

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On the face of it, a show about three retired women and one of their mothers living in Miami hardly seems like the kind of thing young America would take to.

He never aspired to be Hamlet.

It's not your father's A&E.

It doesn't look promising at this point.