The Year In Television
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday, December 26, 2010 11:50 PM
It was an undistinguished 2010 for television, so ordinary it generated only nine significant events, four of them low lights. The year started with a messy reversal of one of TV's worst programming mistakes -- "Leno" at 10 p.m. -- and ended with the country paying far too much attention to a contrived dancing competition, "Dancing With the Stars. Viewers watched as clumping Bristol Palin advanced farther in the competition than her performance could possibly allow.
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The broadcast networks' rollout of new fall shows was pretty much a disaster. Hailed by many critics, Fox's Lone Star, about a Texas bigamist, was the first to go, after two episodes. Perhaps most notable were the demises of three long-term, groundbreaking shows within a few weeks -- "Law & Order," "Lost" and "24" -- and battles and uncertainty over TV signal delivery simmered and bubbled up throughout the year.
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