• Los Angeles Times, Monday, October 27, 2008 9:30 AM

Television is at heart about intimacy and economy. It is best at communicating small things, person to person--thriving not on spectacle but on conversation.

TV is also well-positioned to survive hard times. People will watch it because it's almost free, and they will especially watch it when they're out of work. But it may need to go back to its roots.

In a tough economy, executives, producers and creative people should treat TV like it is small, fuzzy and black-and-white again. French New Wave filmmakers found that a shoestring budget was no impediment to creating beauty or suspense. By refocusing on the human touch, the great performance and the thoughtful script TV could reinvent itself during this recession.

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