“The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?”
—Frederic Raphael, screenwriter, journalist and novelist, “The Language of Television,” 1980.
• Editorial Comment: “Properly cooked” canned spaghetti?
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