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SEDUCED BY “NEWS AT 11”

MEDIA CIRCUS MOLESTATION DRAMA

My obsession with ’70’s made-for-TV movies sometimes creeps into the following decade – especially when those films focus on the behind-the-scene drama of a TV news department. 1986’s News At Eleven is the godfather of that genre. It hit TV screens just a year before  Holly Hunter‘s TV News comedy Broadcast News arrived in theaters. And while there is certainly no lack of made-for-TV ansgt in this little Continue reading SEDUCED BY “NEWS AT 11”