Steve Daley

''Sesame Street'' will be 20 years old any day now, an event that seems to be generating lavish praise and snippets of criticism toward this remarkable, influential program. A generation...

It feels a little like the end of some dizzy high school reunion, doesn`t it? The votes are counted, and there`s nothing left but the punch bowl, a hundred cigarette...

Superlatives can be dangerous. For example, it may be that the political circus just completed wasn`t the worst presidential campaign since the invention of the telegraph. But it sure smelled...

If you monitor the Sunday morning talk shows and wander through the columnists` prose, if you read the editorial-page endorsements and worry about the CNN ''tracking poll'' for next Tuesday`s...

The following information comes to us courtesy of the Television Information Office, a publicity arm of the broadcast industry and a group desperate to assure us by mail that watching...

November is a pivotal month in television, at the local and the network levels. The ratings` ''sweep'' in Nielsen and Arbitron helps fix quarterly advertising rates. The battle for network...

The television genius of Geraldo Rivera is not his choice of topics, but the manner in which those topics are peddled. Many Chicagoans, for example, knew there was nothing in...

You can get a little hung up on Elmore Leonard and his novels. On a recent foray into New Orleans-something about a Republican convention-a few of us decided to avoid...

You can get a little hung up on Elmore Leonard and his novels. On a recent foray into New Orleans-something about a Republican convention-a few of us decided to avoid...

Unlike Valerie Harper, MacLean Stevenson and the Los Angeles Dodgers, television shows don`t come back. They befoul the atmosphere from the start or wind down after a decent prime-time run,...