For the 2000 WOTY files

[Laurence Horn]

GENRE KILL.

>From today's N.Y. Times, TV Notes (E10), on rival networks' plans to combat
the ABC mammoth hit game show, Who Wants To Be a Millioniare:
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NBC became fond of [the reconstituted version of its old hit quiz show]
"Twenty-One" after a short, intense development period, so fond that it no
longer considers the show merely an effort at , as one NBC executive put
it, "genre kill."  That term refers to the openly cynical idea that the
game phenomenon can be killed entirely by saturating the airwaves with such
shows.

larry