Posted
8:24 AM
by Gene
"'This could be on any network.'"The troubles of Discovery Communications Inc. are a distant-early-warning alarm for show-biz. Once the execs are left on their own devices they turn to lowest-common-denominator programming -- and shucks, it might not even play on
cable, despite an audience that can be maddeningly forgiving. No, to use a bit of jargon from show-biz, our phenomenal impatience with the wizards of Hollywood is a
cross-platform thing.