We might have called this ABC entry the best new sitcom of the year—if it were a sitcom. Comedy-drama, or dramedy, is the term for this smart study of the staffers at a nightly program resembling ESPN's Sports-Center. The show has improved steadily since its fall debut.
Beyond offbeat, this summer series, based on an Elmore Leonard novel, was bizarre and proud of it. Beau Bridges starred as a showboating judge in a Florida town where insanity was the norm.
NBC worked magic—and not just in the ratings—with this miniseries about the wizard of Arthurian legend. A reminder that blockbusters can be enchanting as well as oversized.
Laurence Fishburne acted from the heart in this powerful HBO movie about an ex-con searching for firm moral ground in a tough Los Angeles neighborhood.
A hit with critics and the public, this third-year CBS sitcom shows family life can be warm and a little weird at the same time.
Sidney Poitier was superb as a compassionate shrink helping two troubled teens in this thoughtful ABC remake of the 1962 movie.
In the year of John Glenn's return to space, executive producer Tom Hanks hit the heights with this 12-part HBO epic on the Apollo astronauts.
The PBS documentary series devoted 90 enthralling minutes to the high-pressure world of 60 Minutes and its imperial, indefatigable executive producer. As entertaining as watching Mike Wallace make a malefactor sweat.
Laura Dern gave a heartbreaking performance in this Showtime movie as a poor Southern mother offering her fifth child for adoption to an affluent couple desperate for a baby.
>[Tick]Lifetime's funny OH BABY may be 1998's nicest upset Imagine, a new sitcom about artificial insemination that isn't ill-conceived,
[Tick]A fresh face in the best sense of the term, KERI RUSSELL is perfectly cast as the intelligent but confused New York City college student in the WB's drama series Felicity.
Saved by the Bell Reunion
The hookups, the meltdowns, the memoires
The case reveals what was really going on what they think of each other now!
