Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 24th, 2001
Byline: Ted Cox At last, here is a good, old-fashioned summer replacement TV series: quirky, unconventional, funny and not quite as good as it thinks it is, which is what made it a summer replacement series in the first place. "The Downer Channel" debuts at 7:30 p.m. today on NBC's WMAQ Channel 5. It might include a few interviews with "real" people, but - all praises to the TV gods - it is not a new reality series. If anything, it offers inoculation against reality TV. "Downer" is an old-school, free-form sketch comedy series. Its unifying principle is making light of the aggravations of t...
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