She now guides a staff of writers and artists who, with the 1990's fast approaching, hope to take television in new directions.

It took television no time at all to ignore such human responses and substitute bogus ones.

But Judge Jacobs said there might be other reasons for taking television from a man with criminal tendencies.

"We don't want to take television into our own hands," he said at one point.

Instead, it's worth wondering: Did it take good television to point up what's wrong with American movies?

With a background like that, it took television, he said, to give him confidence.

The man who took television to new lows has reached one himself.

We take television more seriously here than in your land, alas.

It takes television seriously - as art, social anthropology and sheer fun.

The theme for the campaign is, "We're taking television into the future."