Joel Stein, columnist, Time: “Actually, Trio once let me take over for a week. Yes, they’re desperate and insane. I created a show called Good Clean Porn, where we took out all the sex scenes and just showed the plots. I showed the Letterman show over and over again where my letter was read in ninth grade. Basically, it was me obsessing about me.”
Ralph Nader, consumer advocate: “Viewers will be put in touch with people on the ground who are solving many of our country’s major problems in one community in ways that are applicable to thousands of communities.”
Ken Tucker, critic-at-large, Entertainment Weekly: “I’d re-run, over and over, only two great things: Pee-wee’s Playhouse, unseen on-air since 1991, and The Prisoner, the 1967–68 Patrick McGoohan series about a man held captive by his government for what he knows—or doesn’t know.”
Robin Byrd, adult cable queen: “I’ve been trying to get a cooking show on my network for years. I’d be the true Naked Chef.”
Doug Benson, Off Broadway actor, The Marijuana-Logues: “I’d start up the Weed Network and program it with things you have to be high to enjoy, like H.R. Pufnstuf, Scooby-Doo, and speeches by Al Gore.”
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The Transformation of TV Into an Art Form
The Draw of Dream Worlds in Film
Gosselin, Prince of the Professional Nobodies
A Decade of Defining Moments in Pop Culture
The Invention of New York's Local Cuisine 
Thirty-Five Short-Lived Looks of the Decade
Two Views of a Swath of the Upper West Side
An Older Generation Moves Into Williamsburg
Ten Years That Changed Everything
A Generation of Overparenting
The Sports Rivalry of the Decade
What Is the Point of the United States Senate? 
