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Antiheroes like Jack Bauer are TV's new heroes

British talk-show host and satirist David Frost once observed that television is "an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home."

The really funny thing about Frost's quip is that when he uncorked it, the most outrageous characters on TV were Colonel Klink of "Hogan's Heroes" and Charles Nelson Reilly. Now, we have weekly series...

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