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The year in TV from Tina Fey to 'John Adams'

How best to describe the year in TV? In words, little words: Obama. Writers' strike. "Reboot." The Davids (Cook and Archuleta).

Tina?

Yes, of course, Tina. And Sarah. Yes, Sarah, too.

Television in 2008 is as easily reducible to a single word as a lake to a single drop. But the word "chaos" just might do. Imagine (or at least recall) a wrenching writers' strike that came to nothing...

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