In the Grenville novel, no detail is spared when it comes to Sullivan's treatment of 'the blacks,' but, whilst confronting, the television adaptation falls short when it really needed to take a bigger swing.
Critics panned it, but the first season was a ratings hit; then Huggins was pushed out, and Garner confronted Universal Television over an enforced change in tone.
Confronted with television decimating the movie audience of the early '50s, the studios tried to pry the viewers loose from their home screens by promising something they couldn't get in the living room.
Baseball would probably subject itself to less ridicule if it would make some effort to confront its television partners, restore a semblance of sanity with earlier start times and embrace the radical notion of a kids-r-us late-afternoon game on the weekend.
Confronted by a television reporter, the factory manager said the practice was widespread and even natural in a seasonal industry, with lots of excess inventory.
But sales of such ads have declined significantly, along with so many other types of newspaper ads as the medium confronted challenges from television and, most recently, the Internet.
Brenda Leyland, 63, was confronted by a television news reporter over the claim that she used Twitter to post a series of comments attacking the McCanns, whose daughter disappeared in Portugal in 2007.
The prime minister made his comments after he was confronted on daytime television with a list of names circulating on the internet of Tory politicians possibly involved in child sex abuse claims.
Confronted with a television audience instead of the special-interest groups they had been addressing for months, they spent more time celebrating Giuliani themes -- safe streets, accountable schools, a thriving private sector -- than promising rewards to the Democratic faithful.
