The 59-year-old Mr. Chan is best known for founding a lifestyle magazine in Hong Kong, City Magazine, and starting up a "lite fare" cable television station in Taiwan, Super TV, which he sold to Sony Entertainment in the 1990s.
There is a lot of heavy fare on television on Sunday nights.
What about older fare, like television episodes from years ago, or some forgotten indie film?
Kabaddi has been turned into slick fare for television, rife with opportunities for sponsorship.
The production, often as relentlessly upbeat as a Pepsi commercial, sent million of potential viewers (and potential voters) scurrying to find more compelling fare on television.
Hells, damns, and Good Lords have, of course, been acceptable fare on television for some time, so it's unclear why ABC bothered to take them out.
That fearfulness is perhaps fitting in an era of man-made economic decline and natural calamity — be it volcanic ash in Iceland or earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and Tibet — and the more standard travel fare on television has rarely seemed so timorous.
But a glance at the halls of Congress by day, or at the typical fare on television by night, suggests the vast cultural and legal advances this movement has made in 30 years.
(Paddy Chayefsky did it all bigger and better back in the 1970s in "Network".) Granted, it is not easy to parody the circus of self-display and self-humiliation that so much of the bottom-feeder fare on television has become.
Tape-delayed, edited broadcasts became standard fare on television.
