The Mill attracted a healthy 2.4 million viewers at 8pm, no doubt surprising one critic who labelled the show a "gloomy morass of woe".
The same duality is in evidence throughout her live show, which is a morass of contradictions.
Television networks showed traffic stopped in a morass of fire trucks, ambulances and rescue equipment.
Before day's end she would moderate an hourlong live broadcast, conduct two interviews for future shows and wade into the morass of books, films and CD's vying for coverage in the coming week.
The more instructional shows have fallen into a sludgy morass of middle-class lifestyle-lite, where all the meat comes neatly wrapped in brown paper and you're never more than 10 seconds away from an Amy Winehouse instrumental.
What is attractive and unusual about the program is that it is an attempt, finally, to provide entertainment on television in a recognizable, human, non-celebrity voice — and in a voice, too, that tries to deal with the morass of media-induced show-business culture that increasingly pervades American life.
Norman and Oborne admirably show David Cameron a way out of this morass.
In Benton Harbor, where, records show, finances have spiraled downward in a morass of commingled funds, puzzling accounting and unchecked spending, Mr. Harris has been handed sweeping new powers under recent state legislation that emergency managers like him say was needed to remedy dire situations.
With all due respect to the Germans, whose medal count eclipsed the United States' by one, and the Canadians, who got the hockey gold they came for and rode the aforementioned cheerleading wave in the figure skating pairs judging morass, this was an American show of federal willpower and athletic might.
Studies have shown that they can lift themselves from the morass of poverty and stagnation through entrepreneurial activities based on collective action (Suresh, and Saravan 2013).
Then again, in the morass of streaming, network and cable options, does a show have to be memorable to be good?
