After reading every inch of ...
Question: After reading every inch of the Fall Preview issue, I had a question for you. What I have found missing now is kids. I have kept every Fall Preview issue for about 20 years, and it is fun to pull them out and look back at the photos and see how they have changed over the years. There used to be at least five shows a year with kids, now I can't seem to find any. My question for you is: Where have all the kids gone?
Answer: First off, bless you for reading the magazine, something every self-respecting tvguide.com visitor should be doing regularly. But anyway -- for the most part, kids have gone the way of the family comedy and family drama, two near-dead genres. I’m assuming by “kids” you mean “children,” in which case you’re absolutely right: They’re almost invisible. Look closely at the
Runaway picture and you can see a cute young kid playing the youngest member of the family on the lam. Otherwise, pretty much nada. The focus of network prime time nowadays is on young adults, rarely on children, and the genre of three-kids-and-a-couch family sitcoms is especially out of favor right now. What TV needs is another
Bill Cosby or
Tim Allen, or possibly a new
Roseanne, to bring kids back in fashion.
