ABC Gets Trashy Robert Siegel talks with Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly about the plummeting ratings, and seemingly plummeting standards of ABC Television. Among the network's recent broadcasts: a psychic attempting to channel the murdered wife of actor Robert Blake, and a series called The Bachelor, which takes a cue from the much decried FOX program Who Wants to Marry A Millionaire.

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ABC Gets Trashy

April 25, 200212:00 AM ET

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Robert Siegel talks with Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly about the plummeting ratings, and seemingly plummeting standards of ABC Television. Among the network's recent broadcasts: a psychic attempting to channel the murdered wife of actor Robert Blake, and a series called The Bachelor, which takes a cue from the much decried FOX program Who Wants to Marry A Millionaire.