THANK CABLE FOR GOOD TV
Seems there's nothing but praise for cable and it's beginning of a new era of TV viewing. It bucked tradition and started airing new shows and new seasons at anytime instead of waiting until fall when there were more shows to compete with.
Congrats to The Dead Zone for getting mentioned in the article.

Now, however, January is a fun-filled month, so densely packed with programmable goodness that I had to sit down with a calendar to figure out 1) how to handle the scheduling conflicts between The Shield and The Dead Zone (both airing new episodes at 10:00 p.m. on Tuesdays);