A&E’s has turned reality into successful TV. But it should stop playing dumb.

At TCA in early January, A&E executive Elaine Frontain Bryant said the network was "leading the reality revolution" in an era of too-much scripted television. "There’s enough fiction and drama in the world," she added. This is the kind of thing that would normally have me standing on the table, screaming, Yes! yes! But instead my reaction was more like, mmmgah ugh no. The network's decision to switch to nonfiction-only programming resulted, she said, in "an incredible... keep reading this story »

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