A diff’rent take on classic television series

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MySpace and Sony have created the ad-supported Minisode Network, which will offer shortened (three- to five-minute) episodes from classic Sony Pictures TV series from the ’70s and ’80s to run on MySpace sites. (Commercial time has shrunk accordingly: Sponsors will run three-second billboards and five-second spots.) Success or failure, of course, will depend on how the episodes are condensed. Here are my suggestions: For Diff’rent Strokes and The Facts of Life, just the opening credits and theme songs will do.

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