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What to Surf – Television Websites

Television Best of Breed
PBS Online
(http://www.pbs.org)
The Edward Gorey Shockwave game is killer fun — and that’s just the site’s Mystery! section. Bring your bread crumbs, because almost 200 other PBS shows are anchored here, creating labyrinthine sites within sites. Visiting the NOVA page, for instance, will bring you to sections about Mount Everest, the Loch Ness Monster, crocodiles, and the Ice Age — each of which has several pages of its own. You can also choose a category of interest, like history, and pull up information from the story of Africa to the battlefields of Vietnam. All this — and no pausing for pledge drives. A

Drew’s Scripts-O-Rama TV Style
(http://www.script-o-rama.com/tv/ tvscript)
Teleplay hoarder Drew Feinberg has amassed scripts from classics (The Twilight Zone) to teen fare (Felicity) to the truly random (Herman’s Head). In fact, with 48 different TV programs and hundreds of scripts, you can be the hardest-working actor around — without ever leaving home. A-

Ad Critic
(http://www.adcritic.com)
Peruse that Seinfeld AmEx spot one more time. Then head for the chat room and share your views on it — or any of the more than 100 current and classic ads at this site run by Purple Cow Productions. Two downsides: The videos run only with QuickTime 3 — and you’re spending the day watching commercials. B+

Biography
(http://www.biography.com)
Like the A&E show, the official site specializes in condensed scoop, with a database of more than 20,000 bios giving the nitty-gritty on folks like George Patton Jr., John Lennon, and — why not? — Jennifer Aniston. The next time you can’t remember P.G. Wodehouse’s full name, this is the place for you (oh, that’s Pelham Grenville). B+

Mad About Drew
(http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/5927/drew.html)
A Drew Carey buff named Jennifer takes human resources to a new level, with weekly plots, lyrics to ”Five O’Clock World,”and a Kathy Kinney filmography. And that’s just for starters. This Carey-phile gets a top-notch performance review. A-

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