MEDIA FORUM: Sky’s answer to channel hopping causes a furore - During Sky Sports latest score service on Saturday afternoons, commercials and ticker-tape data are made to share the same screen. Is the commercial message damaged? Does Sky place adv

By ALASDAIR REID Friday, 10 September 1999 12:00AM

Arguably, Larry Sanders has the most honest approach. ’No flipping,’ he says as he cues the commercial break, standing there with a wan smile and aiming an imaginary remote at his audience. Unfortunately, we’ll never know if this works, because the remote isn’t the only imaginary thing about The Larry Sanders Show, the spoof chat show starring Garry Shandling.

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