Just when I thought network TV couldn't get any worse

NBC has opted to repackage "The Partridge Family" and foster it on a public it hopes has a real short attention span. You remember the Partridge Family don't you? It was an early 1970s situation comedy that put a visual image on "bubblegum music," resurrected the career of Shirley Jones and launched the careers of David Cassidy and Susan Dey. In the first show of the original series, a group of musical siblings ask their mother to help them record a song in their garage (although they were nowhere near what people today think of as a "garage band.") When the song becomes a hit, they get themselves a bus, paint it and go on tour. Each episode found them in a different spot on the tour.

The remake, however, will change things around. According to the author of the revised series it will be about "a struggling, sort of well-meaning mom pimping her kids in order to create a wholesome-slash-sexy cash cow."

Sure. Fine. Whatever.