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    March 24

    Putting "Life" back into TV

    Call it one for the good guys, if you will. A perusal of your cable television grid these days and you'll find for every entertaining show like "American Chopper," for every "Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and Olbermann's "Countdown," there's something like eight "Real Desperate Housewives," "Girls Next Door" and "Trade Your Spouse's Fixer Upper Then Sell It!" Quality TV chalked up one in the Win Column this week as Showtime (yeah, that Showtime) premiered "This American Life," the public radio hit now put to moving pictures. This is reality television with a heart, a soul and moral to the story. Hosted, as is the radio version, by creator and chief scribe Ira Glass, "This American Life" will over six weeks introduce us to a dozen folks, just like us and show us what happens when humanity hits them in the face. Just as the radio show never ceases to deliver on the same promise, the television version will make us laugh, cry and think. It's a beautiful thing.