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0 Comments | USA TODAY, August, 2007 | by Robert Bianco

*Maybe the networks should take the rest of the summer off. That would spare us more inept atrocities like Fat March (ABC, 9 ET/PT), which spent its first hour wringing drama out of the collapse of two marchers from dehydration and possible stress fractures. You'd think such problems would be expected when you send overweight people on a forced march, but apparently not, to judge from the trainers' tsk-tsk response. You might also think that's why you hire trainers: to make sure you don't injure yourself while getting healthy. But then, this show has nothing to do with health and all to do with abusing people for cheap entertainment.

*Showtime subscribers have a much happier choice tonight in Weeds (10 ET/PT), which is really an awfully good reason to become a Showtime...