Hi, I'm Greg Smith, a professor at Georgia State who has just written a new academic book on Ally McBeal called _Beautiful TV: The Art and Argument of Ally McBeal_. I thought you might be interested in it. I'm a long time Ally fan, and so I wrote the book to argue for the series's importance and its innovations (music, special effects, etc.). If you haven't see it yet, you can get it through Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-TV-Argument-Ally-McBeal/dp/0292716435/ref=sr_1_1/102-1086582-8668966?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194373210&sr=1-1 Also the introduction is on my website at http://www.gsu.edu/~jougms/allyintro.pdf if you want a sample. Comments welcome. Thanks, Greg (gsmith@[EMAIL PROTECTED] )