HEARTENING NEW TELEVISION FAMILY SERIES BATTERED BY CYNICS IN THE `PROMISED LAND'.(Editorial)(Column) From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: September 20, 1996 | COPYRIGHT 1996 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Each new TV season brings some reviews about the declining quality of television which, as the weeks wear on, leads to a declining number of viewers. So what happens when one network - in this case CBS - takes steps toward improving the quality of its prime-time programming by adding a show called ``Promised Land,'' a spinoff of its already successful series ``Touched by an Angel''? The reviewers almost universally pan it.

Matt Roush of USA Today calls ``Promised Land'' ...