Charlie’s Angels   Charlie’s Angels debuts tonight on ABC at 8
p.m. Eastern.  Todd: There are three types of TV audiences.
There are the obsessives, the people who watch everything and
consume everything and tend toward the challenging stuff that
pushes the limits of the medium. There are the escapists, who
view the medium as a way to unwind after a long day at work,
something that will give them a few chuckles or a few nice
moments before it’s on to the next day. And there are the
ironists, the flipside of the obsessives. They’re the people who
watch stuff, but mostly because they secretly want it to be bad.
They’re most happy when they’re watching a terrible show, one
they can make fun of, and they most enjoy the process of tearing
apart. If you want to classify everything by Internet sites—and
who doesn’t?—then we write TV Club with the obsessives in mind,
while most mainstream TV sites write for the escapists, the
people who just want to know what happened as quickly as
possible. The ironists? Their heyda