New York? When Tom Ascheim talks about Noggin, the cable network that he heads for youngsters, he sounds like a father (which he is, of children ages 9, 5 and 2) crossed with a child psychologist ...

First off, my apologies to those of you familiar with Miffy, the preternaturally cute cartoon bunny. I'm apologizing because, by the end of this column (if it hasn't happened already, at the mere ...