These Friends Of Mine Television Program

Getting a driver's license photo taken, learning how to use call-waiting, placing a 5-gallon jug of water atop a cooler--these are some of life's small indignities presented in "These Friends of Mine," which has finished in television's Top 10 every week since its debut five weeks ago on ABC. The hook of the half-hour comedy series, starring stand-up comedian Ellen DeGeneres as a single working woman in her 30s, is that life rarely moves along in an orderly fashion. And neither do TV shows.

Getting a driver's license photo taken, learning how to use call-waiting, placing a 5-gallon jug of water atop a cooler--these are some of life's small indignities presented in "These Friends of Mine," which has finished in television's Top 10 every week since its debut five weeks ago on ABC. The hook of the half-hour comedy series, starring stand-up comedian Ellen DeGeneres as a single working woman in her 30s, is that life rarely moves along in an orderly fashion. And neither do TV shows.