Producer aims to make darts an obsession

KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS
Poker has almost become the national pastime. You can find ongoing television games almost anytime, anyplace. And celebrities hardly have time for their day jobs.
But nothing lasts forever. Brush up on your aim and get ready for the next big small-screen obsession: darts. That's what the New York Times reported recently. The source is Michael Davies, a producer who brought "Who Wants to Be Millionaire" to America. He has signed on with ESPN to broadcast a darts championship as a World Series of Darts next summer. He says the game fits in with national pop culture, sports and regular lives.
Television darts are already a hit in Britain, where they, of course, exploded out of the pubs. If they spread as poker has, expect darts parties to become a hot social outing. But where is it safe to put the bull's-eye?