By DAN MAYFIELD Journal Staff Writer Though the CBS-TV show "Kid Nation" is getting a lot of press, the idea isn't new. In 1954 William Golding wrote "Lord of the Flies" about a group of young boys who are stranded on an island and nearly become feral.

By ANDREW WINEKE Gazette TV columnist The fall TV season is tantalizingly close now, but for a few shows, it may be close but no cigar.

By Gail Pennington, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Sep. 19--NEW TONIGHT 'Back to You' 7 p.m. on Fox (Channel 2) Rating a sitcom based on a single episode is tough.

Tom Foreman, the executive producer of the new U.S. reality TV show, Kid Nation, says viewers will decide when a show goes too far.

CBS is standing behind its Kid Nation reality TV show about kids plunked in a New Mexico ghost town despite criticism of how the kids were treated.