One gets the feeling that Dustin Diamond's pathetic fumbling toward middle age would not make for compelling TV.

Whereas everyone from a creepily manic Gary Busey to a drunken, publicly urinating Verne "Mini Me" Troyer has sullied their thinly admirable reputations on VH1 recently, Saved By The Bell's Screech had to settle for pummeling Welcome Back Kotter's Horshack in a "celebrity" boxing match, and an entertainment news-type program showing how he planned to save his house by selling T-shirts.

But ...