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...spring Ellen DeGeneres told everyone she was gay. Now it's fall and she's telling everyone she's not happy. ABC put an onscreen parental advisory on last week's episode of her show, saying it may be unsuitable for children under 14, because Ellen has a lengthy, although jokey, kiss with her co-star. DeGeneres, who feels the advisory sends a message to kids that there's something wrong with being gay, is said to be threatening to walk off the show...
...particularly terrible, and some are reasonably good, but despite an extravagant effort to promote them, they are not bringing in the viewers. During the first week of the 1993-94 season, 75% of all TV sets in use were tuned to one of the Big Four networks--NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox. By last fall, that figure was down to 65%. During last month's premiere week, the network share took another startling drop--to 61% of the viewing audience. The measure of success has fallen accordingly: Dharma & Greg is considered a "hit" this season with a rating...
...Thursday Night Football doesn't have the same cachet as ABC's Monday Night version, even the diminished form that program now finds itself in (where have you gone, Dandy Don?). And last night's penalty-filled game, which saw the Chiefs beat the Chargers 31-3, was hardly a classic. Still, it was a fine October night, with a full moon and spectacular views of Kansas City, a town full of crazy little women where everything remains up to date. And what else were you going to do on a Thursday night, watch Seinfeld...
Bill Cain is probably the only TV writer in Los Angeles who lives in a Jesuit parish and has taken vows of chastity and poverty. Cain, a 49-year-old Roman Catholic priest, is the co-creator and spirit behind Nothing Sacred, ABC's controversial new series about an iconoclastic, jeans-clad urban priest. Until now, Cain has written the show under the pseudonym PAUL LELAND, but a campaign against the show mounted by conservative Catholics prompted the priest to come forward. Cain argues that the show's critics don't recognize that Nothing Sacred is about one priest...