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...program for next week's Global Health Summit in New York City, which will take place from Nov. 1 to Nov. 3. We will be playing host to several hundred people from different walks of life, all devoted to finding solutions for the health problems in the developing world. ABC News and Charlie Rose will be devoting segments of their shows to the conference, while PBS will be running a six-hour series titled Rx for Survival, premiering Nov. 1 to Nov. 3 from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Look for our own special report in next week's issue...
...President -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt--who campaigned on the slogan "Don't change horses in the middle of the stream." On Commander in Chief, the nation has to: the President dies, and Vice President Mackenzie Allen (Geena Davis) succeeds him. But the presidents of ABC and Touchstone Television made the call to change horses themselves. CiC--following on Lost, Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy--was an immediate hit for the resurgent network. But creator Rod Lurie was having trouble with the grind of TV production. He was producing, writing and directing and was badly bogged down in minutiae. Scripts came...
...fantasy has certainly pleased its fans. But Bochco's shows--from Hill Street Blues through Over There, the FX Iraq-war drama--are better known for gritty realism than uplift. Bochco wouldn't comment on his plans, and ABC president Stephen McPherson insists that Bochco is "going to be doing the same show that Rod created." But shortly after taking over, Bochco fired five of CiC's nine writers. He has a reputation for boldness, if not lately for success: he has had a string of recent network failures (Blind Justice, City of Angels, Brooklyn South...
...federal jury in Greensboro, North Carolina, found in Food Lion's favor. This week the jury is expected to determine just how much ABC should be punished, a decision that news organizations around the country are awaiting with trepidation. Journalists see the case as a sort of referendum on the undercover reporting tactics that have become commonplace in an era when there is a different TV newsmagazine show on almost every night of the week--not to mention all the local news shows exposing shady auto mechanics during ratings sweeps...
...against caught-you-in-the-act journalism. In 1994 a California jury awarded $1 million in damages to two telephone psychics who claimed that PrimeTime hidden-camera footage, including shots of private conversations that suggested they didn't believe in what they were doing, wrongly portrayed them as scammers. (ABC has appealed.) "There is a public disenchantment to a degree with exploitative journalism," notes Andrew Heyward, president of CBS News. "And some of the backlash has spilled onto legitimate investigative reports...