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...ABC news anchor and correspondent Bob Woodruff, on the other hand, said that he thought the tactic of embedded reporting during the recent Iraq war allowed reporters comparatively more freedom...
IRAQ: WHERE THINGS STAND TIME and ABC News sent reporters throughout Iraq to ask citizens how their lives have changed since the war. Our story appears on page 48, and reports will air this week on Good Morning America, World News Tonight, Nightline and other ABC News broadcasts...
...actors than Cats. But rarely are TV shows remade as fundamentally as 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, The Practice and The West Wing have been, let alone all in one season. The most drastic retooling starts this week with the first episode of 8 Simple Rules (ABC, Tuesdays, 8 p.m. E.T.) since the death of star John Ritter in September. Sitcoms have lost stars before (recently, an ailing Michael J. Fox on Spin City), but 8 Simple Rules is a special case--a light comedy, with Ritter as suburban dad Paul Hennessy, that suddenly...
...also one of the few modest hits on a network in a ratings slump. After some deep thought--and a Diane Sawyer--hosted Ritter tribute that won the nightly ratings--ABC decided to carry on, with Ritter's character dying and James Garner and Suzanne Pleshette guest-starring as the grandparents. "Ultimately," says ABC entertainment chairman Lloyd Braun, "we felt there were still great stories to tell." Sure: M*A*S*H told moving, even funny stories about death. But 8 Simple Rules was no M*A*S*H. It was an innocuous family show based...
Rules' producers can take inspiration from The Practice (ABC, Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.). Last spring, with the legal drama--once a top-20 hit--bleeding viewers, writer-producer David E. Kelley fired four of its stars--Dylan McDermott, Kelli Williams, Lara Flynn Boyle and Lisa Gay Hamilton (who were negotiating raises)--and started afresh. Kelley blames himself for the decline; over seven seasons, the show was mired in melodrama. "It was difficult to juxtapose a personal story line and explore relationships," he says, "while trying to show a murder and the search for a missing head...