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...Most Intimidating Election-Night Set: ABC. Peters Jennings is presiding from the starship deck of what looks like a rejected set for "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," accessorized with a giant panel of honeycomb, and the ubiquitous New York City streetscape does nothing to soften things. Worse, every person on the team - Jennings, Sam Donaldson, Cokie Roberts - is forced to stand coolly and uncomfortably, like the keyboard players in an early-'80s New Wave band. Who's the network news sadist who decided anchors suddenly can only seem authoritative if they stand for hours on end? This could...
...ABC's election-cast is threatening to become like some journalistic Hands on a Hardbody contest, as the entire iron-calved Alphabet news crew is going for their third hour standing up. (Except for George Stephanopoulous, but maybe they just didn't want to subject the poor guy to the embarrassment of being dwarfed by the statuesque Jennings.) Further accentuating the "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" parallel, Jennings throws out a question to the audience - Do you think Hillary will run for president now? - to vote on at the ABC web site. Thanks, Pete, but I think tangling with...
...Ahem. Let it be noted that CNN, ABC, CBS and, finally, NBC have moved Florida back into the "too close to call" column. "If you're disgusted with us," said Dan Rather at CBS, "frankly I don't blame you. But everybody in the business virtually has called Florida for Gore based on data that turns out to be suspect...
...cajoling Paul Begala and Mike Barnicle to spin out fantasies of missing ballot boxes and court challenges. Indeed, as the vote total in Florida is shading toward Bush, the best chance for a dragged-out bloodbath for TV to cover may now be a legal challenge. On ABC, Peter Jennings is asking every Democratic politician who comes on the air whether Gore should fight over close states in court...
...surprising among contentious sci-fi fans (ask Patrick Stewart and Kate Mulgrew). But The X-Files isn't the only series of a certain age adding a prominent new face and taking a prominent risk. After losing nice guy Michael J. Fox, who's fighting Parkinson's disease, ABC's city-hall sitcom Spin City added bad boy Charlie Sheen. On NBC's Law & Order, Dianne Wiest takes over from Steven Hill, who was the show's savvy, world-weary district attorney for 10 years. Law & Order, driven more by taut crime tales than characters, has gradually jettisoned its original...