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Students from across Massachusetts waited eagerly outside the Marriott Cambridge Hotel yesterday, hoping to walk away with an invitation to lock horns with Regis Philbin on an upcoming college edition of ABC's "Who Wants to be a Millionaire...
Which is why ABC's announcement this summer that Miller would become part of the legendary "Monday Night Football" team brought a smile to my face. Don Ohlmeyer, who revolutionized televised sports with MNF in the 1970s, was looking for a new personality, someone who would make the broadcasts interesting and hopefully controversial. In other words, he was looking for another Howard Cosell. Cosell, the biggest catch of Ohlmeyer's life, was so polarizing that "people would buy television sets just to throw bricks at him when he came on screen...
...after the report was released, Disney announced a package of new policies, including a promise that it would provide in its advertising explanations of why any of its films received PG-13, R or NC-17 ratings - for instance, for violence, sex, profanity or drug use - and that its ABC-TV network would no longer accept ads for R-rated movies during prime time before 9 p.m. Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association of America, admitted to the committee that the FTC report identified some practices - like focus groups for 10-year-olds - that should...
Frankly, the press release for Gideon's Crossing (ABC, Wednesdays, 10 p.m., starts in October) made us wince. "Ben Gideon is the voice of reason, empathy and wisdom...[He] treats the whole person, not just the illness." Is it Patch Adams: The Series? Nope. The Homicide team of Andre Braugher and producer Paul Attanasio has fashioned the most subtle, character-focused hospital drama since ABC euthanized Wonderland...
...that Survivor is over, what will we watch? The networks are doing their best to translate other foreign "reality" shows to American tastes: ABC has picked up Britain's Jailbreak (10 "prisoners" under 24-hr. surveillance try to escape for big money), and NBC has locked up Holland's Chains of Love (one person chained to a quartet of the opposite sex). But we found some gems they may have overlooked...