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This issue and the summit are centerpieces of a week-long multimedia effort to move public health closer to the top of the national agenda. ABC News and Charlie Rose are scheduled to devote segments of their shows to the conference, while PBS, starting on Nov. 1 at 9 p.m. E.T., will begin running a six-hour series titled Rx for Survival--A Global Health Challenge. Finally, Alicia Keys will hold a concert in New York City benefiting Keep a Child Alive on Nov. 3 with such guests as Usher, Paul Simon and the Agape Children's Choir from Durban...
First, he landed a job working for ABC. Later, Fingleton went to work as an agent, and then he helped set up a production company that bought and sold scripts. He started to rewrite some of the scripts that his company was buying, and one day he simply thought, “I can do this,” and started to write his own scripts...
...Another spur to the industry: celebrity closets. Often the most interesting part of MTV Cribs is a peek into the clothing warehouses of the rich and famous: Mariah Carey's revolving, glass-enclosed shoe cabinet, for example. Other shows--including TLC's Clean Sweep, HGTV's Mission: Organization and ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition--fuel the same hankering...
...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...