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...that after gauging the opposition to Alaskan oil drilling, her boss was going green and beating a strategic retreat. "Look, nobody's deaf, dumb and blind over there, and everybody knows the environment is important, and we saw how things have been portrayed," EPA chief Christie Whitman said on ABC Sunday. Drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge "has to go through the Congress in order to happen, and it's very difficult...
...Certainly TV executives - like the audience as a whole - should worry about the results of such vertical integration (at Disney-owned ABC, for instance, it's now nearly impossible for a studio to get a show on the air if it's not owned by the parent company). But The WB's whining is a little disingenuous. "Buffy" is a big hit by the standards of a little network. But it's a niche show nonetheless: It would never go to NBC, ABC or CBS, and if it did, those networks, which need a huge tune-in to keep...
...ladies and gentlemen, when O-Town (Ashley Parker Angel, Erik-Michael Estrada, Trevor Penick, Jacob Underwood and Dan Miller), the boyband of ABC-TV’s “Making the Band” infamy, arrived in Bean-Town, and this city would never be the same. Never before has this historical center of democracy borne witness to a musical outfit so devoid of singing ability, good looks, humility or even charm...
...Riggs. Except, she says, "I didn't know a thing about tennis." (She did, however, have access to King, whom she'd known through mutual friends for years. And for insurance, she took tennis lessons. "I consider myself a Method writer-director," she jokes.) But When Billie Beat Bobby (ABC, April 16, 9 p.m. E.T.) isn't really a tennis movie, just as the King-Riggs face-off wasn't memorable as tennis (she creamed him, in straight sets). When more than 40 million watched the lobbin' libber play the fast-talking former pro turned hustler, the big-top spectacle...
...audience and awards from the networks through high-profile projects with big names and budgets, and the broadcast networks have turned to newsmagazine and reality shows, which deliver comparable audiences for less money than old-fashioned movies-of-the-week and offer similar dramas-in-real-life. But while ABC has cut back on movies, it has begun producing more high-profile "events," including its Wonderful World of Disney and Oprah Winfrey Presents franchises, which have been among the few new network movies to score big ratings. "The old form of movie-of-the-week isn't appealing to audiences...