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Koppel, the host of ABC's "Nightline," made clear that although he is an objective on-air journalist, he still has his own beliefs and biases...

Author: By Justin D. Gest, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ABC Anchor Koppel States "Private Thoughts" at ARCO Forum Event | 10/31/2000 | See Source »

Koppel, who is in his 37th year with the ABC network, disapproved of the mistrust between the press and those that they cover today...

Author: By Justin D. Gest, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ABC Anchor Koppel States "Private Thoughts" at ARCO Forum Event | 10/31/2000 | See Source »

...from the Nelsons to the Simpsons, it has largely meant married parents with kids. Not so this year. The lead character on ABC's "The Geena Davis Show" shacks up out of wedlock with a widower and his kids. The single-mom heroine of the WB's "Gilmore Girls" was knocked up as a teen; the grown-up star of Fox's "Titus" gets knocked out by his hard-drinking, oft-divorced dad. On Fox's "Normal, Ohio," dad is divorced and gay. From Ward and June Cleaver we've gone to Ward and June, cleaved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Post-Nuclear Explosion | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

...This isn't the first year TV has explored contentious families or divorce (see "Grace Under Fire"); sometimes, past producers would simply kill Mom, leaving a cute dad who could date (ABC's "Madigan Men" continues the widower-com tradition). But now the nontraditional family is practically mandatory, for reasons as much economic as social. After several years of being enthralled by big-city yuppie- coms, the networks realized, says NBC entertainment president Garth Ancier, that "the urban work setting was getting old." That meant a return to the domestic comedy - but with a difference. To stand out, says "Geena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Post-Nuclear Explosion | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

...ABC movie with Joan Collins, Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds and Shirley MacLaine is titled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Oct. 23, 2000 | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

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