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...Winnings of Michael Shutterly on Wednesday night's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (ABC...
...quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire isn't exactly College Bowl. (Sample question: Where did Monica buy her blue dress?) Perhaps because of this, the 13-episode ABC program is enthralling viewers, but occasionally it dismays geography fans. On a show last week, host Regis Philbin asked which of the Great Lakes, excluding Superior, has the largest area. Contestant David Honea suggested Lake Huron. Philbin's TelePrompTer suggested Lake Michigan, and the voluble host sent Honea packing. After the show, Honea politely asked producers to double-check. Guess who was right? ABC has invited Honea back...
...need to know about Jamie Tarses? departure as the president of ABC Entertainment is that the network isn?t even replacing her. The hot, young and female programming exec who at 32 landed the top entertainment spot at ABC on the strength of birthing "Friends" at NBC was "reorganized out of a job before she even left her job," says TIME television writer James Poniewozik. "In Disney?s ongoing quest to take advantage of the vertical integration potential of getting Disney-produced shows on the network it owned, a development person just didn?t figure in." Yet Tarses, dogged...
...ABC has gotten a lot of attention for surface things, like the ?TV is Good? campaign, during Tarses? time there," Poniewozik says. "The image is different. But she just hasn?t pulled in the ratings to go with it." That lack of bottom-line success made it that much easier for the Disney suits to surround her with more and more synergistic corporate types, until life at the Alphabet lost its appeal. Another raft of reorganization meetings inside ABC Entertainment this week was apparently the last straw. Although some reports said that Tarses was due to be sacked, on Thursday...
...never said to us, ?I?m leaving,?" a Justice Department official told the Associated Press, but the official did say that Starr?s aides were asking about whether Justice, after all this time on the sidelines, would be interested in taking over an unfinished case (it isn?t). And ABC News reported Tuesday that Starr would simply anoint a new leader ? and in fact has three successors in mind already...