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...works hard at making The Angel of Darkness (Random House; $25.95) as impudent and beguiling as The Alienist and for the most part succeeds. The old gang is back: Miss Howard, the derringer-packing feminist detective; Moore, the boozy New York Times reporter; Cyrus, the piano-playing coachman; the redoubtable Isaacson detective brothers; and Stevie, the reformed street urchin, who later, as a grown man, narrates the adventure. (His urchin usage is not unfailingly convincing, as in "I remember reading in The Principles of Psychology, that doorstop of a book--what Professor William James had written...and which...
...convert secular ideas into religious ones. Matt Williams (Roseanne) co-created last spring's decent midseason replacement Soul Man, which has Aykroyd as a widowed gang member turned minister raising four kids. UPN's Good News has some nice gospel tunes but is both theologically and comically weak. Teen Angel is just another preteen T.G.I.F. show, only dumber. The Visitor is a brash but effective attempt to meld Angel and The X-Files; one of its executive producers is John Masius, creator of Angel...
...more than relaxing taboos, the approaching millennium or aging baby boomers--that's probably it. As with the nasty rash of shows that broke out after the first season of Friends (remember Can't Hurry Love? Pig Sty?), producers are standing in line to photocopy Touched by an Angel. But the conversion might not hold. The networks' best religious shows, Promised Land and Nothing Sacred, risk getting crushed by their heathen Thursday-night competition, Friends. Religion may be jamming the tube this season, but the young and the reckless still rule. Sinners, after all, have killer demographics...
...those between 18 and 34, and the leaders of some large corporations are starting to pay heed. "It's very important for us to go where the purchasing power is," says Michael H. Jordan, chairman and CEO of Westinghouse/CBS, whose CBS unit airs hits like Touched by an Angel (featuring a helpful celestial spirit) that have made it the top network with viewers 55 or older. "We ought to call this the Willie Sutton strategy," says Jordan, referring to the legendary safecracker who said he robbed banks because that's where the money...
Like Miramax, CBS has been tuning in to this mature audience. The success of such programs as Touched by an Angel and the CBS Sunday Movie recently helped the network persuade six major sponsors, including Coca-Cola, General Motors and Upjohn, to shift $100 million of fall prime-time advertising to shows that target older audiences. Among them: 60 Minutes, Cosby and the hospital drama Chicago Hope. In so doing, CBS has begun laying the groundwork for increased advertiser support for programs for aging boomers...