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These days that bigger and better brother is ABC. Its great discovery was that kids control the dial, and that the channel turned on by a ten-year-old at 8 p.m. will often remain on through the 11 o'clock news. Hence, ABC hit upon a beginning lineup for the kids: Happy Days; Welcome Back, Kotter; Eight Is Enough and, this season, Mork & Mindy...
Though Silverman, the "super programmer," usually has all the publicity, particularly since becoming NBC's president last year, many observers in the industry think that Pierce is really the better programmer. Organized and low key in temperament, he has largely done away with the second guessing and last-minute, panicky decisions that plague his competitors. If there have been any internal tremors since Silverman's defection, they are not evident. Tony Thomopoulos, Silverman's replacement, seems a perfect subaltern to the superefficient Pierce. "The network is working as well as or better than when Silverman was here...
...time; there are no bounds of physical presentation. During the '50s, Playhouse 90 was on every week, and the image of that stands out in everybody's mind. There were great things done then, but there are also enormously great things done now. Television is much better now than it was in the '50s. It's a healthier medium...
...kind of chuckle. Right next to the list is [Critic] John O'Connor asking why can't we be more like the BBC and public television. I chuckle because I think it's very hypocritical. If they honestly stand by their television critic and want better shows, why are they on the very same page printing a list of the top ten? The problem is that we have to get back to the way the business used to be. The moment we start getting back, everybody is going to be a lot happier...
Some of the protagonist's prey fare better. Though at times hobbled by accent difficulties, British Actor Peter Firth (Equus) is surprisingly convincing as the title character, a sullen, ducktailed counterboy with vague cowboy dreams of glory. TV's Hal Linden, playing Grant's stuffy suburban husband, makes some thing fresh out of a stereotype, as does Faracy. Unfortunately, these performers must share the screen with Grant and Candy Clark, who turn already hysterical women into harridans. "Filth! Filth!" Grant screams at Gortner, in one of the movie's many unwatchable moments...