Word: cavett
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...become famous for being just what you are. This is actually the greatest thing I've done to date." Both Lance and Bill were to have another opportunity to display the ham this week when all seven Louds, together with Gilbert, were to appear on the Dick Cavett Show...
Wide World is a rotating sequence of four formats-a week each of Jack Paar, Dick Cavett, comedy and mystery, with two nights of rock music thrown in as a fillip. The package includes just about everything, it seems, but trained seals beating out The Star-Spangled Banner on the xylophone. Its first six weeks have ABC executives glowing-and crowing. Says Michael Eisner, vice president in charge of program development: "Philosophically, I am wildly enthusiastic. And it is working." Translation: Eisner likes the format and so do a lot of viewers...
Whereas the old Dick Cavett Show was picked up by only 145 stations (and as few as 130 on many nights), the new potpourri is carried by 165. ABC'S share of the ratings has shown a commensurate improvement. Shortly before the end of his weekly show, Cavett was watched by an average of 3 million viewers (v. 7.5 million for Carson and 6.1 million for the CBS movie). According to the most recent Nielsens, Wide World's week of comedy was watched by 5.9 million people and CBS's late movie by 6.6 million...
...DICK CAVETT show is a more comfortable forum than Lowell Lecture Hall and we live with the consequences of that. If John Kenneth Galbraith would rather chum around Gstaad with William Buckley, that's his choice, but students at Harvard are unlikely to learn as much from him as they might from someone who spent on occasional winter in Cambridge...
TUESDAY: Dick Cavett. The William C. Loud family, subjects of the PBS documentary "An American Family" discuss the program and why they allowed the cameras into their lives. CH. 5. 11:30 p.m. Color...