Word: cavett
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NEWS THAT the American Broadcasting Company may cancel the Dick Cavett Show in July touches the program's admirers in a way which entitles them to more serious consideration from the network than that given to Star Trek fetishists several years...
...might be fair to suggest meanwhile that among those who occasionally daydream of great achievement in whatever field (an affliction especially prevalent among the readers and writers of this newspaper), a common denominator of such daydreams is that they often take the form of telling it to Dick Cavett...
...some, no doubt, while watching the show, the daydream (nightdream?) actually is that of being Dick Cavett, L.E. Sissman suggested in a recent New Yorker...
...have topped Carson's ratings seven out of nine times, although in the latest Nielsen report, Carson averaged a 32.5% share of the viewing audience v. CBS's 31%. (CBS's Griffin, by contrast, had drawn around 16% of the late watchers and ABC's Cavett has drawn about...
...other talk shows are having problems as well-and not just from the late movie. It was announced last week that David Frost's syndicated talk show would die at the end of June, and ABC has warned Dick Cavett that unless his ratings are improved in the next three months, the show would be dropped in the fall. Cavett counters that ABC has been "lazy, inept and incompetent" in promoting his show. What would take his place? ABC talks grandly of a "major program development effort" to find something new. So long as its ratings keep...