Word: cavett
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...just launched her own syndicated talk show, telecast live at 11 p.m. EST and currently seen on 99 stations. Brenner's Nightlife, another syndicated entry, is now in its second month on 108 stations. ABC, meanwhile, has enlivened the post-Koppel hours with a pair of newcomers: The Dick Cavett Show on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and Jimmy Breslin's People on Thursdays and Fridays. Linda Ellerbee is expected to join them starting in January. Even CBS, which has traditionally settled for reruns after the local news, has refurbished its late-night schedule with a trio of original crime dramas produced...
...Show Starring Joan Rivers, the flagship of Rupert Murdoch's new Fox Broadcasting Co., has done respectably in the ratings, but is well behind Carson, averaging a 4.9 rating in twelve prime urban markets, compared with Carson's 7.5. Brenner's numbers have been more disappointing, hovering around 2.4. Cavett and Breslin (whose shows are designed to air at midnight EST, but have been pushed later by several major , ABC affiliates to make room for Brenner's show) are lagging farther behind...
...competition without telling him first, is also sounding a conciliatory note: "My people will watch me; Johnny's people will watch him . . . We can all make it; the pie just has to be cut a little smaller." How many pieces the pie can accommodate remains to be seen. Cavett, who is returning to ABC after sojourns on PBS and cable, observes that it is "kind of silly" to have so many talk shows. "We could all just have them come from the same set," he quips. "Do you realize how much money we would save...
...Pudding performance last year, cast member Jon Tolins announced that a friend of his was in the audience, and requested permission to bring him backstage. Tolins' fellow transvestite thespians were amazed to see that the 'friend' was none other than PBS talkster Dick Cavett. Cavett not only came backstage but took the whole cast out to pizza where he was awarded a facsimile of the famous Pudding Pot in the shape of a pizzeria pitcher and christened Alternate Man of the Year, recalls Weir...
Talk so often leads to more talk. Perhaps that is why this fall, besides NBC's Johnny Carson and David Letterman, there will be entries from Dick Cavett and Jimmy Breslin on ABC, Joan Rivers on the new Fox network, David Brenner and Oprah Winfrey in syndication and Robert Klein on cable's USA Network. That spatter of patter may also be why a veteran of TV's talkfests is leaving the lists. This week, after 23 years, Merv Griffin, 61, broadcasts his / 5,520th and final show. "It's tough to say good-bye," said the genial, gee- whiz...