Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kitty Dukakis, the Democratic nominee's wife, appeared on CBS-TV's "Face the Nation" to say her husband had "underestimated how vitriolic, how vicious, how negative those false attacks were" by the Bush campaign...
...taller than you would expect--not your typical basketball analyst. Of course, Tommy Heinsohn is known for more than just his commentary on CBS broadcasts of National Basketball Association games...
Another new drama, CBS's Almost Grown, takes its cue from last season's yuppie success thirtysomething. The two-hour premiere chronicles three decades in the relationship of a New Jersey couple played by Timothy Daly and Eve Gordon. They date in high school during the early '60s (Motown music on the sound track), live together as rebellious college students (psychedelic rock), marry to satisfy their parents and eventually divorce. The bouffant hairdos and nerdy wisecracks lend fun to the flashbacks, but Daly and Gordon face such predictable life crises that one might be reading a textbook on the generic...
Dear John is just one of a slew of new shows that focus on not-so-swinging singles. Single dad James Naughton copes (tediously) with a teenage daughter in CBS's Raising Miranda, and Richard Mulligan mugs (insufferably) as a middle-aged widower in NBC's Empty Nest. Meanwhile, Kate Jackson reprises Diane Keaton's role as a Manhattan yuppie trying to juggle a baby and a high- pressure corporate job in NBC's Baby Boom. The pilot episode plays too much like a Reader's Digest version of the movie (both written by Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers...
Once they were the Big Three: rich, powerful broadcasters that determined what America would watch each night. Now ABC, CBS and NBC are struggling against cable, VCRs, independent stations and other aggressive competitors. What' s more, the writers' strike has left the fall season in shambles, and the bland batch of new shows will hardly provide any miracle cures...