Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CHARLES: JUST BETWEEN US (CBS). Sublime. When Charles sings Stranger in My Own Hometown, there doesn't seem to be a lonely corner his voice can't reach...
...networks' financial woes are increasingly being reflected on the home screen, for good and ill. News programming is becoming more popular with network executives because it costs less to produce. CBS now has three hours of news in prime time; ABC has one and is planning a second for January. The networks are looking more kindly at other "reality" shows as well. ABC, for instance, has just set up a new subsidiary to produce nature shows and other nonfiction specials, both for the network and for other outlets...
...bottled shows." "We always want to see someone come driving up to a house and going to the front door," says Spelling. "Now you will hear the car pulling up, the door slamming, and see someone coming into the house. I hate to see that happen." Some shows, like CBS's Wiseguy, are being shot in Canada to save money. Others are being jointly produced with foreign companies to spread the costs...
...MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT (CBS). Oliver Sacks' neurological case study of a failing mind and a stalwart heart comes to vibrant operatic life in Michael Nyman's deft minimalist setting...
...tough are times for the networks? Just look at the plight of two of TV's most cherished stars, both returning in CBS sitcoms this fall: Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke. The pilot episode of The Van Dyke Show (in which Dick plays a Broadway star who helps his son run a regional theater) had to be scrapped and redone when the network decided it wasn't funny enough. Mary's comeback vehicle (she plays a divorced mother who marries a structural engineer with children of his own) also had to be reworked when the producers switched...