Word: cbs
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...first three scripts and now serves as consultant. The show, a provocative but overly congested half hour of drama and comedy, has yet to hit its creative stride. But Bochco's batting average has been impressive enough that the networks seem convinced he has a golden touch. Last fall CBS tried to hire Bochco as its chief of programming. He turned down the job, partly because it would mean giving up his financial interest in L.A. Law and Hooperman, expected to be worth millions when the shows go into syndication...
...CAINE MUTINY COURT-MARTIAL (CBS, May 8, 9 p.m. EDT). The officers of the Caine vs. a mentally unstable Captain Queeg (Brad Davis), in Robert Altman's new production of Herman Wouk's drama...
...Disney has been unable to match that success during network prime time. Though the Emmy-winning comedy The Golden Girls ranks No. 6, Disney has flubbed such efforts as The Ellen Burstyn Show and Side Kicks. But Disney is nothing if not persistent: its next offering, to start on CBS in the fall, is The Dictator, a sitcom about a deposed political strongman who sets up shop in a New York Laundromat...
Aiming for a much larger U.S. position, Lagardere last November offered CBS $600 million for the 19 publications that constituted the company's magazine group. CBS spurned the offer in favor of a rival $680 million leveraged buyout led by the magazine division's head, Peter Diamandis. Since then, Diamandis has unloaded seven magazines for $243 million, but the sales in no way diminished Hachette's ardor for the remaining package. The company paid more than $700 million for the dozen magazines that had sold only a few months earlier for around $400 million...
...surprise to most Israel-based journalists. In recent weeks they have been shooed away from refugee camps and villages by soldiers waving pieces of paper that said CLOSED MILITARY ZONE. Photographers and television cameramen especially have been subjected to a campaign of intimidation. On Jan. 27, members of a CBS television crew were attacked by troops in the Gaza Strip after they filmed soldiers beating a Palestinian youth. On Feb. 5, two foreign photographers driving in the West Bank were startled by a senior I.D.F. officer pointing an automatic weapon at them and shouting, "Stop! Stop! I am going...