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David Letterman hosts an hour-long CBS special with excerpts from previous shows. Monday. at 10 p.m. ET.Post your opinion on theSocietybulletin board...
Despite all the harsh assessments, Scarlett was a commercial success; it has sold 20 million copies worldwide and was on the New York Times best-seller list for 34 weeks. Now CBS plans to capitalize on -- or, rather, re-inflict -- Scarlett fever with an eight-hour, four-part mini-series based on Ripley's sequel (beginning this Sunday...
...title role, Timothy Dalton as Rhett Butler and 2,000 extras, Scarlett is a prodigal $45 million production -- the most expensive mini-series ever made. Rights to the book cost a record $9 million; history professors were marshaled to advise on the proper period china and silverware. And CBS, hoping that the show will help carry it to first place in the November Nielsen sweeps, is promoting the epic accordingly. In addition to launching a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign, aimed largely at young women, the network will hold online computer discussions and offer tie-in giveaways, and some CBS affiliates...
...remained Democratic: Slightly more than half picked Democrats on Tuesday, nearly the same as the 1990 tally. But white males abandoned the party in droves -- 57 percent voted Republican, up from about half in '90.The exit polls were conducted by the Voter News Service -- a cooperative effort of ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and The Associated Press.Post your opinion to theElection '94bulletin board
Canadian producers are making other major inroads into the American TV market this season. Alliance has turned out four TV movies based on the popular Harlequin romances, which CBS scheduled opposite football on Sunday afternoons. In late November the network will air Million Dollar Babies, a two-part mini-series about the Dionne quintuplets co-produced by Toronto's Bernard Zukerman Productions and Montreal's Cinar Films. Unlike the few Canadian TV films that have run previously on the networks, this one was bought up front by CBS, and will air simultaneously in both countries. Even the projects headed...