Word: cbs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...name of entertainment, which is a large part of sports journalism. Sports are entertainment, and the media surrounding it should be accordingly entertaining. So we point fingers and name names. On television, CBS color commentator Terry Bradshaw rambles on like he's lost his medication. The Boston Globe's Bob Ryan trashes soccer with gusto...
...CBS has lured Francis Ford Coppola to TV. He will direct Top of the Ninth, a live drama about a major-league baseball player, to air in April...
...those high-concept, high-wire acts that Tartikoff was known for at NBC, like the "MTV Cops" that eventually became Miami Vice (big hit), or the crime fighter who could transform himself into a jungle beast in Manimal (big bomb). Weekly World News, a proposed series for CBS that will air for two episodes this spring, is as good a show as any to serve notice to the TV world that Brandon Tartikoff is back...
...them will end up in homes." Some have unusual venues. He is developing two shows for PBS: a 13-week comedy series starring offbeat stage performer Steven Banks, and Under New Management, a Coronation Street-style serial with topical humor, set in a New Orleans restaurant-bar. For CBS he is producing Nashville X's and O's, a nighttime soap about the lives of ex-wives of country singers. ABC has ordered The Gospel According to St. Ann, a four-hour mini-series starring Ann-Margret as a self-made sports mogul. For NBC he is developing...
...first time in his life, he can let his creative instincts lead him and show results," says CBS Entertainment president Jeff Sagansky, who worked under Tartikoff at NBC. "I haven't seen him this comfortable ever before." Another former protege, NBC Entertainment president Warren Littlefield, says Tartikoff seems "back in touch with the things he likes to do -- roll up his sleeves and really have a voice in the creative process...