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...most of the bright spots on the fall schedule can be traced to stars. Family Album (CBS) might be dismissed as just another shrill family sitcom were it not for Peter Scolari (Newhart) and Pamela Reed (Tanner '88), playing a couple who move their family back East to be closer to their aging parents. Everyone on the show is wired, from a TV-mesmerized son ("Joan Lunden's hair! What is she thinking?") to a splenetic, cigar-smoking grandfather ("I don't get it. You have your third heart attack, and everybody panics"). In the midst of this mayhem, Reed...
Without warning NBC, he spoofs network on Letterman CBS debut...
...Even if CBS and the rest of the networks all get seats in this musical- chairs game, their chairs may collapse. Basic cable channels launched after the early '80s golden age are by no means sure things. Comedy Central loses many millions of dollars a year, while CNBC is just breaking even. Each of these new channels could easily require an investment of $100 million or more...
...Poor CBS, the network that led the fight to get the new cable-compensation law passed, is still scrambling for its place in the new order. According to sources familiar with the network's negotiations, what had seemed two weeks ago a done deal -- CBS wouldlaunch a cable public affairs channel, a highly unnecessary crossbreed of CNN and C-SPAN -- seemed indanger of falling apart as TCI, the country's biggest cable operator, was playing even harder ball than usual...
...much hyped premiere of Late Show with David Letterman included Tom Brokaw grabbing cue cards, Bill Murray spray-painting furniture and Paul Newman looking for singing cats. It was all very gratifying to CBS executives, , especially after they saw the resulting numbers. Letterman's show delivered a huge 32% audience share the first night and 25% the next night. On Tuesday night, Jay Leno's Tonight Show tumbled to an all-time nonrepeat low rating of 3.5 with a 10% share. Advertisers are snapping up Late Show time, and on Wednesday CBS's stock leaped...