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TIME: JUNE 23, 8 P.M. E.S.T., CBS (DEBUT...
...promised shows never materialized (The Pink Panther) or came and went in a Road Runner minute (Capitol Critters, Fish Police). None, however, carried higher expectations than Family Dog, based on an episode that Tim Burton (Batman) directed for Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories series. So excited was CBS that it devoted much of its valuable commercial time during the 1991 Grammy Awards to promoting the show, which was scheduled to start that March...
Chung's greatest virtue is her high Q rating, the annual measure of celebrities' celebrity and popularity. Her number may be skewed upward, however, by her singular recognizability: she is the only Asian-American TV star. While Chung is a decent newsreader, and CBS staff munchkins like her let's-order-a-pizza! perkiness, peers and former colleagues tend to be ungenerous. "Call Connie, ask what really interests her," says a fellow network anchor. "You'll get a blank screen." (I did. "I wish I could tell you," she replied. "What is a Connie Chung story? I'm hard...
According to sources at CBS, the Evening News anchor chair was all but offered to Ed Bradley recently, and he all but refused. That's an extraordinary benchmark of the decline in stature of the evening news shows. From the season before Cronkite left through the season after, the network- news-watching majority withered abruptly, 77% to 68% in just two years, and not because of CNN, which barely existed. Instead, it was simply the moment the nation, released by Cronkite's passing and Reagan's ignorance-is-bliss- ism, started abandoning the nightly-news ritual. Today...
This year the wind of change has turned into a familiar breeze. The 28 fall shows announced by ABC, CBS and NBC over the past two weeks (Fox is scheduled to weigh in this week) are a conservative, back-to-basics lot. The theme is old-fashioned, mass-audience entertainment, the kinds of shows the whole family can watch. Sitcoms next fall will favor tight-knit family units rather than funny workplaces, acerbic yuppies or angst-ridden teens. No quirky small towns, few hard-edged action shows and, surprisingly, only two new series with blacks in the leading roles (though...